caprad

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by caprad 13y ago
Well, it is good for a few laughs. You get a bit worried if someone walks around calling themselves CEO of a startup with 2 or 3 people in it.
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by caprad 13y ago
This works if you already know how to code, and can come up with a quick 1 hour problem for them to solve. And it is a lot of work on your side as well. Filtering the list, checking the code, making sure they didn't cheat by checking g
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by caprad 13y ago
Now imagine if your family relied on you having this job? How awful would that be.
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by caprad 13y ago
> That's a little naive. Are you saying it is impossible to escape their devious plans, because I have managed to avoid a parking or speeding fine for the last 20 years, simply by following the rules.
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by caprad 13y ago
Startups of any kind have a big problem in france. Most people are employed by these huge companies.
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by caprad 13y ago
Also, if you need to start paying for whatever reason, these are the guys most of those users will go with.
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by caprad 13y ago
Has google hired a lot of MBA's recently, because it look an awful lot like they are trying to cross-pollinate their main business lines, to improve vertical integration and uptake.
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by caprad 13y ago
> Within the Android space they are exemplary You will often see this with someone coming into a new space. HTC used to be like this, very consumer friendly, then when they start to do well they change and become assholes.
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by caprad 13y ago
> Pixar is still making (some) good movies under Disney. Pixar movie quality seems to have dropped, while Disney's have gone up after the acquisition. http://i.imgur.com/H2s4hVL.jpg Cars 2 was clearly a release for
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by caprad 13y ago
How would the carpet company even know, if they don't have their details?
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by caprad 13y ago
All of the amazing websites and apps created here are just copies of other apps, localized for China. I don't see this as anything to be too proud off, creating the apps isn't hard, and china has a huge number of people so you hav
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by caprad 13y ago
Why is this cool and clever? It still only encodes 12 bits of data, it is just different to using the normal 12 bits of data. Is this a more useful subset? I am guessing it is so, since they went to this trouble.
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by caprad 13y ago
I guess, according to your logic, anything goes then at these conferences?
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by caprad 13y ago
These all seem a bit ridiculous for 2014, maybe 2024. There are so many hurdles to overcome to get self driving cars, or private drones.
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by caprad 13y ago
I used to get a lot of 'this role requires a Java expert, it also helps if you know jquery, html5, css'.
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by caprad 13y ago
Then you have to worry that they might track you down. How will you send an anonymous email? The library will have cameras, so might the coffee shop. The fake email you setup might store information about your location as well. You can neve
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by caprad 13y ago
> On top of start small I'd add: just finish it first. Make the most MVP(G?) game that you can, and finish it, get it out there. Then start making improvements adding stuff, making it good. Just finish something and get it done and
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by caprad 13y ago
> The game is desktop-only, and it probably could have been done with Flash, but the web was the main reason this game had success. It feels very much like a website, because it is… it’s able to have solid integration of various user int
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by caprad 13y ago
> It's more probable that you reconstructed those memories from stories told by other people, even if you forgot hearing those stories before remembering the event, than that you're an exception to a well-studied and widely doc
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by caprad 13y ago
Ah yes, so much power going the assembly code route, it took me a while to shake it. Started entering opcodes in the z80, and thought that Masm was as good as it could get. Was still doing Windows x86 assembly programming, until I found ano
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by caprad 13y ago
This may mean something to the people who study management, but since most organizations use managers, and different managers have different styles then this already exists. I had a manager like that, set you a task, and how you did it was
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by caprad 13y ago
> our devices were roaming on to AT&T, where we only had 10MB of data to use. Is this really that much of a problem? Coming from an Aussie who is used to having no mobile access at all (not even emergency) driving between major citi
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by caprad 13y ago
Used to work at a coworking space near there that was £40 for 2 days a week, a really great deal. Wish I could find anything approaching that in Melbourne, for some reason they are incredibly expensive hear in Australia.
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by caprad 13y ago
Ha, come on, is this oppression? And the problem we all have is that this guy is taking it out on the clerk, who has no responsibility in deciding this, has no control, and present a reasonable solution despite not having too. The guy who w
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by caprad 13y ago
As an Australia who also has lived in the USA, wtf are you talking about? Yes, the USA is not perfect, but it is an amazing place, with so much support and infrastructure to get anything going. Everything is cheaper, available at all hours,
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by caprad 13y ago
Australia only has a few submarine connections to the rest of the world, it will always suffer because of this. On top of that it is incredibly low density, even in the big cities. The same reason we don't have an subway/undergrou
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by caprad 13y ago
What do you imagine, the clerk has access to the a wifi panel where he can just enter in your details, match it to your mac address, and you can bypass the facebook login? That this guy has been trained on a complex system, which has very l
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by caprad 13y ago
This is not about accepting that everyone has facebook, it is about accepting a very easy way for them to solve a problem they are having, which is people doing illegal stuff through their wifi.
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by caprad 13y ago
Not really. There is a lot of logic failure in this comment. What does the fact they don't install them on US machines have to do with them not using it as a business opportunity? This is a non-sequitur. Since this guy hasn't hear
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by caprad 13y ago
Ctrl-alt-del? No, this runs windows.

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