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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Yes they're semester long job interviews. But what you'll be doing as an intern is not consistent across companies or even across teams. You might be QA, which is nothing like writing production code. You also might be assigned a project
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Well what are your ideas? I cook a lot, and I know others who had ideas for similar services. I can't really see myself paying money for an advanced note taking app. I think you'll have to add more value to be able to justify me paying f
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I'm building an app in a very similar manner to what I've read about Basecamp Next. When you move to the new model with a payload of code, and then json reqests from there, it's blazingly fast, and so much more gratifying to zoom around th
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I'm curious to know the financial situations of those who apply to YC. You don't have to give specifics, but has anyone gone through YC with a lot of school debt? (>$20k, >$40k?) How did you manage this? For those who haven't gone
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This is a great write up. We have a very similar stack for a separate team based project we're working on. The only difference is the front end stack, and we have tornado sitting back on the backend to serve http requests when needed. Wh
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Wow that was an absolutely disgusting read. I don't like piracy, but the make the logical leap from piracy (which they see as a problem of enforcement of laws rather than a matter of distribution) to a loss of jobs that is particularly biz
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Sure. I hear that. I was just taken back by how similar to dribbble it was in it's initial look and feel. I think I may have spoken too soon though admittedly before I understood the site. I didn't understand the site iniially upon landing
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I guess I just look at these things and say, "Yeah doesn't surprise me CSS could do that, but is it done well?" We're at a point where none of this is surprising or amazing to me, it just makes sense. I'm looking for quality.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Ah I've done animation work in the past, so that's what I was drawn to. After that I looked at the other details more closely. Funny what we find ourselves focusing on.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
(1) It's not pure CSS3, there's JS involved to handle events. Sure it's small, but it's not. (2) The only real gripe is that the animation is not accurate to an actual iPhone. After the unlock there is a delay between the lock/title movin
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Who's Hiring Interns (Summer 2012)?
34 points by alexhaefner 15y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: List of Startup Internships Around the Bay
7 points by alexhaefner 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Sometimes, as a web developer, you have no consistent way to diagnose these issues. We found an issue using drag and drop uploads on one of our sites where if you uploaded the same image in chrome, one after another, it would crash. So I
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The Truth Behind Occupy WallStreet Crackdowns(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by alexhaefner 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I feel like this is a great time to make the argument that AMD chased short term profitability ahead of long term profitability. The pushed the fabs and debt off their books, and in the process handicapped themselves for the future. They r
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
The latest generation wasn't working in my testing. Hmm, well as of Chrome 15/Firefox 7 they were not supported. Would you try out http://drawwith.me/demo and let me know if that works?
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Yeah we found really dismal support for X3100 hardware. It doesn't support the return statement in vertex or fragment shaders due to a driver bug, and it doesn't support gl_PointCoord in the fragment shader. Yet chrome and firefox would a
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I can speak to WebGL as we've actually built some stuff on top of it. Yes performance is good, sometimes. But if your user is on hardware like Intel X3100 graphics cards, then the WebGL context will run in software mode, performance will
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This is really neat. I got it up on a 27" iMac and let it play. So great. Thanks for sharing.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I wouldn't say these are the css docks I wish I always had. see I want better presentation. I don't really want to scroll through the actual CSS docs from W3C, I want to get some quick view of what my search query returned (property, {val
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
"ultranoir recommends Google Chrome 9+ rather than your Safari version to fully enjoy the Nouvelle Vague experience." I have WebGL enabled on safari and everything worked, but this annoying message stayed over the page the entire time and m
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This interface is absolutely terrible to browse. Really. You have data but the presentation is very very bad. I actually start to feel physically sick while browsing it. I am not trying to be harsh, I am trying to be straight-forward and
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I read about whether or not to start a startup on hacker news often. In these discussions there's always the 'startups fail', 'billion dollar company'. I can say 2 things about these two things. For myself, failure is quite okay. I spent
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I'm not really sure why I am getting downvoted. I was talking to a friend about this and a nuclear engineering ph.d. candidate at the University of Michigan working on plasma physics started talking with me about it and essentially echoed t
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I was speaking to a nuclear physicist about Fusion, and he stated that really was being used to verify nuclear models for making bombs and such, and that it would never be practical for power generation.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Right. The University of Michigan does the same thing. But there was discussion on the first day about how computers aren't grouped into science or engineering, because the broadness of compsci provides opportunity in both fields. Vision
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I find it increasingly bizarre, day by day, that people are so fixated on money and not value, or meaningfulness. There's something about the way that money is discussed on HN that I find odd, but I haven't quite put my finger on it yet.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I'd clarify it as, programming as an engineering field, but not programming as a science. So yeah, essentially the same thing.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This is really a fantastic idea. Although there was an article on HN recently about not dropping out, I have to say I feel that computer science is a field that requires no formal education to be successful (economically, and intellectually
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Any particular reason? I'm not working on this particular project, I have no idea what the dev has planned. I like imagination, but I don't like speculation. So I'm just not in the mood to speculate on it.

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