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by bjhoops1 14y ago
> It all comes down to Google’s algorithm (a word I use carelessly, and frequently, but whose meaning is obscure to me, though I feel it is something mathematical) Loved this. Amusing reminder of the fact that most people do not speak o
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
"Supportive feedback and constructive criticism" don't general page views though. :/
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I'll admit to setting up a bit of a straw man here. I am probably to quick to do so because for most of my own life I was a conservative/libertarian type. I know that many of the points, arguments and concerns of this group are valid (lik
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Let's certainly hope so. Problem Solving > Ideology. The world is far too complex for a simple set of rules (Ideology) to be capable of providing all the answers to all the problems. The simplest cell in the human body is unimaginably
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
The fact is that the Private Sector solves problems exclusively for people who can pay for them. In other words, how useful the Private Sector is to you is a direct function of your income. The Public Sector may be inefficient and costly,
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
But what about my deep-seated need to feel like I'm fundamentally better than investment bankers?
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Malcolm Gladwell has a chapter on this in his book Blink. Really interesting read about how frequently instinctual, snap decisions (Red team) based off of limited information result in better results than overly analyzed decisions based of
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But does this take into consideration the children that are saved from drowning in an intruder's pool by the presence of their own pool? The only thing that stops a bad guy with a pool is a good guy with a pool.
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I agree with you there - having built out even small to medium sized Backbone apps, you find yourself wondering what the "Backbone way" to do things is, only to find there is no "Backbone way." Something I've found which does a great job o
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"Technology magnifies differences in innate ability" I hope you are not confusing innate ability with realized ability. I am sure you are a talented, skilled individual, but if you were born in a horribly disadvantaged situation I doub
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
"it should be a big red flag for growth when the brightest young people start going into finance, since they aren’t actually creating any more wealth, just redistributing it" God I could not agree more. I absolutely hate the fact that the
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Handlebars vs Underscore templates: Why not Choose Both?(brettjonesdev.com)
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I find it easier to use Handlebars first, then fall back on _.template() when you need logic in your templates. It's easy : http://brettjonesdev.com/on-templating-in-backbone/
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Yes, Handlebars is explicitly designed for logicless templating. If you need real logic in your View (which I might add is often a good time to step back and possibly refactor your solution), you can always fall back on Underscore's templa
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Ask HN: ExtJS vs. Backbone/Ember/Angular for huge Enterprise app?
12 points by bjhoops1 14y ago|10 comments
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I support a minimum wage increase (trickle-down economics is moronic and makes much less sense than a bottom-up approach, but I digress), but let's not forget that a minimum wage increase helps Costco's bottom line, since their biggest comp
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I love the "takedown" of Keynesian/mainstream economics in the middle of this rant. Any other centuries-old disciplines your knowledge of Big-O notation and compilers qualifies you to discredit? Oh, modern medicine? Good for you. This guy
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
If you'd like to know more about why the U.S. lags insanely far behind in the broadband race, and why we pay ~ 4 times as much for our inferior service, check out David Cay Johnston's The Fine Print. I don't recommend it for anyone with bl
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
CSS? Reddit? Ha.
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And they already beat the US in Internet speed. http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/
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This is really cool. Question: what are you using behind the scenes to smash the properties in the yaml file into your index.html? I didn't see anything explaining this (unless I missed it).
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God, yes. I often hesitate to even look at the comments because the 1st comment is inevitably some hyper-snarky rebuttal with a thousand sub-comments. Please add this.
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This is really impressive. Soooo close on the XML database thing - just substitute JSON (which hardly anyone knew anything about in 2004) for XML and he nailed it. Just one great call amongst many here.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I'm sure that "LSD" was added to the title for its name recognition. No one was going to click on an article about psilocybin. :)
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
That's a great article (I'd read it before). I would love to see someone come with a fancy way of scanning github, twitter, etc. to find numbers to gauge the interest in each of these frameworks/libraries.
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Ask HN: What JavaScript MVC libraries are most popular right now?
3 points by bjhoops1 14y ago|3 comments
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Or as a senior developer I know often said, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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This makes me so happy. I've got my first on the way in about a month. I'll have to bookmark this for future use...
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I've had the same experience. My blog posts not getting any upvotes, but still quite a few page views. However, GA tells me the views from HN have an atrociously high bounce rate and an average time on page of like 8 seconds. :P
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
You actually bother to ask whether they support remote work? You are more patient than I. And no, I'm not interested in a position in Albuquerque.

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