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by smokinn 18y ago
I agree that the music selection from Pandora station was way better than last.fm. If Pandora asked me to pay 3$ a month I would. Last.fm? No way.
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by smokinn 18y ago
I tend to be the same way. If I'm just coding up a small app I don't want the overhead of a framework. I might want a bit of routing, possibly some automated mvc and that's about it. Everything else in a framework I usually care little abou
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by smokinn 18y ago
Business skills? Connections? Technology experience? Coder or not? Has a presence than can convey leadership, Financial experience? etc. Are any of these relevant/necessary?
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by smokinn 18y ago
Why I'm asking this: I know someone who's looking for a CEO for a funded startup with an apparently great product. I considered it briefly than wrote myself off, deciding I was more of a CTO type and a CEO type, assuming a CEO deals more wi
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What do you look for in a startup CEO?
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by smokinn 18y ago
I've gone through most of their library of classical. Found many good new artists. My favourite find is definitely Edgen: http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/edgen/ It's "epic" music. Reminds me of starcraft terran background music. This is one
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by smokinn 18y ago
The part about Spolsky, if true, is interesting because Joel obviously doesn't see some of the decisions he made at Microsoft as wrong since he's still doing the same thing. "He made other similarly stupid decisions like creating a custom p
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by smokinn 18y ago
Personally, I'm all for any options that bring down the incentives for parking domains.
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by smokinn 18y ago
When was the last time you saw twitter down? Last time I remember seeing the fail whale is probably back in October or earlier. They did have major uptime issues but I think that's mostly in the past. I'm not on 100% of the time so it's qui
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by smokinn 18y ago
flickr deals with that problem by manually moving power users if necessary. They have a tool that lets them do that. See: http://highscalability.com/how-flickr-handles-moving-you-ano... In practice it's going to be very rare that you'll o
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by smokinn 18y ago
Thanks, I know it makes sense from an employer perspective, I just wanted to point out that there are exceptions so while I can understand reluctance in the interview I personally wouldn't set the resume aside and not give an interview at a
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by smokinn 18y ago
Thanks for that. I was wondering when this was written specifically because of that sentence. Yahoo mail is so far ahead everyone else today that I knew this had to have been written long ago. Does anyone know how Yahoo mail caught up to an
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by smokinn 18y ago
The comments are loaded through a script tag. The top of the comment box says (Powered by JS-Kit) The script tag loads content from this url: http://js-kit.com/comments-data.js?jx=0&gen=0&srt=da... ; So either no-script is blocking
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by smokinn 18y ago
What about my situation? I got a job right out of school and worked so much overtime I more or less burnt out on it. When they showed me graphs of how much money I made them and didn't even bother with a Christmas bonus I quit. The company
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by smokinn 18y ago
You're not going to hear details about a trial involving minors, especially given that it was sex related. I imagine the court documents were sealed before they even existed.
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by smokinn 18y ago
We simply use an in-memory queue. Beanstalkd has worked quite well for us. (Not a rails app though)
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by smokinn 18y ago
True, with current software you don't want to save tentative changes but the only reason for that is that your "undo" history is lost the instant you close a program. If you could undo changes through the entire history of the document expl
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by smokinn 18y ago
Beacon was very quickly dumped after the massive backlash that was brought up upon it. I have no doubt that had there not been the massive public resentment they would have quickly iterated on it and made it into a very viable and interesti
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by smokinn 18y ago
A definitive primer with no information about the actual laws they defendants are being accused of breaching? Doesn't seem all that definitive to me. I know very little about Swedish copyright law so I was hoping for at least some idea of h
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by smokinn 18y ago
What about compiling ActiveMerchant to Python? http://github.com/why/unholy/tree/master
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by smokinn 18y ago
I don't always believe everything he says but he does sometimes make some good points. He says he makes his money entirely off google ads but then again he said everything runs off varying numbers of servers (it varies according to which ar