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by gregn 5y ago
this . Vimeo is great, but we've seen hardly any continued development in the last 10 years. It looks exactly the same now as it did 10+ years ago. In order to pursue the market you need to keep coding, adding things, trying things. D
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by gregn 6y ago
ditto. Books. Right now it's: Who Killed Homer, and Sophocles plays.
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by gregn 6y ago
Agree here. I don't think many sites have either. You have to dig a little, open the code-behind, but they're there.
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by gregn 6y ago
This article is completely wrong. Slashdot, Digg and Reddit were already at 100% of full-power way before Google Reader ever shut down. And him citing that the causes are unknown is so completely naive. It's obvious. And it was obvious
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by gregn 7y ago
what took you so long? Oh, and add quantum computing to the list.
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by gregn 7y ago
Am in the same boat. Have 15 years programming experience, and can literally code circles around many or most of the people I am interviewing with, but because I don't have a degree, or interview poorly, I am getting rejection after re
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by gregn 8y ago
There goes another great product, killed by Microsoft. M$ doesn't understand open source. They infuse their products with too much politicking and marketing, trying to lead clients when open source is functionally the inversion of this
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by gregn 9y ago
Location: New Mexico ( southern ) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, MySql, Python, Javascript, Php, Nodejs, Qt, Win32, Gtk+, gcc, clang, Visual Studio, Perforce, git, tcp/udp sockets Resume: http://
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by gregn 9y ago
What bothers me is that nowhere in both articles I read do they once mention: "what if it wasn't what we are postulating it is." That tact of reasoning is never explored. The entirety of their position is foregone conclusion
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by gregn 9y ago
I agree with your criticisms. It doesn't seem clear that these rocks were used for what they claim. I recently found what I believed was an arrowhead. It is symmetrical and sharp on both edges, but it is not an arrowhead. It is a rock
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by gregn 10y ago
Saying "iTunes will never work well" is like saying the sky is blue. Why would anyone need a kitchen sink to copy an audio file to their device? Oh, wait, unless there is manufacturer locks, and controls put in place to steer co
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by gregn 10y ago
Last year I had a revelation while reading Gore Vidal that all my favorite books almost without exception had been written on typewriters. I immediately went to Ebay and bought two: an Olivetti and a Olympia. I think Mr. Hanks missed one sa
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by gregn 10y ago
Pretty sad this got flagged. Honestly, I would flag the Bible before it. I think I understand your reasoning. While I don't agree with it, it's no worse than Ayn Rand or Timothy Ferris.
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by gregn 10y ago
I would say the answer is to read profound books, and then move. I was in a situation where I drank continuously for several years because I was stuck in a dead-end job in a dead-end town. The real thing to do is 2-fold: 1) figure out what
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by gregn 10y ago
The thing is, I think the thing we want and the thing we get are two different things now. Its not a question of tech, such as Javascript, its a question of: I want to read, write and communicate. What I want basically, is an RSS feed reade
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by gregn 10y ago
haha. double points for funny and true.
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by gregn 11y ago
This is correct. Boiling water scalds the tea giving it a burnt-out taste. Of course this depends on the tea. I find it less true for black tea such as Darjeeling (my personal favorite), but for green tea it is absolutely imperative or lest
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by gregn 11y ago
From 10 years of working as a sysadmin in a Psych department, one constant in life I've learned is that Psychologists are the most incompetent, fanciful egoists in all the sciences. They have no idea what is going on basically. Or, put
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by gregn 11y ago
check out abebooks.com. They have the best search engine for books when it comes to facts about the specific book, such as: is it a first edition? If its a hard cover, does it come with a dust jacket, and if so what condition are both in? C
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by gregn 11y ago
Go to abebooks.com. Often the same sellers sell the exact same books there but with 2.50 shipping instead of 3.99. I almost never shop at amazon anymore for the simple reason that their used book base shipping rate is too high. But that&#x2
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The Tragedy of the Commons or How I Explained Heartbleed to My Therapist(medium.com)
5 points by gregn 12y ago|0 comments
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by gregn 13y ago
I hacked up my own in March. I didn't even know Google Reader was closing. I just got tired of the features that other readers didn't have. It's a console application, which I realize has limited utility for most people, but it is very powe
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by gregn 13y ago
I struggle with getting started on a project. I tend to spend days, sometimes weeks, thinking about the problems I am going to have to face when I start coding, and researching them. Then it happens. I sink into some sort of trance from whi
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Show HN: A command line RSS reader & multi-tool written in C++(mythmachine.org)
2 points by gregn 13y ago|0 comments
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by gregn 13y ago
Orwell's Big Brother was much worse than Google. There is a difference between knowing everything about somebody, and forcing society to inhabit an ill-fitting economic model pre-ordained by an omniscient force, by taking away their free w
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by gregn 16y ago
they just keep on coming.
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by gregn 16y ago
You notice how Half Life development slowed to a virtual crawl after the launch of Steam? I'm sure it was obvious to them that they had just invented the most awesome source of revenue since WoW, and everything else shrank in comparison. If
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by gregn 16y ago
I just want to point out quick that what's so awesome about Steam is it's apparent longevity. They provide the convenience of the App Store: you see something, 2-or-3 clicks and it's yours, but the greatest value that Steam offers is the fa
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by gregn 16y ago
yeah. what they were saying is that AT&T's suggested method to calculate bars is better, but that they went ahead and displayed more bars in week areas to give the illusion of signal strength.
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by gregn 16y ago
I think what's obviously going on is that Apple was deliberately displaying more bars in areas where there was week signal in an act of deception to try and make up for AT&T's crappy network.

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