longlistener

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by longlistener 15y ago
You need to consider what you want out of that money -- if you really want a fiscal return on your investment then you should stay away from startups. But if you serious... First you should probably not consider being a simple angel invest
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by longlistener 15y ago
Yeah, theres definitely some details to work out. I was kind of throwing it out there as a seed of an idea and hoping people would either thrash it or expand upon it until it made sense. I was also thinking about the trust schism that coul
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Ask HN: Why Facebook or Google? Do what SOPA would do...
4 points by longlistener 15y ago|3 comments
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by longlistener 15y ago
Change your Windows power settings? Are you freaking kidding me? Maybe they should have put included "Make sure the janitor doesn't turn off the desktop", "Getting slow? Reboot!" or "Ignore those snobby tech guys saying MS-Access isn't a
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by longlistener 15y ago
Paypal was aware of it, as they claim its written into their policy. They should stop worrying about the 'important people' and just simply 'do the right thing'. Start with retraining the customer service people to not be belligerent jer
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by longlistener 15y ago
Apparently now they're refusing comments on their blog because theres so much negative backlash.
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by longlistener 15y ago
How long have you worked for PayPal?
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by longlistener 15y ago
The big backlash is that PayPal has a history of doing this kind of thing. They're just getting called to task for it now.
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by longlistener 15y ago
Pair Programming. Seriously you get more than just code review.
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by longlistener 15y ago
The only way to get SEO these days is great inbound links or great unique content. If you don't have really great inbound content, then you better have a ton of really high profile sites linking to you.
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by longlistener 15y ago
Its been a while, at one point EngineYard was pretty awesome and really moved a lot forward in the RoR community. They've lost so many great people (and theres still some great people there), they've been moving more and more away from the
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by longlistener 15y ago
Its interesting, and now that I understand the game it makes sense and is cool. But it literally took me a few minutes to figure out why male 'C' liked woman 'b' better, and I kept thinking "what am I missing?". Its the order of the bubble
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by longlistener 15y ago
Gads, its unfortunate that the site hosting this article is so filled with spammy ads -- the full screen intro is acceptable, but the full screen popup is not, and having both is just nuts. I like not using adblock, so site can get some
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by longlistener 15y ago
If you are representing this on an HTML page you'd need to Base64 encode the bugger, adding a lot more overhead. Honestly I'm not sure why you wouldn't just simply use gzipped/JSON. My test show nearly no difference (1-2%) in performance w
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by longlistener 15y ago
"Idea Guys" make me laugh. Theres the old sayings about "10% inspiration and 90% perspiration", "the devil is in the details", etc are usually ignored by the idea guy, they think they get away with just spouting a few ideas and be done. Id
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by longlistener 16y ago
I'm a perl hacker from way back. I put a few things in CPAN back in my day. But honestly I've not written perl in a decade, so when I got a really amazing job offer for a position doing Perl, I gave it some thought. Perl is not only not t