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121.
by points 16y ago
Once wave takes off of course!
122.
by points 16y ago
How can you even prove that a file is encrypted? The whole law is baloney.
123.
by points 16y ago
Their revenue is from 1, or at best 2 'customers', who could stop being 'customers' at the drop of a hat.
124.
by points 16y ago
"skype is poison software and is antithetical to the hacker ethos of open systems." What sort of BS is that. For most people, it solves a real world problem very well.
125.
by points 16y ago
So you downmodders think 300 employees is a reasonable number for a yet to be proved no business model startup? Wow.
126.
by points 16y ago
OK, sure. But I think that's the problem. It's either wilderness, or concrete. Nothing in-between.
127.
by points 16y ago
You think end-users read TechCrunch? :/
128.
by points 16y ago
OTOH, Having 300+ people at some silly little micro blogging fad with very little revenue, doesn't seem like a pretty smart strategy.
129.
by points 16y ago
I must have been to a different Valley :/ The majority is dull concrete sprawl. Each to their own of course, but I can only stand it for a week or 2 before I go insane. Here's my favorite places though: University Ave, Frys, Stevens Creek M
130.
by points 16y ago
This was a large culture shock to me (Coming from the UK). We see California as some sun drenched beach babe area. Imagine our shock when we visited some beaches and they were full of fog so you couldn't see, and the water was yellow and fr
131.
by points 16y ago
> "since our karma scores reflect something else besides simply thoughtful comments." You spend a lot of time on HN commenting? ;) As num_comments->oo, karma->oo.
132.
by points 16y ago
Agreed. Makes it look scammy.
133.
by points 16y ago
"A better way to work with the people you work with every day." Is it me, or does that scan really badly. Is it even grammatically valid?
134.
by points 16y ago
I don't know the technicalities, but I always considered Halifax a 'building society' rather than a grown up bank. That is worrying. And ++ for the irritation of arrow keys+mouse etc I've seen that before on others.
135.
by points 16y ago
This is one reason why Mint would never work in the UK. We have real security on our banking websites - hardware security (You get sent a hardware device to generate codes, or to put your card into etc). (As an aside, our banks are simply c
136.
by points 16y ago
In that case I'd just write a simple shell script :/ But thank god I don't work on large systems like that.
137.
by points 16y ago
Most languages are easy to parse. The argument I've heard many times before is that you must use an IDE with Java because Java is overly verbose. I'm effective in Java in that I achieve what I want to achieve. The bottleneck has never been
138.
by points 16y ago
Sure, maybe I like that friction. If a refactor is going to be a bit of hassle, it makes me think about it more, and evaluate if it really is a good change to make.
139.
by points 16y ago
> "do your rainy weekend work and sell to Google, then pleas submit to HN." Since when was life fair or work rewarded based on merit. These things are more about who you know than what you create.
140.
by points 16y ago
Can you explain what the killer technology is? From my naive POV, it just does a couple of mappings in 2d space fitting a keyboard over the points you press, until some real words drop out. If that's all they have, it sure doesn't sound lik
141.
by points 16y ago
I think if you write good code the case for needing advanced re-factoring tools is minimal. If you're writing the same thing time and time again, that should ring alarm bells. FWIW, for other types of refactorings (I mainly use Java): 1
142.
by points 16y ago
> "I think that some languages (like Java and C#) really require an IDE to be effective" I've never understood that statement (I've programmed Java for 10 years, using a text editor). I think I'm effective.
143.
by points 16y ago
One reason I don't use an IDE is the overhead in starting it up. I want a text editor to open now .
144.
by points 16y ago
I use textmate + shell. Once you get rid of all the crap in textmate - bundles, auto insertion of closing brackets etc, it's actually a usable editor. The main thing is just to get good at using the shell. Grep, awk, etc etc With all the to
145.
by points 16y ago
Or name and shame the upvoters.
146.
by points 16y ago
This is such a pile of BS propaganda. > "It’s what all fast-food chicken is made from" No, it's not. > "Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all." No, it's not. > "because i
147.
by points 16y ago
I think you're reading way more into this than you should. He just made a stupid obvious mildly funny crass joke.
148.
by points 16y ago
I was wondering if I'd missed something in the article, but I guess not.
149.
by points 16y ago
I disagree. It shows a lack of taste and tact maybe, but I wouldn't read anything else into it. It's just some guy trying to be funny on the internet. IMHO It's not clever or witty enough to be very funny, so it's more in the 'infantile hum
150.
by points 16y ago
Um Why is this hacker news?

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