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by awkward 9y ago
I was thinking the foot traffic would be a problem but your brother post had a pretty good point.
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by awkward 9y ago
Hiring a small army of people to march out into the woods to plant seeds seems potentially counterproductive.
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by awkward 9y ago
As places to hustle for your project go, HN is probably one of the gentler ones. Just build first, THEN plug.
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by awkward 9y ago
If you want to be a high performing software engineer, you need to put in a lot of work. BUT! One difference I've found between startups and companies like OP described is how that work is allocated. Working at a startup had me laser f
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by awkward 9y ago
If you choose to focus exclusively on the abstract you choose to live in a world where all of these conflicts are permanently laid out in stark contrast. The reason your mailman, for example, has no reason to have a problem with you is beca
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by awkward 9y ago
You need to keep in mind that the attribution of credit is important in echoing - simply bringing the subject back up will be seen as stealing the point.
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by awkward 9y ago
The reason for pushback on the idea 10x programmers isn't the real gradient of skill, it's the labor aspect. Lots of companies want to hire 10x without paying 10x dollars, and they've figured out that blowing smoke up the ass
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by awkward 10y ago
The VC answer is good, but I think growth is necessary to sustain the social part of a social network as well. I joined Twitter very late, to get news when the Boston marathon bombing was happening, and while the feeling that twitter is a f
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by awkward 11y ago
wget leaves files everywhere, and isn't useful without picking a few flags to use, carefully. I use it as a tool to check builds for broken links curl is a unix-way type program that interacts with standard out in a pretty predictable
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by awkward 11y ago
Huh. I've always thought of them as the opposite - wget is the full featured spidering tool, curl is the easy to run one when I need a command line thing or to bang web stuff into a janky copy and paste workflow.
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by awkward 11y ago
python's problem is that while it goes the distance to make the simplest possible program as simple as possible, simplicity bleeds off very quickly as you add functionality. The shortest well behaved program, for example, looks like th
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by awkward 11y ago
If someone disagrees with the statement "programming is a fundamentally different career from everything else in terms of ability and knowledge required" it does not follow that they believe "all careers including garbageman
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by awkward 11y ago
Acceptable risk levels vary from project to project, and often it is a good choice to de-risk your UI so that you can budget risk to something more important to project success. I am currently working on a manufacturing support project that
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by awkward 11y ago
This article is terrible. It argues for awful web and UI development, and seems to be doing it entirely out of some kind of perverse pride. The first item in this list recommends support for IE6 or below, a decision which will massively bal
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by awkward 11y ago
For one, Microsoft. And would you argue that the NSA has seen no meaningful reduction in access to talent?
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by awkward 11y ago
I had the option of a BA in computer science (sans some science and math requirements, plus more humanities requirements) and a BS in computer science. I took the BS, because it seemed like the BA was a "lighter" degree. I think y
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by awkward 11y ago
The proposal in the article is a digital media program focusing on applications of computer science.
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by awkward 11y ago
I think we're in violent agreement here - I'm trying to get across that "just use locale" doesn't necessarily mean that you're done your UI.
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by awkward 11y ago
Yes. And folks have been trained to think that everyone not coding for en-us is double lazy.
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by awkward 11y ago
It's because the data will eventually need to be fed into a mainframe that predates the Arabic numeral system.
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by awkward 11y ago
That's assuming users aren't resetting their locale. It's not uncommon for non english users to assume that the english version of a site is the real deal and their version is an inferior localization done by some backbencher
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by awkward 11y ago
I sometimes agree, but it seems pretty useful for search results. I mean, do you often find yourself bookmarking the second page of a google search?
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by awkward 12y ago
I have to wonder if the mechanism here that leads people report increased productivity isn't being better rested, its that they have set clear boundaries on what they will do and what is realistic, push back accordingly, and are judged
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by awkward 12y ago
The objection to the term is not because all programmers are average, or because any programmer could step up and be a John Carmack. The objection is that the idea of the 10x programmer creates the perception that hiring someone of that cal
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by awkward 12y ago
The non-design is often a feature and a selling point for these vendors. There are some simple reasons that these might go against current trends in design - for example, these need to be high-information density displays, not minimalist sh
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by awkward 12y ago
I read, and was perplexed by, this description of git as a "DVCS building tool" the other day: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/2/17/ui-and-hidden-consistency/ Among other things, I hadn't see
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by awkward 12y ago
iMessage is an out and out embrace, extend, extinguish play not at all unlike Microsoft of the 1990s. It exists alongside standardized text message formats, and subverts the user's expectations of them by behaving differently in some c
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by awkward 12y ago
I'd expect it to peak with the poor and the rich and dip in the middle. My personal experience (not in NY, though) says it might look like this: The poor are taking a break on their rent to live somewhere without a washing machine, and
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by awkward 12y ago
In this post, a holder of a business degree performs an informed cost benefit analysis of getting a business degree and finds it wanting. Also, a well trained twenty something argues that training can't match the benefits of his experi
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by awkward 12y ago
As someone who doesn't like sports, who grew up in an environment where sports were very prominent, going to college and having the opportunity to dismiss popular sports, call it sportsball, and actually connect with people on that was

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