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Current court president states that WFH rules under the USC does NOT apply to most software works.
Re:Ayn Rand - A rational introspection on Monday August 27, 2012 @07:20AM (#4438294)
The core philosophy of worrying about your own life and not others lives seems to really chide a lot of people here in the communist Republic of HN. If you don't like the idea of Objectivism feel free to follow your own. But for pete's sake stop looking like such wankers when doing so. The wiki post didn't cause butthurt any more than it does when some random dipshit tells you that your programming is crap.
Re:Why Aren't You Developing in the Cloud? on Monday April 02, 2012 @09:36PM (#3791054)
One word, debugging. Stopping program execution at a break point and inspecting a memory location can be incredibly helpful.
mysqldiff.pl generates the diffs you refer to, but I never implemented a fully automated process, because I never trusted that nothing would go wrong. That does not stop me from using the output in the migration script though, so you should be able to do the same.
Apple and these users deserve each other...
Caveat emptor, if you did not think of how you were going to hack your phone when purchasing. There is a reason I am rocking the original Motorola Droid, and it is this exact reason. It really has nothing to do with Android, per se, and more to do with you.
Re:Ask HN: Why not PHP? on Friday October 22, 2010 @08:48PM (#1822133)
You will receive as many different answers to this question as there are people. Focus on patterns of software development, techniques, and less on the specific language. It will get you further.
Re:Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @09:26PM (#1612981)
This was already posted a week ago...

They also have a higher occurrence of herpes, go figure.

Re:Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @08:19PM (#1593364)
Is this a good thing? They also have a higher occurrence of herpes apparently, go figure.
Re:Antennagate? Who Cares? on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @10:09AM (#1535194)
Useless article.
How can you claim to create the worlds best devices, yet cannot pull off copy/paste. Its not exactly the traveling salesman problem...
Another sucker on the Apple teet