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by aasarava 17y ago
It's a good article, but there's a flip side to not having titles: You risk confusing people who don't know much about your company yet. To put it another way, titles aren't just about establishing a pecking order -- they are also about he
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by aasarava 17y ago
Would have been nice if that article delivered on the promise made in the headline and actually listed the eight counties. Fortunately, the list can be found on the site after more searching: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/11/busines
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by aasarava 17y ago
Agreed. The late 90s really presented an opportunity to the USPS, in that the postal service could have launched an ISP service to profit off the mail that was beginning to be sent online. Today, most of the companies that send me bills or
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by aasarava 17y ago
Correct. Most bulk mail must arrive at the post office presorted, which saves the USPS from having to do it.
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by aasarava 17y ago
Correction: "can't find my away around with it" = "can't find my way around without it". Sorry.
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by aasarava 17y ago
I used to. For instance, it was fun to have a Palm Pilot back when few people had handheld devices. But then somewhere along the way I came to realize two things: 1) The fun of getting new gadgets tends to be short-lived. Unless I absolut
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by aasarava 17y ago
That huge listbox of states is designed to normalize the incoming data so that you don't end up with address in California that use "Ca", "CA", "Calif." and "California" -- or any number of misspellings that users are prone to input. Sure,
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by aasarava 17y ago
I have been told by clients who work for Cisco that the company still includes IE6 in their default image for all new workstations.
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by aasarava 17y ago
The Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz -- a conquistador who traveled with the Cortes expedition to Mexico City to overthrow King Montezuma. Incredible, true story written by someone who has actually there. An unknown land; the clash of t
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by aasarava 17y ago
It's pretty rare that you'd give full node admin permissions to typical business users or end users. "Create" and "edit" permissions are usually sufficient for most elevated roles, and that hides a lot of the admin-specific functions that
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by aasarava 17y ago
You've never once in your life felt like a complete alien, unable to communicate with those who should be closest to you? Now that's good fortune.
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by aasarava 17y ago
> If you won't forgive me for saying dumb shit years ago, I'm not so sure I want to be your friend anyhow. The problem is that if you decide go into public service and run for office, your opponents won't forgive you. They'll be more t
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by aasarava 17y ago
Just a helpful tip to those without kids: Most parents prefer that you don't refer to their children as "it", even if you don't know the gender. Remember, you wouldn't refer to someone's partner or cofounder as "it". ;)
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by aasarava 17y ago
Just to add another opinion on this book, I found it very badly written. The points he makes are helpful, but it takes a lot of work to find them amidst all the contradictions and convoluted paragraphs. Also, there are only a few pages on
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by aasarava 17y ago
I think "sleep training", as it's now often called, is a better description than "cry it out", since training your child to learn how to put himself/herself to sleep whenever they have those brief waking moments in the night is the goal. Fo
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by aasarava 17y ago
What's an example of an appropriate single-char variable name, in your opinion?
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by aasarava 17y ago
It depends on the individual. I've worked from home for the past three years and have never been more productive. When I was in an office, the constant interruptions by coworkers, the uncomfortable lighting, the uncomfortable seating, the
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by aasarava 17y ago
Atul Gawande, a surgeon and medical writer, notes in his book "Better" that hand sanitizers like Purell have not been found to have a drying effect, despite fears of the contrary.
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by aasarava 17y ago
> With a couple of trained guys with good weapons, armor and tactics it would be pretty easy to rack up a serious death toll Indeed, the 2008 siege of Mumbai by about 10 terrorists lasted 3 days and brought the city to a halt. Death
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by aasarava 17y ago
Simple editorial fix: Add quotes to the title to clarify that you're referring to the noun, "jQuery 'Code Smells'", rather than making the statement that "jQuery Code is Smelly".
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by aasarava 17y ago
Let's not anthropomorphize technology, nor suggest that a technical issue with lighting is somehow an indicator of racism on the part of the developer.
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by aasarava 17y ago
I'm curious, how many HN members have bought a netbook? And are you using it as your primary machine? I've been thinking of buying one for the portability, but am worried that I'd keep going back to my workhorse laptop to do anything more
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by aasarava 17y ago
The core point of the article is sound -- you should strive to get the most out of every dollar. But there's a danger in spending too much time optimizing expenses in ways that ultimately don't provide much return. You might spend an extra
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by aasarava 17y ago
I know HN has many times debated the reasons for the high ratio of men to women in the entire startup field, but I think it's important to point out yet again that sexism does play a role in preventing more women from joining the field.
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by aasarava 17y ago
Drupal.org tracks download statistics for contributed modules. So one way to get a sense of how many Drupal 5 sites are out there in comparison to Drupal 6 sites is to look at the versions of popular modules that are getting downloaded. I
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by aasarava 17y ago
Out of curiosity, how long ago was "a while back"? I've been building on Drupal since version 4.7 (now on 6.14) and haven't ever had a problem with sites breaking on upgrades within major versions. It's only when upgrading from v4 to v5
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The percentage of page views served from cache depends on the type of site you're building. Newspaper site? Sure, cache it all. Social network? It's going to be tough to manage a cache when the content is constantly changing and is view
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by aasarava 17y ago
Actually, you can exclude blocks, like the search box, by URL pretty easily in the Drupal admin panel. Wildcards are excepted too. No need to use PHP unless you have some very complicated rules on when to show certain blocks to certain us
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by aasarava 17y ago
I took an in-depth look at what Drupal provides out of the box recently. (A lot of my clients use Drupal.) Here's my writeup: http://returncontrol.com/what-does-drupal-provide-out-of-the...
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Climbing is a great sport for hackers. Each route up a wall presents a problem in need of solving -- and often, brute force won't help you. You've really got to think through a route and learn the sequence of moves that'll get you to the t

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