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by tomjen2 17y ago
Not just that, but they also had a decent keyboard. I took out my old one (pre Lenovo) and was just amazed by how good the keyboard was.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I very much doubt those machines will last 4 years. Even if they are taken well care of by the student, other students might not (so you get to keep your lunch money but not your netbook). And with only 2GB of RAM, it won't be able to run a
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by tomjen2 17y ago
That seems hard to believe. It is very nearly impossible to hold the bicycle for more than a few seconds when it is standing still, but I can ride it for half an hour (traffic permitting) with no problem.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I tried to post a comment with HTML but I just ate it without any indication.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Not really, a mathematician would likely make less money than a toplevel chess player.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I have simply not seen one of those new artists, but that is definitely a good idea. If you get an agreement with the major labels, I will become a paid subscriber. It would be one of the greatest things that have happened to music in this
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I wasn't trying to say that Groveshark did anything illegal, just most of the songs there (and all those I had seen) didn't seem to be licensed (mostly because they where available in multiple copies). I assume that the uploads was done by
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by tomjen2 17y ago
The problem with Groveshark is that I can't seem to find one legal piece of music on it. Other than that it is definitely better (that is easy though, Pandora doesn't work at all. Keep up the good work.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Recruiters are spammers (or more accurately marketeers, but that is the same thing), treat them as such. If you need Viagra you go to Pfizer; if you need a job you go to the companies that you wan't to work with, no through some middle men.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
If the attacker wasn't stupid, it would double it. If he has an exploit for chrome, he is going to add the magic tag and let ChromeFrame render the code thus the browser is vulnerable. If he has an exploit for IE, he isn't going to add the
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Perhaps, people who start startups are generally optimistic, but who wants to be "in lieu of hieing"?
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by tomjen2 17y ago
What I don't get is why haven't anybody brought one on the black market from some Russian general who is ready to take a lot of black money? There is got to be plenty of counties who would be prepared to pay a lot of money for such a device
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Personally the idea of pair programming would suck out the joy of programming for me. I just can't stand the thought of not thinking through what I am doing and talking about it, is way slower than doing it in my head.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Is it really so hard to gain traction? Just write a UNIX micro kernel and add a compatibility layer for Linux device drivers, then you are set.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
The guy who started how stuff works had small book on the subject http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm . But what really happens is that stuff finally becomes so cheap that people will stop buying more than they need of it and will pres
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by tomjen2 17y ago
What is the closest thing the London start-up scene has to Hacker News? I feel there is little point in hanging out here as long as it is effectively American only (YC, not the boards).
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by tomjen2 17y ago
It might not be impossible to set up, but there are far more webhosts that offer php than rails (and believe it or not, there are plenty of people who are in the market for $2/month webhosting).
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by tomjen2 17y ago
First I am sorry to hear about your grandmother. Second, how far you take the instructions in the booklet obviously depends on the work you do, and the higher up you are, the easier it is to screw up something without being found out.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
It is properly the best guarantee that they will post regularly a new user can expect. And I would love to hear the story behind it.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
The response rates for direct mail is lower, but from Arlingtons point of view that is a great thing, since he can ignore those who don't matter enough to be on Techcrunch. So naturally he prefer email only.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Counterpoint to 2: I hate when mostly boring people start talking to me public transportation, especially planes. I am usually pissed and stressed out by the lousy service so just leave me alone.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
That is true, but there where (are?) quite some limitations on what kind of investments the banks could/can make if they want FDIC to insure the deposits.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
The banks properly can't legally loan money to something so dangerous as a new business. FDIC could never afford to cover _that_.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
The thing is though that is relatively easy to google, so I don't think there are that many problems for those of us who frequent this place. 150$ after tax isn't too bad, so it would be worth spending a couple of hours reading up on how to
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Long time passing. Girls picked them every one. But seriously, these kinds of coders are very difficult to get your hands on, you might want to go read some of Joel Spolsky's writtings on how to interview programmers. The basic pr
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by tomjen2 17y ago
That is actually a special case: There aren't a lot of people who are both artists and coders, so there would nearly always be someone who would be looking for the other part. And no, I don't have an idea for an awesome game. But that is be
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by tomjen2 17y ago
No matter what how much damage we do to this planet, we are still the only species who have a chance of making it off the planet before it smashes into the sun. You can say what you want about us and how beautiful nature is, but in the end
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by tomjen2 17y ago
It would be somewhat hilarious if the use of French becomes the inside thing to do as a programmer; it wouldn't be so impossible since the best programmers are likely to read that blog post.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I am not sure OCaml has gained any traction lately. The only paradox of OCaml is why people use it~
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I am not sure you will be that much less productive if you go from Java to Scala. You know most of the libraries, and so code completion is less of an issue and Scala removes many of the problems that are in Java.

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