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A List of Definitive Computing Books(littlecomputerscientist.wordpress.com)
1 points by ambition 18y ago|0 comments
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What webhooks are and why you should care(timothyfitz.wordpress.com)
71 points by ambition 18y ago|47 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
I'd like to think that too. But then I think: If a company had a legal right to fire me whenever they wanted, and I had a mortgage or family, I wouldn't work for them unless they agreed to waive that right and give me several months notice
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by ambition 18y ago
Can you elaborate? What is their systemic hiring problem? What are some of the deep organizational problems? What was the original model and why doesn't it scale? I suspect some of these might be obvious to people close to Google but I'm in
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by ambition 18y ago
What about embarrassing problems with already-known fixes? Or easily-diagnosed but hard-to-cure embarrassing problems? I can't imagine a patient would benefit from the world finding out they had syphilis.
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by ambition 18y ago
There's a project at the University of Toronto working on voice recognition for Ubiquity.
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by ambition 18y ago
That's a good article. Ridiculous Fish is awesome. You should submit it!
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by ambition 18y ago
Also if you did it db backed in a separate table, you'd have to do database joins to retrieve avatars, which might have a performance impact.
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Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast(swtch.com)
95 points by ambition 18y ago|17 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
Ask HN: What's yours?
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My favorite algorithm(arandonohue.com)
4 points by ambition 18y ago|1 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
I find (points - comments) or (points:comments) is a good heuristic for story quality on the front page.
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SortHN: Easy-to-customize Greasemonkey to reorder HN items by (e.g.) (points - comments)(userscripts.org)
9 points by ambition 18y ago|1 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
You seem to suggest that CSS is good enough to do what we would want, but necessary parts of it are unsupported on IE. However, the article describes a problem (content order matters in the presentation) that is due to the rules of the CSS
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by ambition 18y ago
I for one would be interested in an HN submission that fleshes out the suggestions you're making here.
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UToronto Distinguished Lectures (incl. talks by Alan Kay, Eric Brewer and others)(epresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca)
1 points by ambition 18y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
I'd like to see citizens issued with official public/private cryptographic key pairs. I think this would have the potential to hamper identity theft, enable legally meaningful electronic signatures, and bring encrypted/authenticated communi
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by ambition 18y ago
Not quite. IBM provides strong incentives to patent inventions. It also makes it very easy for an engineer to do so.
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by ambition 18y ago
This article is all over the news but I can't get a copy of the original paper.
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Source Control HOWTO by Eric Sink(ericsink.com)
3 points by ambition 18y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
I've found the ratio #points:#comments to be very correlated with story quality. So I'll read only the comments if #comments > #points, because that means an interesting controversial discussion about a boring article.
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by ambition 18y ago
There is cheesy stuff but also very solid advice.
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by ambition 18y ago
It sounds like you're looking for a primer on career management in a large company. I recommend Jack Welch's book Winning. Available in the business section of most public libraries, and cheap on Amazon.
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by ambition 18y ago
Regular expression slip-up, maybe? Or, more likely, a weird bug in their regular expression engine?
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by ambition 18y ago
I switched to Dvorak until I was good at it, and then switched back to QWERTY. It was just too difficult to mentally switch to QWERTY when using keyboards not under my control.
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by ambition 18y ago
I for one would be interested in a write-up/HN submission.
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by ambition 18y ago
Austin Hill @ StartupEmpire in Toronto suggested that a reasonable VC-funded startup salary is based on needs rather than competitive salary. E.g. living expenses + a little, which means more $ for a CEO with a family & mortgage and les
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by ambition 18y ago
Let's accept the assumption that iTunes pricing doesn't obey the rule of lower price implying greater volume. For the theory to hold up, iTunes would have to represent a significant share of an artist's total revenues. Otherwise the artist
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by ambition 18y ago
To the extent that any "more open than twitter!" competitor begins to gain adoption, twitter can simply open up a little bit to kill it. Knowing this, why would anyone put a big financial and infrastructure commitment into a more-open twitt
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by ambition 18y ago
Google explicitly believes in pulling semantics without explicit structure. It's what people do, and Google's getting really good at it. Peter Norvig claims to have the best natural language processing lab in the world and I'm inclined to b

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