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by 3minus1 13y ago
> "because we generally get these contracts, we were an obvious choice" There are good reasons a government body might want to give a contract to someone they worked with before. There's a previous track record of success,
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by 3minus1 13y ago
Hi, I actually work for CGI Federal on a closely related website to healthcare.gov. There's some inaccurate speculation going on in this thread that I want to correct. Employees at CGI Federal are not payed hourly. Also, a lot of peopl
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by 3minus1 13y ago
If I were in your shoes, I would concentrate on javascript. Any web development job you try to get will expect you to know javascript, and it's not going away anytime soon. Once you learn it, you can use it as a springboard for learnin
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Imagined Communities
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This hits close to home currently working as an enterprise web dev.
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The fact that this is being done to wild animals seems especially cruel.
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by 3minus1 13y ago
i bet it's expensive to determine the vehicle type in every single photo.
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by 3minus1 13y ago
3 years web developing experience in Wash DC area. C#, TSQL, javascript, node.js. How much am I worth?
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I also read it, in 10th grade English. I think we analyzed it's rhetorical effectiveness.
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backslash is a man falling backwards. forwardslash is the opposite.
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I'm disturbed by the reactions in this thread. To argue that the US shouldn't allow foreigners to come and work here because it undermines local talent is like saying schools should give out fewer CS degrees because big companies
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The analysis of word length is interesting. English has a lot of long, multi-syllabic Latin based words, and also a lot of short Germanic based words. I wonder the extent to which a higher percentage of long words indicates a preference for
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by 3minus1 13y ago
Technology in one country can most definitely affect employment rates in another. One example from history is when the Industrial Revolution in England destroyed a large textile cottage industry in India.
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> 1. every land has been invaded/occupied/taken over at some point in history. it is human nature. deal with it. What kind of argument is this? Would you be ok with China conquering the United States? What if it was after 90% w
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> just as the light switches to green effectively giving you a 30km/h headstart or more Please be careful with this. If you immediately occupy an intersection after a light turns green there's a chance you'll get blindside
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by 3minus1 13y ago
or maybe be honest! why not.
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Browser tool that can modify css/html/js and refresh a page with changes intact?
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by 3minus1 13y ago
> First, the car is worth whatever someone will pay for it This is a nice little definition except that it doesn't mean much in the real world. OP could have gotten a better price if he invested some time and sold the car himself. He co
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Some people have a job and go to grad school at the same time (like me)
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article thesis: people say all it takes is 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert but really you need to have talent as well supporting evidence: 1) Warrent Buffet was clearly born to do business. 2) The author didn't learn how to pro
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by 3minus1 13y ago
An environment where everyone has to care about each other sounds cultish to me. I prefer to be hired on the basis of my ability to make a company money, not my ability to open myself up and gush about how much I care about strangers.
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Ask HN: Resources for Learning CSS
10 points by 3minus1 13y ago|7 comments
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rta, he specifically mentions mod_rewrite
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Bank of America ATMs spit the card out first
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You don't always use "fewer" when talking about discrete units. For example, you say "less than 5 minutes ago". The same goes for measurements of length (less than 3 meters). I think "less" works here because letters is a measurement of len
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What's a good resource for learning reg exp?
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Like Arrested Development!
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Small quibble, but I don't like that you mentioned Game of Thrones along with Netflix and Hulu. Those online services don't have Game of Thrones. The only way to watch any HBO show is to have a cable subscription or buy the episodes directl
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by 3minus1 13y ago
Have you ever taken a programming class? Self-directed learning is great but there's something assuring about taking a class that thoroughly and systematically treats a subject. You walk away without the worry of holes in your knowledge.
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unquestionably, http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ . It starts from the very beginning and takes you step by step.

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