brindle

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   by brindle 14y ago

   Google does provide customer support but the end user is not the customer. The customer is the consumer of the data that is gathered on the usage data that is collected from the end user. I lost an gmail email account, and I had no recourse
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   by brindle 14y ago

   I'm a chemist and a software engineer. With all due respect there are a lot of similarities. People who do ground breaking research need to have a way of protecting their intellectual property, whether its patents, copyrights, and or reason
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   by brindle 14y ago

   Slashdot was one of the first weblog frameworks, written in Perl, and was very similar in the beginning to the vibe I get from Hacker News. It (slashcode) was also Open Source. These days I feel Hacker New has more of an edge and, like Slas
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   by brindle 14y ago

   Symfony2 and Backbone are both great frameworks. Props to you for getting this up on HN!
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   by brindle 14y ago

   I read an article years back and I think it was in the Wall Street Journal. My understanding was that an unexpected grandmaster-level move at a point where Kasparov was expecting to see a different move occurred. Kasparov suspected user int
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   by brindle 14y ago

   Great little article bootstrapping the start-up. I hope to see a follow-up if the company gets traction. These article help me keep in touch with the technology that is currently being used. I was unaware of SendGrid until I read this. On a
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   by brindle 15y ago

   So you quit Google and headed over to M$. Hacker News, this should be Wanker News.
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   by brindle 15y ago

   I'm a bit late to this party... I liked the article title but the article is weak. First of all, there are many ways to create a viable tablet. Apple's approach to enumerate the challenges/problems associated with the new form factor and th
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   by brindle 15y ago

   This isn't news, its just a random rant. I agree that as OS X adds complex features we lose flexibility in other areas. Many of these are are not frequently visited but its still annoying and unacceptable. Fortunately, if Tim knows where to
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    by brindle 15y ago

    There are a million way to fail with a business venture. But this has to be one of the silliest ways I have ever read.
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    by brindle 15y ago

    1. The search space is all possible abstract syntax trees. That is a large search space. 2. The correct solution must also satisfy all test unit tests. Basically the bug fixing is driven by the fitness function that determines if the bug is