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by jphackworth 15y ago
Sorry, but my guess is that there is no demand for this. You could test this simply - just offer to run these sorts of batched calculations to people and don't specify how they will be run. If anyone takes you up on the offer, then you have
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I was hoping this would be about Battletoads, which IMO is the hardest platform game I have ever played. Even on an emulator, with the ability to freeze frames and save/reload game state, I could not beat Battletoads.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
The lady’s husband, a semiconductor engineer, has been unemployed for three years, yet people in his field are being brought in on H-1Bs. She doesn’t think this makes any sense. My nephew, an avid basketball player, has been unemployed fo
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by jphackworth 15y ago
They say "please don't take this seriously" and pretend it's a parody. Yet... the product is real, and the "see plans and pricing" button still takes you to a payment page. So because they're promoting their site on HN instead of on Techcru
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by jphackworth 15y ago
You don't think Apple and Google are solving big problems? They were startups too, once. I think the flaw in your logic is that once a startup successfully solves a big problem, they quickly stop being a startup, and become a big company.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I really appreciate that this site uses interesting quotes rather than lorem ipsum. It makes it less boring to trawl through different fonts.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Really interesting slides. As someone who has only briefly played around with Haskell, I do envy some of its features, particularly the type inference. I wish there were more languages that could combine the ease of scripting languages with
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by jphackworth 15y ago
An interesting article - thanks for the link. In summary, these practices are extremely common, and Ben Horowitz recommends them. However, they are technically illegal in California.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Referencing images and code from another site without permission This is not illegal, merely poor form and also a bad technical decision because the other site can then control you. If this were illegal, you would have to get permission f
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by jphackworth 15y ago
It's also often a very successful strategy for companies to copy the design of competitors, and differentiate on other things. Zynga copying competitors' games is a great example. In this case, Curebit was only copying the design of a landi
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by jphackworth 15y ago
At what point does this become unacceptable? Look at what Zynga did with FarmVille. At first, it was exactly like FarmTown. Same appearance, same menu layout, same gameplay. They weren't actually serving assets from FarmTown's servers, bu
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I feel like SOMA is now the center of mass of the tech startup scene. Try 21st Amendment.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
So let's say I am running a startup with two employees. A friend of mine is also running a startup and needs to hire people. Is it wrong for me to ask him not to hire my employees?
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by jphackworth 15y ago
That sucks - chasing payments sounds really frustrating, because it's not even like you're doing something wrong, it's just this situation that you shouldn't even have to deal with, but you do. It sounds really stressful. Good luck with eve
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Sort of a silly thing to bring up, but at my previous job bitbucket was down so often we started calling it sh*tbucket. At my current gig we're on github and it seems far more reliable.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
For people with experience and multiple job offers... there is no incentive That's true. But think about a smart programmer who is fresh out of school, or maybe dropped out. If you don't have anything on your resume yet, this could be a r
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by jphackworth 15y ago
This emphasis on "culture" is fatuous horse excrement. Whenever you hear that word, reach for your resume. The new twitter is a dreary testament to the deceased neurons of the new management. This sort of comment doesn't belong on Hacke
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by jphackworth 15y ago
To be fair, you loadtested with ab, whereas the author launched his feature on the Google homepage.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
It's not that hard to memorize the 2-letter words. Most of them do have a meaning that makes sense. So it's easier to remember aa = lava ab = your abs ad = tv ads ae = scottish "one" ag = agricultural ah = ah that feels good ai = a sloth al
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Quite an interesting product. I typed a competitor's name in and immediately saw a huge list of ads they were running. Very helpful in just ten seconds!
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Very interesting. I would love to see this for other programming languages, especially Ruby (probably fairly easy) or Objective-C (may be quite hard).
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by jphackworth 15y ago
One prominent chief executive told Fortune he'd heard from someone close to Gates that he might be considering such a move. It's hard to imagine a less reliable source. And that sentence is the only real news in the article!
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by jphackworth 15y ago
These aren't myths. This is the author attempting to redefine the meaning of the word "introvert". For example: Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. From dictionary.com: noun: 1. a shy person. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/introvert
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by jphackworth 15y ago
It seems pretty neat, certainly a cool senior thesis! One suggestion if you take this further is to add a "dictionary" or "hash table" type. For practical programming problems, that is pretty necessary. But a really neat project - it's cool
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by jphackworth 15y ago
This is similar to some of the effects of entanglement in quantum mechanics, where you can't affect the probability of a single event, but you can guarantee the events are not independent. (spoiler alert) Once you figure the guesses have to
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I'm guessing that since The Lord Of The Rings movie, Viggo Mortensen is the most famous Dane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Mortensen
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I once worked on a site with 1/6th the users and only one machine. ;-) Counting users often doesn't match across sites, especially when an Instagram user is someone who has downloaded the app, and might never come back. That's why the 50 ph
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I'm a little surprised so many machines are used to run Instagram. TechCrunch mentioned their peak has been 50 photo uploads per second (which they say go directly to S3, so Instagram's servers only need to pass a token). Of course there ar
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An Interview With Eric Ries(bizengine.com)
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Why pick on Heroku for this? Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and basically every other tech company do the same thing.

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