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by alxndr 13y ago
HN item for link w/o tracking hash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360730
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by alxndr 13y ago
Nice.
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'Obnoxious' RSA protests by DEF CON organizations, Code Pink draw ire(zdnet.com)
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by alxndr 13y ago
If it's not vimmy enough, I bet people will.
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by alxndr 13y ago
First thing that comes to mind is that git lg is "included" with git.
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by alxndr 13y ago
I meant to suggest that git could be used as the "backend" for a track/review system. I'm imagining being able to write standard LaTeX, but have your editor expose the git history in a way that looks like Word's tra
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by alxndr 13y ago
Not everything I do involves competing with someone else for both my own and their money.
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by alxndr 13y ago
Could version control get you part way there?
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by alxndr 13y ago
IIRC Hangul has some weird pronunciation quirks depending on where some letters are in a syllable.
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Random User Generator(randomuser.me)
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by alxndr 13y ago
re: learning Ruby: at the SF Ruby conference in 2012, Steven! Ragnarök gave an interesting talk called "Sugar-Free Ruby" about an object-first approach to teaching/learning Ruby. Start with methods on objects, and introduce s
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Dropbox's hiring practices explain its disappointing lack of female employees(washingtonpost.com)
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by alxndr 13y ago
Me too, but it meant that I ended up learning how to fake showing-the-work after I knew what the answer was, which I think in turn taught me what they were trying to get across in the first place...
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by alxndr 13y ago
TL;DR: "Always join a company before the lawyers do."
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I would have never tried this app if I didn't have a throwaway FB account.
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Ask HN: web tool to organize sprint retro meetings?
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by alxndr 13y ago
It is just as arbitrary, but I feel jQuery's API is also easier to grok at a glance. Using either a couple times may instill the parameters in your memory, but what about coming back to it after six months?
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by alxndr 13y ago
> jQuery was born in 2006, when IE6 still had 70% of market share. jQuery's many layers of smooth-overs come at a very high performance cost, and it doesn't even smooth things over that well. There are still many edge cases in
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by alxndr 13y ago
They have five locations in NY, opened a couple years ago IIRC.
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by alxndr 13y ago
I would have thought the poignant guide would be better to give to a teenager than a child. Even I found myself caring way more about the story and the author than the code.
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A dynamically generated list of US gov't open source projects hosted on GitHub(gsa.github.io)
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by alxndr 13y ago
Looks like ratemyprofessors.com is still kicking after ten (?) years.
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by alxndr 13y ago
I had the thought, but not the hangover and subsequent willpower. Made a half-hearted attempt with Semantic MediaWiki.
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The Dark Side of Our Love Affair With the Modern News Cycle & Why I Broke It Off(medium.com)
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by alxndr 13y ago
We're gonna leave out the sex one? "Anyone kinkier than you is a pervert, and anyone not as kinky as you is a prude." Suppose this works for any topic which can include relative descriptions...
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Does This Ruling Mean The End of the Internet? Maybe.(thedailybeast.com)
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by alxndr 13y ago
How much does being a CS high school teacher pay vs working for a software company?
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by alxndr 13y ago
Out of curiosity, could tech screenings via phone/skype have helped in avoiding that situation? (Or perhaps they have already not helped?)
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The foolish war against song-lyrics websites(america.aljazeera.com)
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by alxndr 13y ago
Here's someone from Japan who's been making Geigenwerk and Streichklavier for the last twenty years. Neat videos. http://obuchi.music.coocan.jp/Geigenwerk/index-e.htm

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