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by akamaka 13y ago
Nice theory, but I think Dustin's conclusions are wrong. I got to use this alternative design on my second Facebook account that I used for app development, while my personal account didn't have it enabled. I really disliked li
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by akamaka 13y ago
It's not a straw man. This is a common question that people have, but you may not have heard it voiced publicly, because people are worried about saying it out loud. Here's a perfect example: http://answers.yahoo.com&#
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by akamaka 13y ago
Amen, I agree 100% with this blog post. I work on a popular web application that's built on AngularJS, and these are the exact same conclusions that I've come to. * Code size is a huge issue for us. When something goes wrong, it&
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by akamaka 13y ago
I've made several attempts at switching to freelance so far, and always gave up out of extreme frustration with my clients. My advice is to look at this from a totally different angle: optimize for learning. If you're under 40, y
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by akamaka 13y ago
This happens frequently with OS X updates, and it's why I usually wait a month or two before upgrading: 2012 - Mountain Lion: http://www.webpronews.com/mountain-lion-may-be-hurting-your-... 2011 - Lion: http:/&#x
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by akamaka 13y ago
This article had potential, but its facts are questionable. For example, it claims that "California has been losing native-born residents for two decades." See here: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cal
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by akamaka 13y ago
Or, more simply, Apple ran out of gold phones because they were rightfully cautious about over-producing an untested color. Just like the first all-white iPhone, there's no rush prioritize the new color while proven ones are already s
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by akamaka 13y ago
pg, I'd love to hear what you found interesting about this interview, because I never seem to gain much insight by listening to Mark Zuckerberg. He's kind of like Bill Gates, that way. They're both brilliant guys, but they d
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by akamaka 13y ago
I agree, I had a bit of a laugh when he called WordPress "grown up". I suspect he was just trying to be polite to WordPress fans. I've had to deal with a lot of ugly WordPress hacks when maintaining legacy sites, and I'm
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by akamaka 13y ago
I've been using ProcessWire, and it's been fantastic to work with. However, it stores user-defined template schemas in a MySQL database. Does that pose a big problem for you? I'm really curious to know what kind of trouble
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by akamaka 13y ago
Wait, if you can. Gadgets are nearly always much cheaper and better with each new generation. If you must spend the money, though, I'd recommend a high end ergonomic chair or a treadmill desk.
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by akamaka 13y ago
Great idea, and very fun! I'd love to see a couple of adjustments: First, the scores right now aren't very meaningful. The chance of winning each round is highly dependent on being lucky with the multiple choices (e.g. I'll
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by akamaka 13y ago
Why LA-SF? It's the second busiest air route in the country, and also one of the shortest, so it's ripe to be disrupted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_air_routes#U...
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by akamaka 13y ago
There wasn't much discussion of pre-Columbian plant breeding in this article. Do you have any links to where the author makes these claims?
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Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food(nytimes.com)
58 points by akamaka 13y ago|20 comments
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by akamaka 13y ago
“Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.” -David Ogilvy (from Confessions of an Advertising Man , 1963)
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by akamaka 13y ago
Great blog post, and congratulations on your success so far. My biggest problem so far with trying to work as a freelancer has been figuring out exactly what type of work I should be pursuing. I've got a pretty broad skill set, from back-e
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by akamaka 13y ago
John Romero's blog has a nice write-up about how id Software developed Doom on Next Step back in 1993. Complete with a screenshot of the level editor: http://planetromero.com/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday
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Precut - Modern Japanese Timber Construction(vimeo.com)
4 points by akamaka 13y ago|0 comments
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by akamaka 14y ago
Very well argued. I'm usually very dismissive of people who complain about companies pursuing seemingly unimportant goals, because at one time cars, electronics, and personal computers also seemed like frivolous toys. However, you make a v
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by akamaka 14y ago
Why are there so many angry comments on this thread? I use this sort of trick all of the time when debugging, but I rarely commit any commented out code as a matter of principle. Nobody was suggesting using this for "ghetto source control"
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by akamaka 14y ago
Yep! It was a huge hit with HNers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611
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by akamaka 14y ago
I apologize in advance for being off-topic, but the quality of comments on this post is really disappointing. This article has only gotten 8 upvotes so far, but nearly as many complaining comments with pointless analogies about building spo
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by akamaka 14y ago
Not a fan of this redesign. -What happened to the comments? That was one of the most useful features of the old documentation, and I constantly relied on them to find examples or clarify edge cases. -The code samples are on opposite colore
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by akamaka 14y ago
Thanks for posting this fantastic write-up! I'm looking forward to reading more. Does anyone know if other team members from the campaign have publicly discussed how other aspects of the online campaign worked? (Such as analytics, ads, CRM
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by akamaka 14y ago
While the majority of people seem to be cheering Forstall's departure, I personally think this is a really bad sign. Software just doesn't get enough respect, and there are few people who realize how important it is. Steve Jobs was one of
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by akamaka 14y ago
After spending a few minutes browsing the site, I still don't get how it works. The JS makes sense, but what happens on the back end to save the edited content? How does it work with "any CMS"? As a web developer, I don't need an explanat
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by akamaka 14y ago
The article seemed pretty cool until he started talking about the "$700 billion dollar rescue of Wall Street". Why do authors constantly love to throw out this number without any context? It just makes me think that the author is either s
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by akamaka 14y ago
That's a completly bogus excuse. The question wasn't why you're releasing it publicly, but why you haven't made any attempt to contact the company beforehand, which you seem to have had a year to do. Edit: The only reasons I can think of a
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by akamaka 14y ago
Coming from Steve Mann, I'm a little bit hesitant to take this story at face value. A while back, he had a run in with airport security about his equipment: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/circuits/14MANN... While I don't den

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