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11y ago
There is a lovely quote that I think might apply here: "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers". You're presenting a simple answer to a complex, multi-faceted problem and presenting it without any evi
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11y ago
Lithium salts are most commonly prescribed in pill form. Their therapeutic range is quite narrow, and the toxic range follows quickly beyond that, so blood levels need to be monitored on a regular basis.
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11y ago
This looks interesting! Do you have any articles, papers etc. I can read?
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11y ago
Depression affects about 4-12% of the people -- depending on how you look at the numbers -- not insignificant. What you seem to be talking about is not major depression. I grant it may be an interesting theory for some mild depressions, alt
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11y ago
If you want a cold war simulation, try it with JavaScript turned off.
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11y ago
What is the value in their technological preferences aligning with yours? I ask because that simply encourages me to tell you what you want to hear in the interview.
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MDCore
11y ago
Location: UK (to relocate to: I'm currently in Cape Town though) Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (Tier 2 visa required) Technologies: 15 years Web Development XP over the Full Stack but I tend towards Front-end. Some buzzwords: PHP
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MDCore
11y ago
I don't. How have you seen it work out?
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11y ago
I am impressed and pleased that what a few years ago would have been a highly specialized disability support tool seems to now be a case of changing a few settings in a mass-produced product.
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12y ago
From parent's website: > We’re ... in San Francisco and San Jose.
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12y ago
> a fancy (but simple) web interface on top of complicated backends That, at least, seems valuable to me. Turning the complicated into the simple is a valuable skill.
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MDCore
12y ago
Hehe. And to contradict myself, if you HAD written it all down you wouldn't have the cool story :)
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MDCore
12y ago
Nice hack! I hope you learn to start save your notes/commands/snippets to a text file as you go.
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MDCore
12y ago
Here is the relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia
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12y ago
I agree that the software connection is weak, but it can be a reminder to people that decisions made by software can have a real positive or negative effect on human beings, in ways that the software (and software makers) can't easily
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12y ago
> but I can tell you this app does not track sites you browse Except for this snippet of code in popup.js of course. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-40692955-5']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview&
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12y ago
So I think the no "well-actually" policy is because people saying "well actually" prevents people suggesting improvements because they don't want to say something that might sound stupid. The hacker school manual go
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12y ago
So there are a lot of (1)'s in the artlcle. Are you talking about "Diversity leads to better results" or "Abide by the Hacker School Rules" or "No feigning surprise" ? I'd like to address your Medicin
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13y ago
I don't see that in the article anywhere (^F doctor ^F Petersburg). I also don't sense any specifically anti-Russian sentiment. I think the references to Russia are to contrast the lack of presence in SF despite a claim to have on
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13y ago
The author seems to be highlighting the accent because after some research he discovers that the CEO actually isn't in San Francisco.
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MDCore
13y ago
Title is missing the (1945) suffix.
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13y ago
It sounds like you're trying to say that fans of JavaScript don't like freezing syntax but that that is disingenuous because JavaScript is the result of a frozen syntax thrown together in three days. Is that accurate so far? So...
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13y ago
Take a look at Mutation Observers. The only problem might be browser support: http://caniuse.com/#search=MutationObserver
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13y ago
I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. My thought was, is there something different you call yourself, or some different niche that helps you avoid that kind of treatment? I should have been clearer in my question.
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13y ago
So what do you interview as now?
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13y ago
My delivery is: "I like telling UDP jokes because I don't care if you don't get them" then immediately walk away.
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13y ago
Web development is a complex ecosystem. As a front-end dev I don't get to control much: many types of devices and software might run my code or display my HTML. Catering to that is the nature of the environment, and that heterogeneity
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13y ago
I do pretty much what the article describes and you echo the sentiment I get from dev friends who hate working with CSS and the DOM! I enjoy it though. There's a lot of art to it. I have absorbed a decade's worth of trivia that le
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I agree with your response, it's pretty much the one I wanted to write! I would add that I work very often from coffee shops (and restaurants). In my mind being a good camper is: - Get to know your server/waitron's name'
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13y ago
Ah. That is pretty obscure though! I can't even see how to get to the tour from the main page... Oh I see now, the Wiki link on the side. It's a good project and I love your UI. I'm not trying to criticise negatively, just po
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