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'Twas The Night Before Startup(tools.ietf.org)
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by xirium 19y ago
Latency is an issue. If I've got hundreds of email messages to check then I'd rather do it with a native desktop application. However, for casual use, a web application is easily the most convenient and portable solution.
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by xirium 19y ago
It gets fecking cold in the winter and the nights are long. That gives plenty of opportunity for hacking.
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by xirium 19y ago
Very Freudian. Tell me about your mother.
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by xirium 19y ago
Study hard science. However, if you like computers then don't study computing. The people who will judge you by your qualifications can barely find their way around their own desktop. Therefore, they are unqualified to judge your skill with
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by xirium 19y ago
The worst sorting algorithm I've seen was O(n^3). Effectively, it was a loop calling a Bubble Sort function.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article "Each day, the list of celebrities launching perfume lines gets longer." Could someone please solve the meta-problem and launch a company which allows anyone to have their own purfume. This would remove the cachet of having
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by xirium 19y ago
It is possible to have blue eyes and be more distantly related to Brad Pitt than family members with brown eyes. I'll describe as follows. Brown eyes is a dominant genetic trait. Blue eyes is a recessive trait. Therefore, it is possible for
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by xirium 19y ago
I'm concerned that I've only seen 14 of these 20 films. I have to disagree with the remake of The Italian Job. The original is generally considered to be better than the sequel. The plot element of hacking a traffic control system is taken
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by xirium 19y ago
This is from a minimal install of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE: > ruby ruby: Command not found. > python Python 2.4.3 (#2, Aug 11 2007, 18:44:16) [GCC 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305] on freebsd6 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" f
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by xirium 19y ago
I tried the phrase "lazy business partner" on Ask.Com and AltaVista. Ask.Com returned 20 results, of which 19 were junk. AltaVista returned 79 results, most of which are useful. As previously noted ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106
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by xirium 19y ago
From the multiple addendums to the article, it seems that quite a few Windows users have broken their installs. Here's a really simple rule: If you don't know what it is and you cannot be bothered to research it then don't delete it.
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by xirium 19y ago
Are you doing a demo of working code or are you describing unwritten code? If it is the latter then you can be expect confusion, even among techies. You can describe your idea enthusiastically and people won't understand. You can sketch you
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by xirium 19y ago
Marriage doesn't only stop scientific genius. It also stops musical genius. A good example would be The Beatles. Consider them like a start-up. They had a phenomenally productive phase but it stopped after they got married. This could be be
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by xirium 19y ago
You're probably too late to short the stock but you can buy Microsoft stock today and sell tomorrow. This will allow you to catch the dead cat bounce as the stock recovers.
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by xirium 19y ago
If you want open platforms then don't buy closed platforms.
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by xirium 19y ago
No, because it wastes my time and flattens my battery.
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by xirium 19y ago
> "Anyone know the current US regulations on betting games of skill and would this speculative market fall under that domain?" I believe that it is currently illegal to gamble on US elections while in the US. This probably applies to US
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by xirium 19y ago
The book Freakonomics mentions a discrimination study on the gameshow The Weakest Link. Apparently, open discrimination didn't occur to women or blacks but it did occur to Latinos and old people. So, it is entirely possible that some politi
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by xirium 19y ago
Given the standard of software for vertical markets ( http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Rutherford,-Price,-Atkinson,... ), anything via a browser would be an improvement. In the worse case, you could wrap a browser component around your own
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by xirium 19y ago
You may wish to evaluate this fellow with the Crackpot Index ( http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html ). The index is like spamassassin for kooks.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "Don't overload other terms already in common use." I heard that Nokia named a set of meeting rooms after cities. This was changed after it cost a small fortune in cancelled flights. From the article: "Avoid alternate spel
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by xirium 19y ago
> If you spent the last 6 years doing the same thing basically, it's really just 2 years with lots of sets/reps. There was a comment of TheDailyWTF ( http://www.thedailywtf.com/ ) of the form "Some people get 10 years experience, some
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by xirium 19y ago
Most computer graphics artists in the film and adverting industry work on short contracts. Typically, film animators are contracted per film, or are contracted in later phases, as the project scales. Additionally, computer animation HR depa
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article "most startups that start with the goal of getting bought, fail." Hmm. Startups that aim to get bought fail before this happens. However, few startups float. The majority are bought and the remainder stay private. So, the b
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by xirium 19y ago
Leveraging existing code is an undervalued skill. It gives satisfaction when you're learning. It also gives immediate benefit to the programmer and other users. "Hello world" is great for set-up of your development environment, but after le
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by xirium 19y ago
> Learn Blub in 21 Days I find these books really objectionable. They propagate bad practice and minimal understanding. Furthermore, the type of people who need to Learn Blub in 21 Days are in headless chicken mode - they've got les
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by xirium 19y ago
When you're running a business, you have to succeed in all areas of activity from coding to marketing to admin and a whole lot of miscellaneous tasks. Do the 10% in each area which gets 90% of the result. Then backfill as appropriate. If yo
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by xirium 19y ago
A student book exchange strikes me as a tad seasonal, like selling Christmas trees.
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by xirium 19y ago
Good luck to Time-Warner. Many customers have no idea about the size of a gigabyte. This is especially true for people with big harddisks and a fast connection. An ex-client regularly sent me huge files because he had no concept that a vide

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