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by mangler 13y ago
From Isaacson's excellent biography of Jobs, the one thing I gathered is that he had taste (turtlenecks and baggy jeans notwithstanding... ok, haven't seen the yacht either). He bullied a whole company into satisfying his exquisite taste, a
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by mangler 14y ago
Because millions of others have a much more desperate need for some love and some feeling of self worth. Even a surrogate one. There's no insulin for that...
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by mangler 14y ago
Of course, I assume nobody wants Ms. Ortiz to spin into deep guilt-driven depression for doing what she believed was right. This kind of emotional blackmail is probably not helping anyone or anything, at least not this soon after the events
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by mangler 14y ago
Some publicity is bad publicity, Novus Partners....
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by mangler 14y ago
> these kinds of post (and we seem to get a lot) usually strike me as "a list of good things about me" or "why everyone should be like me". Yep... That's why the mysteriously named skill, "spiritual" may actually be quite important and
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by mangler 14y ago
Thank you Terminator!!! We knew you'd do a great job!...
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by mangler 14y ago
This is 'backward' until you meet a bunch of doctors who claim to cure cancer using cucumber juice and find that they all have PhDs and MDs from the University of Tantric Study and Life Exploration, Middlesex Town Massahoma. People in troub
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by mangler 14y ago
... and may be you don't call her a slapper in your blog posts or she may slap you for real. I would. She should...
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by mangler 14y ago
"call her"??? Atwood never "calls her"! She calls Atwood! Hey and I don't mean in the Hollywood kind of way - Atwood Da Man!!!
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by mangler 14y ago
Yeah, not a big waterfall (or agile, or any other pyramid scheme) fan myself, but this kind of bullshit did get a man on the Moon and then a mixture of them got some kit on Mars, and generally they are doing OK. Some of them can actually sc
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by mangler 14y ago
In all fairness, the US corporations probably owe more than a little to Mexico. On purely ethical grounds, I'd rather buy an IBM machine built in Mexico than in the US. It's that little personal satisfaction.... But it DOES make a differenc
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by mangler 14y ago
Clojure functions are Java classes. It's not much different from using a Java functional libs. Except that Java will probably be faster as Clojure still doesn't do primitives and stuff (not sure about that one, may be it already does) You c
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by mangler 14y ago
If you spent your life being inconvenienced by the things you made earlier to make your life convenient, you'll go to extraordinary lengths to make other things that seem to make your life convenient given all the inconveniences you've alre
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by mangler 14y ago
So what's wrong with it is that it feels clunky to you...
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by mangler 14y ago
This posted by Dell or something?! What's with the over-excitement?
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by mangler 14y ago
> "This notion that we should get down on our knees and pray (or otherwise please) the overlords is just wrong" Yep. Totally wrong - just don't buy Apple. Kind of simple. It's not like there's no alternatives...
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by mangler 14y ago
You can (and should) be removed from private property for not complying with the rules. Apple makes it very clear: "We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If yo
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by mangler 14y ago
That's why you "Inherit a codebase", as opposed to "Build a codebase". People who maintain and people who build are... well... they're just different people. We do need them both, but, they are different. Which is why we need them both.
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by mangler 14y ago
Yeah, the next time you go to your local yoga class and the local bleached bimbo starts babbling on about quantum physics (for some reason, a favourite subject), ask them if they can solve a quadratic equation. Guess what, they can't. But t
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by mangler 14y ago
Original post. iOS in Java?! Why?! GWT! Why. Just learn ObjC, Javascript, whatever the local language is... It's not that hard really...
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by mangler 14y ago
Why is it so hard for Java programmers to learn anything other than Java?!
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by mangler 14y ago
In all fairness, allowing people who are unhappy, in a first warehouse job, or in skilled occupations to train themselves out of their unhappiness is a very novel and extremely favourable idea. This is like saying, it's not you, here's a ch
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by mangler 14y ago
Everyone is addicted to food. Most people are addicted to food substances that are completely non-essential, such as sugar, salt, butter and caffeine. In places where drugs aren't available people get addicted to certain spices to a point w
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by mangler 14y ago
60 seconds?! It took me at least 10 seconds of looking for a 60-second thing to work out that the shortest one of the things you can see that has some meaning is almost five minutes long. Am I missing something??
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by mangler 14y ago
'He said Codecademy wasn’t just about teaching people to be programmers, but about helping people learn higher skills. “There are definitely people who become programmers through the site, but there are also people using these courses to le
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by mangler 14y ago
I am not opposed to anything. Kickstarter included. Kickstarter is inherently against the system and all the classical financial theory as it is known. If you invest in something (even a minuscule amount) you should expect a fraction of the
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by mangler 14y ago
I'm not against money in any way whatsoever, but, really, you don't do this kind of stuff for cash. You just don't. It should have been done already and the money should be flowing in without kickstarter to YC or other means. You build it,
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by mangler 14y ago
OK now, this is a whole new business model and I like it. Early supporters pay for the demo and get a t-shirt. Later supporters pay for the continuing refinement of the demo and get a t-shirt. Later supporters pay for the demo and get a t-s
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by mangler 14y ago
No, don't quit! Embrace! That's 14 hours (if I remember correctly) you could have spent working on your own projects instead of being pissed off on HN. The world is full of this, and it's well accepted and nobody questions it - make the mos
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by mangler 14y ago
This is completely unrelated to the subject, and I have not used mongodb, have no idea if it's good or bad, and I don't even know how to spell it, but isn't it ironic that this post shows up on the day when the top HN post's title is "Pleas

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