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by vincie 13y ago
Non-Americans watching this - make sure you organize however you can to stop the American disease spreading to your country. Watch your politicians carefully for any sign that they might want to implement their patent systems in your countr
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by vincie 13y ago
The "tech Surge" will be no doubt meet resistance by the "Talebug" terrorists. This war will not be won in our lifetime (or the lifetime of this thread at any rate).
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by vincie 13y ago
Darn you sound like you work with me. And I swear to almighty god it is never my fault. A bunch of idiots get together and promise that I will deliver this piece of software at this date, without inviting me along to the meeting. Then, they
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by vincie 13y ago
I am going to make a stand for all the developers working furiously on this, although I don't know any of them. I blame it all on management, and they have the worst kind - politicians. I write this as I am certain it is very similar t
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by vincie 13y ago
No BSD daemons, or Puffy logos either. Damn these hipsters!
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by vincie 13y ago
For me, I cannot yet quit my day job. So everything is done through Basecamp. There are three people in the team. I am the developer. We have discussions, work out a to-do and post it on the calendar. When I come home from work I work on th
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by vincie 13y ago
Do you have documentation for this somewhere? Been meaning to look at Amber sometime now. Are you using Voyage for Mongo? FFI for Redis?
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by vincie 13y ago
I hear ya. And you know, I've come across a few morons who insinuated to me that I am anti-social and have Aspergers' because of my resistance to using Facebook. I think this is the genesis of it all: http://www.dailyma
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by vincie 13y ago
Pharo Seaside, jQuery, Bootstrap or PureCSS, postgreSQL
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by vincie 13y ago
Go all the way! Tune the traffic signals preferentially for these electric taxis. Configure them to pick up multiple fares going the same direction. To use train tracks for long distance.
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by vincie 13y ago
I used to fear that also, until I made a conscious effort to learn (Pharo) Smalltalk and (Racket Scheme) Lisp. I spent so much time and energy on these two. I practised and practised and practised. And then practised some more. After what s
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by vincie 13y ago
I am undergoing a somewhat similar experience, although my products is much less developed than yours. I am going to do a survey for my target market, and at the end of the survey I am going to put some messages like this: "When the pr
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by vincie 13y ago
Damn! This sounds just like my situation! It is fairly chaotic here, no specifications or documentation for work I must do, and no one understands what I do. So I use this to my advantage by learning new skills. Because no one asks me what
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by vincie 13y ago
Genetic modification to the rescue! Would be even more valuable if they can do it for toxic metals like arsenic and mercury.
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by vincie 13y ago
I would love to hear from an ex-Knight tech. Wouldn't be surprised if they wrote something along the lines of: "Management just wanted this thing in ASAP!", or perhaps "Tests weren't part of the kpi's". I
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by vincie 13y ago
And of course it cures cancer, diabetes, bad-breath and increases your virility and success with the ladies. They haven't tried it yet, but it should also increase your mileage if you put them in your gas tank.
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by vincie 13y ago
The return he quotes is an average over an aggregate of course. But if you do proper research, you can beat that average substantially, and many people do.
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by vincie 13y ago
I want my own. I wouldn't want the curry and the rice noodle soup to go cold, or worse, end up in someone else's belly.
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by vincie 13y ago
Well in that case, I am eagerly waiting for when this is generally available to deliver my order from the local Indian or Vietnamese restaurant. I will even build a landing platform for it and register its coordinates for efficient and fast
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by vincie 13y ago
Power lines, objects like cars and people and pets on the ground, pools - I wonder how these things will avoid doing damage. Frankly I would be pissed if they drop things on my head or my car.
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by vincie 13y ago
Here come the product names that sound like chewing and eating sounds. First up is gmumphroumroum.
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by vincie 13y ago
"Smalltalk is that extremely rare case of software that it makes coding just flow, with no interruptions and no small annoyances. We call this style of coding "Live Coding" and its definetly the biggest reason to try smalltal
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by vincie 13y ago
HN attracts some highly intelligent and resourceful people who do things that are radical and can change the way all other people do things. And I think these are the very people who can help to fix these sorts of real world problems.
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by vincie 13y ago
Military, mass behavioural control & surveillance technology.
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by vincie 13y ago
This is what I am going to buy my 4-yr old son when he turns 5. The look of wonder in his eyes, the thoughts that must be buzzing in his head when I explain things he cannot see. Buy him a microscope. But also get him something he can socia
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by vincie 13y ago
More generally, something along the lines of: "You give us Snowden/limit his asylum claims/etc etc, and we give you favourable trade terms".
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by vincie 13y ago
Send emails intimating your aspirations to terrorism and it will find you.
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by vincie 13y ago
Sounds ideal, until you realize that building and operating proper encryption is too hard for some of these organizations (PirateBay, FSF). For the rest, they are only mutually hostile on the surface. I am sure when it suits them they will
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by vincie 13y ago
Yes, they want things that "just work", but not against them. Most people realize that security is not perfect, but then most probably did not expect that that meant extensive and chronic surveillance.
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by vincie 13y ago
You could be an NSA sleeper-sleeper agent, using HN to launch false-false-flag propaganda operations. Go ahead and prove otherwise, if you can. Until then I'm going to treat everything you say and do as an attempt to spy on me.

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