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by Erf 18y ago
Yes, I do hack my body language, though not in the ways described in the article. Through college, I had a weak posture, submissive body language, and tended to fidget/move around. I often looked goofy. About six months ago, I decided to im
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by Erf 18y ago
To be fair, Kanye has also employed vocoders. See: "The New Workout Plan"
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by Erf 18y ago
Except, that on a site like this, it distracts from the meaningful, insightful, or educational content that might otherwise take its place.
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Oldie but goodie: Herb Sutter's "Guru of the Week" articles on C++(gotw.ca)
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by Erf 18y ago
I compose electronic music. Attempted to learn to play keyboard at a late age, but progressed unsatisfyingly slowly. I would agree that a disproportionate number of programmers I know are musically inclined.
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by Erf 18y ago
I grew up using a computer. My penmanship lessons in school were botched. I started typing all my homework from fourth grade onwards. My handwriting, to this day, is only borderline legible.
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by Erf 18y ago
My friend's 30+ person company is developing desktop software exclusively on AIR.
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by Erf 18y ago
I find ProggySquare to be slightly more readable, partly because of the additional empty space taken up by letters like A
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by Erf 18y ago
Coincidence. I've seen that ad many times before, and I'm fairly confident few or none of the profiles I viewed contained sunglasses in the profile photo.
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by Erf 18y ago
I come to Hacker News to learn new things. I agree that it's amusing; I disagree that it's useful. If I saw this on Digg, I would digg it. If I saw it on Reddit, I would grumble to myself about the direction Reddit has taken in the past yea
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by Erf 18y ago
I'd argue that the more important measure is who your classmates are, but where their ambitions lie. I went to a prestigious engineering school with high-quality instruction and top-notch students. However, the professional culture of the s
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by Erf 18y ago
My best interpretation as to the point of this image, and/or this submission, is to test whether any pg-created content will automatically rise to the top of Hacker News regardless of its actual merits.
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by Erf 18y ago
I recommend Herb Sutter's classic Guru of the Week articles: http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/ There's a lot of usually-uselss arcane stuff in there, but also a lot of valuable information.
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by Erf 19y ago
Getting a job.
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by Erf 19y ago
The video game industry is built on C++.
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by Erf 19y ago
Thank you, Hacker News, for helping me cure my addiction to Hacker News.
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by Erf 19y ago
One of the factors that lead Reddit to become unreadable, in my opinion, was the proliferation of editorializing headlines. When the headlines begin presenting ideas that are too large a subset or superset of the actual contents of the art
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by Erf 19y ago
New York Times Hacker News Digg
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by Erf 19y ago
Let them find a way to use it. When I was in high school, I played Robot Battle, a game in which you scripted behaviors for automated tanks. This gave me immediate reason to use and learn much of what I learned in math at school. The day we
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by Erf 19y ago
So, Hacker News readers who have hired people based on resumes before: How would you feel, and what would you think, if you encountered this on an applicant's resume?
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by Erf 19y ago
I have no interest in seeing this or other polls on the Hacker News front page, but if others want it I'm happy to contribute to it (all it takes is a click, after all). And yes; one of the worst things that happened to Reddit was the proli