alansmitheebk

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by alansmitheebk 10y ago
Most of these look like shit in chrome.
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Tech hiring is broken so how can I find a new job?
10 points by alansmitheebk 10y ago|18 comments
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by alansmitheebk 10y ago
I think they are all equally unhirable.
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by alansmitheebk 10y ago
Is it sexual harassment B/C he asked her out or B/C he used the term "MILF" or B/C she wasn't interested? Did the whatsapp portion of the conversation occur at work or outside of work? Does your company have a
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by alansmitheebk 10y ago
...also procrasturbation
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Ask HN: How can a dummy like me learn algorithms?
30 points by alansmitheebk 10y ago|15 comments
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by alansmitheebk 10y ago
Asthma
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
No one is forcing you to go to Princeton. If you don't feel comfortable there because of the name of a building transfer to another school. Or get a fucking life.
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I offer my condolence's for the author's loss. It sounds like his father was truly a great man. However, the author didn't even mention the Israeli occupation, the apartheid system that oppresses the Palestinians, and Israel&
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
Fuck no. That movie sucked.
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I also suffer from depression and anxiety. I have since I was 15 years old. I believe in runs in my family. I've only sought professional treatment for this in the past several years. I see a psychiatrist and I take some medications. I
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OR Shooter: Aspergers, Used to Bang Head Against Wall. Lived W Heavily Armed Mom(nytimes.com)
4 points by alansmitheebk 11y ago|0 comments
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
This petition strikes me as painfully naive. It should be obvious to anyone that Facebook's user data is what makes it a multi-billion dollar company. That data is worth fuck all if it correlates to superhero names and cat pictures as
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
This would be a great time to point out that the diesel engine was originally intended to be run on peanut oil. Any diesel automobile can run on "bio-diesel" with no additional modifications. You may be (un)surprised to learn that
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
BTW, I agree with your assessment of the NYT. You might enjoy the book What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman.
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I agree that there was a bit of a tongue in cheek tone to the piece. For example, the title referenced the cold war. That being said, given the larger context of The Guardian's opinion pieces and their tendency towards feminist demagog
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
Their news coverage is pretty decent. I read it daily. But their opinion pieces are laughably stupid. Just this past summer they did a piece about how air conditioning is sexist. Every day Jessica Valenti writes something about the Pro Life
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I give it about five minutes before The Guardian publishes an editorial entitled: "Ellen Pao lawsuit ends but will not slow fight for gender equality in Silicon Valley."
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
To be honest, I'm not a big fan of either Ruby or PHP. Ruby is a hipster programming language. Ruby developers have a tendency to get really hung up on syntax. It's tough to get them to work in any other language because they comp
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I think the scarcity of Ruby devs verses the abundance of PHP devs in your location is a compelling reason to switch to PHP. Have you considered Node JS? I'm not familiar with the scene in Auckland, but most developers I know would pre
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I don't think Hammond was asserting that white lives don't matter. He was correctly pointing out that the media don't see much of a story to sell when it's a white person on the wrong end of the police officer's gun
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
My System76 Galago Pro has a 1080p matte screen. When the weather is nice I like to work outdoors. With a shiny Apple screen this is virtually impossible. I believe the Galago Pro and most other System76 models are actually customized re-br
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
Use prepared statements to pretect against SQLI!!!! Put the DB on a separate server. Don't access DB directly from the web app; access it through services. Set up a robust authentication system for your services (OAuth?)
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Ask HN: Were we cyber attacked today?
4 points by alansmitheebk 11y ago|8 comments
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
Definitely not true.
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
He was forced to consent to having monitoring hardware installed. When the government demanded that he hand over the encryption keys as well he refused. You can read his side of the story here: http://lavabit.com/ I don&#x2
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I would imagine he uses Tails and TOR. He used to use Lavabit for email. The founder of Lavabit chose to shut the company down rather than comply with subpoenas from the US government. There is probably pending litigation to this day. He&#x
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
Interesting observation. I live and work in NYC. When I read about all of the sexism and misogyny in tech it sounds completely different from the tech scene I know and work in. I've long suspected that a lot of those stories are trumpe
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
with respect to climate change, global warming is a threat to our entire ecosystem. In the coming decades, governments around the globe will face unprecedented national security threats mounted by flooding, extreme weather storms, scarcity
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by alansmitheebk 11y ago
I'd say global warming, facism, and religion.

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