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by adam419 12y ago
This is beyond a discussion of meritocracy. What this would do is not further a meritocracy but change the supply/demand equation in way that like others have pointed out, resembles a race to the bottom.
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by adam419 12y ago
Here in Seattle many people use it, and I know of people who use it in Chicago
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by adam419 12y ago
Non-paywalled link: http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-web-is-dying-apps-are-kil...
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by adam419 12y ago
I'm unsure what I am seeing here. I thought the Samsung gear was Samsungs' competitor to the Oculus Rift?
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by adam419 12y ago
A continuous feed that reported the problems and frustrations of people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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by adam419 12y ago
Ah the irony of an article lamenting something they're currently using quite heavily.
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by adam419 12y ago
Because there hasn't been anyone whose made money offline?
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by adam419 12y ago
If it's a Mac create a separate desktop instance, one work related the other personal.
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by adam419 12y ago
I found one of the article comments particularly funny and noteworthy: "Question: How do you convince investors that you can teach critical thinking skills? Answer: Screen for students that already have those skills." Put the %2.8
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by adam419 12y ago
Someone not long ago on HN went through the same experience and made a nice guide exactly for this. http://www.alexjmeyers.com/amazon_web_services_guide
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by adam419 12y ago
Very creative, great work. I especially like the downvote as upvote.
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by adam419 12y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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by adam419 12y ago
Java/Ruby/JS forget everything else.
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by adam419 12y ago
Good article, surprised they didn't draw a parallel between event-driven programming and git/version control systems.
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by adam419 12y ago
If long term was your goal, put half in an IRA and have it managed by a mutual fund with a good track record of around %10 a year. That would easily make you a millionaire by 65.
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by adam419 12y ago
Curious about this myself. I recently begun learning Objective C past 2-3 week and am curious whether to abandon ship and move over to swift. However I think that most Objective C learning material is still a good precursor for learning iOS
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Ask HN: Rest server project suggestions
1 points by adam419 12y ago|1 comments
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by adam419 12y ago
Ruby + Sinatra
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by adam419 12y ago
Exactly. I actually looked forward to those kinds of questions because it really gives an opportunity to demonstrate passion, which I found becomes less and less relevant as the company becomes bigger.
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by adam419 12y ago
This is really not that difficult of a question to answer. If you're coming from a more B2B oriented company and interviewing at a more consumer oriented one, say you're interested in working on consumer oriented products. Same go
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by adam419 12y ago
Looks nice. There's an error on line 22 in fetchsitemap.rb. You have a comma in self.write(@output,self.sitemap) if @output which causes a wrong # of args error. Tried to merge the fix.
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Ask HN: Online affiliate marketing industry size?
4 points by adam419 12y ago|2 comments
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Mathematical theory of why something is interesting(rs.io)
4 points by adam419 12y ago|0 comments
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by adam419 12y ago
I haven't thought of any yet but I will be attending as well!
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by adam419 12y ago
Ruby + Sinatra. This doesn't prevent you from having to create the html and css for the webpages themselves, but sinatra is a dead simple server framework for serving up webpages.
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by adam419 12y ago
where did you find this?
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by adam419 12y ago
A way to motivate yourself to complete a task (writing a book, losing 10 lbs, etc) by saying I will put up X dollars towards this goal, and if I don't make it, I don't get it back and it gets donated to charity. The idea is that y
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Ask HN: Industry credible certifications to supplement an AA?
1 points by adam419 12y ago|0 comments
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by adam419 12y ago
Wonder why investors would pour money into something that would render them useless.....in theory.
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by adam419 13y ago
To serve enough ad impressions to make them closer to billionaires.

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