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Ask HN: I would like feedback on the premise of a book I am writing.
2 points by bdg 15y ago|1 comments
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by bdg 15y ago
Instantly made me think of "Carthago delenda est" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
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by bdg 15y ago
At the end of the day your ultimate goal is to make money, that's all. I like the change you're suggesting. We're really just riding out the cultural wave that started when all the "dot coms" were startups, and so all tech companies under t
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It was a period of protocol war(cowbelljs.blogspot.com)
5 points by bdg 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdg 15y ago
> Then take your solution and do it in half the lines. Now, read more of the Python docs (maybe read about generators and list comprehensions and decorators) and make it even shorter. I don't agree with this. Shorter lines of code don'
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by bdg 15y ago
This is what I end up seeing, chrome 16: http://imgur.com/oNgoZ
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Correct storage of names(cowbelljs.blogspot.com)
4 points by bdg 15y ago|0 comments
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What I learnt from Project Euler: 001(cowbelljs.blogspot.com)
3 points by bdg 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdg 15y ago
Actually, I've started Project Euler, I worked my way through them the hard way (ie, finding a general abstraction that's optimized for performance). I've learnt a lot, but more about math than software per se. I still find it entirely fasc
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Ask HN: How can I self-evaluate my programming skills?
94 points by bdg 15y ago|43 comments
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by bdg 15y ago
I was rejected in a recent interview (2 months later I'm waiting to 'hear back' means rejection) where I wasn't competent at writing algorithms to do various tasks such as implement an insertion sort based on this image: http://en.wikipedi
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POST does not provide security(cowbelljs.blogspot.com)
1 points by bdg 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdg 15y ago
Amateurs have had satellites in space since the days of sputnik, the launching part is something new.
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by bdg 15y ago
Can you link to something more respectable than fox news?
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by bdg 15y ago
No kidding. Hash tags need to die, this isn't twitter, and I don't come here for 100-character-long spam bursts of groupthink and newspeak.
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by bdg 15y ago
Thanks for the awesome example of putting one of paul graham's essays into action. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by bdg 15y ago
I put all my web 2.0 data mines into the exploding clouds so I don't have to worry about synergize my glass envelopes to keep up with the Outranet-based-revolution.
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by bdg 15y ago
Why are we messing with things I already knew? You're the website, you deliver me content, I decide what to do with it. Don't take really long ways around to force me to do things your way, use semantic HTML and CSS, use the default scr
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by bdg 15y ago
Sure, but that feature seems trivial to me, I can simply create a view in my database to shake the data however I would like. https://gist.github.com/1438654 I could just select * from viewGroupErrors where error=12345 The cost of this ap
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by bdg 15y ago
Your product is for people who write code, but your sales pitch is some vaporous hand-wavy thing. I'm writing my own guide on quality JavaScript, and I have absolutely no idea of what your product does beyond "Group errors and email people,
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by bdg 15y ago
http://m-w.com/dictionary/oblations
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by bdg 15y ago
It's basically an index of users against tags. I don't understand how this is helpful to me.
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by bdg 15y ago
I like what it's trying to accomplish, but I don't see this as becoming a success. 1. I have no reason to join 2. I will never have a majority of site owners (issue 1 is subordinate to this) 3. Site owners change 4. Who do you really want t