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by vital101 17y ago
I read the title as "It's sinking in that THE Sun is gone." Oops. On a related note, in college we programmed SPARC Assembly on some Sun workstations. Those days will be missed. Sort of.
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"The only reason to monetize a web project is if you intend to make serious money." Err, or maybe you just want to break even. If user's find what you're doing interesting or useful, they'll put up with an advertisement or two.
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The wonderful thing is that if a price tag was placed on the Linux Kernel, it would become worthless. Being free (monetarily and in philosophy) is what makes it so valuable.
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I think that record labels would be far more successful getting money from people if they would bring suits of this size. Keep under a certain amount and it could even go to small claims court. A few people getting slapped with $675,000 i
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by vital101 17y ago
I was lucky enough to find a job doing something that I love. Have you given much thought to finding a full-time job where you could do 2D/3D real time graphics? At the very least, you could be satisfied with the work you're doing AND hav
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I hadn't considered the usefulness of this for the designers. Being able to go pull up "that awesome design from last week" would probably be very attractive to them.
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by vital101 17y ago
I feel that there may be a chance of "Why would we need to user version control when we can just use you instead?". I do like the idea though and will probably set up a repository today for projects that I'm working on.
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by vital101 17y ago
I think that cheating is fairly common in any undergraduate class. In my experience, business courses had the most obvious cheating. Perhaps learning how to work the system is all part of a business degree.
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Ask HN: How would you convince your company to start using version control?
11 points by vital101 17y ago|18 comments
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by vital101 17y ago
I recently landed a job via Craigslist. It pays well for my region(Michigan) and seems to be a great company to work for so far. I have a feeling I'm the exception though, not the rule.
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I like the color scheme, but I think that there isn't enough contrast between the colors. It all sort of blends together and becomes gray.
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by vital101 17y ago
I agree. The color scheme is really harsh. Tone it down a bit.
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Cross-Site scripting attack in the wild(skydivecms.com)
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I like how his first Tweet is a "Hello World". Still a programmer at heart I guess.
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I expect to both succeed and fail. I try to learn as much from both as I possibly can.
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In line with this, I recently have been trying to exit grad school. I applied with a large tech company (within the top Fortune 20), interviewed, and got an offer. The problem was that they offered 15K less than anyone else, and refused t
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by vital101 17y ago
"The business is data mining and advertising." I often wonder if the business of online advertising really works well. Targeted advertising certainly has better results that blanket campaigns, but don't most users ignore advertisements by
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Go: Fibonacci Calculator (using channels and go routines)(re-cycledair.com)
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by vital101 17y ago
I can not even being to tell you how much exercising helps me make decisions. That act itself is nothing is good physically, but mentally it gives you time to yourself. I find that I think clearest about half-way through a long run. Ther
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"6. Channels are a great way of dealing with mutable data in a concurrent environment, but I'm not convinced they're enough." Channels are a fantastic for concurrent environments. I took a distributed operating systems course during my grad
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by vital101 17y ago
http://spreecommerce.com/features seems like a good fit for what you're looking for.
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Great idea! It looks great too! I second (third, fourth, whatever) the calls for a mute button. I'd also like to see the ability to change the voice being used. I noticed that between channels it's different, any way to choose between t
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by vital101 17y ago
I have to agree with the focus on one school. I thought originally that having a few key Michigan schools would be easy enough to manager, but as it turns out, it's really hard. Believe it or when I started this thing, I thought the harde
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That's what I'm going for right now, but it isn't obvious because of the site design. I currently have 7 or 8 schools in Michigan that I'm concentrating on.
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Can you recommend any good reads on how web site design can influence interaction with your web site (if such a thing exists)? Or any good reads on web design in general. I already know the technical points (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, et
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by vital101 17y ago
You're absolutely right. Worrying about those kind of details is along the lines of "counting your chickens before they hatch".
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I like 3 & 5. Leaderboards for which college has the most reviews, which user has the most reviews, etc. Reminds me of how NikePlus has little competitions for runners. "Be the first group to make 10000 miles". Perhaps this could be
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I feel dirty bribing users as it is, but if it makes the clock tick, then so be it.
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" The design wastes far too much space and does not immediately communicate a value proposition." This is one of the problems that I'm currently addressing. I'm about 40% through a re-design to address this, and many other issues. Also, yo
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Ask HN: How can you encourage users to generate content?
31 points by vital101 17y ago|23 comments

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