DanielStraight

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by DanielStraight 11y ago
I really like this idea, but I think it's a shame they included Brainfuck. A deck of cards with programming snippets could be a great appropriate-for-all-settings way to promote interest in programming, but once you put Brainfuck on th
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Note: Page loads icons which could be considered NSFW.
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Simple, useful, and well executed. Thanks for sharing! (or... Mübadiləsi üçün təşəkkür edirik!) My one thought is that string length in pixels is more important than character count, but you sidestep that issue by showing all the results. Y
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
This is not a good analogy. McDonald's and Ruth's Chris are not direct competitors, they are targeting completely different markets. Android and iOS are in direct competition. If we have to use a food analogy, I would propose Star
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
You are about to hit dictionaries and objects, which are quite new. Later you'll build a game and a website. Stick with it. You've made it this far and the pace quickens as you get closer to the end.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
I can create a hotel reservation system in the amount of time it takes me to walk to the supply room and grab a calendar and a pen. I could also work full time for the rest of my life on one. It all depends on the requirements. No one is go
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
The ID consists of a timestamp to millisecond precision and a random value. Since the timestamp only offers millisecond precision, two IDs generated in the same millisecond could be out of order depending on the random value because the tim
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
What you're looking for is commonly called a tour. Since it's web-based, it will be implemented in JavaScript. Searched HN for those terms, found this: http://usablica.github.io/intro.js/
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
You can use "label:xyz" in the search field.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
You mock, but this kind of tinkering is basically the foundation of mathematics. I suggest reading Lockhart's Lament, linked on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Lament Relevan
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
If you're in the US, they have this already: https://www.spotify.com/us/family/ It launched a few months ago.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
Good call. I totally forgot Malay.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
> He reduces the need to save languages to the need to save cultures I don't see that at all. He has two arguments. The first is that a common, and distinct, language helps a culture maintain its cohesion and continuity. It's w
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
There are many more appropriate places on the internet to ask this question. Here are two: http://programmers.stackexchange.com http://www.reddit.com/r/git/ Please keep HN for news and other topics of
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
Just a note: On your website, numpad keystrokes are rejected as not numbers. Win7, FF32
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
I do not think this is a fair characterization. Lots of valuable comments don't get a lot of votes. Giving feedback on a less popular "Show HN" is a good example. In most cases, you'll just get one vote, from the person
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
This is pretty much the definitive answer as far as I'm concerned: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
I used a pretty specific category for picking images (old fashioned style with a particular place name mentioned) and... it actually seemed to figure that out. I was impressed.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
Actually, the agents don't see anything unless the machine detects a "potential threat item", then they see the generic outline. See: http://www.tsa.gov/ait-how-it-works
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
...because then the dose would be equivalent to about a day of natural background radiation. I think "nobody would notice" is a pretty accurate description of what would happen in that case.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
So apparently the TSA says: "Each full body scan produces less than 10 microrem of emission, the equivalent to the exposure each person receives in about 2 minutes of airplane flight at altitude." And the author says the dose is r
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
Or for that matter, the English word cornmeal.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
Correction: They're going to keep doing exactly what they were doing before except instead of saying "Windows Phone" they're going to just say "Windows" and they aren't going to say "Nokia" anymo
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
This is not an appropriate use of HN. I suggest http://ux.stackexchange.com/
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
When you need to cover your ass, providing feedback for rejection is always a bad idea. If you're dealing with a pushy sales person and you give them a reason why you're saying no, you've given them something to work with.
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
This really isn't such a horrible comment. It illustrates nicely that "common sense" is often wrong. There was a similar reaction when radioactive material was stolen in Mexico. People said it should have been escorted with a
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
"If you need help with Hacker News, email hn@ycombinator.com." http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
To point number 1, I tend to think of flow as helpful but not necessary. For some tasks, I'm not really sure flow applies at all. I mean, I'm pretty damn good at tying my shoes. I do it without even thinking about it. I don't
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
I guess I took it a different way. My interpretation was basically... once you get to a certain point in your life, the amount of time required for your responsibilities is significantly higher than it was in your youth. Four hours per day
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by DanielStraight 12y ago
It's interesting you didn't mention family at all. Having kids is a huge commitment of time. I think a good take-away from your rant (plus the consideration of family) is that we need to be talking more about making time for thing

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