BrandonM

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by BrandonM 16y ago
> His first open letter in year 2000 to students titled About honesty and integrity. This is the author's big conclusion? He just had to go snarky with it? The guy once wrote about honesty and integrity. That was TEN years ago; it's n
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I've recently seen complaints about the lack of practical startup advice posts like there used to be. I think this submission highlights the nature of learning and how it ties into our satisfaction with Hacker News. I think it's inevitable
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by BrandonM 16y ago
The CS department at the Ohio State University built their own language on top of C++ called RESOLVE/C++. A lot of students absolutely hated it, but it introduced a pretty awesome paradigm for working with objects: swapping. If a function n
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> I have made the experience that a good C++ developer also automatically knows everything about C. Not even close in my experience. In college, we used C++ in our intro course. The addition of pass by reference, classes (with construct
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by BrandonM 16y ago
This is the perfect Hacker News article. I learned something new and mathematically-interesting about the natural world, the author came up with a clever hack to enliven backgrounds, and we learn how to apply that to improve our own designs
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Our Google Apps for Business account is often slower than my personal one, and I've only had the business one for a year.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Agreed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8
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by BrandonM 16y ago
The article makes some very good points, but I would love to make a copy-editing pass over it.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
After learning the importance of the leverage you mention, the reader can now seek to obtain that leverage. For example, this offers another means for monetizing a free app. If you can write a free app that gets a lot of traction, you can t
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by BrandonM 16y ago
This is perhaps the most insightful comment I've ever read on Hacker News.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Right-click -> View Page Source in Firefox
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> As such, I'm not surprised that he turned his personal hunting exhibition into a marketing expense. Upvoted for this comment alone. In this context, the whole event makes a lot of sense.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> I have to disagree about the uselessness of a technical interview. I'm 100% with RethinkDB that any competent programmer should be able to figure out how to reverse a singly-linked list in some reasonable time. ( http://www.rethinkdb.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
It makes sense if you basically call it a freelancing job with an option to hire. If it's an unpaid interview, though, it just seems unfair and likely to turn away some of the best candidates.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> I think a more likely explanation is that his detection software is flagging anything with the path "c:\windows\SL" as malware. "SL" stands for "Samsung Laptop," some manufacturer-specific software?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> That's what I mean. If he had reason to not trust them, then he should share his reasoning. From the end of the article: > Mohamed Hassan, MSIA, CISSP, CISA is the founder of NetSec Consulting Corp, a firm that specializes in i
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I think you missed my point. Charging "$90 per hour," some people will just give you that; that's obviously better for you. There will still be people who hope to get a discount, and now $75 seems like you're doing them a special favor.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Why not "charge" $90 per hour and then offer to "come down" to $75?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
C) inspire a Greasemonkey script within a few hours
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Good catch.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I'll use command lines like that when I just need to get something done (after verifying that there are no files named "foo.sym"), but to write a script that uses a hard-coded filename that could stomp on other files is pretty bad. If you h
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> Your systems are either secure or they're not. [citation needed]. Security is never binary. No matter what security measures you take, there are always zero-day exploits, social engineering, physical access, heavily-researched-and-hig
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Knuth agrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Tools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Development
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Until you're going out on a first date at a nice restaurant, you're running late, and you discover that your shirt with buttons is in the dirty clothes.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Maybe the parent poster is from a rural area and hasn't yet reached driving age.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> My unix/linux box doesn't have overlapping software Not really true at all. find is especially heinous. "find ... -delete" is equivalent to "find ... -print0 | xargs -0 rm --"
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by BrandonM 16y ago
To be fair, you could have done much the same thing in Python: basic_execute_command = { # snip ### SET COMMANDS ### "sadd": "Add ``value`` to set ``name``" , "scard": "Return the number of elements in set ``na
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Not to mention that more than one business can have the same name (if they are registered in different categories), but only one person can own a .com. Examples: Live with Regis and Kelly Windows (or XBox) Live Live (the band) BBC
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Having a train or bus ride be a significant part of your commute would help significantly. I plowed through books when I used to ride the bus to work (and that was only a 20-25 minute ride), but now that I bike I haven't been reading nearly
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by BrandonM 16y ago
The process of giving away something of value completely for free, completely optional for you to read, in hopes of creating an audience for a book (which takes a lot of work to write, hopes to improve the world in some way, and is also com

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