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by tc7 18y ago
My thoughts exactly. My sense of wonderment grew as I read along and slowly realized that the author wasn't using the word 'blackmail' in jest. W... tf?
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by tc7 18y ago
Graduated with BA in comp.sci at 19 y.o. (not a mistake), then immediately took job doing web support stuff with big (non-tech) company. In retrospect, I would have loved to look at more options (like starting my own company), but a) I hone
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by tc7 18y ago
On significance, I'm not so interested in people remembering me in 200 years as being able to look back before I die and know that I did something really important. (What that important thing is, I don't know yet.) Like neilk says, fame and
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by tc7 18y ago
Why doesn't it fit horizontally in 1024x768? Is that the new 640x480? :P
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by tc7 18y ago
Looking back, do you think sacrificing time with your kid was worth it for lifetime security? Like, do you guys have a good relationship now, or did all the work do any damage? Just wondering -- I don't have kids yet, but I'd be worried tha
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by tc7 18y ago
So that's why we pay so much... Once the govt collects the billions in back taxes from these rich people, surely they'll have enough $$ to drop taxes for the rest of us (USAians, at least) and still pay the bills. Wait, isn't that how it
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by tc7 18y ago
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6917941.html I don't blame the patent guys for not reading it. "Man, that sentence said "said" like 487 million times ! Pass that thing on, dude." Stamp of approval here.
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by tc7 18y ago
"Love dollar." Wow. >>I earned a whopping $2.36 from ad clicks. ... Twenty months later my daily income from this website had increased by more than 500 times.<< He really makes $1180/day == $430,700/year? Dang. I need to ge
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by tc7 18y ago
I use Opera's built-in feed reader. I like it. I have about 20 feeds subscribed, and I obsessively at least skim every article until it tells me there are zero unread. Quite a pain on Monday (I don't read feeds on weekends) to come into wor
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by tc7 18y ago
Unrelated to posted item, but why does Opera tell me: "The page you are trying to open has been reported as fraudulent. It will likely attempt to trick you into sharing personal or financial information. Opera Software strongly discourages
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HN:If you could go to any conference/class/training...
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by tc7 18y ago
My mind boggles at the response on the talk page: [General impression:] "Yeah, we sure showed that 'scientist'! He'll think TWICE before tanglin' with us again!" As a Christian, I cringe on the inside. And outside. Heck, full-body cringe. *
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by tc7 18y ago
It's natural to lean towards just copying the latest big hit. 1) Market research is done for you, so you don't have to be as convincing to get funding, 2) there's room in any niche for > 1 competitor (first, best, cheapest, at least :))
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by tc7 18y ago
I guess this is acceptable for us hardcorehackertypes, but if users and happiness were the goal (as they are for the startups many of us are working on), this falls under the category of: "The User doesn't care why this isn't working, or
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by tc7 18y ago
And it was good. As I know from personal, recent experience, it is danged hard to learn Rails with my normal surf-around-the-intrawebs method. (I eventually find great content on blogs and message boards, but there's a dearth of good entry-
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by tc7 18y ago
My perspective: I've wanted to be a developer since I was like 11, and first started using HyperCard on the Mac. I liked being able to create stuff and share it with people (via AOL shareware libraries, back then :P). I've been out of schoo
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by tc7 18y ago
"Dress like the job you want to have, not like the job you're applying for." Very nice. Put into words my vaguely-formed concept of why I won't be pulling out the suit for future interviews. For interviews, the best advice I've heard is to
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by tc7 18y ago
Even better... "Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars." Headlines are awesome. Give it a few more levels of indirection (esciencenews <- hacker news <- bob's blog <- talk aroun