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by smanek 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759667 We're looking for an intern who could help out with the front end of an Android, iPhone, or Web App (we have all three, and an intern could choose the area that most appeals to them). It would be
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by smanek 17y ago
We're looking for an Android and/or iPhone part-timer or intern (we'll likely offer you a full time job in about 2 months, but we frankly can't afford it right now). It's fine if you don't know ObjectiveC+Java+Clojure+JS+Lisp. (although, id
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by smanek 17y ago
given me infallible icebreakers Care to share? I've never had much luck on developing those ...
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by smanek 17y ago
Reasonably strong typing + better IDEs have made type-naming redundant. If you don't have both those two available, go ahead and use it though.
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by smanek 17y ago
There are several thousand people out at Cupertino - what are they doing?
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by smanek 17y ago
Yeah, that's really much more secure ;-) http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571
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by smanek 17y ago
Sun Tzu: Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. [...] Feign inferiority and encourage his arrogance. Either that, or provinces tend to over-report growth to make themselves look
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by smanek 17y ago
Makes sense, right? RoR directly competes with ASP.net and 37Signals with Sharepoint, Project, etc. I'm sure a lawyer just went to a programmer and said "List N competitors of Product X" ...
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by smanek 17y ago
They have yb.nl too .. (they are in the netherlands)
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by smanek 17y ago
http://getfiregpg.org/ You don't want server side PGP support - you'd have to give your private key to Google. As much as I trust Google, I still don't trust them that much. Much more secure to handle the crypto client side. Ideally, Goog
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by smanek 17y ago
.05 cents = 1/20 of a cent = $0.0005
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Ask YC: Know a good startup lawyer near Cambridge?
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't know if they want to hype it that much. They are a publicly traded and looking unnecessarily weak could cause a huge unwarranted dip in their market cap (which they have a fiduciary responsibility to prevent).
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by smanek 17y ago
Link seems to be broken - anyone have a mirror?
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by smanek 17y ago
Why? It will be easy to disable.
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by smanek 17y ago
Wow, that is a little depressing. Just out of idle curiosity - are you the djb (qmail, cdb, etc)?
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by smanek 17y ago
I was amazed to learn that ~15% of adults in America are functionally illiterate. They can put letters together and sound out words - but couldn't, for example, answer simple questions about a short text they just read. Over 20% of American
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by smanek 17y ago
What if I'm willing to pay someone $2 to clear my table, and someone else is willing to clear it for $2? Are you going to say that we can't engage in this voluntary transaction? Because this is basically the system we have in place now and
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by smanek 17y ago
The letter itself says: "So, I decided to write them down, even if for the most part they are incomprehensible to you" and "you may be able to understand the beginning; you will understand nothing of what follows that." That shows that Andr
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't think it's that part of Stevens' speech that bugged people. He also said: "an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on th
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by smanek 17y ago
I wish the OS was smart enough to do this automatically. I have 16GB of RAM on my workstation, and rarely use more than 8GB.
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by smanek 17y ago
There are dozens of valid reasons to hate PHP. I don't know why everyone keeps picking on GOTO though. There are situations where it is the clearest and most concise way to express what you want (in modern times we emulate this functionalit
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by smanek 17y ago
That's what I'd heard in the past - but the my quote is directly from the article.
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by smanek 17y ago
Your claim only makes sense if everyone else involved sat around idly during the time that they would have been working on the project he 'packaged.' I seriously doubt that would be the case. Obviously the project Seth proposed provided som
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by smanek 17y ago
I was with him until "As the agent of change, you deserve the lion's share of the revenue." All he was doing was introducing people to each other. He didn't produce the content, he didn't distribute the product, and he didn't front the mone
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Ariely's Painful Lesson (MIT Prof. and author of 'Predictably Irrational')(web.mit.edu)
1 points by smanek 17y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
The problem is that you can resell hard copy books. I usually spend ~$250/semester on used text books at the beginning of each semester (I'll buy them online), and get about $100 from selling them back (usually to the campus book store, alt
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by smanek 17y ago
Hmm, that's a fair question. I tutored high school kids (14-17) for a while, and I would generally tailor things to their interest. Basically, I tried to relate the math to solving a real problem they might be interested. Limits to money pr
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by smanek 17y ago
"Bezos claimed that Kindle e-books add 35% to a physical book's sales on Amazon whenever Kindle editions are available" Wow, that's impressive.
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by smanek 17y ago
Really? I wasn't that impressed with them: they were mostly arithmetic - not actual math. Most of the questions I saw were just annoyances dealing with fractional/decimal arithmetic. There were some interesting word/figure problems, but the

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