Viewing profile — nothacker

Another more fatalistic way of looking at it is that if IIT is the top of the game in the area, then even if their startup projects suck, that is the best that could be done in the…

"How are you doing?" is the least of my worries. For the past several years when a friend or family member asks "How is your job?", I answer honestly, sometimes slightly sugar coat…

Thanks! Have no idea if you or anyone else will see this, but appreciate the repost. I hope everyone will forgive me for the following aside, as it has little to do with the OP: De…

I have some open source projects that I've released on multiple occasions without having tested them. I think people make the assumption that things that have adequate documentatio…

I worked for a company that had presence on 2nd Life. I thought it was nuts. I don't think it was worth the effort in the end. I think it is great that people have virtual worlds, …

I disagree. You need good vehicle designs first, otherwise you'll be adapting the design of the vehicle to the software and systems put in place for navigating it. In addition, the…

Apple has shown through the software and APIs I've used that they aren't all 'A's. This is just Jobs having spewed his normal visionary talk. It makes for great conversation and so…

I've come to believe that the reason Hawking says what he does is because he knows being controversial and having an intelligent argument for your view, whether it is right or wron…

Redundancy wasn't the problem I saw last night. What I saw, at least with Heroku, is that when I checked, the main Heroku site was down and displaying things like nginx errors . Th…

This all sounds very Hatfield/McCoy to me. Whether or not libav is a PITA/POS, I don't know, but of the two, I had only heard of and used ffmpeg until now. That said, I really don'…

Don't stop with this post. I think the girl with blog of the school lunches in Scotland showed a modern method to solve any similar customer service issue. Start a blog and continu…

I think when they talk about Apple as an innovator they mean innovative design. I agree that they haven't so much introduced products that changed the world because they were scrat…

Even though this is incorrect, I agree that this seems to totally violate the spirit of GPL which is meant to be used with free software. It's one thing to open source your code an…

I'm not sure who came up with the "should have 45db of background noise", but I worked in an environment like that for years and never liked it. Others I worked with felt the same …

Office? Do you work at Microsoft? Most of us just have cubes. Thanks for the suggestions though. I've worked in a place that had white noise generators. Really awful, imo. Much bet…

I'm a developer and work in an environment that at times noisy and audible and visual distractions usually interfere a lot with my flow (i.e. my ability to be as productive as I ca…

Ah- I thought this was the same Arun Gupta that does Glassfish at Oracle, but this is the YC Arun Gupta. Seems like a middle initial or nickname might help.

At first I thought- wow. I really shouldn't overclock. But, then I realized the findings were biased. The major players, HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, etc. obviously have more lobb…

Really great post. The only thing I was expecting that wasn't there was something about having to be the janitor when it came to cleaning up other messes, like having to let people…

Awesome post, but I'd like to see the backing data.