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by prpatel 14y ago
Don't get too worked up. High cost of living plus high taxes mean your take home pay is considerably lower than what you get in the USA.
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by prpatel 14y ago
This makes no sense, Ron usually takes the freedom / libertarian angle on things. I'm sure there's some nefarious reason for their stand (campaign dollars?). sigh wish there was a way to 'hack' politics...
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by prpatel 14y ago
Not trying to thread dump, but I see more practicality from learning Clojure. You'll get a wealth of libraries and an active community to help you on your journey. That said, if you want to learn CL for fun, that is understandable (heck, I
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by prpatel 14y ago
Like someone stated, it's a dev tool that will not likely need to be bundled with your end product. I use Emacs, which is also GPL, as do other people, with no hinderance from a license point of view. If I were doing Light Table, I'd use GP
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by prpatel 14y ago
As others have said, I would check out CloudFoundry. It is open-source & extensible. I do exactly what you describe on a VPS in the cloud. I host my own prototype projects on a CloudFoundry instance. So far I've deployed these types of
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by prpatel 14y ago
"There's also a little nice addition for you Javascript coders out there: a semanticdb back end for hooking into a running Firefox via mozrepl. So you just load your current code into Firefox, fire up mozrepl and you can get completions for
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by prpatel 15y ago
Question: how is this different than iPhoneWax?
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by prpatel 15y ago
meh. most IT workers are classified as exempt anyways using any of a number of loopholes. The most common of which is making the employee a 'manager' which means they can't qualify for overtime pay. Nice to see my state's Senator as a spons
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by prpatel 15y ago
"I don't blame this on Android phones or users, however." I am forced to call you out on this misinformation. It is the Android _phones_ and _users_. Android based platforms like the Nook Color and Amazon Fire both have good app revenue i
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by prpatel 15y ago
eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook eBook. (no trees were hurt in the making of this sarcastic post)
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by prpatel 15y ago
So I get that you misunderstood the original intent. But that's not gonna stop me from a small rant on writing a tech book. In a word: don't do it unless you really know what you're getting into. Writing an average/mediocre book is a mass
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by prpatel 15y ago
i gave up on watching/reading the traditional news outlets years ago, which today seem more like the yellow journalism of days past. I prefer to read news from slightly more factual, and less sensational, outlets like Reuters and BBC. Note
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by prpatel 15y ago
This article is both superficial and ignorant. Here's some things to consider. at&t has: * an enormous cost structure * consistent erosion of its landline business * adjusted ARPU growth in CY2011 * massive investment expense for both
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by prpatel 15y ago
There's one thing that everyone has missed so far, and I've said it to anyone who will listen: free apps are undermining both the app store(s) and the developer. Before you brush me off as crazy, please think it through...
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by prpatel 15y ago
I spilled my beer while reading this article. As someone who worked in the "Death Star"(TM), I can tell you what the other commenters in this thread have already stated, but I'd rather make some vague generalizations. Firstly, at&t is h
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by prpatel 15y ago
must be nice to have such a large pool of people to interview to fit your needs perfectly, especially for technical people. The OP's points are valid and I feel the same way about _almost_ all of them. Even when I worked in the large corpor
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by prpatel 15y ago
Thanks for digging up that info. Was just about to reach for my favourite search engine to find evidence that Hollywood, in fact, is not dying. Regardless of the sensationalist title of the article, I agree with it's point of view.
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by prpatel 15y ago
In case you guys missed it, there was a recent HN article on the speed improvements in jruby + jdk 1.7. I too lament the slowness of Rails - and before you throw the usual arguments at me about perf being relative and 'good enough' blah bl
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by prpatel 15y ago
POS? You must be joking. Not looking to start a framework/platform war, but Grails is on par with or better than: Ruby on Rails, Django, <insert your favourite web platform here>
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by prpatel 15y ago
"I've done Ruby for about 7 years and can tell you that after a while, things fall in place, including (most of) the syntax." I would expect any adroit HN reader to be comfortable in a programming language after 7 years :) What is odd is th
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by prpatel 15y ago
No, actually, SSD's are dropping in price because the flash memory chips they use have shifted from 35nm to 25nm (not 100% certain on those, but it has dropped). This means more chips from the same silicon wafer = lower cost.
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by prpatel 15y ago
Interesting language. Feels a bit like Coffeescript with lesser use of symbols and (possibly less) syntaxic sugar. Going to play with it a bit more...
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by prpatel 15y ago
Yes, yes we are. A programmer who is not a /little/ lazy is a bad thing.
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by prpatel 15y ago
"SEDA is a hybrid approach between events and threads, using events between stages and threads within them [17]. This approach is quite similar to the message-passing model discussed by Lauer and Needham [10], though Lauer and Needham advoc
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by prpatel 15y ago
I like the concept and the 'innovation' of the Mulberry team. Using Rails-like commands for creating a JS based mobile project is just a small innovation IMO, but the implementation (based on the video) seems well done. I love teams that ar
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by prpatel 15y ago
LoL is an excellent book. I read these books when I wanted to dive into Lisp: Land of Lisp, Practical Clojure and Joy Of Clojure. I recommend each one highly.
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by prpatel 15y ago
"After having gained around $4 billion in a round of funding" haha a _little_ typo there. I'm waiting for a real news outlet to announce this rumour.
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by prpatel 15y ago
While the OP's frustration is understandable, I would say that this is simple example on why the UK startup scene is non-optimal. Allow me indulge in some over-generalization. (And for the record, I /have/ started a tech business in both th
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by prpatel 15y ago
what is this, a Game of Thrones type of suspense build up?
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by prpatel 15y ago
Bait taken. What exactly has the FCC done recently (seeing as how it's a gov't agency) to protect the interest of consumers?

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