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by adnam 16y ago
Eeee, when I were a lad, maths weren't fun! You did 14 hours down't mine and only then were you allowed to try yer 'and at partial differential equations. And if yer got one wrong'un, teacher'd beat you with a wooden pole (etc etc) (yorkshi
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by adnam 16y ago
Tim Ferriss observed this? Or in which peer-reviewed journal did the study appear?
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by adnam 16y ago
And then get >200 points on HN
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by adnam 16y ago
What is 4HB?
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by adnam 16y ago
I'm watching my first ever super bowl, and I'm full of chilli dogs. It's 2.30 am and I'm at work in 5 hours :-/
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by adnam 16y ago
Good grief, did you just advise someone you've never met to take a shower?
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by adnam 16y ago
Ok, so you're not writing "mysql_query()" in the middle of your templates, but you are letting them decide what data they need. Your view layer is pulling data down from the model layer. And the whole DOM-Object "intertwining" thing would w
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by adnam 16y ago
"Datex"? Scary. Not sure I agree that the example given at the beginning of the article is a big problem (why not just make the model apis more fine-grained?), and also not sure what this has to do with MVC specifically.
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by adnam 16y ago
"but you quickly realize that every question that’s not some vague, poorly worded, open ended impossibility has already got 10 answers" Exactly :) Stackoverflow has built-in breaks to control growth. Maybe HN could benefit from this ;)
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by adnam 16y ago
Yet another enormously USA-centric poll.
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by adnam 16y ago
Ah, soap-dodgers. They remind me of people who say "you don't need to write unit tests". Also, hands too?
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by adnam 16y ago
So Jason Calacanis is compiling a list of Y-Combinator-type companies. Like discovering that North Korea is stockpiling the world's reserves of Beryllium ... who knows why, but one must fear the worst.
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by adnam 16y ago
It's actually called POO in Spanish: Programación Orientado a Objetos
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by adnam 16y ago
If all the trains at Clapham Junction were suddenly to cease to function, would the people at the station ever reach their destination?
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Nielsen: Mega-Menus Gone Wrong(useit.com)
13 points by adnam 16y ago|2 comments
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by adnam 16y ago
I hope we never get to where civil engineering is now: a heavily regulated industry, need to 'join the club' just to practise; several degrees of separation between designer and builder" severely conservative professional body; inability to
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by adnam 16y ago
See the wikipedia article in dansingerman's comment
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by adnam 16y ago
Yeah but it's true
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Show HN: 'BFT', a sharded, schemaless datastore using MySQL/Zend(happy.cat)
2 points by adnam 16y ago|0 comments
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by adnam 16y ago
Yes, you're right, thanks. I was going to write more about architecture and features too, but it was getting long so I'll save those for a future post.
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How to build a distributed social network(happy.cat)
5 points by adnam 16y ago|3 comments
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by adnam 16y ago
Just stating the obvious.
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by adnam 16y ago
Blog posts absolutely do help.
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Jakob Nielsen: Alphabetical Sorting Must (Mostly) Die(useit.com)
6 points by adnam 16y ago|3 comments
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by adnam 16y ago
It's not sophistication and intelligence. It's the cost of living.
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by adnam 16y ago
No I'm not worked up at all. Most things on the front page of HN catch my attention. Good luck, btw.
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by adnam 16y ago
No, another way of saying 'lacking gusto or spirit'. This guy might be the bee's knees, but his marketing sucks. The title of the page is "Pay the Bills" FFS! I'm not interested in paying his bills or his fancy pricing scheme. I'm not inter
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by adnam 16y ago
Seems a bit lackadaisical.
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by adnam 16y ago
What do you think the first release of Facebook looked like under the hood?
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by adnam 16y ago
Author of article is blatantly a HN reader. Dan Goodin: identify yourself! :-)

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