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by random42 16y ago
Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's inte
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by random42 16y ago
It is very difficult for me to take a side without hearing views from all the sides for a story. Google was not much help. Any links where I can see the Denmark Government's Point of View of his kicking (any relevant documents etc.)?
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by random42 16y ago
You are probably correct. But you know, dev. tools are like IDEs/Editors. Once you get settled with one, there is a level of comfort with the tool, you dont get with others.
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by random42 16y ago
When a weekend app is touted as "next billion dollor startup", you know you are in a bubble. Dont get me wrong, I like gumroad's idea and even the implementation, but extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence, and I see none yet
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by random42 16y ago
Thats what I do (well, sort of). just that I have to keep another browser installed. --Written at my Google Chrome.
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by random42 16y ago
I use firebug to trace the HTTP requests, mainly. I know there are alternatives (for both Chrome and Firefox), but none of them compare to firebug. May be its because of my comfort/acquaintance level with firebug.
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by random42 16y ago
Unfortunately, for me its a catch22 situation. I hate firefox because its slow, and love/depend on firefox, because of firebug (which apparently makes firefox slow.)
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by random42 16y ago
Apple focuses on design/usability but its not designer driven . It is more of "product" driven sort.
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by random42 16y ago
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" -Mahatma Gandhi
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by random42 16y ago
Do you intent to make money of it? If so, how do you plan to do that?
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by random42 16y ago
How is it fundamentally different than heroku? (Not trying to troll, genuinely curious.)
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by random42 16y ago
Seriously, You dont even need a security attack for losing the changes with this model. A nice little "harddisk" failure would do the trick for you. :)
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by random42 16y ago
That was really fast. I feel pretty incompetent (which in all likelihood, may not be far from true, despite what my client/managers say). Good job!
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by random42 16y ago
I like how it is released, just one day before April 1. You know the day people are made fools.
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by random42 16y ago
Because when the company has to man up, and tell the reason of the Fuck up to the stakeholders, the should not be pointing fingers to a person who was not even on their payroll. It was someone's job to avoid this from happening, or they do
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by random42 16y ago
Oh look, Google's very own "like" button. Lets see how well they do with it.
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by random42 16y ago
A lot. I work for one which has a similar product. Though we are much more than just twitter, a bit less real-time, more in-depth analysis though.
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by random42 16y ago
Absolutely. I am not a native speaker, so I appreciate it, when people improve my knowledge of the English language.
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by random42 16y ago
Also, unlike other experiments, slider is preset (to 1.)
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by random42 16y ago
I completely concur with you. On all the points, including, so lessons learned are documented. BUT, blogging should not be misunderstood as documentation. you do not put all your learnings in the public view.. (well, may be in the social
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by random42 16y ago
You mean probability of her being unique is atleast 0.78, dont you? As being unique would be rather a binary state, either one is unique of not.
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by random42 16y ago
Quotes are not supposed to be paraphrased.
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by random42 16y ago
No question about it. Follows PEP08 guidelines, for variable naming conventions.
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by random42 16y ago
I know this is superficial and I am no one to comment, but I still do not like his nick selection (for professional purposes.)
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by random42 16y ago
Care to explain what exactly was the CTO's treatment towards the waitress?
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by random42 16y ago
... and we usually do not take a screenshot of the email after replying "Thanks, but no thanks" by email either. It is just a cheap-shot to ride on the geoHot wave to get 15 mins of fame.
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by random42 16y ago
Slideshare also started its development office in India first. Its as product-y as it gets.
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by random42 16y ago
but there are circumstances too sometimes... like meeting a deadline for a customer deliverable etc.
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by random42 16y ago
Congrats... and thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
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by random42 16y ago
Also, the assumption that no unique information was provided in the airbnb founders' meeting with Fred, and email conversation contains all the information, is probably incorrect.

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