2010-05-04 front | Hacker News

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Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit (opensource.com)

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The Humble Indie Game Bundle (wolfire.com)

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Introduction To Online Payments - TL;DR: It's A Total Bitch (meatinthesky.com)

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Please Jobhop as much as Possible (angryasian.posterous.com)

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Starcraft II launches July 27 (gamespot.com)

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From Zero to a Million Users - Dropbox and Xobni Lessons Learned (adamsmith.cc)

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Did your boss thank you for coding yourself to death? (skorks.com)

mdasen on May 4, 2010 | parent | context | on: Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use ...

Considering that Facebook has asked for my email username and password in order to scrape the contacts from my email, this seems hypocritical. So, it's ok for Facebook to scrape data from other sites since that's data going into Facebook (per the user's wishes), but it isn't ok for other sites to scrape Facebook data (per the user's wishes).

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What Every Developer Should Know About URLs (skorks.com)

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Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux (chrome.blogspot.com)

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Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames per Second (petapixel.com)

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The Appalling Reaction to the Apple iPhone Leak (abcnews.go.com)

driekken on May 4, 2010 | parent | context | on: Please Jobhop as much as Possible

The whole concept of loyalty towards a corporation is off. You can have loyalty to family, to friends, to a country but never to an economic entity whose only purpose (on paper) is profit. I think that professionalism and well-defined internal rules should be the only things expected by employers.

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Why I went without hot water for a year (joshwhiton.com)

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Voicemail for Hackers (github.com/titanous)

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How Apple is Breaking The Law With The App Store (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)

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Nikola Tesla predicted mobile phones in 1909 (recombu.com)

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Clustrix (YC W06) Builds the Webscale Holy Grail: A Database That Scales (gigaom.com)

icey on May 4, 2010 | parent | context | on: Why I went without hot water for a year

I hate to be the one to break it to you; but if your employees had to tell you when to shower they won't remember you for your "independent intellect", they'll remember you as "the guy who smelled so bad we had to tell him to take showers".

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Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share (arstechnica.com)

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RescueTime (YC 08) Data: Are Men more Productive than Women? (rescuetime.com)

edw519 on May 4, 2010 | parent | context | on: Did your boss thank you for coding yourself to dea...

"He is dead, too much hard living!". Too much hard coding would be more like it.

Wow, those ones and zeros must have really been heavy!

Every time I see landscapers, construction workers, farmers, nurses aides, or anyone in one of my customers' factories or warehouses, I thank my lucky stars that I was born when I was, I had an aptitude and interest in programming, and I found the perfect career for me.

Sure I work hard, but my hard work is hardly the same as their hard work.

I've spent a career on my ass, building applications that hopefully make the lives of those who do physical work just a little easier.

My last career was a cook. After a 6 hour shift in a 110 degree kitchen serving 2,000 meals, a 12 hour stint in an air conditioned office in my Aeron chair seems like a vacation. Oh, and did I mention I earn more in a month than I did in a year as a cook?

I never expect my boss to thank me for anything. My boss (me) gives me the best bonus I could ever ask for. I get to do it all over again tomorrow.

jlangenauer on May 4, 2010 | parent | context | on: Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use ...

So, when Facebook asked for our email account credentials so that it could scrape our address books, that would also count as "criminal trespass"?

Breathtaking hypocrisy.

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Introducing the Linode Backup Service (linode.com)

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JQuery Tools 1.2 with new form builder (flowplayer.org)

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The Big Bang Was an Explosion of Space, Not in Space (everyjoe.com)

rit on May 4, 2010 | parent | context | on: Please Jobhop as much as Possible

I'm sorry - It was TOTALLY my fault that I started my career during the Dot Com days and worked through two bubbles. My fault that I worked for people who couldn't keep their companies above water despite working 70 hour weeks for them. I'm glad to know that it will prevent me from working for someone like Mr. Calacanis because of his narrow world view.

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Readability - Uncluter what you're reading (arc90.com)

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Results of XKCD Color Survey (xkcd.com)

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C++ vs. Lisp (ebhakt.info)