lusr

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by lusr 13y ago
Whenever I see interesting events like this, my first thought is not "what would happen" but always "how could I profit from what would happen [or the uncertainty around it]". Unfortunately I never know how to answer tha
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by lusr 13y ago
I was very keen on using TDD to lay out the design and technical specification of a solution to be implemented by our team (8 developers total). Unfortunately, because the project has tight deadlines (regulatory project), despite minimal re
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by lusr 13y ago
I think the following separates you from the average games player and makes your story (interesting as it is) out of place: > In the late 1990's I wrote for websites strategies and even won several tournaments and won hundreds in ca
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by lusr 13y ago
He donated the product and kept the barcode.
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by lusr 13y ago
Here's a guy who pretty much did it for free (and he wasn't the only one): http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/02/28/credit-card-reward-po...
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by lusr 13y ago
It's not really a "Show HN", though is it? It's an paid-for extension of an existing product. In that vein, while an informative post I did find the following statement a bit disingenuous: "As Paul Buchheit, creat
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by lusr 13y ago
Another fun complication: database stored procedures implemented with non-SQL code. I worked on a project where the client's dedicated SQL ninjas managed to bring the time to process daily extracts from the data warehouse down to 2mi
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by lusr 13y ago
While I agree that immaculate attention to detail is important in documents you're creating for formal consumption (e.g. CVs/resumes), I don't see how the same extends to emails, websites and READMEs. I'm a native Englis
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by lusr 13y ago
You're missing the point. The question is about the legality of access without authorisation. Just because it's illegal to leave your car unlocked doesn't magically make it legal to steal from an unlocked car.
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by lusr 13y ago
I still don't see the value. To me it's like proposing that in SQL we replace 'EXEC' with 'HEAD', 'PUT', 'DELETE'... At the end of the day I still need to understand the contract of the sto
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by lusr 13y ago
> There isn't much in the way of discoverable APIs that adhere to the data model suggestion in the HTTP spec I don't even understand why this needs to be pointed out. If the precise usage of all web APIs could be inferred from
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by lusr 13y ago
I'm mostly a back-end developer and I don't have much experience with rich front-end interfaces other than my own little side projects and a WPF project from about a year back - however, I do believe the same principles apply to b
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by lusr 13y ago
The problem is that the types in Javascript + dependency injected AngularJS services are hidden. If you forget that "auth.loggedIn" is a value-type, you might unconsciously assume it's a reference type. This is one reason I
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by lusr 13y ago
1. This tightly couples the service to the view. Changes in the view and/or service will potentially result in nasty surprises and spaghetti code. For instance, what happens if the business processes change one day and "login&q
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by lusr 13y ago
These people are using Facebook with the expectation it works like email. Why do you feel the two are so different? In my experience, the average computer user doesn't like fiddling with email addresses - Facebook is far more friendl
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by lusr 13y ago
Is this not a short-sighted view? A middle class salary they can survive on for how long? When that source of income dries up they'll be unable to continue working on their passion without spending time and effort finding an additiona
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by lusr 14y ago
My machine is always on. Subjectively, having 24GB of RAM made far more of a performance difference than my Plextor PX-256M3P, presumably because with 24GB of RAM pretty much everything of importance ends up being cached in RAM sooner or l
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by lusr 14y ago
Why a contractor? I'm a contractor for two reasons: (1) money and (2) because I don't buy into the corporate PR. People who work in these places have to buy into the corporate values system. I look at corporate values with great skeptic
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by lusr 14y ago
"CRI is not a good indicator for use in visual assessment, especially for sources below 5000 kelvin (K)." Bulbs in question are 2700K and 5000K. Does your conclusion still hold? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
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by lusr 14y ago
Let's dig into these numbers. Assuming the R40m value is correct over 3 years, then: - since there are 248 working days in a South African year on average, the average daily cost ran to ~R53,763 or ~R6,720 per hour - at the banks I've work
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by lusr 14y ago
How do you come to this conclusion? It doesn't appear she had much of a choice. Her two successful lawyers in a fancy, shiny, expensive office gave her this advice: "I asked my lawyers to refuse, and we fought about it, repeatedly. They b
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by lusr 14y ago
There are plenty of successful founders who didn't quit their jobs immediately to work on their startup. Not everybody has that luxury. Maybe you meant to limit your comment specifically to YC startups?
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by lusr 14y ago
I just tried reading a number of articles on the front page using www.spreeder.com that another commenter here mentioned. I got up to 800wpm with chunk size of 3 before my suspicion was confirmed: while I had no problem following the stor
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by lusr 14y ago
Perhaps this is just my opinion, but if you make a statement that you don't know to be true and assert it as a true statement, you have lied.
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by lusr 14y ago
The StackExchange network does very well without resorting to any of these tactics.
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by lusr 14y ago
Read his comment again. He's describing the same frustration I and apparently many others have experienced clicking on a link (from a search engine, a blog, etc.) only to hit a wall. At this point I'm not a user of the site yet. The gis
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by lusr 14y ago
But then aren't you potentially giving away your competitive advantage? Let's say I invent a new search engine, Poople. I don't have much money to patent it. But I can't keep the details secret either lest somebody else patent it. But by
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by lusr 14y ago
And even if you move past the paralysis, trying to cure oneself of depression is like trying to debug the operating system of your mind using a debugger running the exact same flawed logic that you're trying to debug! Worse, those bugs ar
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by lusr 14y ago
There are other reasons too. Having been there myself, the big one I've seen in myself and with friends in similar situations is that the depressed individual feels worthless and "unfixable" at their core because of their: - past behaviour
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by lusr 14y ago
I was under the impression Zencoder already runs on the AWS infrastructure: * https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/zencoder * http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/zencoder-raises-2m-for-cloud-ba...

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