schmoe

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by schmoe 19y ago
Haha, I'd bet real money that > 75% of people who read this site still use a centralized VCS, most likely SVN. The pace of change is glacial.
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by schmoe 19y ago
Perhaps because he has accomplished a great deal and may have some advice for those who wish to as well? Seriously, he is out of touch with reality because he doesn't waste his time browsing the web?
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by schmoe 19y ago
Looks more like a modified ouroboros - wee bit older than Firefox.
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by schmoe 19y ago
I don't know if being a great programmer, and great at business (as in management, sales, etc), are mutually exclusive or not. However they do seem to require very different attitudes and skills. For example, becoming a great programmer r
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by schmoe 19y ago
Sure, but what sort of hacker? Hackers have narrow and deep interests, so they tend to spend time in communities that are narrow and deep like comp.lang.*, Lambda the Ultimate, A List Apart, etc. Based on the most popular topics, comments,
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by schmoe 19y ago
I don't think so, at least not hackers who are programmers. Most of the interesting links seem to be cross-posted from programming.reddit.com and receive relatively few upvotes. I know a number of very good hackers and not a single one r
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by schmoe 19y ago
I prefer CentOS ( http://www.centos.org ) as a server OS. It is well tested, secure, and reasonably up to date. CentOS is very nice for the sysadmin: configuration is well thought out, handy utilities like "service" and "chkconfig", autom
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by schmoe 19y ago
E is a fascinating distributed programming language, designed explicitly for building secure systems. With E and capability security you can build digital currencies, mobile code, virtual worlds, etc and bypass many traditional security pr
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The E Language in a Walnut(wiki.erights.org)
5 points by schmoe 19y ago|1 comments
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YC rejection emails are out!
27 points by schmoe 19y ago|37 comments
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by schmoe 19y ago
Amen! That was my very first thought as well :) You would think history provides sufficient demonstrations that private deals with tyrants usually backfire in the end. The Dalai Lama is an amazing person; always has a smile and kind words
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by schmoe 19y ago
You might have to work much harder being outside of a tech center, but if you build something great, people will initiate contact with you regardless of where you are. If your idea depends on having connections before it can work then you
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by schmoe 19y ago
How about doing some consulting for a startup, maybe even one from a previous YC round? You should be able to negotiate a pretty flexible schedule if you have expertise they need.
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by schmoe 19y ago
Server Side If your app is db-bound then use your favorite language. If it requires a lot of CPU time, you'll probably want a language that compiles to native code. Lots of choices there so look for the most productive one given your
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by schmoe 19y ago
schmoe@sent.com
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by schmoe 19y ago
What a great example of Hannah Arendt's "the banality of evil". Since the domain market is unregulated why not take advantage of that for your own personal gain, regardless of who it harms? After all everyone else is too right? Buy up al
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by schmoe 19y ago
Where did you get the $25-$30 USD figure for Windows Server? Pricing a server at dell.com shows $799 for Standard and $3,295 for Enterprise (useful if you want more than 4GB RAM or 4 CPUs) But the OS isn't so expensive compared to SQL Ser
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by schmoe 19y ago
With the nearly endless supply of interesting links from del.icio.us, digg, reddit, news.yc, etc, do you use one of the popular link aggregators to stay on top of what's hot? So far I've come across three that look interesting: popurls ht
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What is your favorite popular link aggregator?
3 points by schmoe 19y ago|2 comments
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by schmoe 19y ago
schmoe AT sent DOT com - oh well, thanks anyway.