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by 46Bit 14y ago
> Very cool! And thanks for making it work without Javascript. Awesome, glad you liked it. Once I'd puzzled out the design, there wasn't really anywhere to use Javascript even if I'd wanted. For something simple I much prefer page chang
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Show HN: Where should you live for your sleeping habits?(hackertimezone.com)
2 points by 46Bit 14y ago|3 comments
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Markdown as I see it is for those who are trying to emphasise the text over style, which especially means writers. What it doesn't mean is random webforums where every second post has a rainbow of colours, boldings and so forth.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
A while back I wanted to put a JSON information string and a fairly sizable 3D model in the same request response, and then pull the JSON off without nailing the browser if the model was big. I keep meaning to test how well it works in diff
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Realistically, you can't worry about it. There's patents on almost anything you might try to do in software, and especially as a small company all you can try to do is avoid any ones you know are being actively trolled.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
> So what's an example of a flat file that isn't HTML? If you have flat files, what value does Varnish provide? Sorry, that's probably confusing language here. I was referring to structuring Markdown files in a flat-file database, not t
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Nicely put, very much agreed.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
There's a great deal of the population who spend their lives working in shops and so forth doing relatively menial work. Why they're doing it is not about intelligence at all, it's all about drive. A driven person who's terrified of Maths a
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by 46Bit 14y ago
You sum up exactly why I've long since not cared about WordPress, but you seem to assume anything dynamic has to have an admin interface. The ideal engine for me still uses flat files for content, but doesn't compile the files to HTML. Let
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by 46Bit 14y ago
As everyone has, I built my own static site generator called Fairytale ( https://github.com/46Bit/fairytale ). Unlike a lot of them, it wasn't intended as a simple magic-incantation tool: I reimplemented the relevant parts of Sinatra for st
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by 46Bit 14y ago
It very much is a government thing, yes. I've looked into this in the past when looking at internship opportunities.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
There is something of a talent pool in recommendations between the YC startups. Get involved with one, and you'll probably be able to get more work out of it if you do a good enough job for them to remember it.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
He goes overboard by the end, but: http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I think Carr is very uncomfortable with where services like Uber are taking us. Specifically the notion that we're headed for a world with a much starker rich/poor divide, due to power becoming more concentrated in the hands of companies li
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by 46Bit 14y ago
That's actually really clever, I love it, especially the colour changing. It might be a good idea to display a hint to resize the browser to the displayed resolution on the first play, since Hackers tend not to read instructions.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
As someone who interned at a YC S12 this summer, this is spot on. Patrick's summed it up, really: you can find an awesome company where you finish up not believing how much you learnt in 3 months. I did! Just think carefully about what you'
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Generally SV interns are paid something on the order of $3000/month, higher at the Googles and so forth.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Please make this happen.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I've heard surprisingly low, especially for roles that aren't a simple "frontend engineer at [real-]profitable startup with 20 staff." I think much of the reason is that (especially these last few months) the job board has rarely had fewer
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I feel it's important to emphasise this: we have nothing to suggest whether it was because the software team was forced to ship early, because Forstall didn't agree it was so far behind Maps, or other disagreements. Don't blame Forstall for
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I didn't notice this about SF, at least compared to Britain. Perhaps on Market St, but then generally they weren't smoking tobacco... :-/
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Or rather just a different framework. I wasn't a Rubyist in 2007, but certainly now Sinatra (especially with Padrino) is worthy of consideration.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I wrote an essay about the requirement for energy storage last month ( https://46bit.com/blog/2012/09/23/why-we-use-fossil-fuels/ ). It's interesting to see how interconnected countries struggle without it now, although that's not quite the
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by 46Bit 14y ago
I wouldn't call that a good thing. You generally can't turn off/on a coal plant in a hurry. What they're probably doing is just braking the turbines and still burning some fuel. (Edited, realised it sounded confrontational to begin with.)
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by 46Bit 14y ago
For that reason it's the one sort-of-part of China I'd actually like to visit one day soon - me and a lot of others I think.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Getting over 5GB on one SIM card at decent speeds seems to be almost impossible. Having rung around a lot on this, most UK networks say they'll only do it for video advertising boards next to motorways and such.
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Yes! http://theopencompany.net did a Kickstarter for an amazing things-to-do map of SF [1], and have gone on to further projects as well as selling the maps. I was an original KickStarter funder and have become quite the fan. Their blog c
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by 46Bit 14y ago
Can't find anything related to this account, so I'd speculate it could be C&C for a botnet.
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Is Britain's greatest 'startup' part of the Civil Service?(46bit.com)
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by 46Bit 14y ago
> Also, I am in a fit of a problem.... -> I like Golang and I also like Scala and Clojure (getting my hands on lisp). But I am a bit nervous about the reputation of the JVM and its future. That's not a problem. If you like it, then

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