BitGeek

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by BitGeek 19y ago
Because environmentalists have never cared one whit about science. The 70s they were predicting eminant ice age, now they're predicting global warming, in another 20 years it will be back to ice age. Its always been about political ideolog
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by BitGeek 19y ago
The bottom line is, what gives you the right to tell people how they have to run their restaurant? And to use violence to enforce it? You quickly throw out the market, (and claim to understand economics? LOL!) but the reality is- if peop
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by BitGeek 19y ago
And of course, no counter arguments. Just modding down. The cowardly way of those who know they cant' defend their position.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Because I worked there, and I saw first hand the way that company is run. I've worked for a wide variety of companies, including what is now HP and Microsoft, a number of startups and a number of medium sized companies. I'd rank Amazon a
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by BitGeek 19y ago
No, you don't understand economics, and you concede this point when you use the phrase "mainstream economics"... this is a common tactic of socialists to try and cover the fact that they are substituting political ideology for economics. E
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by BitGeek 19y ago
"small"? The world has been under assault by these "small" (read socialist) people for the last 108 years... they've managed to murder 100 million people at least in that time period. they are not getting some buro-cratic power-- they ha
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by BitGeek 19y ago
OH MY GOD! I am amazed at the level to which liberals talk about science while rejecting the very foundations of science. (Carbon is not bad. The payroll tax doesn't influence employers, it influences employees-- employees are the ones w
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Why do so many people talk about "negative externalities" when they don't even understand basic economics? Its like some liberal ideological center picked up a phrase, told people some vague idea of what it meant, and then got people to a
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by BitGeek 19y ago
The ironic thing is, the entity that causes the most pollution (in every country) is that countries government... and the entity causing the most energy waste is generally the government as well. It never ceases to amaze me how people are
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Yeah, cause bureaucracies are so caring. I notice that I've been modded down... I guess anyone not goosestepping along will not be tolerated.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Interesting, my comments about Rails, ERlyweb and WebObjects were deleted, and my title was re-written.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Typical, government will stick a gun in people's face just to make them be "politically correct". Nevermind the consequences (or the chicks who will no longer hatch because the heat source that powers the incubators is no longer around...
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ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown(yarivsblog.com)
13 points by BitGeek 19y ago|11 comments
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Steve's a nice guy and I enjoy reading his rants, but there's one thing he's wrong about: Amazon. A horrible, horrible company, where bright engineers are managed by horrible horrible idiots and nothing is done very well... Amazon doesn't
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by BitGeek 19y ago
They are providing value- they risked their own capital to speculate on a domain name that might be valuable in the future... just like anyone who buys swampland hoping to drain it. They took risk, they identified a customer for their prop
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by BitGeek 19y ago
These are not "cybersquatters". Octo and Part are generic terms. One of the domains I own is a combination of a word that means "software" and another word that means "place you like to go". I got it for a developers site... and then af
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by BitGeek 19y ago
this is called enterprising. They aren't pretending to be you, they are just buying generic domain names that might be useful to someone in the future. You can either buy them from them, or give them a pass.... that's your choice. But it
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Just let it clean up when you log out....
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Actually, all versions of filevault have done this.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
This is no the case with filevault, when it is set up with a login account. I have lost encrypted disk images under OS X due to drive problems... but have had a filevault make it thru a failing disk without trouble. It helps that the Mac
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Charging tells you a very important thing: if you're adding value. Probably this would prune a lot of fruitless branches from your development tree. There is a much larger universe of "wouldn't it be neat..." ideas than there are "this wo
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Opera is not one of the three main browsers. The three main browsers are, in order, IE, Firefox and Safari. Personally, I don't use Opera or one of the three main browsers most of the time, so I periodically run into a site that tells me
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by BitGeek 19y ago
This is actually a very wise strategy...after all its the early adopters who generate buzz and better guide product development.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
The main reason to build outside of silicon valley-- less people poaching your employees, yes, but more importantly: You don't have the bad advice constantly being forced on you. in SV, its like being in a bar full of hot chicks who are con
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by BitGeek 19y ago
The number one sign you're a crappy programmer: 1. You foist idiocy upon others and refuse to listen when they point it out as such, because someone told you that the idiocy was "effective established principles". Your "effective establis
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I expected this list to be written by a crappy programmer who didn't know it... but it turns out it isn't. I'll add two items to this list: 1. You believe anyone who doesn't write unit tests is a crappy programmer. (I'm done trying to exp
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Because they hire too many people. The more people you hire, the less you get done per unit people. With development, the more people you hire the less you get done period. Virtually every startup that raises more than $100k is wasting ha
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Venture capital is betting your company on one idea and bringing aboard a bunch of people who understand neither management, business nor engineering to interfere with your company. Bootstrapping is finding the avenue to success wherever i
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I'm not getting my hopes up until its greenlit. Plan B is pitts development company, and Baldwin Entertainment Group are the ones with the rights. BEG has been consulting with luminaries from The Objectivist Center (NOT the Ayn Rand instit
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Non-startup related chores that really can't be put off. That and a thorny technical problem that would be solvable if I could get a few days to focus on it, if I didn't have these non-startup chores.

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