Wilduck

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by Wilduck 13y ago
I'm a developer for Ambition, and the product focuses on encouraging competition, but not "zero sum" competition. The salespeople are grouped into teams, so a lot of the fun and motivation comes from wanting your team to do a
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by Wilduck 13y ago
I agree totally. This trend is infuriating. When I have to read an article on the site with a top bar I often go into the developer tools and delete that node from the DOM. There are sites that make even that measure impossible, like gmail,
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by Wilduck 13y ago
Sure, I can answer some of those questions. I'll start off by saying that you're right that the process will be more difficult as a non-native English speaker. But, after you've sent the first few email, you should be able to
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by Wilduck 13y ago
>> I have been waiting for almost 2 weeks, but I am not getting any email or phone call. This is exhausting and dismal... Man, I know this feeling well. I just ended a job search a few weeks ago after two months of looking. I'm h
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by Wilduck 13y ago
Unfortunately, I can't help you with finding dead tree magazines. However, you should probably be aware that, unless you're commenting negatively on the social skills of those older programmers, the word you were looking for is not "neckbea
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by Wilduck 13y ago
Proves: 3. To determine the quality of by testing; try out.[1] The expression "The Exception that proves the rule" is just a wry way of saying "Well, that's not a perfect rule." [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/prove
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by Wilduck 13y ago
I would say that the best programming language for a simple game is TI-83 Plus BASIC. Unlike pretty much any programming language on a modern PC, the barrier to getting text on the screen is extremely low. The functions `GETKEY`, `OUTPUT`,
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by Wilduck 13y ago
Here's a tip that's worked well for me. Avoid asking "Would you like to hang out sometime?" The reason being that it is easy for the person to say "yes" but never act on it. Instead, make it easy to convert their "yes" into an actual activi
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by Wilduck 14y ago
My "hack" is to ask strangers the following questions: "I'm going to watch a movie tonight, what's a really good movie that I probably haven't seen." This works best with strangers or people you've just met. I find that people who know me a
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Even Potato Champion serves some niche foods though, with Poutine and their fancy ketchups/aiolis. I think you're probably right, though, in that Potato Champion seems to have hit the sweet spot between niche/broad appeal in their market. I
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by Wilduck 14y ago
As far as I can tell from my reading, the strangeness stems from the fact that: > Arrays in PHP are ordered hashtables (i.e. the hash buckets are part of a doubly linked list) And that iteration is done using a "internal array pointer":
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by Wilduck 14y ago
> Am I the only person who thinks that ignoring good content to complain about formatting choices is vacuous at best? No, you're not. I would much rather read high quality discussion about the content at hand. However, I'm reading using
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I spend a fair amount of time in the Python StackOverflow tag. I've noticed that questions which ask about dealing with third party modules tend to get fewer answers/views than questions that deal exclusively with problems that can be solve
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by Wilduck 14y ago
My guess would be the author is referring to US markets, where the Xbox 360 is outdoing the PS3 by a more significant margin.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
A few years ago This American Life did an excellent episode on what happened in Washington Irvine Elementary School when teachers were given more autonomy and then what happened when it was taken away[1]. I just listened to this episode the
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by Wilduck 14y ago
> You're correct that they're shady, but just because you're correct doesn't make your actions right. You're correct that there are laws against sharing, but that doesn't make those laws right. > Indeed, it's disheartening to see pe
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by Wilduck 14y ago
> sorry for the wall of text, i did my best to explain. No need to appologize, I definitely asked for it. I'll get back to your original questions in a little bit, first I want to talk about your list of inspirations: > Gource >
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by Wilduck 14y ago
You claim to have no background in programming. Then how can you know what is "relevant to one of my questions: which programming language would be best/easiest to write my concept in"? Programmers (I'm generalizing here) don't like to be p
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by Wilduck 14y ago
> Is there any formal name for these kinds of non-overloaded/simple syntaxes? If there is a formalism for those, why is it that "overloaded" syntaxes are preferred most of the time, or why are they so prevalent? Someone might be able to
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by Wilduck 14y ago
It means that he has donated enough money to the EFF's endowment[1] to fund a position at the EFF in perpetuity. That is, it's a big enough chunk of money that it can sit in an investment account, and the interest can be used to pay for a p
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Here are the final projects for CS 229: Machine Learning at Stanford. http://cs229.stanford.edu/projects2012.html Take any of these studies, and try to replicate or extend it. They're all pretty interesting and come with the advantage tha
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by Wilduck 14y ago
This has been brought up in various forms on HN many times before. What am I missing about QR Codes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5019658 Ask HN: Do QR Codes work?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4929262 QR Code Fatigue: ht
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by Wilduck 14y ago
LaTeX as a whole is intimidating, but the core that you need to know to get started is actually pretty simple. I could teach it to you in about an hour. That being said, I've never seen a written introduction that I would consider satisfact
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I'll answer your questions in order: 1) Python was my first programming language. I started teaching myself python during my freshman year of college. 2) I am currently employed in a job that is mostly programming. Technically my job title
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Slovette: I'm writing this just to let you know that it looks like you were hell-banned 199 days ago (all your posts are automatically marked [dead]). It seems like you've been making a lot of worthwhile contributions since then, so I thoug
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by Wilduck 14y ago
> Inflation is increasing (and increasingly under-reported), investment returns just--to put it bluntly--suck. This is nearly a self contradictory statement. That is, if inflation were getting out of control, we would see high interest
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by Wilduck 14y ago
I'm not totally sure what you're asking. I've never seen a change made to one desktop made automatically to the others. The problem I do run in to is that when I open a program for the first time it seems to appear in one of my desktops at
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Yes absolutely. I have an 11' Air and I really like being able to transition between known desktop layouts with just a three finger swipe. Below is a picture and description of how I keep my desktops organized. +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ +
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by Wilduck 14y ago
Agreed. I read this: > What Hacker News doesn't prepare you for, however, is when a competitor gets acquired for a billion dollars, work-life imbalance, and getting dumped by your World of Warcraft girlfriend. and was pretty interested.
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by Wilduck 14y ago
-1, sorry. > So I just stopped my reading there, sadly. This is a fascinating article, and you're derailing the conversation (the article is not actually about the topic you're discussing at all). I recognize I'm only derailing it furth

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