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by snorkel 13y ago
You should quit. Clearly you don't enjoy working n this and life is too short.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Bad headline given the use case which not a currency issue but rather how to feature quality content that is not as popular: * Discovery: Good but unpopular content is being buried by popular content * The noise makers are the taste makers:
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by snorkel 13y ago
Yes, PHP is only used for amateur useless projects like Facebook, Wikipedia, Drupal, WordPress ... Our projects on the other hand are too important for this low brow language.
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by snorkel 13y ago
I browse the visitor photos on tripadvisor and check out the neighborhood on google maps. it's the closest you can get to seeing each hotel without actually being there.
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by snorkel 13y ago
I like this writing analogy a lot, because software is subjective. Doneness is subjective according to how its creators define it. User experience is subjective. Even overall quality depends on consensus opinion. Software is an art form.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Not all startups are staffed with 1 lonely developer and require 4 hour daily commute time, but I wouldn't work at those that are like that either. In the big corporate world you may also yourself surrounded by non-technical coordinators an
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by snorkel 14y ago
Yikes. At least give the next coder that will maintain your code (and perhaps your future-self) a chance at understanding it. If the goal is to switch between prod and test code by flipping one char, then this works, too if (1) p
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by snorkel 14y ago
Integers are the simple case, but you really haven't grasped the C memory model until you're comfortable handling text strings at any length, calling functions by pointers, working with structure pointers, and knowing when you need a pointe
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by snorkel 14y ago
No, no, and no. A 15-minute standing meeting is much more efficient. Mandating daily email check-ins means developer time would be wasted writing these emails, and everyone's time is then wasted reading these emails and then participating i
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by snorkel 14y ago
Pay-before-play is a dead revenue model. The money flow in apps these days is in in-app purchase (pay for power ups), pay-after-trial, and in-app advertising.
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by snorkel 14y ago
Agree. It's like WikiPedia: Make it easy for the community to decide how to organize it. Nothing stopping anyone from just populating this db in whatever format they prefer then publishing their own docs explaining their data model ... Let
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by snorkel 14y ago
Buy a cheap acoustic. Unless you're Eric Clapton you really don't need to belabor this decision. Buy whatever feels right. Learn on an acoustic first, it'll make the electric more enjoyable because most of the sound is being produced by you
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by snorkel 14y ago
ToysRus sells a First Act acoustic for $80. Plenty adequate for beginners.
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by snorkel 14y ago
You mean like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee_%28command%29
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by snorkel 14y ago
Data Scientist simply means a developer who also knows statistics. Here's how to sniff them out: 1. What is you favorite programming language and why? 2. Which is your least favorite programming language and why? 3. Explain how Bayesian spa
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by snorkel 14y ago
AP Chem saved me from doing the dreadful chemistry class/lab/lecture/exam tour in freshman year. I like scams that make college enjoyable.
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by snorkel 14y ago
Don't need to inline the function, it could instead just be a reference to static member of the same class: ... 'nullable' => self::getNullable, ...
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by snorkel 14y ago
There's been too much effort wasted trying to find the one-size-fits-all perfect CPU scheduler for all system rules. For apps such as postgres that care enough about CPU scheduling to have written their own cpu scheduler, then it's not too
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by snorkel 14y ago
I think Cringley missed the subtlety of "come back with music" is a nice way of saying "your pitch sucks"
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by snorkel 14y ago
No need to argue over RFC semantics on this one, as everyone agrees POST should not be cached, many web services are designed around that assumption, and clearly Apple needs to fix this. Most web traffic is GET responses, so the added advan
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by snorkel 14y ago
Agree. Java coders seem to have a habit of over-solving the problem with useless layers of abstraction. I recall trying to create a silly video editor in Java, using a common vendor framework for media files, simply opening the file then ex
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by snorkel 14y ago
Great new business plans: Instance squatting. Instance futures trading. Instance futures trading analysts ...
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by snorkel 14y ago
Bad title. tmpfs is good. Fedora maintainers assuming that all of /tmp should be in tmpfs is bad. Apps are already in the habit of writing a lot of expendable garbage to /tmp that doesn't require the fast I/O of tmpfs. Clogging RAM with thi
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by snorkel 14y ago
Customer: This small coffee is too big. I just can't slug that much head fuel right now, man. Do something for me! Barista: OK, let me fix that for you. (Barista pours out half of the coffee and hands the cup back) Customer: Dude, you have
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by snorkel 14y ago
Unfortunately it still looks like that cheap brown linoleum in your grandparents' kitchen.
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by snorkel 14y ago
It may as well be true. Cloud is just an over-gloried term for "hosted on virtual servers" and yeah, it's all supposed be very fluid and squishy and automatically scalable but really most of the stuff hosted in the cloud isn't being built t
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by snorkel 14y ago
marked as "failed interview process" ... wow! I can imagine a near future where this would damage your credit report too.
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by snorkel 14y ago
You can do similar feats with Amazon Elastic MapReduce + Karmasphere for reasonable cost except that Amazon S3 has the annoying 5GB max file size limit, which is a pain to workaround, where Google Cloud Storage has 5TB max file size.
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by snorkel 14y ago
Cool idea, but should offer a free version to spread the adoption. The premium version could offer more chart styles.
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by snorkel 14y ago
Media buyers are mostly wise to this old scam by now. First, you can simply measure the inbound traffic on the custom landing page for each ad buy, and it should be comparable to number of clicks reported. Second, cost per click traffic is

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