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by pretoriusB 14y ago
NAH, the warning is merely initiated by the extended attributed. The information in it comes from elsewhere (presumably the database).
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Conventional wisdom says that no programming language is faster than C, and all higher level languages (such as Haskell) are doomed to be much slower because of their distance from the real machine. No: conventional wisdom just says
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Agreed. But you should never lift more than your back can handle. "Lifting more that your back can handle" is the very definition for fighting for freedom. If everybody played it safe, and only went as far as they could comfortably t
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
How does this comment make any sense? For one, web developers debug too. Javascript, PHP, Ruby, whatever. Second, you can very much debug in Sublime (whatever that means). Do you mean something like an integrated debugger, like say XCode/VS
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Though both vim and emacs have gui interfaces, most of the users use them inside a terminal. The overwhelming majority of developers edits in a GUI editor though, be it in Visual Studio, XCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse or Vim / Emacs / Text
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> First it's obvious (but hardly anyone ever cares about it) that that such trivial things are still issues just show how much our diff tools are still in the stone age (for a start they should be able to figure out that the two source
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
People decide which philosophies are extreme. As individuals (for themselves) and as groups (for their society, group, company, neighbourhood, etc). Are you of the "anything goes" thinking? I for one, find that attitude TOO extreme. I don't
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
No free/open-source editor fits the particular bills I want as good as Sublime Text. (And I'm saying it as a long time Vim user, from the Sun O.S/fvwm days of lore as well as a heavy Eclipse user in the early to mid '00s). When those free/o
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Are you a hacker? What are you doing in Hacker News?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
You have to have income before you pay any taxes. And you started the whole company with the idea that money will start flowing as soon as you write iOS apps...
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Thousands of people have no electricity, running water OR HOME in New York all year round -- not just as a temporary inconvenience because of a storm. And hundreds of millions, nay billions, have no access to electricity or running water in
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I'm saying that eventually Android and other platforms will grow to match or exceed the spends of iOS customers. Android playing with low margins has so far just resulted in it wining a huge share of the demographic that doesn't buy
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
So he thought he had it all figured out, and was so sure we would beat 36K/year that he opened a company just to ensure lower taxes when the inevitable happens... It's funny, but you also have to admire the optimism. If it only was accompan
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> My idea was to release an app every 3-5 months and make at least 60k/year. I cannot sell that much in Brazil as a individual (limit here is 36k BRL). I don't see the app store as a viable way of making a living anymore (for single dev
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
It's not, except if you are a company. And if you are a company, you have a lot more paperwork to worry about than just DUNS. Plus, it helps keep out the less motivated.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I opened a company specifically for this (ipad/iphone development) it was my plan to leave my current company and build something less stressful. This seems more like wishful thinking (and underestimating the effort and polish needed
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I give up making software for you app store. Your DUNS number requirement was the last straw. I’ve been waiting 2 months for this number and was told I need to wait another month (60 working days total) unless I pay a substancial amou
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
What backfiring? Getting fired? You can get fired even for being there and doing good work. You can get fired even if working overtime (plenty of people have). For most companies you are nothing, a mere "human resource". At least the guy ha
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I say this as someone who recently had to spend two weeks without electricity and running water in New York City. Oh, the humanity!
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Why the duck would you care how a contractor does what he does? As long as he delivers what you paid for (and doesn't disclose information you deemed confidential), it should be OK for you.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> PDF's don't even work well on my Kindle, let alone my phone. Then your Kindle is not a full featured reading device. The Kindle's opted to imitate a black and white textual book (the e-paper thing), when future ebooks can are will b
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Check out Enthought http://www.enthought.com/ They create some of the most used open source scientific computing software, and still manage to make money (also, a great place to work in, lots of really smart people) Sounds like an
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> 1) I'm sure pundits predicted a lot of things. Cheap cop-out. The most widespread prediction was that the iPad would be expensive in the "around $999" region. 2) That's nonsense. The only thing the iPad had was its screen, otherwise
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> At most of their keynotes when they release a new product, they often anchor the minds of the press and buyers. Apple do this by showing a price of £X00 and then saying it's actually much less than that. Look at the transcript of the
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Yes. Why not?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
"Better than no apps at all" hardly wins the desktop market -- which is what we are discussing here...
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> What if the depressed person is estranged from his family and friends? Or what if he has none? What if he feels he can't talk to either? Then those are symptoms of a larger personal/societal wrong, and talking to a therapist is just
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> For example , someone has a great idea for a site, picks up a basic PHP book, reads all of the "advice" on PHP.net and hacks it all together with a few copy and pastes from various coding forums. You mean exactly what happened with C
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I just wanted to point out that there are REAL depressions Ah, sure, we agree, there are real depressions. I just wanted to point out that the absurd numbers of depressions one heres (up to 20-30% of the population) are based non on
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
LOL! "Coalition for Peace Against LISP".

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