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by racbart 14y ago
You did not just changed “some policy”. You had the contract and tried to quietly change rules in the middle. If you really, really had to change rules for existing customers, you should offer them either accepting new rules or canceling th
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by racbart 14y ago
I really like the idea of solar updraft tower, where air moves the other way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower It's disadvantage is that it requires much more land, but it doesn't require water on the other hand. As someon
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by racbart 14y ago
I disagree. I mean, you put the line at a wrong place. So you say we shouldn't benefit from competitor's outages, but we can benefit from their failures of different types? Because every time you claim that you do something better than comp
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by racbart 14y ago
For me it's not only shaking legs behind a desk. It's also walking in circles when talking on the phone. It's also doing something with my hands when I'm not at the computer (preferably with some item like pen or phone or anything what's ne
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by racbart 14y ago
I believe that they (government) are just in a business where it's better to overclasify 100 documents than underclasify one. Think of it from web development perspective. Years ago SSL were used only for financial transactions, then for e-
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by racbart 14y ago
Great product that solves a little but important problem the right way and hassle-free! Plus, I really like the Series T Financing idea (see footer link).
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by racbart 14y ago
Would that even be legal in the EU? “Upscale furniture store Restoration Hardware said that it had sent "your name, address and what you purchased" to seven other companies, including a data "cooperative" that allows retailers to pool data
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by racbart 14y ago
This is very nice but I have some suggestions to improve: Navigation: The “next” link is very small and it's in different place on every step. A fixed navigation and/or bigger link would be nice. Also, showing me that it's “Step 3” is usele
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by racbart 14y ago
Failed! "sdf" may exist, try another name Failed! "sdkjfhjkshf" may exist, try another name Failed! "kjht7y248i23uh" may exist, try another name Great minds think alike, right? (edit: formatting)
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by racbart 14y ago
I don't know sendgrid service details but if they can track email clicks, then preserving utm variables might actually be good. You get number of email clicks from separate metric, plus you get total reach from Google Analytics - so that yo
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by racbart 14y ago
It looks nice but I still prefer http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/ for two reasons: They have more upcoming shows, so I can follow some promising shows when I hear about them and they'll show in my calendar half year later when they start r
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by racbart 14y ago
That what practical tests are for. Throw a problem to solve, leave the programmer for an hour and see what he'll produce, while having normal access to the online world. But you don't want to check encyclopedic knowledge during interview ta
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by racbart 14y ago
It's awesome that it can make my bag to talk to me, but I'd love to know what language will she talk. There's zero information about how the device works. Will it talk to me online while my bag is miles away after someone steal it and drive
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by racbart 14y ago
Evolve or die. I am the “old school developer” but that didn't stop me from staying up to date with technologies and trends. DIY developers are good to some point. You will never build anything large or build efficiently if you don't unders
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by racbart 14y ago
YC doesn't control Dropbox. Whatever trust you have in a minor shareholder, it shouldn't translate to trust for the company. There are other reasons as well: potential vulnerabilities in their software, malicious/crazy/corrupted employees,
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by racbart 14y ago
You could do that if there is a per-file key. But you'd need some client software to store and manage keys for individual files for easy exporting urls including these keys, and I read that MEGA is managed only via web (at least now).
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by racbart 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote with up to 50% travel (I'm based in Europe, but can work EST working hours). I am a full web stack engineer with 12 years professional experience. I recently worked as CTO & Product Director at a small startup. Pre
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by racbart 14y ago
Do their job better and compete. Nobody in his right mind will object Apple for selling in their own stores. Why should car dealers have such unfair advantage to prohibit manufacturers to sell their goods?
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by racbart 14y ago
There's a tiny chance that I use some throwaway email just to see what's next, knowing your original title. Without knowing that, there's no chance - I simply ignore a meaningless and containing zero information page which asks for my ema
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by racbart 14y ago
How about setting up your own VPN server on EC2 micro instance for $15/mo + bandwidth (or $127/y using reserved instance)?
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by racbart 14y ago
If you want to compare, then imagine that you're in the middle of the interview and the interviewer suddenly tells you “get lost, here's the elevator”. Saying “thanks but no, thanks” after the interview without telling the reason if perfect
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by racbart 14y ago
The fact that you leave early is not rude, but the way you do it might be. He should find the lead developer (or whoever was in the lead of interviewing him) and tell him that he feels he won't fit into the culture, thank him for the interv
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by racbart 14y ago
The iPad is already more than ready for general-purpose computing, which is leisure web browsing, purchasing stuff online, writing a blog or using social media. The kind of stuff my mom does or my friends from outside IT industry do using t
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by racbart 14y ago
I trully believe that one of the most important factors (beside genetics and luck) is staying intellectually active for your entire life and gaining new experiences, learning new things though your entire life (the curiosity mentioned in th
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by racbart 14y ago
I wouldn't buy a car if I expected the company might be dead in six months. Who'll service my car then? This isn't a well-known and old brand with independent service centers. Did Elon Musk just told me not to buy their cars? Thanks for the
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by racbart 14y ago
This is one of the reasons why I have different Apple ID for app purchases (with weaker password which I'm more comfortable to type over and over again when purchasing apps) and different for iCloud (which I need to type only once, configur
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by racbart 16y ago
Facebook is so much younger than Google so it's a bit unfair to compare them this way. Facebook is still in such a crazy growth so they simply focus on their core business. Google started launching their great non-search products (maps, mai
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by racbart 16y ago
I like that part too but it might be simply too strict. The point is to keep lifestyle changes reasonably small during that first year. Replace your old car worth $10k with a new $40k one (but not $200k) and don't buy many cars. Move from a
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by racbart 16y ago
It is not about professional activities. I do not expect airline pilot to try new tricks fully loaded with passengers, but I appreciate Wrights brothers efforts to try to put the man in the air in the first place. If they were afraid to try
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by racbart 16y ago
One thing that I envy and I'm missing in my professional life is such a vibrant ecosystem and startup scene in where I live. It's obvious that when you put two talented people together, they create value of 110% * (1 + 1). But when you mix

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