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How Porsche Hacked the Financial System and Made a Killing [2009](radian.org)
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by vital101 16y ago
As someone getting married Saturday, I can say that this would be a GREAT idea. The ridiculous amount of money we sank in to invitations really rubbed me the wrong way. Also, something I noticed when we were going through all of this was t
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by vital101 16y ago
At most Universities you can do a double major. If you know what you want early on, this usually won't add much length to the time it takes to get your degree. If the double major doesn't work out, consider minoring in Music. My real pass
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by vital101 16y ago
I like the idea. Only a small styling issue jumped out at me. For your Twitter feed in the lower right hand corner, long-ish Tweets seem to be overflowing out of the quote bubble (in Chrome at least).
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In my undergraduate operating systems class we hacked away at an early version of Minix. The level of detailed code documentation always just blew me away.
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The issue isn't about being unhappy with it. The issue is that the plaintiffs think Apple knew about the problem before hand and did nothing. The discovery period for this case will hopefully clear this up, one way or the other, instead o
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by vital101 16y ago
Thanks. All were hard lessons to learn, but I feel like my next venture will come out of the gate much stronger than this one did. I see life as a learning experience, so no matter how this could have turned out I still came away as a bet
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The Idea That Wasn't Meant To Be(re-cycledair.com)
2 points by vital101 16y ago|2 comments
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IPhone 4 Class Action Lawsuits Begin(pcworld.com)
19 points by vital101 16y ago|41 comments
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by vital101 16y ago
We felt this in Grand Rapids, MI. I was on the 6th floor of our building at the time and the standing dividers in the office were swaying back and forth by about 2 inches.
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Interesting part of that graph is huge drop in uniques between March and April of 2010. Any context?
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by vital101 16y ago
I can't stress this point enough. I know a lot of people here on HN probably felt the same way while they were in college. In my experience, college is what you make of it. I didn't feel challenged, so I took graduate level classes. Whe
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by vital101 16y ago
I don't think that Facebook will sink. However, since it's spread itself so thin over so many different areas I think that some startups might come in a become bigger players. It's kind of like Myspace. Facebook did a good job destroying
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Ask HN: Is a TL;DR summary proper etiquette for HN?
1 points by vital101 16y ago|1 comments
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by vital101 16y ago
While not a parent myself, this is my take on it: Parenting is hard. You can tout heavy discipline, not letting the child watch pornography, or giving him internet access, but the fact is that every situation is different. I wonder what m
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by vital101 16y ago
I'm from Michgan as well, and have a lot of family in the greater Detroit area. The sense of despair that most people in the area feel is just awful. After the auto plants started to close up, people just started packing up in hopes of fi
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by vital101 16y ago
I recommend checking out Apache Friends site download XAMPP. That will set up a fully functional web environment (Apache, PHP, MySQL) which will let you play a bit with database. It also comes packaged with PHPMyAdmin, which is great for
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by vital101 16y ago
I got my current job through Craigslist as well. Their job posting was well thought out, and obviously created by a developer, not a random HR person. From start to hire, it was a 1.5 week process for me.
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by vital101 16y ago
For those of us who have enjoyed running the past or would like to start up, I highly recommend getting Nike+ ( http://nikeplus.com ). It connects to your ipod, and via a sensor in your shoe gives you feedback about your run. You can join
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by vital101 16y ago
I'm personally far more likely to click something like "Start Making Bingo Cards" -vs- "Sign Up Now" because it feels more like a call to action, not a call to fill some stuff out, then do some action.
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by vital101 16y ago
Sure code is ugly. So is paint when it's sitting in it's container. But when used by someone with skill, great works of art are created. Same goes for code. Out of context it's ugly, but what it creates is beautiful.
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by vital101 16y ago
You may want to look at Salary.com, PayScale.com, and Glassdoor.com. They should give you a pretty good idea.
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by vital101 16y ago
This depends heavily on location and field. If you are outside of the valley, anywhere between 45k-65k seems about right to me in almost any programming related position.
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Ask HN: How do you get started in enterpirse Java development?
11 points by vital101 17y ago|12 comments
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by vital101 17y ago
In they article, they mention ternary notation. I personally wish that people didn't use it. While it's great for saving (a little) time, it really muddles the readability of the program IMHO. Its far too easy to simply skip over it as a
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by vital101 17y ago
That's true. I suppose you just have to be willing to keep up with any changes they make to their TOS. For instance, Apple limiting the development languages on their new Iphone/Ipad/Itouch OS.
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by vital101 17y ago
The author makes a good point about dependency on another company. Having your side project or startup completely at the whim of another company is not a good business model. Might be good for a quick dollar, but it's not sustainable.
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by vital101 17y ago
Aside from the spaghetti code that my predecessor wrote, I've been reading a book called "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert C. Martin. The code in the book isn't always interesting for content, but rather fo
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by vital101 17y ago
Is this localized in the Silicon Valley area, or is it more widespread? I live in Michigan and haven't seen much of a difference lately.
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A lot of the time you are limited by the environment you are surrounded with. It makes sense to me that developing countries would start to compete on a creative edge, because they likely have a completely different perspective about the w

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