DavidMcLaughlin

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by DavidMcLaughlin 15y ago
Are you saying you wrote an alternative to Lucene because users don't like to type in search queries that Lucene understands? Lucene is a low-level library for implementing a search experience. If you don't understand that then I don't thin
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by DavidMcLaughlin 15y ago
> In the context of javascript, "unobtrusive" means it is designed to degrade peacefully Nitpicking here, but that is actually graceful degradation/progressive enhancement. Unobtrusive JavaScript is about writing JavaScript code that pl
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by DavidMcLaughlin 15y ago
I work at Nokia and I'm not aware of any big production uses of it inside Nokia. Most of the teams in my part of the company use Hadoop. Oh well.
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by DavidMcLaughlin 15y ago
I guess this could be good advice for manipulating status for short time periods (dating, job interviews, business meetings, etc.), but fortunately once it goes beyond that (relationships, careers, business deals, etc.) the status of everyo
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by DavidMcLaughlin 15y ago
I've flagged this article, but I just have to post to say - this is one of the worst contributions I've ever seen on the front page of Hacker News. For all of the value of the advice and content, it may as well be named "Top 100 funniest do
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
What an interesting thing to take away from the quote, maybe I assume too much because I've read the whole speech but certainly I did not think he meant to say what you are implying. What I took from it personally is that people tend to fin
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
I don't know what's more disappointing, the fact that your original comment, which added absolutely nothing of value, was voted up or that this explanation has even more votes. All it takes is a simple Google search to show that the author
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
You can say shit here.
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
> That they have abandoned MeeGo was probably a good idea Nokia didn't abandon MeeGo, they just unified their developer offering because the feedback was that the current 'developer story' was far too complicated. As a Nokia employee, I
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
I'm not really sure what generalisations like yours bring to the table. I mean I've only been to maybe 5 or 6 states in the US, but I know that a city in Maine is so completely different from somewhere like New York or Boston which themselv
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
Actually, to me it seems like the real lesson most companies are picking up from Apple is to grossly overstate every little thing they do in the name of hype and buzz. I mean, revolutionary feature? Seriously? My whole point is this revolut
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
The funny thing about the "instant" search is around the time of AJAX exploding four or five years ago, this type of "real-time" search was all the rage. Over time it disappeared, most likely because it both wastes resources and a lot of us
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
The border between Ireland and Nothern Ireland?
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Brain over Brawn: An Owner's Manual for the Human body (free e-book)(brainoverbrawn.com)
12 points by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago|4 comments
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
What's with the Nokia doesn't get it part? The market repositioning from smart-phone to mid-range consumer phone and delayed launch of the N8 would seem to suggest that Nokia definitely does get that the N97 was a disaster. http://en.wikip
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
I picked this one up on Hacker News. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398805 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion The title says it all. Self-control is exhaustible. So when you're trying to make changes in your life, keep it
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
I found going through "Introduction to Algorithms" and porting the algorithms in the book to <new language> a great way to get used to a new language.
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
Why do you need both ZeroMQ and Apache Zookeeper for service discovery and coordination? Why not just Zookeeper?
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
This would be really interesting, especially for those of us who are struggling to meet that special someone (i.e. a co-founder). For me at least, I think being part of a competition and having external interest to keep motivation up would
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
Right. I like the sentiment of the post but it's definitely not a black and white case of: 1) You are stupid if you are hard to understand 2) You are smart if you are easy to understand They say the best teachers and coaches (i.e. the ones
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
What you are describing is the concept of "Male gaze" in feminist theory. As common as this phenomenon is in general, it's especially rife in tech/geek circles in my experience.
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
It actually takes a significant amount of "functional" strength to do even just basic Yoga poses. The common myth is that Yoga is all about flexibility, but in fact a lot of the time "inflexibility" is actually just weak core strength. Havi
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
> Funny how the most upvoted comment here has pretty much nothing to do with the premise of the article. This community is going down hill rapidly... Firstly, the comment you refer to IS relevant because the article explicitly states th
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
> This works incredibly well. At my last company I fired about a third of the engineers I hired after 3 to 6 months Wow. I wonder, have you and this smug author ever considered that you are the problem? Interviewing is a two-way process
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
> One of the reasons I’d like to see a copy of the Second Edition is to see whether this passage has changed For the author: it hasn't changed. Still only 10%. I actually had to write this binary search algorithm in my technical compete
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
In the last two years I have went from having over 500 RSS feeds in my Firefox toolbar from various bloggers to narrowing that down to maybe 50 community hub type blogs like techmeme/DIGG/Reddit and then eventually I had one RSS feed which
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by DavidMcLaughlin 16y ago
I do not know the author so I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is not bravado or bragging, but rather a critique on a culture that encourages you to tip the scales towards work in a work-life balance. This line says a lot to me: &#6
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by DavidMcLaughlin 17y ago
Comment #45: According to the Android developer in comment 42 the explanation is that Android has multitasking while the iPhone doesn't.
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by DavidMcLaughlin 17y ago
> Yet somehow most developer got over "what do you mean you have to learn about algorithms and data structures before you can actually program?" I respectfully disagree.

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