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digitalpacman··on Ask HN: What would you gladly pay $30/month for?
Post office does this.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: What would you gladly pay $30/month for?
Isn't this netflix?
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?
I don't. I use Google site search. It's never failed me.
digitalpacman··on What Makes Monopoly, World of Warcraft, and Mario Kart So Much Fun?
You're confused... people don't think Monopoly is fun. 100% of people I know hate Monopoly and refuse to ever play.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Where do you turn for good data on market salaries?
Glass Door.
digitalpacman··on The Pirate Bay is counting down
I did.
digitalpacman··on Plague
This medium only works for localized information. There's no reason to use it for anything that's not.
digitalpacman··on Sh*t developers say to recruiters
I don't understand how we allow technical recruiters to be so horrible at their jobs. In what other industry is it allowed to know literally nothing about what you're doing, and never require you to learn anything, yet get paid so well? Even at McDonalds you have to learn how to work the equipment, as easy as it is. I've had recruiters asking me for more years of experience in .NET than it's been released. And I love the question combo of "How many years of experience do you have in C#? Okay, and how many years in .NET?"
digitalpacman··on Why is India so filthy?
This is the best thing I've seen all year.
digitalpacman··on Apple.com currently has a self-signed certificate (fixed now)
'oh no'
digitalpacman··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
Pretty sure you are missing one of the biggest rules of ORMs. This rule being you don't use them for reporting software or reporting queries.
digitalpacman··on 8 Great JavaScript Interview Questions and Answers
Lots of these are not good interview questions. Just dumb obscure knowledge.
digitalpacman··on Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
I want Verizon to reply exactly to this more than I want them to reply to anything Netflix has said.
digitalpacman··on TDD, where did ‘I’ go wrong
He actually says in the talk that it's appropriate to test a method when it's the flow of the method you're trying to describe. But they are throw-away tests when the implementation changes.
digitalpacman··on In Defense of Recruiters
No
digitalpacman··on Why is there so much hate for .NET?
All of this is avoidable. Newer versions of .NET allow you to specify your own ID, anything you want. No more clientid generation. Also you can use .NET MVC to completely avoid using webforms. What you're referring to is webforms, not .NET. In fact you can use any view engine you want, like fubu MVC.
digitalpacman··on If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers
I hope you don't mind me auto-replying to every BS recruiter who sends me jobs in e-mail do you?
digitalpacman··on If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers
I laughed.
digitalpacman··on Soylent Taste Test
They actually haven't. The closest is "booster shakes" which you can use to replace a lunch, here and there. But that's it. None of them say you can stop eating food all together.

I've sat down and done the research and tried to find a single one that would actually say you could use it as a meal replacement, and there aren't any. The only thing really are ones that they keep coma patients alive with, which isn't exactly something a normal every day person could use and stay active. But they would advertise it, just a hint at it, then the fine print says otherwise.

digitalpacman··on Soylent Taste Test
You ship them soylent... watch the videos if you are interested. The problem to solve world hunger is not growing the food, it's logistics.
digitalpacman··on Soylent Taste Test
My biggest gripe, which has me real close to complaining to the times about it, is he didn't even talk about any of the other avenues of flavoring the product that the owners advertise themselves. Never once mentioned adding chocolate, or vanilla, or peanut butter. You can add anything you want. It helps, isn't great, but it makes it much better. Also he didn't mention if he left it in the fridge for a few hours to let it settle. Which you're supposed to do in order to let the rice protein mix well. All of which the owners mention, but no actual facts are in the article. It felt like he wanted to complain.
digitalpacman··on This guy is recreating Pokémon in HTML5
I broke it. Every keyboard entry started opening the menu.
digitalpacman··on Osmo
This blew me away.
digitalpacman··on Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
Been using postman forever. But it needs lots of work.
digitalpacman··on How not to write an API
This post is more about security than just APIs... dislike title. Also.. I don't see how this is an issue. If the user signs up via your app... and you wanted their password. You have it. Sure it's a big deal if someone steals your key... but if you always do it over SSL, they have to steal the "phone" or the "app" that you use. And if they steal the phone... they can use things like "email reset password", because email will most likely be logged in anyway.
digitalpacman··on Depixelizing Pixel Art
This is pretty amazing of a demo.
digitalpacman··on Bing now supports https
I think he means finally they allow ssl?
digitalpacman··on T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horseshit”
T-Mobile user here. Worst coverage ever in a state's capitol, Austin TX. Just sayin'.
digitalpacman··on Tell HN: How old were you when you realized you wanted to work with technology?
I was in 9th grade.
digitalpacman··on I'm the CTO, bitch
I lose insane amounts of respect for my CTO when they have very little technical insight. Had a lifetime Java CTO once when we were a Microsoft only shop, and was one of the worst experiences with a boss I've ever had, and he was technical, just in the wrong products.
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