BrandonM

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by BrandonM 16y ago
Sweet! Now they can handle sales and invoicing and supply and logistics and accounting and all the other things that neither of them knows anything about. Contrary to popular opinion around here, there are good "corporate environments," whe
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He was a well respected member of the community who commented a ton (he's still 3rd in karma: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) but decided to step away. That's part of it. The other part is that his blog posts are often interesting, i
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by BrandonM 16y ago
From the Wikipedia article ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Literate_prog... ): The first published literate programming environment was WEB, introduced by Donald Knuth in 1981 for his TeX typesetting system; it uses Pascal
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Thanks to your comment, I just sought out a local pottery class.
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I never realized how poor I was until I started seeing articles like this. Growing up in rural Ohio, my dad made something like $15-20K to support a family of 5. It's a completely different world for someone who has a $40K+ student loan and
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The guy spent almost 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. You can't spend 5 minutes reading his story. Interesting.
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eHow still shows as number one for me in Google. It's nowhere to be found in duckduckgo. That eHow article actually seems quite helpful and straightforward. Is there a problem with it? Hopefully Google can rank the results on a case-by-case
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That depends who you consider their competition to be. I've been using duckduckgo for a while now, and I've rarely seen any of the quality problems everyone has been complaining about with Google.
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Their "How to Play Guitar" page is actually pretty good. It should easily be 3 or 4, ahead of wikiHow, guitarreference, and about.com.
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Ohio is a big place. There are even cool people here.
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I had a torn ACL in the US while uninsured. I waited a few weeks before I saw anyone in hopes that it was some kind of major sprain. I finally made an appointment with the Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence (I highly recommend it), and th
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by BrandonM 16y ago
My antenna is currently a coaxial cable screwed into the back of my TV and extended up to my curtain rod. It looks like I'm getting curtain-rod cable.
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You're actually helping to make his point. You're a new user; you help determine what hits the front page by voting in the "New" section. barrkel is extrapolating his own behavior as an older member: he tends to only consider front page ite
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I would prefer base-12; it has a lot of benefits. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal , especially http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Comparison_to_other_... Instead of changing our clocks, we could just change our numbering
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I don't think it would be. That woman is the CEO for a reason.
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This was a very good explanation, a summary of Socrates's point that made it click much better for me.
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And just six short years after that it will eclipse 100% usage!
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I have never seen a bug zapper inside a house. That sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy joke.
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Your post had little substance, and using the phrase "the internets" certainly didn't help.
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Security and forensic companies are built on individual reputations. The opinions put forth by expert witnesses have to be defensible in court. Your suggestion is unrealistic in its original context: once an expert witness's reputation is r
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It's kind of gross the admiration people are expressing here. I work for a security firm that does work with all kinds of organizations. At the heart of the matter, we are scientists investigating the truth. If a break-in occurred, who was
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I'm curious why you chose to put Twain and Vonnegut in there. My take on their writings is that they were amazing storytellers. Twain used simple language and local color to produce wonderful imagery with an expertise that few achieved befo
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I think you're marginalizing what was a pretty solid article. The author heard a questionable figure, sought the source for it, and reconciled the quote against reality. As a lesson in thinking for yours
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Thank you very much for your feedback. Would you mind looking at a significantly-reworked version in a week or so? I totally understand your point about hacking. I was sending out versions with hacking mainly to startups and without it to
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> Overall, too breezy and conversational. Objective should be more like "To become a Python or C software developer in [field of interest or company]." There's a lot of "I'm personable and a hard worker" fluff. Thanks a lot. This the ki
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> What You Know and What You Did I think this is my biggest problem. I was in school until the age of 24, then I kind of drifted (read: took up online poker) for a year and a half, and I finally started a real job at age 26. I don't get
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Thanks a lot for your thoughts. > Omit any irrelevant unless you have extra space on the single page I was mainly trying to highlight that I've worked several jobs that required social interaction in a service capacity. Is there a bette
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be more specific in what impact your work has had on the company This is a great piece of advice. I'll have to see how I can work this in.
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Thanks, this comment really pointed out the need for me to highlight what sets me apart.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Thanks for letting me know. Since I can't edit submission URLs, I've created a new one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186668

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