DLarsen

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by DLarsen 15y ago
Practice copying other's work. If you know the mechanics of Illustrator or Photoshop, challenge yourself to reproduce something you admire (from Dribbble?) pixel for pixel from scratch. Take a particular area of the screen and without usin
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Just my opinion, but the state should have never been in the business of supporting the arts. Let those who want to support the arts do so privately. Kickstarter proves that good projects can get private funding directly. I love to see t
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Who ever heard of data that was really deleted or purged? IT folks work really hard to ensure that data can't easily be deleted in such a way that it will disappear irrecoverably. Legislation will not fix the fundamental problem that s
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Targeted advertising makes ad delivery efficient. If you somehow turned off all targeted ads today, the advertisers are getting less bang for their buck. The price they would be willing to pay sites will drop dramatically. How do you com
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by DLarsen 15y ago
> Initially an Actor model was used with Finagle, but that was dropped. The Akka folks do a good job of keep the actor model on your mind when building Scala systems, but it's obviously not always the right approach. I'd love to hear m
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Ever wonder why your bag mysteriously didn't arrive your destination? Could be too many overweight people on board. It's cheaper to "forget" some baggage than to ask passengers to stay behind.
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by DLarsen 15y ago
The Social Product Catalog where your stuff meets your friends. I didn't grok that line immediately. My stuff "meets" my friends? Huh? The wording on your /about page is much clearer.
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Anyone live-blogging this?
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by DLarsen 15y ago
I'd go further and suggest completing most of these before entering a CS program. Consider it the start of a long career of self-education and improvement.
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by DLarsen 15y ago
In addition to PostgreSQL and Redis, we use Hbase.
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by DLarsen 15y ago
As a geek, I think this is totally awesome. As a casual photographer, I'm less excited. I've pretty much got the hang of focusing my shots as I'm taking them. Why focus later what I can focus now?
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by DLarsen 15y ago
For one thing, when you buy an Xbox, and Microsoft has revenue for years. Customer retention is fairly easy. It's easy (and fun) to unsubscribe from Groupon.
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by DLarsen 15y ago
It's alluring as a trader; less so as an investor. An IPO like this is going to have plenty of trade-able price movement.
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Us too! http://www.connexity.com/jobs-software-engineer.php Really excited about seeing this stack thrive.
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by DLarsen 16y ago
Even for those of us who don't glaze over when you start talking DNS, there's certainly something attractive about the simplicity that you've achieved. With coralrift I can publish a static site in 15 seconds. I'd love to be able to confi
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by DLarsen 16y ago
Los Angeles area, Ventura, CA (onsite) Connexity - We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer that ideally has experience developing production-quality code in Scala, and has 3-10 years of experience in the internet industry. Experience w
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Ask HN: Inverse of SendGrid.com
1 points by DLarsen 16y ago|1 comments
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by DLarsen 16y ago
The manager often isn't savvy enough to discern whether the software itself sucks. You may be able to blame a lot of lousy business processes on enterprise software, but a willingness to move forward without fixing major known problems can
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by DLarsen 16y ago
Not all areas of content attract SEO manipulators. In my current position, I see a lot of content that would benefit greatly from basic SEO since the competition for search engine ranking in this domain is relatively mild. My biggest gri
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by DLarsen 16y ago
While I haven't followed this story all that closely, what makes people so confident that this particular project will have legs? From a quick glance at the description of their effort, I wonder whether this will really be viable. My mom
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by DLarsen 16y ago
+1 If you're asking people to come back frequently, you've got to improve readability. Simple is great, but the contrast hurts my eyes.
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by DLarsen 16y ago
Advanced Bionics in Valencia, CA is hiring a web designer/ UX/IA person. Looking for someone to help lead the charge in improving our web presence. The right person will be able to have a huge impact in pulling our web presence out of med
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by DLarsen 17y ago
Unit tests are code too. What ensures the correctness of the tests themselves? My point is simply that you can't simply defer to testing as a cop out to avoid claiming confidence in the correctness of some portion of code. There has to be
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by DLarsen 17y ago
Maybe the wording used was a little unnatural. None of us write code and have no clue whether it's correct or not. We should have a certain degree of confidence. In the example given, I think it would be more realistic to ask devs to write
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by DLarsen 17y ago
While this scenario may not allow developers to work like they normally do, I think the author's point is that a simple binary search isn't that complicated. A decent dev should still be able to a pretty good job despite those artificial
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by DLarsen 17y ago
david dot larsen at gmail dot com
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Tell HN: Hiring .NET hacker in Valencia, CA
1 points by DLarsen 17y ago|2 comments
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by DLarsen 17y ago
I happen to know that one particular company in this market has some sort of patent that they defend pretty aggressively. It's worth checking into the story for more detail.... http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2007_1st/Feb07_GolfSwitch.
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by DLarsen 17y ago
Why do they think we want a big, dramatic image as a background to our search page? The logo is a good inasmuch as it departs from typical Microsoft logos, BUT it's still ugly. Especially since it's not live, all we have are these 1st impre
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by DLarsen 17y ago
The logo isn't over dramatic. The lame full-screen pictures behind the initial search screen.

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