Harkins

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by Harkins 18y ago
I wasn't trying to keep it secret; I've just already mentioned in other comments that I work at the Washington Post. Most of what I was relating I've heard from other journalists I've met, I just haven't really talked to any coworkers about
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by Harkins 18y ago
This would be more persuasive if "Money" were in the lead in your poll.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Generally Arrington hasn't been respected by the journalists I've met. He covers companies and fields he has a direct financial interest in, he's OK with posting rumor and innuendo, and he can be sensationalist. The first one is a big probl
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by Harkins 18y ago
Because the dotfiles homepage says "Latest files uploaded" and lists dates that are three years old. If it's not dead, it's apparently working to give that impression.
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Open Source Communities(push.cx)
4 points by Harkins 18y ago|3 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
It's not a pitch to get money. I've been pondering this blog post for a while since I noticed the difference in a bookstore, and linking to Amazon was a hundred times easier than finding all the books on the websites of their respective pub
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by Harkins 18y ago
Funny, I just hopped online to type up tomorrow's post. I'm not insulting either project; I enjoy using both daily.
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Django vs. Rails: The Dead-Tree Edition(push.cx)
26 points by Harkins 18y ago|35 comments
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Two Interactions With Amazon(push.cx)
2 points by Harkins 18y ago|0 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
I kept telling myself I'd do a "Ask YC: Review my site" after the next redesign, or the next... thanks for posting it. :)
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by Harkins 18y ago
Following me?
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by Harkins 18y ago
Sorry I left you with that impression, I certainly didn't mean to. I only mentioned those as great ways to shoot yourself in the foot when you don't have the patience/skill to do the Right Thing. Sounds like you're better prepared to write
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by Harkins 18y ago
Something a little like this happens on our elections app: politicians have a name and party, but sometimes run in an election under a different name (eg. "Robert" runs as "Bob") and party (eg. Joe Lieberman lost his primary but won in the
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by Harkins 18y ago
The correct fix for the guy with two locations was to remove the location_id column and create a join table from People to Locations. The correct fix for the guy outside was to alter the Location model to accomodate that, which included mak
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by Harkins 18y ago
For what it's worth, the "what falls apart" line was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. Surely you must have known about the guy from Guam or the one living in Virginia but commuting to D.C. when you analyzed your app, right? Nope. For most
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by Harkins 18y ago
Hi, I'm the individual who wrote this. So far I have never earned a reputation for causing problems, but I have earned one for fixing them. (Yes, I am in contact with former coworkers.) I think we may be in violent agreement: I also think k
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3 Rules of Database App Aging(push.cx)
79 points by Harkins 18y ago|52 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
My dad runs a small web design/hosting business, most of his customers are local business. This is exactly the process he goes through to find almost all of his clients. There was a big wave of this in '96, people going door-to-door to sell
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by Harkins 18y ago
Though he doesn't suggest it in so many words, I understood him to be proposing that money managers must be paid a flat rate rather than by commission based on returns or total money managed, that it would remove their incentive to take sho
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by Harkins 18y ago
It can be both useful and beautiful to rage against the man.
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by Harkins 18y ago
You typo'd Adrian's last name. In any case, dang neat stuff. I would definitely enter if it wasn't my day job to do these same sorts of things at the Post.
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DataHub: a framework for processing large datasets(lucasmanual.com)
1 points by Harkins 18y ago|0 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
Any time you're surprised at how often people read the comments, go read a few YouTube comments. I like that I can be wrong or disagreeable here without getting called names. And that folks who know way more than me will show up and say stu
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by Harkins 18y ago
So a deregulation failing proved libertarianism right? Libertarianism is like prayer. If it works, the religion is right. If it doesn't, you did something wrong and it's right.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Can you find any examples where libertarianism has failed, instead of saying that people have failed libertarianism? If not, it's a religion rather than a political philosophy.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Now you understand how people will use the site: they will look at it, not instantly understand why it's worth giving personal information to, leave, and tell their friends it's not worthwhile. If you want to track interaction, just give ev
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by Harkins 18y ago
I maintain this Congress app and others. Contributer data would be nice, but it's not something we're currently planning. Ideas welcome anytime, though. They all go on the big todo list that makes us feel tiny.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I've also read that book and had a similarly spotty recollection until last week. The Yellowstone supervolcano is irrelevant to my life and I can't do anything to prevent it. If it erupts in my lifetime, then I'll care a lot, but I can't pr
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by Harkins 18y ago
Just click 'flag' and move on.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I've poked through FEC data (lots is available free online via FTP) and seen releases indicating when an individual owns mroe than 5% of a public company. I understand that to be the reporting threshold but could be wrong. Remember, in the

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