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by bjhoops1 14y ago
The anti-intellectualism in this country is infuriating! And it reaches to the highest levels, with creationist congressman and even anti-vaccination nuts like Dan Brown. Only in America do people scoff at the work of science and academicia
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Ha yes I thought the same thing - definitely more correlation than causation on that one.
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Profiting From a Child’s Illiteracy(nytimes.com)
15 points by bjhoops1 14y ago|6 comments
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Aaaand you beat me to my smartass comment... well played.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Thanks - yes, the insurance company did offer a free year of this service. I will be signing up for it.
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Ask HN: What to do when personal information stolen?
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Here's the line that probably got him the axe: "Today's legal regime is seen by many as a form of corporate welfare" Drawing attention to the existence of "corporate welfare" does not go over well in the GOP. And I was so proud of them for
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
131 self-referential comments
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
One of the things I love about HN is that a scathing article criticizing startups and tech entrepreneurs can make the front page.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Treatments with "DNA-modified virus"? Looks like we're one step closer to the Zombie Apocalypse!
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Google Compute Engine vs Amazon EC2 vs Heroku
3 points by bjhoops1 14y ago|2 comments
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Only thing worse are those "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" modals. Those cause me to go into fits of ctrl+w- smashing rage!!!
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Very nice! I've used jGrowl for this in the past, but this seems much improved, more feature-rich and with sensible default styles. Alertify FTW!
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
You mean this? http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/07/blow-up-the-web-with-font-b... Yeah, I played with that for hours.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Oh my god, yes! I am a compulsive margin-clicker. I ostensibly do this to make sure that the browser page has focus, but really it's really just a tick. I love TheOnion.com, but they kill me with their ads-in-the-margins. What I typically
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I have personally used gondolas which fit far more than 6 people, so your max throughput is actually quite high.
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And is anyone surprised?
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
This sort of thing is happening on a massive scale in the US as well. David Cay Johnston's book, The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob you Blind exposes how "regulated" monopolies bereft of competition squeeze money o
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
The probability of a tragedy occurring is almost completely irrelevant to the common person (including my mother and wife). What does get people's attention is the shock factor when that one-in-10-million event occurs. Which helps explain
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
So true! I laughed out loud when I read this line.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Let's get rid of this clown.
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Like the author in his conversation, I found myself reading this article looking for the answer to the question of what I should career-wise myself. doh!
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Yeah, I've dealt with 10000 line JS files before. You know, the master JS file that gets included on every page in the application. Too risky to change anything in it. Ever.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Great post! Only suggestion I might add as a helpful pattern would be leveraging Backbone.Events to implement a Mediator pattern for communication between Views. This is overkill for between Parent Views and SubViews, but I have found it t
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Very nice. I laughed to myself over "Search", remembering an absurdly complicated query I once wrote to do a search against an Oracle table. Ending up with a dynamically generated query which got really long depending on how many spaces you
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I'll need to see some data to corroborate this.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Not sure whether to laugh or cry about this.
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Great pointing out that Backbone is deceptively simple. No best practices to be found on backbonejs.org. Always worth considering using a framework layer like Marionette to help you with architecture. Otherwise you will end up writing
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
The querying capabilities here look amazing. Having to manually figure out how do joins and group by in something like CouchDB is really a pain, but this looks really slick. Very impressed and I will be trying this out!
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Look Samsung in the EYE and tell them you're sorry, Apple. Sorry for what? OK that's better.

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