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by zavulon 17y ago
D'oh! This is what I get for coding 12 hours in a row.
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by zavulon 17y ago
I'm very confused... who are the users of your site? Actual politicians? When I click on "Backpedal", nothing happens... Are you expecting Bush/Clinton/Gore/Kerry to actually come to your site and use it?
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by zavulon 17y ago
I feel your pain. For my first "big corporate" programming job, I had to do PowerBuilder development. Coming from Java/C++ background, it was like hell on Earth. I stuck around though, did PB for a while, and 2 months later a Java position
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by zavulon 17y ago
When you drive into Brooklyn from pretty much any major entrance point, you are greeted with this billboard: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/fort-greene/posts/... I especially like how they spelled "proctology"
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by zavulon 17y ago
That is certainly true - but on the other side, if you do it too much (and kids/teenagers tend to overindulge in everything they find good), it can lead to under-development of important social skills, losing focus on actual studies/work, a
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by zavulon 17y ago
Why do you think so? From my personal experience only, it was one of the most harmful things I've done to myself.
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by zavulon 17y ago
I'm having a Saturday morning-induced brainfreeze. What is this "common object" called, so I can go to Staples and get it right now?
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by zavulon 17y ago
Yeah, all the last Google products have been firmly in the 'miss' category, but no matter how much Buzz or Wave suck, Reader and Gmail too awesome to stop using. But - I did turn off every single sharing feature in all Google apps I do use,
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by zavulon 17y ago
This post reminded me of "Moby Dick". Extremely long introduction that has nothing to do with topic promised in the title, so boring that I lost all interest, before getting to the author's actual point.
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by zavulon 17y ago
"The real world doesn't observe someone's wedding on the other side of the planet" I think your definition of "real world" is not entirely correct.
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by zavulon 17y ago
Ha! I didn't even realize the connection when I was posting this, that's awesome
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by zavulon 17y ago
There is a great sci-fi/fantasy series of novels I can recommend if you're interested in this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_%28Russian_novel%29 In the second book (Day Watch), the story is continued from the point of vie
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by zavulon 17y ago
Small business != (entrepreneur or start-up) A convenience store owner in Germany whose father and grandfather owned and worked in the same store can't be put into the same category as a 25 year old who quits his job to found a groundbreaki
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by zavulon 17y ago
I think a great movie for all entrepreneurs is "Pursuit of Happyness": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/ For those that didn't know, it's based on a true story of a homeless black man that became a millionaire entrepreneur: http://en.
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by zavulon 17y ago
I used to be a big fan of this book, but every time I tried applying the principles, I only did it in the 1-2 "insipired" weeks, right after reading or re-reading the book. Then, as time passed, I gradually shifted into my old habits. I use
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by zavulon 17y ago
Can the founder on this visa eventually apply for a green card, and bring their family here? Or is it employment-only visa?
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by zavulon 17y ago
How are the privacy settings?
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by zavulon 17y ago
99.99% of people that use Flash don't need 300K 3D particles rendered. Most people use it to design good looking websites. This tool lets you do the same thing, and: - much faster to load (especially in Chrome) - works out of the box in al
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by zavulon 17y ago
Ok, maybe I should be more careful, what I wrote could definitely be misconstrued as that. Obviously I'm not saying to do anything illegal. But - telling your employer in advance that you're working on your own project? Really? What's the a
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by zavulon 17y ago
I disagree with most of his advice. I really doubt you'll be able to quit your job and get anywhere with your business if you follow it. I don't really want to get into details for obvious reasons, but when I worked on my business on a side
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by zavulon 17y ago
It would be great to be able to search this... in case you want to ask a question and quickly check whether it's been asked before. I know there are third-party search tools for HN, but it's less convenient to use them.
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by zavulon 17y ago
I founded my company together with my dad. He is almost 60, but he's having tons of fun working from home doing QA for the latest web technologies, as opposed to his last job, where he was QA'ing 30 year old COBOL bank applications.
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by zavulon 17y ago
I'm sorry, how is this relevant to Hacker News? It's precisely because I don't want to be subjected to this I abandoned Reddit a long time ago
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by zavulon 17y ago
Actually, for the last two years before striking out on my own, I ended up working on a project involving complex calculations with credit derivatives. And before, I created a side project implementing risk models such as Black Scholes, Mon
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by zavulon 17y ago
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense... I never ever studied anything before sophomore year of college. And then when faced with serious large-scale programming problems, and 300 level math, I realized I don't know how to study. It was definitel
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by zavulon 17y ago
Usually "I stopped reading after..." is used as a metaphor, and the article still gets read. In this case though, I really did stop reading after "as a matter of fact, any self-respecting programmer you’ve ever met is mostly self-taught."
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He'll be back
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by zavulon 17y ago
Yeah, this especially: X: How long are the golden handcuffs on you? (Sposato has told us before about his desire not to work for The Man.) JS: I wouldn’t put it that way. I, and everyone on the team, are very interested in giving Google a r
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by zavulon 17y ago
I'm currently using some products by your competitors ("Lose it!" iPhone app and "LiveStong") so I can definitely provide some feedback. First, it looks VERY nice, but as some others noted - a "for guys" interface option would be good. 1) T
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- The first one, even with all its well-known shortcomings, was "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kyosaki. It opened my eyes to "there's another option out there". - Benjamin Franklin's autobiography (translated into modern English). - PG's "Ha

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