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by basicallydan 12y ago
Embassytown by China Mieville! :)
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WayTools Textblade(waytools.com)
14 points by basicallydan 12y ago|4 comments
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by basicallydan 12y ago
> let considered harmful: The problem with let is that it is not “hoisted” to the top of its block, as var is with its containing function. Interesting point, but I disagree. I think that the lack of hoisting is one of the benefits of
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by basicallydan 12y ago
I'd like to be the third person to recommend it to you. My second favourite book of 2014 :) Do it! Oh and hey good luck with your writing :)
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Wow, it does! It looks like some kinda weird Tatoonine farm-inspired thing.
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Wow, this looks great. Nice one Glen. I'm looking forward to trying this out. I'm going to, ASAP.
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by basicallydan 12y ago
This is interesting, but is there some way to say what the name of each prison is and where it is? Some of them look "nicer" than others, some are quite interesting-looking and I'm curious to learn more about them.
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by basicallydan 12y ago
GA Instructor in London here! None of my students have gotten jobs out of my short-term, part time (6 hours a week) course yet. Most of my students were already employed and looking to find out more about development, or starting their own
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Hey, GA Instructor here! Did he do FEWD or WDI?
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Doesn't 16 seem like the kinda age that kids should start making decisions for themselves? This really reads a lot like the dad was making all the decisions here. Good for her, for sure, and well done. Still seems a bit fishy though.
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Thanks for this! I'd love to see some more recommendations for this but it's hard to find reviews. Can you elaborate a bit about what you liked about it?
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Allow Yourself to be Inspired(danhough.com)
1 points by basicallydan 12y ago|0 comments
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Cute! Well done!
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by basicallydan 12y ago
> An online petition by a scientist at the NASA research centre had demanded that the scheduled lecture be cancelled as it mixes mythology with science. I really want to see this lecture because I want to see where the evidence for this
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Ask HN: Book recommendations for 2015?
5 points by basicallydan 12y ago|5 comments
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by basicallydan 12y ago
It should do, but if an application wants to use /usr/bin/git for some reason they can still just do that!
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How small companies and freelancers can deal with the VATMOSS EU VAT changes(rachelandrew.co.uk)
31 points by basicallydan 12y ago|16 comments
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Hey Paul! It's Dan from London API! So glad to hear you're doing this. I wanna help out with SWAPI, if I get time :) FYI everybody who maybe didn't read it in the blog post: Paul's API is now used by the UK Organisation
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by basicallydan 12y ago
If you've successfully logged in somehow, please share.
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by basicallydan 12y ago
This is a really nice approach to the problem of getting fake data. For the lazy, it responds with your request data if you have any. Super useful if you just want to get parsing with a real response. I'd like to point out though, as I
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Oh, I see! So the "prevailing wage" column is the one that is the wage in the area. I understand now. I misunderstood it to mean "the wage which they actually were able to get after being employed". Cool. Thanks for the
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Can anybody tell me why wage offer and prevailing wage don't match up? Is there some kinda limit on what an immigrant can be paid?
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A Year of Independence(danhough.com)
2 points by basicallydan 12y ago|0 comments
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by basicallydan 12y ago
The video is actually pretty good. There's a lot of build-up but they do show the product working in a realistic manner to wrap it all up at the end, with, "Keep your phone in your pocket".
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Seems to work! In fact, it showed me 6 people, but I didn't sign up fully. Sadly, my verified followers mostly are made up of companies I've worked for or companies I've complained about/used Twitter as customer service
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Ask HN: Pay-as-you-go SaaS services?
1 points by basicallydan 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Forkability, a linter for open-source friendliness of GitHub repos(basicallydan.github.io)
2 points by basicallydan 12y ago|0 comments
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Forkability: A linter for GitHub repositories. Measure open-source-friendliness(basicallydan.github.io)
3 points by basicallydan 12y ago|0 comments
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by basicallydan 12y ago
Simple solution: Don't use gifv for all gifs! For a lot of gifs this will massively reduce loading times.
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by basicallydan 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: London, UK or Remote I'm a backend, frontend and native mobile software engineer specialising in prototypes and small full-stack projects. My rates are reasonable and I'm willing to work remotely from my home city of

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