johnmacintyre

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by johnmacintyre 4y ago
My mistake. He does hold enormous influence though, I would think.
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by johnmacintyre 4y ago
I've never sat on the board of a company. But I'd imagine its a lot less demanding than a full time job.
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by johnmacintyre 4y ago
If you're talking about Elon Musk, its not really the same thing since he owns the companies he's CEO of.
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by johnmacintyre 4y ago
I've been burned out a few times and I'd suggest reducing work to minimum hours to give yourself some recovery time. Keep exposing yourself to new things and follow your inspirations. Eventually something will take and that spar
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
It's a lot more than the 3 lines of code suggested. It's still very very small, only a few hours work, but it's not a 3 minute, 3 line change. And in reality, that $50/month price may rise in order to keep the number of
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
Because the developer is afraid to even suggest he wouldn't win by a landslide?
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The phrase "Somebody's going to be fired over that" comes to mind, but that is probably naively optimistic.
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
I think most of the anti-microsoft disposition is legacy and deservingly so, but IMO no longer applicable. At least not against the technology anyway, since the mvc framework is pretty good. Licensing costs are a different matter all toge
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
I had an idea for single mothers to post info about deadbeat dads for others to avoid. However, after thinking about it for a bit, I realized it would turn into what you were proposing and decided against it.
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
I've forgotten my 'stupidest' ideas, but my 'worst' idea was basically to do what PRISM is doing now. I realized you can infer a hell of a lot from the bits of information people post publicly and you could aggrega
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
I think it's safe to assume they've requested pretty much everything for each request. And while just sharing the number of requests seems benign, you can see a disproportionate number of requests coming from certain countries in
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
"if 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the market” reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else." Are you freak'n kidding me? The 99% is the market not the 1%.
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by johnmacintyre 13y ago
I agree with your malware point. If your system is compromised, and attackers are past the 'airtight hatchway', then you're doomed anyway.
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Canadian small business growth challenge for $100,000(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by johnmacintyre 13y ago|0 comments
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by johnmacintyre 14y ago
"abruptly ended at about 10:30 a.m. Friday" ... am I the only one who sees this as a probable programming bug? Mysterious algorithm? I suspect if(condition = true){...} // notice the single '=' :-D
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by johnmacintyre 15y ago
In my opinion, people in the 'it's all about the idea' camp, won't appreciate others immediately competing against them with the same idea. And people in the 'it's all about execution' camp, probably won't care enough about the ideas to pa
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Unique & funny resume(endswithsaurus.com)
2 points by johnmacintyre 16y ago|0 comments
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Visual Tooling Will Make You Go Blind (Command line vs. GUI Hg)(blog.wekeroad.com)
2 points by johnmacintyre 16y ago|0 comments