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by amackera 17y ago
My girlfriend is German-Canadian (her grandfather immigrated to Canada after the war), and this topic always comes up around this time of year. Basically we think this: Remembrance day is about honouring the terrible sacrifice of soldiers,
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by amackera 17y ago
Well said, sir. Well said.
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by amackera 17y ago
I think you just exemplified how ridiculous that generalisation was.
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by amackera 17y ago
I don't know Ruby, or Rails. I guess I'm an idiot :(
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by amackera 17y ago
I don't know how the iPhone apps like this work, but the Barcode Scanner for Android doesn't take a picture. You just hover your camera over the barcode and it figures it out from the preview. I suppose it's technically taking a picture, bu
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by amackera 17y ago
I don't think that the author was implying the existence of a vast conspiracy to keep people dumb; rather, the author was suggesting that society is operating in a manner which he believes is suboptimal. Let's say memorisation is taught in
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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of "Risk Capital" Part 2(steveblank.com)
4 points by amackera 17y ago|0 comments
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USB tethering coming to hacked Android phones(androidandme.com)
2 points by amackera 17y ago|0 comments
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by amackera 17y ago
In my mind, the synthesis itself is a language feature.
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by amackera 17y ago
Hate to break it to you, but it's BD FL .
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by amackera 17y ago
I don't know what's wrong with me, since a lot of people seem to like this guy, but his posts just piss me off.
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by amackera 17y ago
I'm sorry if I seemed like I was implying that hackers are polymaths, because I don't think that's the case at all. I think that there are aspects of being a hacker, and being a polymath that are common. A hacker is not somebody who "code
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by amackera 17y ago
I think the term "hacker" is synonymous with polymath in many significant ways. I personally find myself inexplicably divided between many fields, all of which I am passionate about. My hacker philosophy has lead me to be well-read in polit
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by amackera 17y ago
A tried a few things like: "go to law school", "develop a video game", "work on open source", none of which came up with any suggestions. I really like the idea, I think the database just needs some population before it becomes really usefu
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by amackera 17y ago
When people say "dynamic languages" what is it that they mean? The typing system? If so, how can typing really effect productivity as drastically as this article (and other people I've heard) claim? It seems to me that what is really at pla
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by amackera 17y ago
For Toyota you can tell with the 'o'. Helvetica appears like an almost perfect circle, Arial is more oblong and oval-shaped.
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by amackera 17y ago
19/20 here. North Face got me, but in retrospect the R should have tipped me right off. Helvetica is a clearly superior typeface, and I'm not just saying that to be cool.
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by amackera 17y ago
There is a grain of truth to this! Another company not listed here, which some friends of mine started, is Enflick ( http://www.enflick.com/ ). EDIT: For typos.
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by amackera 17y ago
"Everyone fails to mention now much more advanced and nicer developing in VS is compared to any other platform." Everyone fails to mention that since it's completely a matter of personal opinion. I am of the opinion that you're dead wrong..
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by amackera 17y ago
Nothing for: Today'sNewMoon Apple'sAmazing House etc. I'm not sure how useful it can be if only the already prevalent memes are explained. But then, how could you procedurally generate these? That would be tough.
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by amackera 17y ago
This is exactly what I want to do! just take a time out to try the things I'm interested to try. I have emailed my advisor to see if something like this is possible.
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by amackera 17y ago
So far I have been quite fortunate to try many technical things, due to a variety of internships (6!) at a seriously varied set of companies. I have tried to pursue what you mentioned, being open to new and interesting paths that present th
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by amackera 17y ago
The idea of a meritocracy is something that appeals to me greatly. I hate the feeling that a person's credentials define who they are, and their abilities. Interesting also that you mentioned law school, since I am also considering looking
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Ask HN: Feelings of regret over career path?
26 points by amackera 17y ago|32 comments
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by amackera 17y ago
I just searched the Chrome blog for "webkit" and here's the results: http://www.google.com/search?oe=utf8&ie=utf8&source=... In general I think Google is very good about promoting Open Source awareness, my post was my attempt at h
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by amackera 17y ago
That would steal focus away from Google's promotion of their secret magic sauce that they sprinkle on everything to make it better.
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by amackera 17y ago
As a kid I was fascinated about historical games (even loose ones), like Civilization, the Total War series, Europa Universalis, Pharaoh, Age of Empires, etc. Of course many of these games only have a loose semblance of reality associated w
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by amackera 17y ago
How are we supposed to police our fellow hackers? In my mind there's no way to ensure that this "blacklist" stays objective, and people don't abuse it for their own advantage (or for mischief!)
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IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix Internet Explorer 6 Bugs(virtuosimedia.com)
126 points by amackera 17y ago|36 comments
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Android Snippets: Share useful snippets of source code for the Android platform(androidsnippets.org)
1 points by amackera 17y ago|0 comments

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