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by shuzchen 14y ago
I've actually seen a lot of successful twitter campaigns. Barack Obama has had a few good runs during the campaign (with #forward2012) and recently with #my2k to push his side of the fiscal cliff issue. Any twitter campaign will have parti
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Seems most of the people recommending alternatives are only thinking of email. I use gapps for my family, and we take a huge advantage of having a domain-specific calender and docs.
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by shuzchen 14y ago
That's $50/year for each user. Easy to stomach if it's only yourself, but add even a partner (not to mention a small team with a bootstrapped product) and it starts to make less sense financially.
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Because such a harsh punishment doesn't fit a first time offense, especially if it's entirely possible both parties had innocent intentions? In university I took advantage of a lot of my peers by having them critique/edit my assignments (of
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by shuzchen 14y ago
my workplace uses Hipchat, and they appear XMPP based. You can access it using your IRC client with bitlbee as a bridge (I just set this up this past weekend - I don't know why I didn't do it sooner). Not as simple as direct IRC compatibi
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Have you actually tried to get hired? If you've never been through any technical (or even non-technical) interviews, you'll likely have a hard time. So are you Un-hireable? Probably yes. But can you become hireable? Absolutely yes, but wit
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by shuzchen 14y ago
You might want to look into rjmetrics or chart.io and see what they offer. I've been integrating with both, and it seems one of their goals is to (after the connection and datasources are set-up - that still requires technical knowledge) a
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Features? Performance? A lot of people have benchmarked various cloud providers and Linode consistently gets high marks on CPU and disk IO. That particular $15/month dedicated gets you a single-core (!!!) Atom/Celeron processor. Who knows
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by shuzchen 14y ago
They didn't actually add an 8GB plan, they've always had larger plans, just too many to display on the landing page. If you went into pricing or tried to signup, the larger plans were always available. Since they scrubbed some plans I gue
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by shuzchen 14y ago
In my experience, a few years back, whenever I bought/built a machine I had to explicitly ask for 64bit (if that's what I wanted). Nowadays, it seems to be the default even for the cheapest builds available. Consider this, most default bui
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by shuzchen 14y ago
But the tone of the OP (and the article as well) isn't to get rid of all managers or tear down higher ed entirely (not to say that opinion isn't alive and kicking on HN, just I don't see it in the article or OP's comments). It's asking whe
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by shuzchen 14y ago
>> Meet Ani, Claire and Reed, three characters who could almost be real Are they actually profiles of three people? That copy suggests otherwise. I'm as confused as everybody else as to what the point of this is.
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Just wanted to clarify a bit more than what the article mentions. Not only do Android devices allow you to install an app from an .apk you downloaded (or copied to sd card, or emailed as attachment to yourself, or put in your dropbox, or s
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by shuzchen 14y ago
I feel like the reason I prefer Android is because it's so faceted, and available for anyone to use to adopt for whatever use-case. I've owned an mp3 player that uses Android as a base, and I think it's being used in appliance dashboards a
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by shuzchen 14y ago
I can't disagree enough. Time is too brittle of a system to rely on across various machines, especially since you can't be certain all machines can correctly report back the same UTC time. I've seen too many devs using VMs with way out of
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by shuzchen 14y ago
The funny thing is that the people in North Korea only survived due to capitalism. Because the government has been incapable of distributing food, people have been forced to obtain it by trading in ad-hoc black markets.
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by shuzchen 14y ago
And the same with Facebook. Myspace was just a cesspool of autoplaying music, animated backgrounds and illegible text. Not to mention it was horribly buggy and you weren't allowed to remove Tom from your friendlist (eventually you were able
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by shuzchen 14y ago
I've registered ##codernitydb in freenode and will idle in there, if anybody is interested in forming a community in irc
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by shuzchen 14y ago
For me, the db being in pure-python means a db that can be easily extended or augmented. If you have some quirky requirement your options are 1) implement this in the client, or 2) modify your db. Option 1 is probably what most people opt
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by shuzchen 14y ago
I feel it's worth mentioning that the Amazon mp3 store was DRM free from the get-go, and long before Apple started providing DRM free music. In fact, it was probably on the example of Amazon that Apple was able to make such a demand ("look
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by shuzchen 14y ago
And if you look at the Amazon music store, which was DRM free from the get-go (and probably paved the way for Apple to negotiate with its own content providers for DRM free music), it's hard to think of Amazon as being on the side of DRM. C
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by shuzchen 14y ago
I disagree on your third point. First, Blizzard knows that it can't stop gold sellers. Even if they shut down all the big operations, there will always be people willing to pay money for virtual items and people willing to sell that can t
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by shuzchen 14y ago
You should be more specific about which phone (at least, which version of Android its running) as well as which browser you're using. Works fine in chrome with the two tablets I have about (galaxy tab 2 7" and the nexus 7)
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Looking into it today, it seems what a patch looks like depends on the tool. Git by default (using a command like git format-patch) adds a From: header value that contains the original author. Mercurial (using a command like hg export) in
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by shuzchen 14y ago
What you describe is a probable scenario, but I think the real reason is in the patch process. Contributions in python don't appear to happen pull request style ("here's my repo with my changes, please merge that in"), but rather through s
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by shuzchen 14y ago
I feel like one point that is missing in this conversation is that sometimes when you don't talk to people about your ideas you miss out on a lot! I frequent a lot of technical mixers in the region and I talk to a lot of people about their
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by shuzchen 14y ago
I wonder how flexible you are in deciding what card you want their physical card to charge to? Do you log in and toggle the current card it's a proxy for? Or can you log in later that night and tell google wallet "charge that latte on the m
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Are startups in dire need of enterprise class wifi? The only purpose I can imagine a startup needing their product is to put wifi in their office - but wouldn't most office setups be wired? I'd like to see this offer extended to community
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by shuzchen 14y ago
"Permanently Lose Your Files" -> "I am able to restore each file from Dropbox's version history" It's also important to remember the meaning of the word "permanently", while this is a UX disaster, the title is misleading.
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by shuzchen 14y ago
Yeah, being webkit based it wasn't hard to get ipad support. Most of the work was spent getting the site to look good on retina displays. There's a lot to mention regarding motivation, especially in terms of user experience for both buyers

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