DanI-S

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by DanI-S 14y ago
I carefully avoided making the statement you've just deconstructed. Nothing in my original post mentions newness. The point I made is that enthusiastic and excited developers are valuable. Developers tend to find learning exciting. They cou
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by DanI-S 14y ago
That's very impressive, and I'm going to be playing with that globe this evening :)
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I've been playing with WebGL via the THREE.js[1] library and I'm really gobsmacked. It's relatively easy, and a lot of fun to play with. I've noticed that a lot of the demos people have created so far are rendering a simple scene, or trying
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by DanI-S 14y ago
That does sound true, although in some cases, "It will help with recruitment" might help.
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by DanI-S 14y ago
Here's something oft-understated: As a web developer, you sit on the intersection of engineering, design and art. You're lucky enough to live at a time where there are numerous production-ready tools with which to do your job. If you choose
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by DanI-S 14y ago
At the risk of hyperbole: Lobbying is a catalyst for the destruction of democracy, and should be cut and cauterised from our civilization like the cancer that it is. Anybody running on the platform of diminishing the corporate voice to its
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by DanI-S 14y ago
I'm (fairly) uninformed on this, but from an initial read of the post it seems like memory management may have been optimized for SSD-equipped systems, at the expense of hard disk performance? Whether this is unintentional, part of a calcul
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Imagine if other industries were this transparent.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
> high crime rates on public transportation in the US speak for themselves. This isn't because riding on a shared, public vehicle turns people into hooligans. If you catch public transport in the US, you see a cross-section of people wh
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Knowing that the median household income in the US is $44k, I am continually shocked at the amount of money spent on cars. "Slightly less than one-third of households said they had one personal vehicle1 available for use in 2001. A little
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US charges British twins over $1.2m 'stock robot' fraud(bbc.co.uk)
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Free for a year, IIRC.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
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by DanI-S 15y ago
> This is a clear case of American innovation trumping lower overseas labor rates. As much as I admire Elon Musk, this is a short-sighted, exceptionalist dogma. It may apply in some cases - for the time being - but do people really thin
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by DanI-S 15y ago
That's the one - although 413 makes a lot of sense too :)
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Here's something better: -- The 416 Developer Manifesto -- * I get hired because I'm good at what I do, and excited about it. * I'm good at what I do and excited about it because I get enough time outside of work to pursue my interests. * I
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by DanI-S 15y ago
6. Cross your fingers and hope that you'll never use a machine afflicted with a keylogging trojan.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Judging by the success of games like Rock Band, everyone wants to play music. Traditional music tuition isn't suited to most people, since you start with pretty dull material, and you don't get results until you've been at it for a while. M
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Pud - when I look at your site, I see a marketplace for video music lessons. A tonne of people would pay $1.99 to learn a Radiohead song on piano, or get that perfect 'wub wub' sound in Reason. There's similar stuff on YouTube, but it's low
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Ask HN: Can you recommend me a modern US stockbroker?
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. However, that big old can of contentious worms is exactly why I called it another issue entirely :)
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by DanI-S 15y ago
You make a good point - there really is no way to fully disconnect the human element in these decisions. I do think there's a real difference between Jeff Bezos/etc founding a space-travel company and Facebook buying Instagram, however. Alt
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by DanI-S 15y ago
This whole thing has really thrown into contrast the extent to which people conflate monetary value, societal value and the abstract concept of 'merit'. A business is valuable to own if you think it may bring you more money in the future, o
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by DanI-S 15y ago
This is interesting, although the dependency on hardware seems to open a large can of worms. Judging by the security overview[1], ensuring security of the hardware will be a complex and ongoing task. Bitcoin's use of p2p here saves a lot of
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I think the original post still stands - try explaining the above to an irate customer.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Oops - I somehow wasn't aware of that! If flag isn't helping, perhaps this is true: In HN's UI, the downvote is presented as directly equivalent to the upvote. Since the upvote button is to be used if one agrees with the tone, sentiment or
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by DanI-S 15y ago
People downvote to express one of two things: - The post doesn't have a tone that fits the HN ideal. - The post says something that they disagree with. This is a problem, because those two cases should not be treated the same. A post contai
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Testing the water(situnayake.tumblr.com)
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by DanI-S 15y ago
That's very cool, thanks. I'd heard the name before, but never checked it out.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I love the idea of offering your own mini-course. Teaching is by far the fastest way of cementing your knowledge of a subject. It would be great if someone could create a platform /'app store' for providing stuff like this, free or otherwis

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