redredraider

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by redredraider 14y ago
So you want to give clients direct access to your database?
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by redredraider 15y ago
Reinventing the wheel for lulz...
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by redredraider 15y ago
College doesn't cost that much. I go to Texas Tech. 4-5K a semester for 8 semesters is 50k. A starting dev makes 50-60k.It's pretty easy to pay it off.
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by redredraider 15y ago
This is awesome. Someone port it to my circa 1994 cobol compiler and I'll be set.
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by redredraider 15y ago
I program and I'm also studying music. Several of the programmers at my workplace play music. I would say %50 of my team. I think music theory and programming are very similar. The other musicians I know don't see the relationships I see.
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by redredraider 15y ago
PHP doesn't suck. It runs the internet. It's possible to write crappy code in any language.
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by redredraider 15y ago
Isn't this obvious?
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by redredraider 15y ago
50-60%. I'm an intern though.
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by redredraider 15y ago
I never thought of this. It's good
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by redredraider 15y ago
If you sanitize every input then I think you will be ok. You just have to get in the habit of always running your safe() function on every variable that comes in a POST or GET. I would also make sure that SQL errors don't return anything. T
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by redredraider 15y ago
When you say Java I immediately think of all the crappy programmers in my CS program who would choose Java as their favorite language even when it would be the worst possible choice. Hackers don't program in Java unless Java is the only sol
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by redredraider 15y ago
If it has to be updated on every page load I don't think there's anything you can do...I may be wrong I'm sure someone on HN will have some performance tricks. You can generate your headers and footers and store them in a file instead of to
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by redredraider 15y ago
Learn to play an instrument. I've always found that to be a rewarding waste of time.
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by redredraider 15y ago
Take a vacation. Be frugal with your money and you should never have to work again if you can live on 30k a year.
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by redredraider 16y ago
I wouldn't spend it or invest or anything. Leave in the bank or a CD and just feel secure enough to leave your job if you start hating it. The economy is bad.
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by redredraider 16y ago
I think it depends how much money you have to spend. If you have money then see about finding a developer. If you don't have money and you don't expect investment then I would say take your time. 6 months is not that long. Unless you're ide
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by redredraider 16y ago
I would get cracking on web development if I were you. You can definitely do it alone for a while. That way you're not at the mercy of a programmer and you will have learned a useful skill in the likely event your idea doesn't make it.
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by redredraider 16y ago
Buy a guitar. Learn to play it.
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by redredraider 16y ago
Right. So Groupon probably didn't go around hush hush. I agree with the post above about execution. It's not about being first it's about being the best.
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by redredraider 16y ago
If keeping it secret is that big of deal it's probably going to fail anyway. If something is so easy to copy that you can't tell anyone then it's not worth pursuing. IMO.
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by redredraider 16y ago
I'm interning with a company that is a COBOL shop. It took me months to make the transition from "normal languages". I don't think it's worth learning honestly unless you get a job in it. Here are some things it has taught me. It's taught m
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by redredraider 16y ago
I'm sure it would make you a better programmer. Using tools that were abandoned by their company 10 years ago teaches one to be humble and to appreciate the little things in life.
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by redredraider 16y ago
You can't be a web developer unless you can code. I think a good exercise would be copying a website. When I say copy I mean the whole thing front end and back end. Start with something easy like twitter. The whole front end is pretty much
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by redredraider 16y ago
You really don't know bad programming until you have spent some time in a 50000 line cobol program. I'd post some crap I work on every day but I don't want to make anyone cry. Nevermind. Here's some random code I'm working on.
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by redredraider 16y ago
If you really need technical people you're going to have to pay them unless you've got something amazing built so far. Or you're going to have to bring in cofounders and give them a more even split. That will be hard if you've got all of th
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by redredraider 16y ago
Another thing. If you're the technical guy then you should only hire sales people. Make money then hire programmers. I doubt the project has grown so large you can't maintain it. If you haven't made any money then your 4000 hour/25000 dolla
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by redredraider 16y ago
As a programmer I don't get involved unless there's money to pay me. I like the idea of getting paid up front for my work and keeping the 5% share and the "owner" of the project recouping my up front pay when the money starts rolling in. Th
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by redredraider 16y ago
Haha my bad.
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by redredraider 16y ago
$data = "http://hackerunderground.com/solution/blank; $ch = curl_init($data); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $base = curl_exec($ch); for($i=0;$i<10000;$i++) { $data = "http://hackerunderground.
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by redredraider 16y ago
If it's computer related you can teach yourself. You want to learn more languages etc. I think you would be better off learning programming concepts the right way from a CS textbook or some other computer science resource so that you are ca

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