juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: As of today, App.net is a freemium service
In the MMORPG world, even handing out free trials, let alone going free to play, is often a sign that a game that's dying. It's a last-ditch effort to keep things going for a few more months.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: How To Make Money With Apps - Turn $1K into a $200K Portfolio
Clearly dealing with a fine, upstanding, productive member of society here.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: How To Make Money With Apps - Turn $1K into a $200K Portfolio
AKA - How to spam app stores with crap.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: MongoDB is Web Scale
AUG. 24, 2010
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: The Saddest Map In America
What I don't get is the states where it's at a bar. I can understand how it's weird to talk to people in some of those other places but a bar is an explicitly social environment. If people didn't want to talk to others, they'd be drinking at home for far less money. As cliche as it is, "hey, can I buy you a drink" still works as an ice breaker.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: The Racket Way
GNU Guile.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: The Racket Way
GAE supports Go and Java and, by extension, Scala, Clojure and all the other JVM languages.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011)
I hate to break it to you but HN is not a great site because of it's implementation. HN's value lies in the content and community. If somebody other than PG launched an identical site today, nobody would even bother making an account.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011)
> commercial ones that come with excellent support
Maybe I'm just too small-time for it to matter but what, exactly, does this commercial support actually buy you? In the last 10 years of programming, I've only run into a handful of bugs in my tools. When dealing with OSS projects, they were already known and fixed in newer versions. When dealing with $BIG_DATABASE_COMPANY they told me to use a workaround and didn't fix the bug until the next major release of the software.
I don't have a problem paying for commercial software, I understand it supports development and improvement of the tools, but what exactly are you getting when you spend (tens or hundreds) of thousands of dollars on licencing costs for support?
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Business in a Box
The fact that there's so much activity in the space suggests that it's undergoing disruption. For years, POS systems have been... well... POSes. They're unfriendly, overpriced, lacking in features and just all around
bad. The tech has been easily 10 years behind the curve.
We've got a new generation of POS systems coming into place using commodity hardware, the internet & business model that doesn't involve paying some shady fucker thousands of dollars for plugging in some hardware & typing in your menu.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
The page only shows thumbnails. You can click on the image to get the full picture.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Ten predictions (2004)
When he said "whoever creates AOL for real people [...] is going to be really, really rich" I'm pretty sure he was talking about something closer to Facebook.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Ten predictions (2004)
I'm surprised that he missed MySpace which was active & growing at the time.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: The Street Kids of San Francisco
Those people are scary. The writer might have actually had to work at getting his story, rather than collecting anecdotes from those that have romanticized the lifestyle.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Stop Working More than 40 Hours a Week
A farmer working a 40 (60... 70... 80...) hour week can produce enough food to feed hundreds of people, freeing them up to do other things. If you've ever played Civilization, agriculture is a prerequisite to doing any sort of technological development.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: The Pinball Wizard
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Incredible Secret Money Machine
Reading through the intro, he managed to get some things right and some things horribly wrong. Predictions from 1992 of technologies that would fail : solid state cooling, QWERTY alternatives, touch screens, NeXT computers, UNIX, TrueType, DVI video & Teletext.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Farewell, neighbors
Just because this code is released under GPLv3 it doesn't mean that the main codebase is GPLv3. They have complete ownership of their own code & can do as they will with it. The GPL only controls the rights of other people that want to use it.
juan_juarez
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13 years ago
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on: Everyone at Yipit is Now Learning to Code
Everyone?
I know a lot of people have seen that new employee manual but I assumed that only applied to the 'elite' & that there is a giant pool of peons that support them. Am I right or do the people doing things like billing and tech support get the same royal treatment?
