Zimahl

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by Zimahl 14y ago
It's in the FAQ ( http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ).
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by Zimahl 14y ago
You don't have enough karma to down vote. There isn't a specific place that tells one what that karma is and I don't have the answer since I still can not down vote either. I've heard it's the flat-rate karma of 500. I've also heard that
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I would say that if have no interest in what is literally half of the internet, it does not matter how good you are at the back end, you are not an A player. There are very few people who could have enough knowledge of all the domains of
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Requires you to have to ask them less questions when you run into a blocker. Helps you debug issues. Possibly. it helps you help them design the interface or design an API. Ugh, that's a disaster waiting to happen. Dedicated backend en
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by Zimahl 14y ago
who defines this REST / SOAP / "who cares" layer Definition of an API isn't about knowing the 'entire stack'. A front end dev will need to understand the structure of the API and present needs to whoever is maintaining it but it doesn't m
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by Zimahl 14y ago
You're saying that just because someone doesn't have a specific set of domain knowledge they can't be an 'A player' in the domain they do have knowledge in. This simply isn't true. Using an analogy, even though Tiger Woods and Michael Jord
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by Zimahl 14y ago
but knowing how you are getting your data, where it's coming from, etc will only make you better. How will it make any difference if they aren't actually making changes to the backend?
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by Zimahl 14y ago
You only need to coordinate inputs and outputs. If you need to coordinate more than that you've probably got a very coupled system. Especially with web services - REST, SOAP, etc. - who cares if the front end is connecting to a Java appli
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by Zimahl 14y ago
To be an effective FE, you need to understand the whole stack I completely disagree. There are a lot of organizations that completely abstract the front end from the rest of the stack and have only UI developers work on a very focused pi
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Simply put, if computer science heavy questions bother you, you are not an A player. And herein lies the problem - the hubris of a SW Dev. So often the more artistic-leaning FE Dev is interviewed by the more pragmatic-leaning SW Dev. Th
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Off the top of my head, Wowhead offers an ad-free version for premium customers. I guess you also get custom forum avatars for being a premium customer. The point is, free site that is ad-supported but those go away with a membership - whe
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by Zimahl 14y ago
> two annual shows, the scholarships, Child's Play The shows make money, otherwise they wouldn't do them. By most accounts they make a lot of money. PAX Prime 2011 had 70k attendees (according to Wikipedia) and at $65 a pop that's a
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Unfortunately for PA, their content is probably 90% games/pop culture topical. After a month it'd be completely stale and irrelevant (with exceptions of course). I think the better move would be to have pay users not have to see any ads.
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I enjoy Penny Arcade. That said, it seems like an awful lot of money for an ad-free website. Aren't they making enough off of merchandise, their expo, their games, etc., to make the site ad free? From what I understand they are wildly suc
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Closer to black than gray. It's data that a CL user has entrusted to CL. The user could've gone with PadMapper but they didn't. Being posted publicly is irrelevant, since the user agreed to CL's TOS not PadMapper's. The direction PadMappe
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by Zimahl 14y ago
It's pretty simple really. He can get his freedom back, his servers back, his content back, and then find a location that is far outside the influence of the US Gov't.
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I don't know about your first point, but the problem with the US Government and the conflicts we as a nation have entangled ourselves in over the last decade+ is that we can't even be bothered to even do the basic due diligence before jumpi
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I wasn't sure why the 'F' was capitalized, that choice made both occurrences very odd with or without the bold/italic artistic license. I would assume someone with the title of 'Fucking Janitor' would be in a very different line of work th
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I'm not sure if I'd be all that happy hacking away on a door desk. It's too rectangular and even with a good ergonomic chair I find my elbows aren't supported with my keyboard. I've worked on desks of similar size and shape and they just
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by Zimahl 14y ago
> Ebooks would have made his bag a lot lighter over the years. Agreed. I can't imagine that there is a reason for paper textbooks anymore. Even if it's a one-time, non transferable purchase, charge each student (or school per student)
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by Zimahl 14y ago
It appears that non-freeway streets seem way off, with freeway travel closer to being accurate. For example, Beaverton, OR, into Portland. Where I live it's at most, even at rush hour, 15 minutes to one of the two freeways near my house an
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by Zimahl 14y ago
There's a thick line of acceptable to unacceptable and developers know when they are stepping over it or not. IMO, Angry Birds is fine. Different device, game play taken to the next level, different theme. While I have never played 'Crush
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I'd like to add something to 'Cargo Freemium'. Plants vs. Zombies on the iPhone is somewhat this way (pay $.99 for the app) and then you earn coins in the game that you use to purchase mini-games and other plants. You can also just buy a t
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I think he means that Google doesn't have all the information Facebook does and can't leverage that for advertising. For example, you can find someone's Facebook profile through a Google search but if their profile is locked down Google it
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by Zimahl 14y ago
The test images didn't work for me (Firefox 5.0, don't ask). However, saving the test images to my desktop then dragging them in worked fine.
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by Zimahl 14y ago
"Help! I don't know how to organize code in intelligent ways! This is the fault of the language we originally decided to use!" The problem might not be you. Once you are done with your organized code and are moved to another project, some
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by Zimahl 14y ago
We had 5 or so people playing with it over a couple days. We didn't have any insight into the code - how often it polled, how much it changed, the window of valid keystrokes, etc. - just the ability to use the demo software and see various
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I built some network security software in the early part of the 2000s. Around 2005, a local guy built a keystroke pattern recognizer utilizing neural networks to learn your keystrokes and was able to correctly identify who you were after a
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Michael Kors wears the same thing every time you see him: black blazer, black t-shirt, plain designer jeans. He has talked before about his 'style' and says that he used to be very high fashion with his clothing but just found it was too mu
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by Zimahl 14y ago
"Runners maintain that it’s hard: it’s not. It’s a lie." Running is not hard for some people, but for many it is very difficult. I know a fair amount of runners and they are all the same - very slender, very light. I know some might say th

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