Timothee

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by Timothee 15y ago
Honestly, I don't mind or care about people drinking at work. I probably wouldn't mostly because beer makes me very sleepy. But it's really a matter of phrasing. "We typically have a couple of beers together at the end of the day" sounds
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by Timothee 15y ago
Maybe I'm just getting old and uptight but I find things like "unlimited amount of beer" to be a real turn-off. It has a feel of immaturity. "Yeah, let's get drunk! Woohoo!" Really? It's not the first job ad where I see something along thes
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by Timothee 15y ago
Thanks a lot for your answer! The links are very useful, though sadly they point towards custom ToS and privacy policy. I expected that, but it's an extra step to do for projects that might not always be worth it. That's why the MIT license
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Ask HN: any boilerplate ToS philosophically equivalent to the MIT license?
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by Timothee 15y ago
I don't use bookmarks and like my UI as uncluttered as possible, thus I don't have the bookmark bar displayed. I typically go to websites by typing their URL and Chrome completes it. It works for most sites I visit: for example, I can type
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by Timothee 15y ago
I think this is a very important point which would invalidate a lot of the critics about affiliate links, in my opinion. I was under the impression from years ago that the Amazon cookie was actually pretty long-lived and, for that reason, I
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by Timothee 15y ago
That's interesting because it sounds like not everybody has the same stuff in the bar, but yet, the order doesn't match what people are actually using the most, which they know. (in my case, I use Reader a lot, but it's under "more")
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by Timothee 15y ago
And Reader is pushed further and further away… It was in the black bar initially, between Photos and Web, but for whatever reason, was pushed down the "more" menu to be replaced by "Sites", which I'm pretty sure nobody has ever ever used. F
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by Timothee 15y ago
You should then put a user-agent test so that you start the download only on Windows computers. I have no use for a .exe either.
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by Timothee 15y ago
You can give a range, but never tell anyone what you make right now. Instinctively, I have a hard time giving out a range too. Mostly because I would tend to give a range centered around what I'm making, which I feel beats the purpose of
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by Timothee 15y ago
Space-bar-scrolling is one thing but "links with anchors at the bottom of the page" is a problem (that I've encountered often enough) regardless. (edit: I'm actually having that problem just right now in the Xcode documentation… which is pr
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by Timothee 15y ago
Thanks for the link. The timeline as described in this post seems to explain, in my opinion , the somewhat odd name that "Codecademy" is. Since the start I've found it hard to pronounce and easy to misspell. It's not a big stretch to think
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by Timothee 15y ago
Finally connecting the dots: codecademy.com != codeacademy.org. I saw the former when it launched on HN, then the latter a few days ago on HN and was a bit confused that it didn't seem to be linked to YC at all. Now I finally see they are t
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by Timothee 15y ago
For the lazy, the "From around the web" section looks like relevant articles on other sites and is styled exactly like the links that CNN recommends, but it's actually paid content. A popup under "What's this" gives the following info: "Pai
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by Timothee 15y ago
Have you thought about trying the yellow background as well based on your comment about how some people think it's the best result? I have to admit I'm split on the ad. On one hand, I feel that it's deceptive, because I expect ads to look l
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by Timothee 15y ago
And an important part of this is that they pay extra care to the anti-theft systems so that they don't get in the way and stop you from using the products normally. Many times I've seen cell phones where the anti-theft system was so bulky t
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by Timothee 15y ago
Show HN: nothing but a blurb of an idea.
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by Timothee 15y ago
There are two different things: one is modifying the clipboard from JavaScript. IE used to be able to do that, I don't know if it's still the case. I'd be very surprised if Chrome allowed that… The second thing is modifying the selection
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by Timothee 15y ago
At least in 2009, you had to ask Facebook to be whitelisted to be able to see your (the developer's) Flash loaded directly in the timeline. I'm surprised they changed that… They had a form where you would give your domain name, what you wer
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by Timothee 15y ago
Note that image 3 and 5 are slightly NSFW.
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by Timothee 15y ago
I'm planning on going "out of the building" very soon and go talk to some potential users, so the part about refining the opening phrase is very useful. It won't be cold-calling but going to talk to people on the street so I'll be interrupt
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by Timothee 15y ago
What struck me is that he pimped out Color as a Facebook killer without, according to this article, having really used Facebook before. Then of course to turn around and say that Facebook is the answer to all things is pushing the irony ver
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by Timothee 15y ago
I think "solving problems" is fine because for the most part that will be why people will use what you built. But I'm with you on "changing the world". When I hear about wannabe entrepreneurs who say they are out to change the world with th
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by Timothee 15y ago
Thinking that installing "Pimple Popper" is a good idea might be the root of your problem of home screen overcrowding. Sure there are a lot of crap apps, the same way there are a lot of crap websites or crap restaurants, because there will
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by Timothee 15y ago
I know that employment is at-will in California, but you can still sue for wrongful termination in some cases. Could this be happening in this case? I read the beginning of this page ( http://www.ca-employment-lawyers.com/Wrongful-Terminati
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by Timothee 15y ago
What other company is posturing this way and also lets you backup (soon to be?) all of your data? Facebook? They've let users download their data for some time now. (go to https://www.facebook.com/settings then "Download your data") Thi
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by Timothee 15y ago
There isn't an API for that, but it's super easy to check the current browser/platform and update the text accordingly. And you don't really need any library: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/obj_navigator.asp
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by Timothee 15y ago
I'm very interested with that kind of projects, but I'm always wondering what to do once the hardware part (and software controller) is done. By that I mean the artistic part of it. For example, take this sculpture: http://vimeo.com/219043
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by Timothee 15y ago
How do you get three different kinds of diffusion with the same board?
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by Timothee 15y ago
one small hole in this is that startups are not just "a market job". They're significantly more interesting, you learn more, you get more introductions to interesting people, etc. Startup jobs are inherently more valuable than "market jobs

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