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by teaspoon 15y ago
Instapaper offers an optional $1/month subscription. It's a voluntary way to support future development. http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/04/instapaper-subscriptions/
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by teaspoon 15y ago
I'm currently appealing a similar rejection of an auto-renewing subscription app. Here's the rejection: We found that the Purchasability Type for one or more of your In-App Purchase products was inappropriately set, which is not in complia
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Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers(37signals.com)
605 points by teaspoon 15y ago|423 comments
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Poll: do you want inline code formatting on HN?
3 points by teaspoon 15y ago|0 comments
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by teaspoon 15y ago
Yes
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by teaspoon 15y ago
No
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by teaspoon 15y ago
I thought so too, but appending to a single string does even worse than reduce(:+): add 2 0.390000 0.000000 0.390000 ( 0.390529) += 2 0.540000 0.000000 0.540000 ( 0.537450) add 3 0.530000 0.000000 0.530000 ( 0.53
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by teaspoon 15y ago
Couldn't a system with N supervisor-actor relationships be rewritten as a single process with N try / catch statements, where the catch block simply logs the exception and jumps back to the start of the try block? I haven't used Erlang,
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by teaspoon 15y ago
In the common case, selling someone $50,000 of licenses is a $50,000 win for the company. That actually sounds like a very uncommon case. Even fully client-side software has variable costs in the form of support costs. Support costs aren'
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by teaspoon 15y ago
Ruby strings are mutable, so you need to be able to free s->data without freeing the RString itself.
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by teaspoon 15y ago
I was curious, so I benchmarked this with Ruby MRI. join('') beat reduce(:+) even on two strings, but is twice as fast only on four or more strings. $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [universal-darwin11.0] $ ru
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by teaspoon 15y ago
That's a non-error: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html#lend
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by teaspoon 15y ago
"""
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by teaspoon 15y ago
Just so you know, bipolar people are knowingly irrational from time to time and rarely kill people.
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by teaspoon 15y ago
All else equal, yes. More demand means a higher price -- i.e., less compensation for the same talent.
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by teaspoon 15y ago
From the article: But free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resou
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by teaspoon 15y ago
Nitpick: you might call that envy or schadenfreude, but it's not sour grapes. Sour grapes would be if someone were talking down the desirability of $40 million itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
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Win $50,000 by digitizing US patents(community.topcoder.com)
4 points by teaspoon 15y ago|0 comments
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What a Trillion Dollars Looks Like(xkcd.com)
4 points by teaspoon 15y ago|0 comments
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by teaspoon 15y ago
That's certainly true. If you're being held without trial, you're beyond the help of most technologies and pesky legal restrictions.
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by teaspoon 15y ago
Are you suggesting that the FBI tortures every suspected pedophile and spammer who uses FDE?
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by teaspoon 15y ago
There's a rich tradition of self-interested complaint in this industry. This reminds me of Fred Wilson's complaining about startup lawyer fees[1], Aaron Greenspan's complaining about the Money Transmission Act[2], and pg's Patent Pledge[3].
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Cards, by Apple: make and send letterpress cards(apple.com)
1 points by teaspoon 15y ago|0 comments
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by teaspoon 15y ago
The burden of proof is on the accusers, but "not proven" is a long way off from "clearly false".
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Google Reader's founder on Google Reader(plus.google.com)
47 points by teaspoon 15y ago|16 comments
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Google Reader's founder on Google Reader(massless.org)
2 points by teaspoon 15y ago|0 comments
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Nominology(messymatters.com)
11 points by teaspoon 15y ago|6 comments
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by teaspoon 15y ago
"Second guess" is UK/US English expression meaning "to attempt to predict or anticipate", so I think you and the parent have the same understanding.
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by teaspoon 15y ago
The "Like" and "Follow" buttons on Tumblr require JavaScript, probably to make CSRF harder. A bot that automatically likes posts would need to evaluate JS.
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by teaspoon 15y ago
Half a day of development costs at least a few hundred dollars in the US, so I don't see why a business can't make money by saving you that time. And some argue that there are other ways to compete than on features and price: http://gettin

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