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by adamb_ 13y ago
Exactly. If a prospective employer can't see the value of you taking a calculated risk and creatively applying your skills before you're hired, what makes you think they will afterward?
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Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters(ted.com)
4 points by adamb_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by adamb_ 13y ago
In the case of memorization, I take issue with your second point. http://xkcd.com/936/
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by adamb_ 13y ago
I think this article speaks more about the general public coming to terms with how crowd-funding works in general. Kickstarter has already made efforts to help people identify that funding a project != buying a product. http://ww
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Why are there so many programming languages?(cs.stackexchange.com)
1 points by adamb_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by adamb_ 13y ago
Thanks for the promptness. This list is awesome.
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by adamb_ 13y ago
First link I tried was dead... #48
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Bitcoin Falls 15% Following FBI’s Silk Road Seizure(techcrunch.com)
1 points by adamb_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by adamb_ 13y ago
I feel like having this knowledge be widespread is somewhat self-defeating, as if it were to catch on to any capacity bot makers would improve their bot's ability detect which is a "valid" form.
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by adamb_ 13y ago
After seeing HN posts such as "Why hardware development is hard: Verilog is weird"[1] I can see the value of trying to make hardware development more approachable and less niche... And JavaScript is anything but niche. [1] https:
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Nanotube computer unvealed - What this means for Moore's Law(informationweek.com)
1 points by adamb_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by adamb_ 13y ago
Not sure that []["filter"] is all that funky of an example as it's just grabbing the arrays prototype method "filter" using bracket notation. Here's some better examples of JS oddities: http://stacko
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by adamb_ 13y ago
Keep in mind this fingerprint scanner is only shipping on ONE of the two devices announced today. For this to be the payments/security game-changer the OP is suggesting, it has to be widely available to the public, which Apple opted ou
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by adamb_ 13y ago
Thanks for including a link to this issue... Without it I would have assumed the was just a needless fork of Voyeur.js