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181.
by points 16y ago
BORING. How much longer will this go on? I don't come to HN to read infinite responses to the boring news that investors meet and chat. Who the hell cares?
182.
by points 16y ago
As I just said, I CANNOT gain weight. It is simply impossible. I am not alone. I have been 9 1/2 stone for the last 10 years.
183.
by points 16y ago
s/eating/cooking
184.
by points 16y ago
It's not a direct link though. I can stuff my face with nothing but donuts for weeks on end and never put on an ounce of weight. Which is probably as irritating as someone who can't lose weight.
185.
by points 16y ago
BS. I dropped out after a year. It was dull and I wasn't anything that would ever be of any use. (I passed the first year exams). (I'm in the UK, so maybe it's different, but there's certainly no stigma here).
186.
by points 16y ago
I'll have a look back for the main one I used and had success with. They offered delivery reports, raw data sending etc I never had any trouble with SLA when I was using them for sending out ringtones. Will see if I can find the provider I
187.
by points 16y ago
Google for "bulk sms international". There are hundreds of them.
188.
by points 16y ago
There are so many other SMS providers, with cool APIs, that send internationally without any issues. I used one such service from 2000 or so when I ran a ringtone website. It's a solved problem. Just search Google for "bulk sms gateway" e
189.
by points 16y ago
ah cool thanks :)
190.
by points 16y ago
Afaik google can only do one time payments not subs yet.
191.
by points 16y ago
who cares? Why are you all upvoting this stuff? This is just eyeballs to techcrunch.
192.
by points 16y ago
Stop. Go. They're so used to driving in straight lines. Their cars are simply not made for corners. I guess you need to build roundabouts, update the cars so they can corner, and educate the public on how to steer.
193.
by points 16y ago
Radical, but there's only one word needed here. ROUNDABOUT. Build some.
194.
by points 16y ago
I'd bet they make a lot more profit than 37signals.
195.
by points 16y ago
Bless the 37signals guys. Always fun for a laugh.
196.
by points 16y ago
Correction: "Facebook employee says Facebook has the potential...." I think it's fairly silly. Google is profitable because people searching for things on the web are trying to find stuff. They have intent to buy/visit/signup etc. What inte
197.
by points 16y ago
I can't begin to try to understand someone who works in a cube filling out TPS reports however much I try. Anyway.... I think you'd do well to lighten up and not take everything as a personal insult. My original point: It's better to hire p
198.
by points 16y ago
I only know about hackers and startups. I have absolutely no idea how drone programmers behave/get motivation/work. So yes, my original comment is talking about hackers. Not "Systems Analysis Architect"s or whatever.
199.
by points 16y ago
> "...and now you're a discriminatory hirer." Damn right. I hire based on who will be good at the job. > "What is not fun is the mental masturbation of keeping up-to-date on all the latest-and-greatest languages and frameworks. What
200.
by points 16y ago
FWIW Endomondo allows others to track your ride in the free version. They can also send you messages: eg They type in the webapp "Keep going! Go faster", and your phone cuts the music out and does text->speech of 'Message from <user
201.
by points 16y ago
> " There are too many other people, places, and things that I love first and foremost to list programming for free as one of them." This is something I think that is a great sign of someone who you should/shouldn't hire. The best inter
202.
by points 16y ago
I don't understand anyone who doesn't learn because they're curious. Because it's fun. Because they enjoy it. Intellectual curiosity. It must be very odd programming 'professionally', only as a job and not as something you love first and fo
203.
by points 16y ago
> It just shows that "Clear cookies" button is no longer an effective privacy tool. It has never been. the vast majority (90%+) of browsers are uniquely identifiable simply from useragent, plugins, capabilities etc. https://panopticli
204.
by points 16y ago
Of course though it's fairly unnecessary. If all you want to do is track users, it's far easier to use UserAgent/screensize/plugins/etc to uniquely identify users. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ You can then store anything heavier server s
205.
by points 16y ago
Who cares? TL;DR; Some investors meet up and discuss things.
206.
by points 16y ago
I don't know, anecdotal evidence here, but the majority of cases I see pages taking a long time to load due to 3rd party js etc, it's waiting for actual data, rather than anything else. The OP said: "and I noticed the render time of my site
207.
by points 16y ago
The fallback technique does nothing to mitigate the "It can connect but loading takes forever" case surely.
208.
by points 16y ago
I agree to an extent. That stuff matters when you're starting out and just learning. But after you get to a certain level the 'language ecosystem' isn't important at all IMHO.
209.
by points 16y ago
heh true, although you sure can learn a lot doing things the 'unaccepted' way. So I'd actually advise everyone to try writing a webapp in assembly. If most people tell you what you're doing is crazy, it's often a big sign that you should do
210.
by points 16y ago
> "So what can we learn from this for designing future languages?" We can learn that it's inevitable that your language will come into fashion, be hyped up to be "the language", then will fall out of fashion and be declared 'dead'. The

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