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by tx 19y ago
That's not how wealth perception works. Wealth is a relative substance. We compare ourselves to our peers to construct an image of our own success. When I just moved to US I made less than 30K in my first year and I did not feel poor. In fa
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by tx 19y ago
We decided against dealing with those companies. Just the fact that they are charging startups, not investors, is a good indicator. Why would you charge customers who need money as opposed to those who want to invest ? Pbobaly because a
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by tx 19y ago
Well... you're not alone. We had a couple of phone calls from "customers" who (we are 99% certain) were our competitors almost immediately after we launched. They weren't intelligent enough to "control the conversation and information flow
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by tx 19y ago
Yeah... I especially "like" this new trend in hiring: best programming jobs now REQUIRE candidates to participate in some open source project, while very few of those companies themselves make any significant contributions to OS community.
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by tx 19y ago
This is weird. I am too have been ThinkPad fan for a long time and I only found their build toughness increase over time, including Lenovo era. MBP is a nice machine too, but it's touchpad/buttons unit is nowhere as ergonomic/productive as
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by tx 19y ago
Thinkpad T60 or T61 I love mine, even wrote a little mini-review here: http://kontsevoy.blogspot.com/2007/08/best-notebook-for-linu... Thinkpads are designed for doing actual work - "UltraNav" unit and the keyboard are to die for. They
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by tx 19y ago
Your post is the answer to your own question of why Java is so popular in the enterprise. Because colleges teach students to deal with it. By the time you graduate, you'll know how to install J2EE on Windows, see? Yes, enterprise is all ab
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by tx 19y ago
How does facebook get that data? My understanding that web stores upload the data to facebook? Which ones? I bought a few items at Amazon, bookpool and BHPhotoVideo just recently and haven't seen any references to FaceBook. Who's participat
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by tx 19y ago
Yeah... And nearly everybody (as always) complain about "stupid windows unable to stop apps from stealing focus". Actually this stuff is configurable, there isn't a standard UI for it, but little freeware "Tweak UI" tool lets you do just
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by tx 19y ago
It isn't exactly "revolutionary". Receiver-based approach has been employed for a while, although with a twist: analogous to methods of identifying DOS-attack sources, large ISPs or web mail providers (gmail) establish a network of "honeyp
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RockYou Dominates The Fake Business World(uncov.com)
3 points by tx 19y ago|1 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Something needs to be done about this: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/basecamphq... Controversial and inflammatory titles surely must bring in some buzz.
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by tx 19y ago
Every time I click a link and it turns out to be a PDF file I feel like I accidently stepped on a dog's poop in a park.
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by tx 19y ago
The article screams "Enterprise" out loud. Every other sentence has "IT department" or "infrastructure" in it. What a boring space, who cares where they are moving... Besides, since when Laslo, Sun and CodeGear became experts on where tech
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by tx 19y ago
Woow. Yet another local resource I had no clue about. Thanks a lot.
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by tx 19y ago
Well... lucky you, SValley residents. :-) We're based in Austin, TX and so far has not developed any connections with valley people.
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Do these guys really help? (helping to raise capital)
14 points by tx 19y ago|17 comments
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by tx 19y ago
There are about 3 or 4 companies who built products they sell for Windows that do exactly that: install a background service that keeps pinging their servers. Some courts had said that Microsoft was killing the competition by bundling "fr
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by tx 19y ago
You had your backups. So what is the problem? Where is the "horror" part?
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by tx 19y ago
I lost you at the beginning of the 2nd paragraph. Nobody who knows how to muscle their ways in C++ feels good after transitioning to Java. There is nothing "liberating" in this hog for someone who knows C++. There is nothing in Java that
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by tx 19y ago
Depends on how you look at it. Windows Server 2003 is not a bad server OS and properly written and deployed ASP.NET application will be able to handle TONS of requests. Two reasons: native code execution (.NET caches compiled code in memo
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by tx 19y ago
There are plenty of startups using ASP.NET or Java-based tech. In fact most companies started by "business types" are .NET/Java because they are easier to find disposable coders for. You don't see as many .NET shops here because most post
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by tx 19y ago
I know, but his draconian attitude towards binaries is hurting D. For example (AFAIK) there isn't a single msi-installer for Windows novices. You may suggest that D isn't for them because "real programmers" use Linux, but I'd argue that
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by tx 19y ago
I disagree. Stick (and perfect) what you do best naturally . Yes, you don't need to have a CS degree to be good at programming, but you DO need to have a passion for it. Actually, having passion for what you do is what makes you an attract
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by tx 19y ago
Jesus... yet another email bashing BS. Email has always been for "old people" because it's (mostly) a working tool. Kids don't like to do work, they like to play. It's like saying that "doing dishes is dead. leaving them dirty all over the
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by tx 19y ago
After having explored "new technologies" since my graduation in 99, I paused myself and has started moving back in time, discovering things like Lisp, Smalltalk, vim and bash. I picked up Python and rediscovered a beauty of a simple text fi
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Wishlistr: New amazing Web 2.0 web service launched :-)(uncov.com)
1 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I think you should know by now that you won't have any issues gaining and retaining users: I have witnessed your success around in my office and I am seeing your red-orange color scheme on my colleagues' monitors all day. And most of them d
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by tx 19y ago
Funny, but I uninstalled Xobni precisely because it decided to run its own little daemon at all times. Initially I liked the product a lot and several guys at work installed it because of me not shutting up on "look! all attachments from yo
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by tx 19y ago
PG's advice is good for YC but I blame myself for taking it seriously. Now, after nearly a year of work and tons of personal savings spent, we're seeing quite negative reaction from the first wave of investors we've approached: everyone wan

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