veyron

43 ms·

391.
Reddit cofounder discussing SOPA/PIPA on CNBC now
1 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
392.
by veyron 15y ago
He probably took VC money at some point. When you are bootstrapping on your own, you throw yourself 110% at the problemvand only after you've succeeded do you think about the next thing.
393.
by veyron 15y ago
"When you can run any kind of startup you want, and live wherever in the world you want while you're doing it, why's it better to be in an office that lets you come and go ..." Because most people are risk averse. I'm asian, and most of my
394.
by veyron 15y ago
You can't necessarily fault the founders for not thinking through all of the potential pitfalls. A proper plan will not cover all of these details. Take the apple death grip issue -- they had a plan, it was produced, and the issue was rea
395.
by veyron 15y ago
Problem is that oftentimes most of the money is needed before a first prototype. And many concerns wont emerge until the prototype comes out. So effectively what will happen is that the milestone system will be gamed so that most of them
396.
by veyron 15y ago
ipad2 on ios4. I guess they upgraded safari in ios 5
397.
by veyron 15y ago
ipad 2 still running iOS 4. That might be the issue ...
398.
by veyron 15y ago
She already sold the company (to investors). If she didnt want to sell the company she should have bootstrapped.
399.
by veyron 15y ago
Fails on my iPad. To be specific the first part of the page renders but nothing more ...
400.
by veyron 15y ago
I think you misinterpreted the original statement. Both the article and the parent post take a critical view on inherited wealth, which doesn't necessarily come from the financial industry per se.
401.
by veyron 15y ago
I think the point is to replace the specialized languages used in frameworks like systemtap and dtruss/dtrace
402.
by veyron 15y ago
Or look at the manpage ${parameter:-word} Use Default Values. If parameter is unset or null, the expan- sion of word is substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is substituted.
403.
by veyron 15y ago
Ah, stealth edit
404.
by veyron 15y ago
Why did you change the title of the post? The actual title according to the HTML is "Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts" and your title is "Writing robust shell scripts"/
405.
by veyron 15y ago
The title of the article is "Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts", which differs from the title of the HN post.
406.
by veyron 15y ago
He suggests using if [ "$filename" = "foo" ]; Why not if [[ $filename == "foo" ]]; ? EDIT: aware of the fact that [[ ]] is a bash extension, but the actual title of the post is "Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts", implyin
407.
by veyron 15y ago
It's pretty slick, and I've had good results using it in conjunction with a C program that generates data.
408.
by veyron 15y ago
2.7 introduced memoryview, and there are a slew of C API routines to interact with it ... as for shared memory, have you tried just mmap'ing the node from /dev/shm ?
409.
by veyron 15y ago
Someone wrote a spellchecker a while ago using perl spellchecker: http://blog.holdenkarau.com/2011/08/automatic-spelling-corre...
410.
by veyron 15y ago
Last Updated in october 2009 ...
411.
by veyron 15y ago
The problem with his example `retweet_count` is the blanket statement in the API: The timeline returned is the equivalent of the one seen when you view a user's profile on twitter.com. Thus: - the value is capped at 100 (since the
412.
by veyron 15y ago
I would like to see the congresspeople who haven't openly supported or opposed SOPA. Those people represent opportunities for education.
413.
by veyron 15y ago
What were the reasons for upgrading to Rails 3.0 in the first place?
414.
by veyron 15y ago
Let me assure you, I'm still here :P Most likely they reported based on original MSRP (likely around 400K) rather than current value (300K)
415.
by veyron 15y ago
What versions of python are on your machine? My MBP (leopard -> snow leopard -> lion) has python versions 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 (and there's a nice way to change the default python version). I fully suspect python3 is not there by defa
416.
by veyron 15y ago
The problem is that many projects are high-profile (and therefore will have many developers). I want to taret something that could use some help but doesn't necessarily have good developer coverage.
417.
Ask HN: What open-source project should I contribute to?
3 points by veyron 15y ago|4 comments
418.
by veyron 15y ago
Just because pypy is faster than cpython on a handful of test cases doesn't make it worthy of corporate sponsorship. I would sponsor development if it made a noticeable improvement. Not to belittle the project, but I tried a vanilla order e
419.
by veyron 15y ago
What exactly is the HN circle? Are you referring to each of us going through and adding the same group of people to a circle, or is it a public group?
420.
by veyron 15y ago
Is there a comprehensive solution like godaddy? I've seen people talk about solutions involving stringing together registrar, DNS, SSL certs, hosting, email, etc but I (and I imagine a lot of godaddy customers) would like a single point. I

More ›