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by Smudge 13y ago
I hit a wall in college where math just stopped being something I intuitively "got". I'm sure that given enough time and motivation, I could have continued being "good at math" even at the higher levels, but these w
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by Smudge 13y ago
Just last night I asked my girlfriend if she would find something like this useful. (We had been eying a piece of furniture that was on sale, when suddenly on refreshing the page the sale disappeared...)
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by Smudge 13y ago
You forgot to include the bit about a bad citation: > "[not in citation given]" (Sounds like whoever wrote that "practically identical" bit may have had an agenda.) The visuals were certainly drawn from Infiniminer. B
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by Smudge 13y ago
Both sides of the same coin. Own and rent it out, or rent-when-you-need. The net of these two in action reduces overall waste.
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by Smudge 13y ago
Not sure how much of this applies to you, but this is my advice for anyone trying to monetize a SaaS idea or product: 1. Reach out to people (beyond your friends and family) to gauge interest in the idea. This probably involves networking,
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by Smudge 13y ago
I've noticed a few rough edges, but overall it's a nice refresh. I'd like to see the Forrst community pick up again, so hopefully Zurb can keep giving it the attention it deserves.
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by Smudge 13y ago
I didn't read it as ZenPayroll trying to redefine what "hacker" means. Rather, they are simply stating what "hacker" typically describes in the context of a job board. In my experience, their described usage is pret
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by Smudge 13y ago
In my experience, when developers start bringing up "maintainability" during feature discussions or code reviews it has less to do with a particular feature (though that might be what prompts the discussion) and more about the cur
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by Smudge 13y ago
"This story has broken an embargo and will shortly be taken down. It will be relaunched to the site at 6.00am BST. Apologies" Interesting.
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by Smudge 13y ago
It's worth noting that the original "i quit" post never mentioned burnout. I didn't get the impression that it had anything to do with loren's reason for leaving, so it's strange for the reply post to bring it
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by Smudge 13y ago
loren concluded his post with this: > I'm going to build whatever keeps me up at night. I have a long list, but there's one project that I'm particularly passionate about. It might turn into a startup. It might not. Who kn
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by Smudge 13y ago
Hi Jason -- That point is not quite what I read from your initial post, but regardless I tend to agree with most of your advice. I just really disagree with your assessment of loren. (So apologies if my reaction seemed overly-negative). It
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by Smudge 13y ago
Somehow this article manages to be both wise and presumptuous. The points he makes speak from experience. It's a perspective that is too often ignored by younger generations: You can't always quit a job when the work gets boring -
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by Smudge 13y ago
Plausible, perhaps. Still outrageous.
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by Smudge 13y ago
> If you want to work at a startup, being a specialist ain't going to get you much attention. At the same time, few startups I've encountered will hire developers who have never used their technology stack. I recall, during a c
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by Smudge 13y ago
It looks very pretty, but sadly my Macbook Air couldn't quite keep up with everything happening on the page. My ability to even scroll kind of stuttered to a stop. Not sure why a loading bar needs to be so resource-intensive. (Granted,
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by Smudge 13y ago
If you're having a heart attack, are you really in a position to negotiate on price? At all? I get that there might be some downward pressure, but what prevents the hospital from just laying an absurd bill on you after the procedure?
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by Smudge 13y ago
It's not "damning" because that sentence structure, in particular, can't be copyrighted. It's "damning" because it is one very obvious part of a larger whole which, compounded, make it very unlikely that t
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by Smudge 13y ago
The color schemes are actually quite similar. Where Infinum uses #333, Kintek uses #313131. Where Infinum uses rgb(34, 34, 34), Kintek converts it to hex and uses #222222. The only major difference I can find is the highlight color, which i
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by Smudge 13y ago
Your sentence is made up of letters and symbols that are used in hundreds (thousands, millions) of books and writings around the world. How dare you copy them. Come up with your own alphabet. (My point: It's not the individual elements
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by Smudge 13y ago
Every time a post like this hits Hacker News, the same conversation gets re-hashed again and again. "How is this copying?", "How are these two sites not just following standard design trends?", "So what. This layout
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by Smudge 13y ago
Cool story. Care to share anything about the experience?
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by Smudge 13y ago
It's important to remember that Microsoft is a HUGE company, and the experience varies greatly between divisions and organizations, and even between single products within those orgs.
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by Smudge 13y ago
It's more of a tweet-like approach to posting videos. The way I see most of my friends using the service is as a companion to Instagram, when they want to express a moment in a series of small video clips instead of in a single photo. I sup
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by Smudge 13y ago
So we're managing windows inside of our browser inside of our window manager.
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by Smudge 13y ago
I guess you could call a YC partner "some annoyed blogger," since in this case he seems annoyed about a 3px difference. But, hey, guess what? His annoyance actually prompted an internal bug at Facebook. Somebody, at least, cared enough to c
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by Smudge 13y ago
There's informational value, sure. Historical value, aesthetic value, certainly some material value. And, sure at the end of the day, it's one small scratch on one artifact in one small part of the world. But if this kid's behavior is okay,
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by Smudge 13y ago
I don't have kids, but if/when I do, I will avoid giving them TV access that comes with ad breaks. I'd rather they become conscious consumers on their own terms, instead of being spoon-fed ads from such an early age. Case in point: I took a
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by Smudge 13y ago
Good designers are often perfectionists. Calling them "compuslives" is dismissive, and is also insulting to people who actually suffer from OCD.
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by Smudge 13y ago
They may be open formats, but you can't just throw Microdata and JSON-LD into an email and expect Gmail to display your actions. You have to register with Google: https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/registering-with...

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