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by tx 18y ago
A lot of Vista bashing is coming form ex-Windows programmers being dog-tired of coding for this platform, which hasn't been an enjoyable experience lately. Problem is that it's virtually impossible to code relatively complex software for W
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by tx 18y ago
Most people are confusing "free software" with "open source" largely preferring (sometimes without realizing it) the latter, which (as they hope) translates into "free stuff without any obligations"
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by tx 18y ago
... But I’m a blogger, web developer and evangelist. I don’t know the security side as well as I should and I don’t have time to make sure everything is rock solid ... Wow, nice to know that the basics of web security isn't in his underst
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by tx 18y ago
Why so much whining about american broadband recently? I have "only" 6MBit connection, but I almost never see these speeds: only a handful of top-dogs like google/yahoo are capable of responding quickly. Flickr, PicasaWeb, GMail, ESPN and B
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by tx 18y ago
There are really only two: the MBP and the ThinkPad.
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by tx 18y ago
Typical engineering job is pretty lame? That's very American, if you ask me, because you're measuring everything around youself in dollars. I've become an engineer because I create things: every day something starts spinning, cranking, ro
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by tx 18y ago
Last time I've been to Silicon Valley it was 2003 and I hated it: the place had no soul compared to our beloved Austin. Then I got hired by a kick-ass Austin startup staffed by some ex-SV (and ex-Seattle) residents who acted like moving to
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by tx 18y ago
Throwing together a bunch of libraries and gluing them together with "surprisingly few" lines of Python code isn't exploratory programming. It's hardly programming at all.
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by tx 18y ago
Which PR agency has Xobni hired? I like what they do, and I like what their PR firm does even better: Xobni is everywhere!
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Ask YC: Why is domain registration so cheap?
3 points by tx 18y ago|8 comments
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by tx 18y ago
Try to get a habit of at least 30 minutes with a good semi-technical book before you go to bed. If the book is right, it will inspire you to fall asleep only to wake up and code something, sometimes I won't go to bed at all - I'd stay up al
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by tx 18y ago
You're confusing Macs-the-hardware with UNIX they run. Yes, all hackers work on UNIX of some sort. And even then, OSX requires a quite a bit of work to get it up to Linux levels of hacker friendliness.
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by tx 18y ago
The real genius and power of China lies in its armies of low-cost and brilliant engineers. Seen a Lenovo box lately? Heck of a lot nicer than anything Dell is pooping out from its factory in Round Rock. Yeah, right. AFAIK all Lenovo engin
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by tx 18y ago
Well, perhaps the time has come to write a Firefox plugin that automatically coverts Scribd links to PDFs.
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by tx 18y ago
Thank you!!! Why couldn't this be done in normal HTML?
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by tx 18y ago
Ignore standard (and popular) BS of "promotion through blogging and social networks", that's a myth. A successful blog is a business on its own. PR companies have full-time bloggers, Facebook "friends" and even wikipedia editors to spread t
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by tx 18y ago
Ha... I never used EBay in the intended way: when bying I always do searches for local items only, and just pick things up with cash. For selling I always use Craigslist.
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by tx 18y ago
Seems OK to me: as productivity rises, you don't need as many workers as you used to. Back in the day we used to rely on our kids to survive, this is why 5-7 children used to be the norm, but now it looks disgusting: we're humans, not rats.
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by tx 18y ago
If your business is ad-supported, you'll need hundreds of thousands of uniques per month to start making any money. Which means that building such product is the easiest and (by far) the cheapest part. Promoting something consumer-oriented,
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by tx 18y ago
Splolsky's problem is that his software is even more pedestrian, boring to work on, and useless than Microsoft's data synchronization products that he's making fun of. I know there are FogBugz users out there but I haven't met a single one
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by tx 18y ago
Loopt is an awesome service, and also not "just" a website. I have no doubt they'll be successful (assuming they execute), but the potential isn't nowhere close to Xobni's. Every Internet user is also an email user, and email is a mess. Big
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by tx 18y ago
99.9% of blogs are crap, including mine. I write it mostly for myself and to polish my English (not my native tongue). I don't believe one should be looking for "advantages" when deciding to start a blog. I hate to see what blogs are turnin
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by tx 18y ago
Funny how the biggest startup (by far) of all YC-funded actually IS NOT a CRUD-powered website but a classic algorithmic software that solves your problem. Congrats guys.
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by tx 18y ago
That's quite pedestrian and bottom-line oriented approach to life. Good luck crossing the finish line.
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by tx 18y ago
I don't understand that industry although I've been a C&D subscriber forever. I picked up this month issue, and again: every single new car they previewed gained inches and pounds. Every freaking time, every month, every new car. How ma
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Slime-like simple REPL for Vim + Ruby or Python or Lisp(technotales.wordpress.com)
1 points by tx 18y ago|0 comments
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by tx 18y ago
WTF is a podcast? Will you speak English here please?
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OQO: The world's smallest Mac(engadget.com)
1 points by tx 18y ago|0 comments
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by tx 18y ago
Yea, these beasts can't even compete with their own 5-year old products.
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by tx 18y ago
No, flash is slower and more bloated. Both of my PDF readers (on mac and ubuntu) work much faster than flash plugins. But much more importantly, Flash completely ignores every single visual setting I have set up on my PC: from font render

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