tsetse-fly | 11 years ago | on: New Study Contradicts Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Rule
Your hyperbole is akin to Malcolm Gladwell's style. See how this works?
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tsetse-fly | 12 years ago | on: Bashstrap – For your OS X terminal
What's wrong with "ls -l (which cmd)"?
tsetse-fly | 12 years ago | on: Bashstrap – For your OS X terminal
You shouldn't have any issues changing your default shell via chsh. SHELL is, by default, set to /bin/sh by cron—you can also define this yourself.
http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/manual/html_node/Crontab-f...
tsetse-fly | 14 years ago | on: Designing GitHub for Mac
programming is hard, let's go shopping!
tsetse-fly | 15 years ago | on: I Move You (YC S10) Is An Evite For Healthy Activities
Yes, there are plenty of companies out there that very much depend on a network effect and aren't Y Combinator-funded: Digg, Facebook, Quora or Stack Overflow, to name a few.
tsetse-fly | 15 years ago | on: Posterous takes on Tumblr
Yes, I rather dislike the tone of their post. If anything, these sorts of childish insults makes me want to avoid using Posterous.
tsetse-fly | 15 years ago | on: Posterous takes on Tumblr
You must be terrified by copy/paste.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts
Swiping is not obsolete. I don't know why you're trying to compare a virtual retailer like Amazon to shops that have an actual physical presence. The way they process payments is entirely different.
Not everyone has a smartphone. Why would Starbucks want to deal with accepting payments via mobile-geolocation and plastic for everyone else? It would just confuse the cashier. Swiping is uniform and only takes a few seconds.
Square fills the mobile payments processing niche where you need to be able to accept plastic when you're not in front of a register. Plumbers, repairmen of all sorts, traveling salesmen, people selling items at fairs/festivals, etc. These people aren't currently able to accept credit cards with real-time processing. That's the problem Square solves.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Squareup
Chip and PIN is a standard. They wouldn't have to reverse engineer it or implement from scratch.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Squareup
Is it not obvious? Why don't retail stores type in your credit card information instead of swiping it?
Chip and PIN doesn't seem to exist in the US so I'd imagine they're not targeting it immediately. I don't see why they couldn't expand the hardware to support it though.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
Perhaps you should look past the author to the content. There are some interesting ideas in there and it seems to have spawned some good discussion.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
Sorry, you're right.
I don't think that paragraph and the proceeding one was there when I originally read the post. Seems it's been edited since it was submitted.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
Coder's block is a good way to describe it.
I've had phone interviews where I've been asked to solve a logic puzzle with pen/paper while explaining my approach. Solving a problem you've never thought about while being put on the spot turns out to be incredibly difficult. These sorts of problems require deep concentration and quiet yet it tends to be awkward to have silence between strangers. The situation really inhibits serious problem solving.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
That's the second time you've posted that link on HN. Do you have something against Aaron?
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
No, he said that he would ask for a code sample or demo. There doesn't seem to be any programming involved during the interview.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
What sort of programming problems are you giving them? Did these candidates have experience with other projects and were they able to fluidly explain their involvement with them?
It must be pretty rare to find a person who can describe a complex project in detail but is unable to write any code during an interview.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
In the case of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks,_Ltd.
HN does it wrong. There are exceptions either way, I wouldn't say that one is more correct.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Apple's Mistake
Why would it be technically difficult for Apple to remove apps from your phone? Implementing a backdoor in your own software is fairly trivial.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: Codepad.org | a pastebin that executes code for you
No need to sensationalize, he's still around: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sah
Codepad is meant for simple snippets. I don't see anything wrong with the versions that he's currently providing.
tsetse-fly | 16 years ago | on: I Don't Code in my Free Time
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