grasshoper

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by grasshoper 16y ago
I was going to donate to aid organizations to help supply food and water, but I guess I should send some nuclear engineering textbooks and maybe my old exams from Nuclear Engineering 101. That's obviously the best and only way for the avera
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Gates was already the world's richest man when he married Melinda; he also met her through Microsoft. Bezos was already well beyond f-u money when he left D.E. Shaw to found Amazon. Jobs did not have a stable personal life during Apple's ea
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by grasshoper 16y ago
You're comparing their 2010 year-end valuation with their 2009 year-end net income... In December 2009, Facebook repurchased shares at $25 for an implied valuation of $11 billion. That's a 55 P/E.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
I cannot rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
It's definitely Reddit most of the time. It's a larger site.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
American Chinese vs Chinese Chinese is the only fair way to do this; otherwise, it's apples and oranges (and oranges are better).
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by grasshoper 16y ago
He had to do Math 55 to realize that there were people smarter than he was. Not too many people can readily appreciate what this means. I think you have to have participated in national-level math competitions to be able to understand the q
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by grasshoper 16y ago
your comments are so nonsensical that I doubt you'll ever have the "problem" of paying taxes that you fear Like Joe the Plumber, in this guy's imagination he has to deal with the burdens of a progressive tax system. Reality is a different
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by grasshoper 16y ago
80% of Winter 2010 .... so the ones that have made it a few months.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Nor would I classify all introverts as being Isaac Newton.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
I'm wondering why a non-programmer uses Git.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
How about for an entry-level web developer in the Bay Area?
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Rails is not a programming language ...
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Me too. Go Ooshma!
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Twitter is all about asymmetric 'relationships'. You can follow whomever you want. This makes it fundamentally different from Facebook.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Thank you! Yahoo Video is awful. It doesn't show you how much of it has actually loaded, and once it's done it has to load all over again to play a second time.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
If you let them, they can directly measure the traffic of your website. If you sign up for their service, Quantcast's numbers will be very close to your own Google Analytics. But, if you don't sign up, they'll still "measure" your tra
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by grasshoper 16y ago
With Django, I've learned to avoid anything that tries to do too much. Small apps or collections of code that aim to solve very specific problems seem to work with the least hassle. With a carefully defined and limited scope, these apps hav
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by grasshoper 16y ago
That's because Python is actually used extensively in the West outside the context of web development. Ruby really isn't. Rails became popular, and people decided to learn Ruby so they could use Rails. Most people who choose Python web fram
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by grasshoper 16y ago
It's easy when you can see the future.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
The admin will definitely be extremely helpful to someone who is new to databases.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
That's true and all, but Rails and Django were built to run on SQL dbs right out of the box. Getting them to work with MongoDB takes some work, and I don't think it's a diversion that someone just starting learning frameworks should try to
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Well, Mercurial is written in Python, so I guess it belongs on the right side lol.
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by grasshoper 16y ago
I think you really need to understand that there are people who use Facebook in a very different way from how you use it. There are those who, like you, don't care about their account. They have no personal information on there. They made i
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Awesome. How will this relate with the current django-nonrel project?
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by grasshoper 16y ago
Thanks, guys! I don't know why I hadn't even seriously considered Amazon for this. FPS Marketplace seems to have all the pieces I'm looking for. It does seem to involve a few more steps than Paypal. barmstrong's point about people not think
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by grasshoper 16y ago
It's a marketplace, not a money-transferring service or anything like that. Thanks for reminding me to clarify that. Paypal is definitely very easy to set up, but I keep hearing stories of accounts getting frozen. If I do opt to use it to h
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Ask HN: How to do payments between users on my site?
27 points by grasshoper 16y ago|20 comments
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by grasshoper 16y ago
There's almost no selling going on on the website, so probably most of their business spreads through word-of-mouth, with visitors to the site already having been referred by happy clients. They also probably need to control how many new cl
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by grasshoper 16y ago
The boss he's talking about is David E. Shaw.

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