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by Locke 18y ago
The goal of a resume / cover letter are to land an interview. It's not an autobiography. I can say from personal experience that one does not completely read hundreds of resumes. When I was hiring I would get just as much info from a shor
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by Locke 18y ago
It's still a fairly decent reference if you need to update your software for 1.9. Several incompatibilities I ran into were listed there. For others problems, I did have to search the mailing lists, though.
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by Locke 18y ago
The plan has been for 1.9 to be a stable series for a long (at least over a year) time now. I'm not sure there are any concrete plans for 2.0 at this time. If you use Ruby, now would be a good time to start getting comfortable with 1.9,
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by Locke 18y ago
Okay, so there's a large number of people here who have opinions on, or an interest in, the hiring of hackers. This seems natural -- this is after all "Hacker News" and a large number of hackers will at some point or another participate in
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (in Ruby)(olabini.com)
9 points by Locke 18y ago|0 comments
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by Locke 18y ago
Despite how hard you try, you can't get this 100% right. This is how I approached hiring: 1. Weed out the truly incompetent. A very simple programming exercise is sufficient. Keep in mind that the goal of the exercise is not to identif
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by Locke 18y ago
You're reading it wrong. He used 10 requests to illustrate that they would be handled in parallel (vs sequentially as in stock rails). His actual benchmarks show many thousands of requests being processed. * This was originally in respons
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by Locke 18y ago
How do you know what questions to ask your lawyer? How do you know what info might be pertinent to helping your lawyer to give sound advice? Let's say I were to ask for advice about X. Someone posts, "Oh, when I went through X, my lawyer
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by Locke 18y ago
It occurs to me that I've strayed from the point I wanted to make. I'm not arguing that advice from non-lawyers can or should be used as a replacement for a lawyer's advice. I'm arguing against the idea that advice from non-lawyers is wor
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by Locke 18y ago
You mean to say that every legal issue is life and death? There's no variability? There are no minor legal issues? I should consult a lawyer about, say, a parking ticket?
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by Locke 18y ago
"...if you have a legal question, you should ask a lawyer, and only a lawyer " [emphasis mine] Because lawyers are magic people who never make mistakes? Who are completely trustworthy? Because the act of simply discussing a legal matter
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by Locke 18y ago
This is an interesting view point for someone on Hacker News, considering the way we follow tech startups here... I'm a lifelong sports fan. Only in my mid 20's did I start becoming interested in business. One of the first things I notice
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by Locke 18y ago
While a lot of athletes from around the world attend college / compete in the US, Usain Bolt isn't a good example. I seem to remember one of the commentators saying that a lot of the sprinters from Jamaica (and the Caribbean in general) are
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by Locke 18y ago
I've always wanted this: http://despair.com/limitations.html For some reason I find it inspirational even though it's not supposed to be. My brain must not be wired correctly.
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by Locke 18y ago
VML and Canvas provide very different APIs and behave very differently. Explorer Canvas maps the Canvas API onto VML with very poor results. It may be possible to build a library that uses either Canvas or VML but they're so different I a
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by Locke 18y ago
I'd like it if the site were a little less self conscience. As a lot of sites like this grow, it seems like they all go through a sort of navel gazing, meta lovefest. This is odd to me because the whole voting thing should mean that whatev
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by Locke 18y ago
Explorer Canvas aka "Excanvas" uses VML. That's kind of what my post was about. It's a very nice hack, but it's certainly not native support.
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by Locke 18y ago
I started playing with this yesterday. It might make for a good alternative to canvas. At least from a compatibility standpoint. Internet Explorer doesn't have native support for canvas or svg, which is why Excanvas and Raphael fall back
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by Locke 18y ago
While it's true that you can't copyright a game, you can copyright parts of a game. For example, the game's artwork or the official Scrabble dictionary. I haven't actually played Scrabulous, but if they used the exact same board layout, t
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by Locke 18y ago
Yeah, I'm really not sure what to expect from subscriptions. I got the impression that GTO gave up on paid memberships to increase user uptake to pursue advertising dollars. I don't know a lot about their operations, but didn't they have v
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by Locke 18y ago
> It's all about "I made these" instead of being about your players or the games. Thanks, this is a little hard to take, but it's good advice. The focus should be more on the players and the games. Yes, this is a solo project.
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by Locke 18y ago
Yes, of course. I think I unintentionally tied advertising with community. I meant them as separate objectives. Some sites run annoying advertising along side the games while you're trying to play. I won't. Some sites seem to cater towar
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by Locke 18y ago
A good question. It's been a while since I played on yahoo games, so I'm not sure I can do a full comparison justice. At yahoo games the focus is (or was, anyway) on real-time play. You play games serially. You spend a lot of time waitin
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by Locke 18y ago
A mixture of membership fees, advertising, and anything else I can think of. Maybe some kind of storefront that sells merchandise related to the games (books, game boards, etc). Maybe an amazon affiliate setup or some such.
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by Locke 18y ago
Thanks, that's valuable advice. I think I do have to focus more on telling a story. Regular blog posts about the games, strategy, why they're worth learning, etc. Sometimes I find myself overly preoccupied with programming. Marketing see
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by Locke 18y ago
Thanks, for the feedback. I've found links to the bot-play pages always do much better than links to the rules. I'm trying to get more people to play each other, though, so it's hard to know what to emphasize. There are probably a lot of
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by Locke 18y ago
I just pushed out a major update (see: http://vying.org/blog/2008/07/the-big-release ), and I'd greatly appreciate any advice or thoughts.
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Advice or thoughts on my startup: Vying Games(vying.org)
10 points by Locke 18y ago|20 comments
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by Locke 18y ago
Conceptually reminds me of this game: http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html
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by Locke 18y ago
This is a pretty long article. The title here makes it sound like a business article, but it doesn't really strike me as such. At the heart of the article is the philosophic question: Do animals think in the way humans do? Do they feel n

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