plant42 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
I recommend Appear.in http://appear.in
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plant42 | 10 years ago | on: How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
Definitely agree. If you're thinking that you're missing out on life then make the change, go down a tangential path. Do not go through life bitching & whining that you didn't make the most of an opportunity.
Take the sabbatical and go to Europe for 6 months. If it turns out to not be what you expected, so what, you've learned something and grown.
plant42 | 10 years ago | on: How to contribute to JHipster generator?
Why not ask this question to the jHipster team?
The contributing guidelines are here:
https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/blob/master/C...
plant42 | 10 years ago | on: How do you deal a better programmer than you having same or less experience?
There will always be someone who does something better than you, regardless of whether it is related to programming or not. Some people have more of an aptitude for a particular skill than you but that doesn't mean you're a failure, nor is it something to get depressed about. Rather than dwell on the knowledge that someone is better than you at something you enjoy, use it inspire & motivate yourself to improving your own ability.
plant42 | 10 years ago | on: Analysis: Raising Series A in the Nordics, 11 key findings
Interesting article, but annoyed that it doesn't feature Norway in the country comparison. The Norwegian start-up market may be small, but it is growing.
plant42 | 11 years ago | on: Interview with Jon Skeet
As did I, though I started with a Commodore VIC-20.
plant42 | 11 years ago | on: How did you learn to code?
When I was 7 my parents gave me a Commodore VIC-20 and after tiring of playing games, I wanted to make my own. Started out with copying game listings out of magazines in basic, then moved on to assembly, pascal, and then C.
Fast forward 30-ish years and I've been a developer for over 20 years coding games to enterprise applications and everything in-between.
To me its more a calling rather than a concious choice to be a programmer, like joining the seminary. now I spend my time mentoring younger developers and tinkering with new languages and things.
plant42 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best accredited online education?
The university of Liverpool has a number of decent online programmes in cooperation with laureate international.
I'm currently on the MSc Web sciences & Big Data programme.
plant42 | 11 years ago | on: Scope.watch
Something must be wrong, I get the Ubuntu default apache page.
plant42 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which tech conference would you attend?
The Summit in Dublin. 4-6 November http://summitdublin.com/
Was a great event last year, Elon Musk attended as well as a whole host of great speakers.
Food Summit & Night Summit were also part of the programme and a lot of fun.
Highly recommended.
plant42 | 12 years ago | on: We Just launched our customer management tool for small biz. Need testers
plant42 | 12 years ago | on: Poll: How long have you been programming?
Started when I was 7 with a Commodore VIC-20, so 31 years ago. I was curious about how things worked with it, so started making my own games.
Had a couple of generic games published for the C64 in my teens though. Back of magazine fodder, nothing great.
plant42 | 12 years ago | on: All Norwegians become crown millionaires, in oil saving landmark
Norway isn't in the EU, but it is in the EEA. Its easy to get the residence permit for EU citizens.
I'm from the UK and settled here 8 years ago. All it took was a trip to the tax register in Oslo, fill in a few forms and that's it.
Jobs are relatively easy to find. The main job board in Norway is at: http://finn.no/jobb
Only thing really to complain about is the expense of damn near everything. But even that, you can get used to.
plant42 | 12 years ago | on: The American way of using fork and knife is inefficient and inelegant.
It is more common in Europe to hold the fork in your left hand rather than your right. But I think that has more to do with handedness than anything.
I'm right-handed, yet hold the fork in my right hand and often get comments about being 'cack-handed'.
plant42 | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
There's no mention of using Google authentication anywhere other than after clicking the login or sign-up buttons and you get the oAuth permissions/Google login page.
Also, if you cancel the oAuth request, you get an internal server error:
plant42 | 12 years ago | on: The Vaccine Hoax is Over. Documents from UK reveal 30 Years of Coverup
Fearmongering at its worst. No better than Jenny McCarthy.
Also mentions very little regarding the UK as stated in the title.
plant42 | 12 years ago | on: 1984
I highly recommend 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
plant42 | 13 years ago | on: A quick message queue benchmark: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, HornetQ, QPID, Apollo
Background; I'm currently running a system which at peak runs with about 15 million messages per hour using ActiveMQ, with several producers and consumers on the same topic.
Another vote for RabbitMQ. We're currently using a small RabbitMQ cluster that is averaging 5000+ msgs/sec and its not straining the sytem. At times, we've experienced bursts approaching 10,000 msgs/sec without any issues.
We have around 30 producers and 45 consumers spread out over a wide range of queues & exchanges.
Whilst ZMQ is generally faster, it does require more effort to be useful. Whereas RabbitMQ, I believe, provides the best of both worlds. Blazing fast messaging combined with ease of use and setup.
plant42 | 13 years ago | on: If PHP were British
With Roger Moore announcing "Worker #3 please"
plant42 | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Email services
I signed up before the change to being a paid service, so am not paying unless I go over the 10 account limit.
Now its $5 per account. An account being in Googles own words:
"We consider a user to be the same as the number of distinct email inboxes you need. One user can have multiple email addresses, and a domain can have multiple aliases – these are included in the price for each user."
Check out all the info you need at: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
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