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by carpal 18y ago
I wouldn’t necessarily say this has anything to do with students or school. I’ve been out of school for a couple of years now and have been working as a developer for about 5 years. One incident, in particular, drove most of the hatred for
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by carpal 18y ago
There are a lot of discussions that need to be had concerning filtering, vote weighing, etc. We just have to have them earlier now.
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by carpal 18y ago
It had to do with the weird way I switched out the post. It should be fixed now.
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by carpal 18y ago
I never expected it to get this high. The post was a rant and, as most rants do, turned out to be a bad idea. I've temporarily replaced the rant with my more complete and restrained thoughts on the subject.
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by carpal 18y ago
Atlanta's startup weekend company is apparently in the clear. Not sure what the difference is between the two. In Atlanta's, the actual startup was an C-corp owned in part by Startup Weekend, LLC, in part by Atlanta Startup Weekend LLC, an
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by carpal 18y ago
I went a bit more in-depth here: http://subwindow.com/articles/12 It turns out that Apple is a totally perfect example.
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by carpal 18y ago
There are two main differences: 1) Apple was a hardware startup. Hardware startups need funding and someone to aggressively sell the product in person to big vendors. Software startups don't usually need that kind of person (unless they'r
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by carpal 18y ago
Well, funding is a different matter. If a beef-headed M.B.A. actually has some funding, they might actually be worth listening to. However, 99% of the time they don't have funding, they've (at best) got "strong interest from investors" or
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by carpal 18y ago
Pretty much any solid rant sounds like a Zed Shaw rant.
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by carpal 18y ago
I was on the Index BBS in Atlanta, as well as gobs of smaller ones. I was a L.O.R.D. addict, so I'd run out my turns on one BBS and then hop to the next.
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So you "just need a hacker", huh?(subwindow.com)
75 points by carpal 18y ago|102 comments
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by carpal 18y ago
I used to pass by that area every day. The problem is not that the shelter is there, but that the bums are always hanging out outside the shelter. 24 hours a day, there are bums hanging out there harassing people. I have no problem with h
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by carpal 19y ago
If you want to learn lessons, work at the big company. If you want to learn skills, work at the small company.
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by carpal 19y ago
(In case someone is late to the party, most of the crazy downvoting and weird crap has since been edited out)
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by carpal 19y ago
Good point. Personally, I'd love to have a robotic centaur helping me around the house.
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by carpal 19y ago
What the hell is going on with comments on this topic?
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by carpal 19y ago
Well, not necessarily. Those devices aren't biped specific- they're specific to thing with grasping mechanisms. Who's to say a quadruped robot can't have 4 feet + 1 or 2 grapsing mechanisms? Or have two front feet that are also capable of
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by carpal 19y ago
There are only two real advantages to bipeds: 1) Height 2) Use of spare limbs for tools Height doesn't seem to be much of an advantage for robots at this stage, and I think that robots could have 6 limbs with no problem. Therefore, biped r
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by carpal 19y ago
Zynga?
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by carpal 19y ago
Maybe it is time to expand the size of the editor base. "Articles" like this should be killed.
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by carpal 19y ago
I've been using editdns: http://www.editdns.net/ Its free, and has worked very well for me over the past year.
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by carpal 19y ago
For us, yes. We spend about as much per month on Salesforce as a developer's salary. Might as well devote 2 or 3 months of developer time and come up with something that actually fits our needs. (sorry for the late response)
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by carpal 19y ago
Salesforce.com at the moment. It is pretty awful and kind of expensive, so we're developing our own.
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by carpal 19y ago
What if you did a word count of the linked article, and used that for the weight? It might be good to strip out links from the count, but other than that it seems a pretty sold way of judging complexity.
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by carpal 19y ago
"Real-world app ideas" Elaborate?
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by carpal 19y ago
24 living in Atlanta. Working on an accounting suite for small businesses called Aloe. Very very raw pre-alpha quality build up at http://aloe-acct.com Looking for someone who can kick ass and take names. A Rails developer would be gre
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by carpal 19y ago
I'd go with MySQL. There are better tools, it is less expensive and easier to scale. I don't have any straight-up "speed" evidence other than what is anecdotal. If you're worried about the MySQL license, you should try PostgreSQL. I've b
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by carpal 19y ago
An acronym of a common accounting equation.
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by carpal 19y ago
1) I don't think so. The real win is for an ERP is not processes, it is reporting. Being able to examine every aspect of the business in ONE place in a real-time fashion is an amazingly huge boon for businesses. Businesses succeed not be
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by carpal 19y ago
That is exactly what I'm doing for my day job. We evaluated a ton of ERP/MRP providers, and they were all A) Extremely expensive, and B) Awful. So I lobbied them to have it be made in-house. It is currently being done with only one develo

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