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by KevinMS 14y ago
I was wondering about this the other day, is PasswordAuthentication no really that necessary if a strong password is used? Honestly, being a private key screw-up away from never being able to log in again scares me a little.
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by KevinMS 14y ago
I'm curious if an app like this could have gotten traction if it wasn't put out by a shop like Fog Creek. In other words, if some guy built this in his basement, would anybody have noticed, no matter how great?
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by KevinMS 14y ago
This is satire, right?
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by KevinMS 14y ago
Its a code word for young. Does anybody disagree with this?
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by KevinMS 14y ago
The worst I've gotten from a recruiter was just a few days ago. All it was was an email with the subject "Please call me right away thanks", and the message only contained his sig, including his phone number. This is bad in so many ways I
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by KevinMS 14y ago
I think this can be distilled down to: "bad programmers worry about how, good programmers worry about why"
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by KevinMS 14y ago
I agree. These are companies that just duct-tap together high tech, made by others. High tech companies are IBM, Intel, Sun, Oracle, etc, and those are firmly planted outside cities. A good rule of thumb is if the company consists mostly
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by KevinMS 15y ago
I would like to see minority upvotes weighted in some way to avoid mob rule. However I'm not sure of the math of this, or how it could be gamed. But I do know, if a story or comment gets 10 upvotes and 90 downvotes, I want to be given the
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Ask HN: Staffing contract with IP clause, normal?
4 points by KevinMS 15y ago|2 comments
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by KevinMS 15y ago
So are you saying that absolutely nobody that can do the job has applied? Or have you turned away qualified applicants because they aren't a "cultural fit" or properly credentialed? I'm betting on the later.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Don't perpetuate the myth that ruby developers are difficult to find.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
The fact that Clickpass even exists made me realize openID was DOA. I spent a day implementing openID for the users of my website, because I realized, hey, what a cool idea, a URL can represent a single user on the internet, and that user c
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Its going to cost me some karma but I have to agree with you. Really fluffy content, almost has a self-help feel to it. Don't get me wrong, its as worthy as most blog posts to be on the internet, but getting submitted to HN and being a to
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by KevinMS 15y ago
You can try my site http://wheatt.com/ Its a work in progress, and a few people already use it. I always welcome some feedback. Its basically a command line-ish search for web pages you add. So you can search by, oh heck, I'll just past
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Guys, I'm not posting to get advice on finding a job, I'm trying to stay relevant to the story posted.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
But somehow those bottom feeding headhunters can find me and send me about 20 emails a day all for the same job.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Yea, but understand that is not my point, and I'm not asking for your Tony Robbins like advice. If there was such a desperate market for talent out there, I should be seeing it, regardless of whether I was selling myself or not. Either th
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by KevinMS 15y ago
I must be living in some parallel universe. My resume just sits up on dice and monster and the only hits I get every day are from the same useless headhunters about exciting "6 month" ruby or perl gigs. Sure, I'm not the best at selling m
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Grocery lists don't help you figure out what you need to put on that list, that's why it often fails me and why I created a list with "tags". Maybe I'm the only one, but its already helping me to not forget things.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Thats interesting. My first 4 or 5 attemps had a checked item disappear (actually animated it to go back to the main list). Then I found myself accidentally checking items off by mistake and being annoyed I couldn't recheck them easily.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
I just meant that because you didn't get what I intended out of the movie that the script wasn't good enough and I should rewrite it, I didn't mean to be rude.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
If that's how you use it, advertise it that way I made a movie showing that, but I guess it wasn't clear enough.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
I didn't think groups would be appropriate because the same item could be in multiple groups. I think most people think of groups as containers and having the same item in multiple groups is confusing, but they do understand that a singl
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by KevinMS 15y ago
I used it today like this - On my way home I decided I wanted a baked potato with dinner. I already had a baked potato tag, and it contained 3 things Potato Butter Sour cream I selected the potato and sour cream items, knowing I
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by KevinMS 15y ago
I called it "grouping" until I realized that items could be in multiple groups, so "tag" seemed like a more accurate metaphor.
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Ask HN: Is this iPhone app too trivial/commonplace to promote?
6 points by KevinMS 15y ago|17 comments
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by KevinMS 15y ago
The Perl 6 exception system is currently in development Whoa there, slow down! Perl 6 has only been in development about ten years and they're all the way up to exceptions?
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Why do you have teams "entirely of junior programmers"? Maybe that's the problem to be addressed, not running them.
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Doesn't it bother anybody that Chrome is made by ad company? The way I see it, if everybody started using ad blockers like I do, google would implode almost instantly. So how would they combat that? Control the platform for viewing the we
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by KevinMS 15y ago
A single exception doesn't mean your right. You might not require a CS degree (I see a lot of shops starting to give up on that, but its still common), and hopefully you don't discriminate (3 guys, all about the same young age right?), but

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