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by awj 14y ago
> Or you could phrase without all the academically correct technical buzzwords, so normal people who are your real audience will understand what you're trying to communicate. Normal people who are my real audience probably don't even kn
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by awj 14y ago
Oh, definitely. I was (poorly?) highlighting that molten/frozen/vaporized/etc are used relative to the normal state for a substance at "local" temperature.
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by awj 14y ago
"You are skirting dangerously close to creating a meme here." -- Jonah Lehrer
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by awj 14y ago
> Do you actually think that corporate shills cause less harm to society than people fabricating a few (largely inconsequential) quotes? If I'm allowed to parenthetically assume that the shilling also is "largely inconsequential", then
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by awj 14y ago
It's "liquid water" in the same sense that the molton rock inside the earth is "liquid rock". Here when we see water outside of it's natural state (liquid) it's frozen or evaporated. Out there ice (solid) is the natural state, so it's molte
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by awj 14y ago
> The idea they couldn't afford or have the capacity to hire the talent they want is ridiculous. Actually, it isn't. Hiring people is hard, and hiring bad people is expensive. It isn't even really a problem you can pay your way out of e
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by awj 14y ago
> It forces you to handle errors at the call site and makes diapers unimplementable. I don't see how the latter is true. What's the practical difference between wrapping a function call in a try/(no-op)catch and entirely ignoring the er
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by awj 14y ago
You certainly have strong opinions for someone with no idea what they're talking about. Here[1] is the official backbone documentation. Please, point out the "Controller" objects. While you're looking for that, maybe you should consider lea
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by awj 14y ago
The main page for the site I work on makes extensive use of jquery, jquery ui, backbone, a crapton of custom javascript, and more of the OpenLayers library than most places I've seen. It weighs in at 330kb and has a decent bit of fat to tri
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by awj 14y ago
> Having moved across the country a few months ago, I'm still trying to figure this one out. Any idea HNers? Take up a hobby, more or less unrelated to what you do for a living. Maybe it's rowing or rock climbing or fencing or writing.
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by awj 14y ago
That's actually a pretty decent analogy. Obviously the focus on posting links and ranking and such is different, but the user experience of someone totally new is similar. As is the searching for tiny pockets of awesome in a sea of idiocy.
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by awj 14y ago
> Am I the only one out there that _doesn't_ think single-page apps are the future? It reminds me of the mid-2000s, "AJAX all the things!" I absolutely agree with you. In my opinion the mid-2000s AJAX craze has died down into "AJAX wher
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by awj 14y ago
It probably was the database sharding. If the Solr setup could handle the geo-search-related data without the need for sharding it probably can beat out Postgres with sharding. Having this exposed through an api that is standardized and mai
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by awj 14y ago
Ah, so you're dismissing people accomplishments based on your opinion of what their doing. That's also ... classy.
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by awj 14y ago
> Saying you're "the greatest" just because you're pretty good at punching people? Get back to me when you've won a Fields Medal, dude. If there were such a thing as a Fields Medal for boxing, Ali would have won it. He wasn't just "good
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by awj 14y ago
> The only honest answer to the original question is the obvious one: because their normal burgers look like crap. ...how is "the burger on the ad is designed to show what's in the burger, the one you eat is designed to be eaten" not
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by awj 14y ago
I don't think anyone is making that claim. You can obviously do runtime inspections of types before building the query, or rely on the "runtime inspection" of getting an exception when the unescaped String doesn't support the Query method b
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by awj 14y ago
One general trend in cloud hosting is to have multiple sources of the cost for a system. For instance with EC2 you have a per hour price for the virtual server and a per gigabyte price for data transfer. If you want any kind of permanent
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by awj 14y ago
Have you checked to see what treating your water would cost? Chemical water softeners are relatively cheap. This one[1] costs roughly $0.30 per load of laundry. If it doubled the wash lifetime of your shirts you're throwing away a ton of mo
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by awj 14y ago
Most of the people I've seen who were shielded from failure don't make this distinction. They attribute it to bad luck and don't learn anything or assume they're innately terrible and never try again. There's a fine line between teaching ch
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by awj 14y ago
Hate to say it, but someone executed on this before you: http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/
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by awj 14y ago
...is this what passes for "discussion" on HN?
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by awj 14y ago
...do you actually use reddit, or is this just something you believe? As someone who only really fits one of your criteria (college education), I evidently don't exist, as I have a good experience on reddit. They have large communities fo
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by awj 14y ago
> If it continues to languish, people are going to be much more skeptical in making investments and even starting web based businesses. Is the latter part of that really true? Starting a web based business is worlds easier/cheaper tha
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by awj 14y ago
Depending on the suit, it's actually easier than jeans. Also, what kind of software development job requires any amount of running or climbing.
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by awj 14y ago
At the end of the day, square has to live within the existing system. The purchaser's bank deducts the money from square at the start of the chargeback. That is the system. They can't just foot the bill until things are resolved, so the c
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by awj 14y ago
Oh, it gets weirder than that. Much[1], much weirder. [1] http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
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by awj 14y ago
For the major iOS versions, many developers will have an update ready on release day. People will download apps just to play with new features. Keeping current with the SDK is absolutely a business advantage.
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by awj 14y ago
Well, that's certainly something I won't be participating in. Without debating the organ donation issue (which is complicated beyond what most forums can effectively discuss), this is blatantly using Facebook as Zuckerberg's personal platfo
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by awj 14y ago
> I didn't see many folks on HN complaining that Facebook/Google/etc. shouldn't take an advocacy position on SOPA, so it strikes me as odd how controversial Facebook taking one on organ donation is. That's because Facebook and Google ha

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