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by varikin 15y ago
I don't care for MS, but I do grudgingly respect .NET from everything I have seen. And while it is hip to use Apple and run RoR, Django, Erlang, or any other next big language and stack, .NET is huge in the corporate world where the stack i
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by varikin 15y ago
I wasn't criticizing Apple. I think it is the opposite. Apple is great at consumer products, while MS fumbled recently with consumer products, but MS has had success with B2B.
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by varikin 15y ago
Also, it doesn't have to be the CEO with the vision. The CEO can, in the scenario, find and back up someone else with the vision.
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by varikin 15y ago
I think the OP is right, but you are misunderstanding. Jobs understands his business, but what products does Apple put out there for businesses? Microsoft has Exchange, Active Directory, .NET/C#/MVC, MSSql, plus many more products aimed at
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by varikin 15y ago
An important piece to this that isn't mentioned is filing bug reports, good bug reports. If you track down where some fails, figure out why, and find the smallest, easiest set of steps to reproduce, you have helped the developers a lot. Eve
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by varikin 15y ago
I think is the right idea. An IP address is a piece in the puzzle of evidence. By itself, it should not be enough to prove guilt, but it might be enough for a search warrant. I hope is that as time goes on, the legal system (and hopefully a
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by varikin 16y ago
Actually, this isn't just if you don't setup DNS records for your domain name. If you configure some subdomains with name.com, then all other subdomains for that domain go to a parked page. For example, my wife's website is jesleephotos.com
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by varikin 16y ago
This is disheartening to read because I have been using name.com for over year now and over, I had been happy. I did check one of my domains and found this issue, but since for most of my domains, I don't have DNS managed by the registrar,
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by varikin 16y ago
Also note that all these numbers really depend on location. 80-100K out of college in Minnesota (where I am) would be insane. I know people with 15 years experience making 100-120k. Now if you are in the Bay area making 32K, that sounds wei
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by varikin 16y ago
I went to Ikea with my wife shortly after seeing the Scott Pilgrim movie (yes this is an important detail). We were looking for something very specific, so I looked at the map and pointed out all the little shortcut doors that look like "Em
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by varikin 16y ago
I made a Solarized dark theme for XCode 4. I used the Vim definition as a guide, though varied it a little while staying within the color palette. https://github.com/varikin/solarized/tree/master/xcode4-colo...
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by varikin 16y ago
Growl and Sparkle are the defacto standards for notifications and program updates on Mac. They are very nice because I can control how I am notified through Growl settings (no notifications) and apps tell me there is a new update when launc
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by varikin 16y ago
These libraries exist because iOS (IMHO) is too low level in places, such as HTTP requests. There is an interface you have to implement in order to make HTTP requests, and you have to handle all the data (bytes) that come in incrementally.
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by varikin 16y ago
But, if you pay for the Mac Developer Program, you can download it from the website. So either $5 or $99/year. But you need to pay $99/year to submit apps to the app store—at least iOS app store, I assume the same for Mac App Store. So deve
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by varikin 16y ago
I can't say I speak for Square and I definitely don't know the details of their contacts with the credit card processors, but 2.75% is probably limited by what they get charged to process the credit cards. I would hazard a guess that they g
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by varikin 16y ago
After having to handle email validation and deal with QA finding corner cases in my validators, I prefer the approach of minimal validation as mentioned in the article (has an @ sign with something before or after) with the ultimate validat
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by varikin 16y ago
Yes, Toys-R-Us is owns Babies-R-Us. They turned a local TRU into a BRU about 5 years ago. Same place, new look and new merchandise.
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by varikin 16y ago
Technically, Django doesn't run on GAE. All the options to get it running on GAE involve quite a bit of hacking of Django. So there really isn't any support to maintain.
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by varikin 16y ago
Actually, the modern convention of a single space is not due to saving space.† A proportional computer font is kerned in such a way that the space after a period is wider then between words. For example, a standard space is 1em‡, but the s
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by varikin 16y ago
I would agree with this. High standards result in great products, but not necessarily innovative products. Restrictions can and do lead to restrictions. Think of all the limited resources in a computer 20 years ago and all the tricks played
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by varikin 16y ago
That is a good point but the problem I have is that I click a link, read the article, go back to HN, and look for the link to view the comments. At that point, I sometimes can't find it because the link blends in and I scan right over it. I
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by varikin 16y ago
I think I dislike about the HN design is the visited link color. If I find that it blends in with the background to the point that I scan right over it when looking for visited links. It needs just a bit more contrast.
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by varikin 16y ago
According to Wikipedia, it is made from starch, sugar beets, sugar cane, and molasses. And starch quite often is corn starch. As for the chemically pure aspect, I don't know enough to comment. No one really understands what causes allergies
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by varikin 16y ago
Actually, some people are allergic to MSG. My wife is allergic to corn and corn derived foods such as MSG. MSG might also exist in broccoli but not in the MSG powder many people refer to when talking about MSG.
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by varikin 16y ago
But if you have specific companies as target customers, check what their IE policy is. I know my previous employer is still on IE6 due to a bug tracking system that only works on IE6. And I know other companies are in similar situations. Ot
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by varikin 16y ago
I had a long answer but HN died for me. The short answer, take a drawing class to learn the fundamentals of how to draw. From there, start drawing those ideas you have, but can't implement.
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by varikin 16y ago
If I recall correctly , Embedly offered a patch to Reddit when Reddit open sourced everything that integrated Embedly. I like this approach for their business model. Instead of pitching to companies about why they should use their service,
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by varikin 16y ago
Memory management is Obj-C has issues. The documentation is spotty at explaining how to property handle it, or maybe it is an issue with the organization of the documentation cause I can't always find what I need, but I know it is there. Wh
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by varikin 16y ago
I would say Google is an advertising company instead of media company, but the sentiment is the same.
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by varikin 16y ago
As a beer lover, I have looked into brewing and decided I don't have the patients for it. So I did the next best thing. I have a good friend who loves to brew. He always wants to give away as much beer as he can so he has room to brew and s

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