Bamafan

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by Bamafan 3y ago
They don't just "not like the US". The US is actively terrorizing their homelands.
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by Bamafan 3y ago
What nuance needs to be added to blowing up hospitals?
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by Bamafan 7y ago
All that. I've told people who scoff at $32 million "for a website" that $32 million might actually be low, depending on requirements.
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by Bamafan 7y ago
My takeaway is that most people assume a university professor never "brushes up against the floor of society" (as you put it). This article is good for enlightening people that this is far from the case.
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by Bamafan 8y ago
> Growing an already massive company company by 3x in revenue is the important thing, which is the 'bottom line' in which missteps have to be contextualized. Yes, he managed to creatively squeeze revenue out of existing markets
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by Bamafan 8y ago
I'll bet you use Azure though (even if you don't realize it). I guarantee you use apps/websites/services that leverage Azure.
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by Bamafan 8y ago
> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya Ballmer made several missteps: 1. Fruitless foray into mobile with acquisition of Nokia and Windows Mobile and Windows Phone strategies. 2. Bill
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by Bamafan 8y ago
Long story, short: 1. Realize the world is moving beyond Windows 2. Cede mobile OS to Android/iOS, that battle is lost. 3. Realize, next great revenue stream is the Cloud (Azure).
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by Bamafan 8y ago
I think it's useful as far as making the amount stick in the brain. For like 90% of America a stat like that is a hugely disturbing figure.
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by Bamafan 8y ago
> It's not even really a city, but more just a place where exurbanites congregate from 9 to 5 to conduct commerce. Definitely not the case. Lots of people live in the city of San Francisco, though it's also true a lot of peop
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by Bamafan 8y ago
I think the part that you may be missing is that View 1 (embedded view) is hosted on DocuSign's domain. So the view may be designed by the client, but it's not hosted by the client. It's hosted on DocuSign. Then View 2, is
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by Bamafan 8y ago
Even if they added this feature, the API bug would still remain (it would just be covered up by the UI). A sophisticated enough client user would still have access to the all data associated to the API user.
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by Bamafan 8y ago
I'm curious as to how HelloSign guards against this. Do they have some sort of session token that sends you back to the signing page on refresh? (i.e. similar to guard to avoid submitting shopping cart purchases twice).
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by Bamafan 8y ago
When I read retrospectives like this, I wonder how many apps have this bug and don't know it.
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by Bamafan 8y ago
Whether an API is "good" or "bad" often is dependent on the requirements of the calling client. At the beginning of projects when client requirements are unclear, it is often hard to determine whether a supporting API&#x
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by Bamafan 8y ago
Was going to post roughly the same thing. All good suggestions in the article, but there are absolutely costs in the approaches she suggests (unless she's saying people's time has no value).
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by Bamafan 8y ago
On the flip side, many of the previous generations of parents would kill to have the choices their kids have. They simply never had those choices when they grew up.
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by Bamafan 8y ago
>> "If she was in a committed relationship, had offspring, a home with equity, savings, and a career, there is no guarantee that would bring her fulfillment." All of this. Also, I'd bet more than a few of her friends i
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by Bamafan 10y ago
FB post is solely about "literal" vs "non-literal" code copying. These are words that the lawyers chose to use to communicate a complex (for non-programmers) idea to a bunch of non-programmers. I think of "non-lite
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by Bamafan 10y ago
John Romero was largely responsible for the stories and designs of the old school iD games from back in the day. Carmack brought the tech brilliance to make it happen.
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by Bamafan 10y ago
I believe the "non-literal copying" thing simply refers to the insight gained from the R&D time he spent on Occulus while still an employee of Zenimax. 90% of HN members know that this deep understanding is FAR, FAR, FAR more
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by Bamafan 10y ago
"While I personally believe they did break the NDA by showing the hardware with the demo Carmack cooked up, the amount of money awarded is beyond absurd." That all depends on if the demo was the deciding factor in the multi-bill
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by Bamafan 10y ago
They also made a number of "free" games that were published by SoftDisk. This was all pre-modern software era though. If that happened today, it would end up very similarly to how the Occulus case ended up.
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by Bamafan 11y ago
Yep. Check out 4:06 from this scene from "The Aviator": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1pPyarKhA Lady: "We don't care about money here, Mr. Hughes" Howard Hughes: "That's because you ha
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by Bamafan 11y ago
Now, let me just dispel a myth you stated. You believe that "Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more." This works for people like Carmac
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by Bamafan 11y ago
Also easier to be a genius, when you have an actual genius (Wozniak) creating things the world had never seen before.
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by Bamafan 11y ago
ding ding ding
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by Bamafan 11y ago
"But it is downright chilling to watch the leadership team throw around buzz phrases from business best-sellers with minimal focus on the nuanced requirements of applying these principles to the education ecosystem generally" Re
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by Bamafan 11y ago
On some level, I hate articles like this because of all the unanswered questions: [1] What did you spend that initial $100 on? (Even the cheapest overseas programmer can't do jack for $100) [2]You mention $400 million in revenue, but
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by Bamafan 11y ago
Thank you for answering. And wow, amazing results from using the default "marketing" you get with the Mac App Store (especially given the difficulties that so many others have reported).

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