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Ask HN: Hardware for Software People
2 points by zumda 12y ago|0 comments
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by zumda 12y ago
Location: Bern, Switzerland Remote: Yes Relocation: Yes (though limited to planet Earth) Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Scientific Computing, [something I don't know yet] Careers 2.0: https://careers
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by zumda 12y ago
Bern, Switzerland, Remote | Relocation, Full Time Stack: Ruby, Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, [something I don't know yet] Careers 2.0: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/featureenvy Contact: andreas+hnjobs@feature
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Please Don’t Follow Advice From The Experts(the.codepoet.ch)
1 points by zumda 14y ago|0 comments
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by zumda 14y ago
There were people rallying against slave masters. Yes, back when it was still legal to own slaves. Do you say these activists had nothing to do with abolishing slavery? Do you say they were wrong to be mad at slave masters because it was th
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by zumda 14y ago
I'm surprised that none of them use Heroku. It seemed to be the darling of the startup community for some time.
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by zumda 14y ago
So, in short, big companies still don't get there doesn't have to be a correlation between GPA, educational background and actual skill to work? Today with the internet, blogs, Github and other such things, I just don't get it!
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by zumda 14y ago
I could see a feature were the server side will just be a PaaS-like service, where only the client side code is needed anymore. Database persistence, handling of static assets and all that will be done by the platform, and most people won't
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by zumda 14y ago
To be fair, especially the landing sequence (the only thing they couldn't really patch) was very well defined from the start. They knew exactly what the Rover had to do, when he had to do it and what steps were involved.* Generally software
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by zumda 14y ago
The bar code was actually just a code to initialize the code generation (I think it is based on that randomly generated seed and the time, so that then server and client generate the same keys). You could have also typed in the code by hand
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by zumda 14y ago
I'm always dumbfounded when these topics come up and a lot of people start saying how inconvenient it is, that it is all wrong. But these are probably the same people which later accuse Google that they didn't do enough to protect their ac
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by zumda 14y ago
There is also a (proposed) file API. http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
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by zumda 14y ago
I see there is a lot of nostalgia in that post that I (and others like me) will probably never understand. But, I still don't see the point. It's nice that we could buy and old machine and program something on it. But at the same time we co
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by zumda 14y ago
The point isn't the security mechanism, but for consumer products the point is physical location. Without two factor authentication, a sweat shop in China could hack you (and thousand others) easily. With two-factor authentication they woul
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Rob Pardo thinks Windows 8 Isn't "Awesome for Blizzard Either"(twitter.com)
2 points by zumda 14y ago|0 comments
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by zumda 14y ago
Interesting to see that P2P has gone down 6% and downloads up 3%, whereas physical media has stayed the same. It's clear where the growth market is, now the RIAA just has to read their own numbers. The one thing that puzzles me is that the
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by zumda 14y ago
A very interesting post! Thanks for sharing that! I have one question though: Did you grandfather your old customers in? So you still charge them the old price and give them all features?
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by zumda 14y ago
Do you have an ETA when you will officially release Meteor with auth?
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by zumda 14y ago
Mostly training and consulting. There is no better indicator that you know a framework best if you made and maintain it. Another way, that the Meteor guys are trying (probably on top of training and consulting) is to sell an enterprise solu
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by zumda 14y ago
(can't answer you directly, so I'm doing it here) My point was, that, for example, language recognition doesn't need human intelligence, a statistical model is enough. Or driving around a confined space only requires a particle filter, not
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by zumda 14y ago
You are right, but to solve most problems, do machines really HAVE to think like humans?
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by zumda 14y ago
That's exactly what I was going to ask. That's the one thing keeping me from building something serious with Meteor. The rest I tried, and it does look really nice for real-time webapps, as soon as the Javascript development environment gro
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by zumda 14y ago
If I understand Pingdom correctly, they just want to monitor the Twitter API for all their customers that use the API. Pingdom doesn't send tweets for their customers, they just want to notice them when Twitter is lagging.
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LiveAuctioneers: An unlikely example of great UI design(37signals.com)
2 points by zumda 14y ago|0 comments
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by zumda 14y ago
I took the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng some time ago. And it was a really great experience. The lessons are interesting, and I really like their concept of quizzes in the middle of the lessons. They just show the question on the vi
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by zumda 14y ago
One thing I think you should do is don't just concentrate on the technical aspects of programming. Really great programmers aren't the ones which know more languages and more obscure features of a framework they work with. Really great prog
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by zumda 14y ago
Just to pile on another "me too" here. I fully agree that you should limit what you do, no matter what. I, for example, always tend to overdo things. For example I once was heavily into Starcraft 2, but played so much that after just 2 week
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by zumda 14y ago
I agree with you. There are things that the experts don't want to talk about (because it's too easy) and then there are things that a beginner can explain in a simpler way than an expert. Staying in a beginners mind is hard once you have sp
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by zumda 14y ago
They changed the handling of multi reddits to use normalized hot sort last month: http://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/s79pl/reddit_chan...
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by zumda 14y ago
Ah I'm sorry, I should have rechecked before posting this. I meant no offense. There you see how closely I follow this story... :)

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