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by abvdasker 13y ago
Definitely going to give this a try. I really appreciate the apparent simplicity and creativity of this tool. It avoids the need to learn the odd syntax of LESS/Sass for those of us who need reliable cross-browser support while providi
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by abvdasker 13y ago
The Whole Explanation: She's a woman and the CEO of a major website; which isn't to say that she doesn't deserve more attention given the smaller number of female CEOs/women in tech.
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by abvdasker 13y ago
Thank you. Having done a limited amount of assembly programming, 0-indexed arrays seem incredibly obvious, since they allow you to simply add the word size times the index to get the memory address of any entry in an indexed data structure.
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by abvdasker 13y ago
Not that there's anything wrong with it, but why are there so many HN articles about Go?
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by abvdasker 13y ago
David Foster Wallace wrote (I'm paraphrasing here) that "tennis is a combination of chess and boxing". Maybe try that.
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by abvdasker 13y ago
Yeah, I pretty much agree with that premise. In my experience, faster CPUs and RAM make little difference compared to the gains from an SSD. Hard drive disks are such a huge bottleneck compared to other upgrades that the average user gets t
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by abvdasker 13y ago
Cool story, but the last time I was looking for a programming job (six months ago) I remember seeing quite a few listings for .NET developers. Probably just as many as I saw for Rails, though maybe fewer than for PHP.
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by abvdasker 13y ago
So how long have you been working for Google?
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by abvdasker 13y ago
Not talking about the product for a moment. There are a lot of not-so-great "flat design" websites out there, but Square Cash's is one of the best I've seen. I keep seeing these loud sites with full-width graphics and an
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by abvdasker 13y ago
This. Java's syntax and core API is pretty much stable compared to the hot languages championed by so many HN readers. Updating applications written with the "hipster languages" is like pulling teeth. It has a serious impact
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by abvdasker 13y ago
I recently had to develop a little reporting system for my company's sales team and I have to say, Excel has some excellent interfaces on Windows. The little app I built is a GUI that lets someone choose a spreadsheet tied to a remote