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by sp4rki 16y ago
Oh sorry I never meant to say Google is a saint, I just said Oracle's motto is now the opposite of Google's regardless of if Google is evil or not.
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Thanks a bunch, I missed that somehow. The funny thing is that since someone upvoted this topic I just reached the new karma threshold. Hah take that PG :)
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by sp4rki 16y ago
You are the exception, not the rule. I choose a product first by it's merits and second by what people have said about the product on their reviews or comments. Social proof can be of extreme benefit because of this.
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Ask HN: Threshold for downvoting changed?
2 points by sp4rki 16y ago|4 comments
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by sp4rki 16y ago
And that is exactly the reason he should go to Facebook instead. I never questioned Palantir's engineers - I don't get why you make such assumption. The simple truth is that for a person starting out it looks insanely better to have Faceboo
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Android as a tablet lacks direction(marco.org)
1 points by sp4rki 16y ago|1 comments
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Jesus you shouldn't even have to ask this question. Facebook all the way. It not only carries more weight, but you're more likely to work with new cutting edge tech. Remember Palantir is mainly a Java shop in the finance and gov sectors, wh
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Creating Opportunities So Your Company Thrives(zurb.com)
1 points by sp4rki 16y ago|0 comments
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The UX Design Education Scam(andyrutledge.com)
5 points by sp4rki 16y ago|1 comments
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I really hope Libre Office gets some momentum going and completely kills off Open Office. Oracle has a knack of screwing things up... OpenSolaris, Java, OpenOffice... I honestly think Oracle's motto is now the opposite of Google's and more
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by sp4rki 16y ago
A Computer Science or Programming job is not the same as an IT job. There is a shortage of Computer Scientists and good Programmers everywhere . In contrast IT jobs (think The IT Crowd) are completely over-saturated. Having a bunch of cert
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I had a similar experience once. I'm a bit of an introvert, but have awesome social skills, and was teaching a friend of mine how anyone can get a hottie if he's confident enough. I got the hottie to go home with him by being confident firs
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Because it features the color yellow? Inspired maybe, but they don't use any trademarkable elements on their design, and doesn't even have anything similar to DHL's website than the colors (which are not even the same really). They're not e
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by sp4rki 16y ago
You could leverage the popularity of hashtags, since people already use them and feel comfortable with them. IMO I'd rather slash than tag though.
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I'm not saying that you shouldn't exclude people for performance reasons. You should do whatever you need to keep your service up and running. I'm saying you shouldn't exclude by geographic location. I'd rather see a "Whoops capacity for th
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I lost interest the moment you told me I couldn't sign up because I'm not in one of the 'geographic regions' you opened up. What's the point of that? I could very well just tunnel to a server or use one of my paid VPNs, which I'd actually d
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Youtube's business model being questionable means that you think that it dubious at best and and the authority of the claim of its profitability is disputable. Eric Schmidt already said Youtube is very close to profitability, and should act
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by sp4rki 16y ago
What does that have to do with the question? There's a reason they make their own ladders regardless of what it costs.
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I live in central America, so skipping a shower or two WILL get you on peoples lousy side. Hell in here you'd have to shower twice a day as a minimum. Oh and no deodorant? Oh man I've heard that "but I don't stink!" excuse a million times.
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Behavioral methods in ActiveRecord(patmaddox.com)
4 points by sp4rki 16y ago|0 comments
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Oh boy when I get those I'm generally also completely zoned out of my mind. It's like everything else shuts down.
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Because SF has low hanging power lines and because the weight makes them more stable in windy situations. Why not? It's not like if they had firemen do ladders in their free time. They have a different department where only 2 people work ma
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I don't think flattr will work just because this type of service needs a huge user base and a huge customer base to work. IMO the best thing that could happen to flattr, is being bought by Facebook. Facebook has the users and the range to a
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I'm sorry but Youtube questionable? Youtube is the next logical step for advertisement from TV. Also they're close to being profitable, and if Google TV actually gets some market it will propel Youtube into profitability.
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Why you are thinking about quitting when you've dedicated so much to your project and are getting investors interested in your product is beyond me. If the problem is loneliness just get out more! What difference will it make to move out an
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Sometimes mean spirited comments can be full of usable ideas, or at least they can fuel a debate between contrasting opinions. Remember that what looks to be a mean spirited comment by you, might be taken a completely different way by someo
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Since the advise was directed to the OP and he labels himself as a "shy, kind of an introvert" person I was kind of directing my response at that specifically, though an introvert that's also a person who want's to make friends is a total o
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Actually you're right, I realized later that I had not written it like I wanted it to come out. I kind of wanted to say something more like "Read books, build something, and while you're at it read more books and build stuff". Thanks for po
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Most intelligent introverts have friends in University though. The fact that the person is probably not into socializing as it's known to most college kids, generally means that they form a group within a section of the 'intelligent introve
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by sp4rki 16y ago
+1 scrypt, bcrypt, or PBKDF2 You saved me some typing there! Anyways I concur.

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