adammarkey

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by adammarkey 17y ago
Although I'm not in Beijing, it's amazing that Hacker News hasn't been blocked by the "Great Firewall". Any bets on how long it will take before the Chinese government shuts this out of China too?
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Pronouncing "Java" like "Yava" is definitely a Dutch thing - I was building a Java based financial system for a bank in the Netherlands and it took a while to get used to the way they pronounce it too :)
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Unfortunately the Hero looks like it has some "lag" issues when navigating around the screen in the production models out in Europe right now. I hope it's a software fix to make it better, but I imagine we're going to have to wait for a fas
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Being a large company doesn't mean you can "easily replicate" things. The major reason startups can wiggle their way into a market and become a player is because large companies can't react in time to what an agile startup is doing in their
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by adammarkey 17y ago
I honestly think healthcare / health insurance is a major reason. It's hard to be "ramen AND medical bills profitable" if you or one of your founders has an urgent medical issue when you're trying to bootstrap yourselves with no insurance.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Link bait title. I had my hopes up for something juicy only to find out something I already knew... government employees build crappy software.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
HTML 5 is part of the death-recipe for these native RIA technologies, but there is one other major missing piece at the moment - a fast and dependable javascript engine that can be assumed to exist on client machines. HTML 5 just provides t
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by adammarkey 17y ago
As we all know, XML is just another word for Productivity! One less thing to compile and throw those pesky errors before we put it straight into production. I can't wait to show this to the IT guys... if they ever get back from their 4 hour
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Thanks! "Photo-slide shows" on the web need to die, anytime I see one, I never click on it. These ad-spam on these things is nearing the annoyance levels of most porn sites..
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by adammarkey 17y ago
My hard drive is already filled with MILFS and performs quite well for my requirements. /me ducks and covers
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by adammarkey 17y ago
I think optimism is an essential core value (or characteristic) of a successful company even though it might inhibit the "fail fast" methodology you speak of. Optimism when kept in check can be the fuel for passion in you and your co-founde
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Totally agree with you. I for one don't want my browser knowing "who I am" - I prefer to let the applications I use know that.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
I disagree, it should be a "killer" because flash uses a closed source for-profit runtime from adobe. The javascript standard is free to use and implement and doesn't require me to have any browser plugins to view great looking websites.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
The heavyweight category needs to be split up. Technologies like flex / silverlight / javafx / open laszlo use compiled binaries to run their applications via a browser plugin (flash, java vm, silverlight vm). The other products in the heav
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Since Flash is being threatened by Javascript, it looks like Adobe is being forced to band together with another threatened company (Facebook being threatened by Twitter). I'm on the side of twitter + javascript to win this one - but overal
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Unless there's a joke that I'm not getting with this link, how did this article end up on the front page?
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Hans Reiser ended up a murderer too. Be careful not to follow his path too closely :)
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Looks like facebook just upped their ante in it's game to squash twitter.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
The color contrast on the non-bolded blue text seems off and tends to hurt my eyes in FF3. Otherwise it's pretty easy to figure out what the site is supposed to do.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Maybe Oracle will buy this now too.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Yeah and because they are a "virtual" office, where do they put the ping pong table? What are they going to do to pass the time!? Oh wait...
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Frankly I don't care about its w3c standards and fast JS - those are problems people are working on, and it's not the interesting part about this browser. It's not meant to be a "production" browser that you will be using tomorrow to surf t
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Agreed. It's a great example of the saying: "It takes one to know one."
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Did that strip mall happen to be in Canton, Ohio? I was there too!!
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Preparing for war? Sound like FUD to me. Being prepared in the event a war happens is more likely.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
I would tell them a couple things: 1) Get involved in communities (like HN, and local CS interest groups) - getting involved while young can lead to many opportunities that "just having a CS degree" wont lead you to. 2) Most university CS p
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Not only does Wolf3d run beautifully on the iPhone, the controls (and options for modifying them) actually make the iPhone a viable platform for 2.5 dimensional FPS games. I'd like to see what he can come up with for Quake (a fully 3D shoot
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by adammarkey 17y ago
While there may be a couple decisions that may be put on hold until this IBM / Sun thing is completed, I don't think the fundamental reasons behind choosing Java or .NET will change. Java will still have the community, open libraries, and d
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by adammarkey 17y ago
Now when Twitter goes down today, we know who to thank :) In all seriousness - Excellent work. Posterous rocks.
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by adammarkey 17y ago
I feel your pain with java serialization. The fact that you cant serialize exceptions to notify systems connected to a JVM that something blew up is just insane. All objects should be able to be serialized (in binary) from one system to ano

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