AlexC04

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by AlexC04 15y ago
I think a "related to", "reply to" or "topic threading" mechanism would be neat, but possibly difficult to work out. People generally want to submit their own threads for various reasons (adsense, unique-impressions, karma, etc...). The t
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Perhaps you're missing the point of the article? The original poster is complaining that evaluating a "Community Relations Manager" against their ability to reguritate the first half of Skiena's algorithm book (on a whiteboard, without sy
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by AlexC04 15y ago
The original poster seems to be complaining more about the validity of the testing, rather than the fact that testing is happening. For a role in developer relations, the real core competencies should be very high scores on "soft skills".
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Thanks for this. I really love "revenue report" type posts, especially when they're so open about where the money comes from and what the actual numbers are.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
The title sounds a lot like the sort of press release republishing that goes on in games reviews. Remember when XP came out? (oh god, did I just age myself) That was also chock-a-block full of press release style articles in the news about
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by AlexC04 15y ago
The first thing I thought about when I saw the page was "New Node Logo". Turtle with a rocket-ship on the back is about a trillion times cooler than that hexagonal thing that they've gone with. (at least it's my personal preference). Oh
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Exactly - twitter is doing just fine. The article reeks of sour grapes.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I think there was more to it than that. It also came to the conclusion that a $130 video card (Ati 5830) can earn $540 a year. A system costing $1710 could earn $5300 per year. Assuming a $14 bitcoin that represents a 210% return on invest
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by AlexC04 15y ago
So where do I buy them?
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Wait, they're doing it and not getting paid by someone to do it? I mean people (usually ridiculously hot women) stand out on the street holding up signs telling me how awesome red-bull is. It's pretty easy to pick up a street promotions cre
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I was really glad to get an advanced look at the "new" logo. I prefer the old one so much that I've stashed a copy locally in case I ever want to get it printed on a t-shirt. The new one is horrible! The point to point graph under the hex
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by AlexC04 15y ago
...but did anyone from the TSA gently cup his balls?
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The World's Biggest Pac-Man game(worldsbiggestpacman.com)
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by AlexC04 15y ago
To be fair, nobody will ever raise a normal child who does not lie. It's an adaptive behavior brought about in most children by the age of three, but some studies indicate that it develops earlier in more intelligent children[1]. That's n
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by AlexC04 15y ago
That's a pretty clear example of an ad hominem argument. Whether he has kids or not has no bearing on the points of his argument.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Looks pretty legit to me. WHOIS information for prizes.org : [Querying whois.publicinterestregistry.net] [whois.publicinterestregistry.net] Domain ID:D104066777-LROR Domain Name:PRIZES.ORG Created On:07-Mar
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Zynga to file for $2B IPO tomorrow(reuters.com)
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by AlexC04 15y ago
and of course the whois information Domain wdyl.com: Margaret McLaughlin 76 Ninth Avenue New York, NY 10013 US Administrative contact: Technical contact: Billing contact: Margaret McLaug
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Oh! I'd never noticed tab pinning in chrome. Thanks. I agree that the FireFox is just copying chrome's style, but their "spaces" still gives them a slight advantage in my mind. If chrome adds a slick tab groups management system, I'd proba
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I started using Chrome pretty much the day it came out. I don't know what exactly drew me in, but something made me keep coming back to it. Just a couple of days ago, Firefox 5 came out, and it's the same thing. I like the new 'spaces'
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Although I'm very interested in the subject matter (I have a production site that uses MongoDB and AWS), I often find presentations like this incredibly annoying to read. The problem is that presentations are short-form jot notes that are
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My Ex-Gay Friend(nytimes.com)
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I think there is a lot of value in the level of demographic targeting you get by simply calling yourself the HackerNews community jobs board. It doesn't necessarily have to be exclusive (though eliminating recruiters would be my preference)
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by AlexC04 15y ago
He said it, but I was thinking the same. Why exclusive? Up until very recently I was at a company that was going through the hiring process, and the people tasked with administering the entrance exams were positively dripping with disrespec
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Look up big five personality test online. (Check my other comment in this thread for a link) you'll find that E/I is a spectrum of opposites. Most likely you sit somewhere in the middle - or score high in both E & I.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
You might find you're interested in this article called "Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits" http://www.toddkshackelford.com/downloads/Schmitt-JCCP-2007.... It's a scientific paper so the reading is going to be 'heavy'
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I did a degree in Psychology and one of the advanced topics in personality theory that came up when discussing the Introversion/Extroversion spectrum was the concept of 'Pseudo Introversion' and 'Pseudo Extroversion' The general crux is tha
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by AlexC04 15y ago
You're probably very right there. FSTR could definitely be 'tuned' to be faster, but since this one and the other have all other things held constant in terms of programmer skill, then doesn't it come down to the language? I mean if I'm doi
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by AlexC04 15y ago
From my point of view, it's down to a combination of good marketing and 'right place at the right time'. I've never heard of twisted - but I feel like I'm getting in on the ground floor with node. Additionally, I was positively salivating
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Yes and no, I've spent the last two weeks building and launching a node.js project and it's really really fast. Blazingly so. I've got a PHP project at http://fstr.net and its pageloads take about 4 to 5 seconds under normal load. With

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