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by rwhitman 16y ago
Yea I just recently got into using it heavily with my remote devs and it has rocked my world. Really bummed out about this. But then again when Google "kills" something they rarely pull the plug completely.. it either stays in limbo indefin
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Considering I've spent my career in the opposite position, I've never fully understood this mentality. But America is littered with over-educated, under-employed people for some reason. I recall working service jobs as a student with unhapp
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Here's my recent philosophy - if you have the time to worry about mailing lists and slow reveal, testimonials and launch date hooha then you're doing something wrong, because in the time you spent noodling around on these things - hyping up
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I grew up in a household with unlimited junk food & dessert supply, and when I was 20, decided to rebel. The trick is simply: don't buy junk food. Don't buy it for at least 3 months, possibly forever. Keep it out of your house. Its ea
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Ask HN: 'Virtual' team workflow?
2 points by rwhitman 16y ago|0 comments
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I know this is a really alarming issue, but there's no way this will ever happen. Business lobbies are far too powerful to allow something like this to slip by without a serious fight, and we've got 2 years. Solution: write your congress pe
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by rwhitman 16y ago
If you really want to feel like shit imagine this: you're a guy who went to a chain art school and spent most of his career updating mom & pop websites and tweaking Wordpress, and you're sitting in a board room in San Francisco full of
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Is this honestly what you believe? That a poor student learning on pirated software can condemn themselves - by sheer act of moral fate - to a negative path in life? Who determines "bad behavior" exactly? You know, in my world view, publicl
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Ah but XMLHttpRequest was introduced in 1999. I said, very carefully, over the last 10 years..
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by rwhitman 16y ago
On a lot of things I've worked on competitors were a great thing - you can see their mistakes and correct them ahead of time. But when you first discover a new one who's doing a better job its always a downer. Founders can get really depres
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I'm sorry but your argument that someone who buys legitimate software will produce better work is just ridiculous. Mastery comes from practice, not sheer will - someone who has to work all summer to acquire Illustrator is going to be far le
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by rwhitman 16y ago
You're switching from the word 'designer' to 'developer' in this post and the titles are definitely not interchangeable
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I would say that Microsoft 'pushing innovation on the browser front' is the root cause of most browser related developer headaches over the last 10 years.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
If anything its a level of convenience that I would definitely support. Nothing is more frustrating than working with a piece of code (in my case usually a Django app), get giddy about using it and then realize that it hasn't been maintaine
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by rwhitman 16y ago
+1 for Speedy J haha, thought I was the only one. Old stuff like G-Spot especially
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I have a playlist of 90's electronica (underworld, prodigy, aphex twin, orbital, future sound of london, the orb, daft punk, etc) called "AMPED" that I made for if I'm losing focus. If I ever fade out, I put that on and it gets me in the zo
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I have been freelancing since I graduated college 8 years ago. I've been self employed so long I wouldn't even know what to do with a fulltime job. I routinely accept projects that are well outside of my programming abilities or have unreas
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I have so many friends in the industry and it blows my mind that movies ever get made. The inner workings of the movie business with its 'extreme personalities', on-set politics and its ridiculous accounting processes would likely drive any
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I love how I got downvoted to 0 for telling the truth. I think Pittsburgh is great, its one of my favorite places. But, you can substitute Pittsburgh for Cleveland or Philadelphia, or Chicago or St Louis or Baltimore. At the end of the day
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I don't think of the G20 as being a marker of endorsement for a city's economic well-being. If anything its akin to putting a big red target mark for chaos & destruction. Pittsburgh may just be well suited to absorbing riots
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Yea but who graduating college thinks about home ownership? I left Philadelphia for CA shortly after college 6 yrs ago. I still rent here and I know that if I stayed in PA I would probably own multiple properties at this point. Honestly I w
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Every city wants to be the 'next Silicon Valley' but can never retain the companies. Its not a problem endemic to Pittsburgh. Can you think of a city that's not in the west that can honestly claim this title? Its not just the capital - ther
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I did some work for a comedy writer / actor a few years back that ran a company called Talking Panda, where they sold software that was basically iPods hacked to work as info decks & translation tools. At their peak I heard they were pu
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I currently work with a guy who is a master of monetization - and he's completely tech-braindead. Startups chase him down with countless lucrative hiring offers every day. You get good at monetization and you become worth more than your wei
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I agree.. I would think that a more highly advanced technology would start to resemble organic life. I'm no engineer, but I'd say we're still a long way off from this in most regards, am I correct?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Django is great for rapid prototyping. The admin area is built in, that alone saves a ridiculous amount of time
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Facebook acquires Nextstop(techcrunch.com)
2 points by rwhitman 16y ago|0 comments
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by rwhitman 16y ago
This is a winner for sure. Everybody's been talking about this lately and I think you won the race in terms of execution. I hope to god most restaurant owners buy into this
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by rwhitman 16y ago
There goes the neighborhood...
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by rwhitman 16y ago
It depends on who you go with. I know a secret - that price does not necessarily equate to quality + value when it comes to consulting work. Some people are extremely talented & efficient but have never been exposed to the true value of

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