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by va_coder 15y ago
"Groupon provides the mechanism to move businesses and customers over to a part of the diagram previously regarded as unreachable. It only works because customers can collectively commit to buying more than they would with a run-of-the-mill
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by va_coder 15y ago
You think 20 years from now people will still be voting up articles about Emacs and Vim? just curious
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by va_coder 15y ago
When I see security vulnerabilities I rarely get involved because the party with the vulnerability will become suspicious of you. It's not worth the hassle.
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by va_coder 15y ago
There are many secure ways to use XMPP. What is so great about ddg doing it?
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by va_coder 15y ago
From a security perspective I think it's a big game changer. I'm looking forward to hearing about how secure it is in practice.
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by va_coder 15y ago
There's a lot I love about the US but it's true that many cities have poorly managed public transit systems. I don't think I have ever grabbed a bus transfer and not felt disappointed either, regardless of how clean it was. Maybe you need
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by va_coder 15y ago
Which countries do you consider to be "new", clean and nimble?
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by va_coder 15y ago
Why Groovy? * Groovy is easy to develop in - it's dynamically typed and far less verbose than Java * It's mature and stable * It's easy for Java programmers to learn * It's easy for Python and Ruby developers to learn * Grails, groovy.sql.S
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by va_coder 15y ago
As tech guys, is it really safer? What's to stop a shady postal service worker from making money on the side by looking at peoples mail?
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by va_coder 15y ago
That's what I was thinking but my doctor entered her information into a netbook. The data is stored digitally. For some reason or another her office only sends the data to the customer through snail mail. I've heard on a few web sites that
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by va_coder 15y ago
I just got a physical and the dr's office told me the only way to get the results was through post office mail. So I called Anthem, a huge healthcare company, and asked if there was a website that allowed me to select doctors that email re
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Ask HN: Why is healthcare IT so screwed up?
17 points by va_coder 15y ago|13 comments
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Apple's Chinese workers treated 'inhumanely, like machines'(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by va_coder 15y ago|0 comments
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by va_coder 15y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question but why not just work on making CPython faster? Edit: I guess this provides insights: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/architecture.html
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by va_coder 15y ago
Cool. So if/when Oracle buys Joyent they won't use the trademark for nefarious purposes? Why not transfer it to Apache? Have people abused Apache server? Apache Lucene? Apache CouchDB? We heard the same thing from Sun about Java. It's a
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by va_coder 15y ago
What kind of abuse?
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by va_coder 15y ago
Trademarks are interesting. I don't know if this is an apples to apples comparison, but I remember 5 years back there was a big issue with JBoss and trademarks. One guy trademarked the name and made a boatload of money when his group sold
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by va_coder 15y ago
Thanks for the insight
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by va_coder 15y ago
I think Node.js is neat but could someone tell me how it's so awesome. When Rails came it was truly awesome because the language it used and the framework was so much easier to work with then Java or .Net and some would say better designed
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by va_coder 15y ago
especially when the song is Slayer's "Raining Blood"
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by va_coder 15y ago
You say you telephone the users. What if they are traveling? How do you verify the other person on the phone is who they say they are?
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Ask HN: What happened to Wikinomics
7 points by va_coder 15y ago|1 comments
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by va_coder 15y ago
This would be a great recruiting tool. Once a user finishes, provide a list of open jobs for shops that use MongoDB.
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by va_coder 15y ago
Yo google why isn't working wit FF4?
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by va_coder 16y ago
As soon he says "I don't believe I did a bad thing" I thought this boy needs to be prosecuted.
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by va_coder 16y ago
Last weekend, with no prior knowledge of JavaScript on the server, I created a full NodeJS, Express, Coffeescript, Jade, NPM stack and had it deployed to my linux VPS in less than a morning. It's my understanding it's not so easy to do tha
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by va_coder 16y ago
Yes Github is magic ;)
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by va_coder 16y ago
I'm willing to keep my mind open. How long it takes to set up a dev environment and push to cloud service? With appengine, 1) I sign up in 5 minutes, 2) clone an app in python or Java, 3) use my favorite free ide to edit the code 4) appcfg.
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by va_coder 16y ago
Honda, Trek, Dell, Proctor & Gamble, Exxon, Whole Foods: There are companies I give my money to and most people spend money like I do.
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by va_coder 16y ago
I want to believe this story, but the reality is that the big companies have economies of scale that are very difficult to compete with and they often win.

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