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by bprater 18y ago
Ah, I wondered what nationality you were. (I'm Portuguese too, but not natively.) Fuck is a bit strong for this type of article. Also, rather than saying 'how the fuck', we would say, at least in American English, "what the fuck is 'trim' i
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by bprater 18y ago
About time! It's actually really nice to surf on the iPhone, I hit up several sites on my phone when I'm out of the home/office. But Y!Hacker isn't on the list because of that issue. Not sure how you are going to deal with it though, differ
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by bprater 18y ago
Or maybe flag new posts since your last visit, so you can scan a thread more quickly?
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by bprater 18y ago
Yes! Yes! Yes! I would get so much more out of the site if I could revisit some threads I'm interested in. I quickly forget when the post is no longer highlight as unvisited. Maybe threads can be "floated" to the top of the page until they
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, Perl is much more of a real, complete language. If you know Perl, you can pick up PHP basics in an hour.
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by bprater 18y ago
'The problem that it solves is "searching a term or topic across multiple sites is difficult and time consuming, and there's no easy way for me to aggregate and share this"' I use Google to search for topics across sites. I'm not trying to
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by bprater 18y ago
Here's what I know and it seems pretty obvious: if a subversive is looking to move information between him and his cohorts, they will make it nearly impossible for the NSA or any other national organization to either: 1) locate messages or
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by bprater 18y ago
Awesome, this would give hackers a great way to show off their skills!
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by bprater 18y ago
You haven't clearly described what the service is and what problem I'm having that it fixes. (And why my present tools aren't good enough.)
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by bprater 18y ago
If this could be done quickly, it beats the pants off GPS. Take a look at this video to see it in action: http://www.mobvis.org/graphics/HyperlinkingRealityTheMovie.m...
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by bprater 18y ago
I suspect this is the beginning of many things we will learn now that the Bush administration is out of office.
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by bprater 18y ago
The lack of any real evangelism is hurting App Engine. If Google was doing a better job highlighting companies or projects using the service, posting interesting articles, actually improving the service based on feedback -- they might have
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by bprater 18y ago
Hey, I kinda like that idea!
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by bprater 18y ago
If it is relevant to hackers, submit it. And then let the 'upmod' gods do their thing.
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YHackers: Click that "New" link
157 points by bprater 18y ago|59 comments
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by bprater 18y ago
If I can isolate myself from distractions, I can code anytime.
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Using HTTP Headers to Serve Styles(meyerweb.com)
4 points by bprater 18y ago|0 comments
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by bprater 18y ago
I appreciate this guy's honesty. Sometimes we need to open the kimono and be honest with ourselves and others. But I can't wrap my head around this: "I have masters in software engineering and I couldnt solve pretty simple recursion and dat
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by bprater 18y ago
Great question. There is very little magic to the prototyping phase. Google 'rapid prototype' (maybe add 'plastic' to it) and find a shop that has a price that is in your budget. (The price usually has to do with size of the blank they will
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by bprater 18y ago
Impressive list. OSX could use a few more browsers, but I'm surprised just how many Linux/Windows browsers they have available. I've been doing a lot more web testing for a project this week, this might save me some serious time hunting dow
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by bprater 18y ago
Ah, now we know that programming is an art! Nice discovery!
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by bprater 18y ago
Dead wood must be hacked from the tree. It's what Ballmer should have really said, but couldn't.
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by bprater 18y ago
Check Elance, they have several sample agreements you can choose from. In fact, many of the rent-a-someone services will offer these. Personally, I kept an agreement around for years. Over time, I would add or subtract from it, but in gener
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by bprater 18y ago
Apple took how long to make their phone offering? Rushing isn't always ideal.
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CNAME support for GitHub Pages(github.com)
16 points by bprater 18y ago|2 comments
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, and I don't care how many languages you know. You can't be an expert in 8 languages. It's impossible. Tell me what you are passionate about and show me some of your work. Forget using a resume to sell yourself, use a blog, a series
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by bprater 18y ago
The problem with this article is that it doesn't immediate demonstrate, in code, what the problem is. Here's an example of a nested hash: "XXX". Here's what normally happens in Rack: "XX". Here's what we want to happen: "XX". Here's a coupl
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by bprater 18y ago
I suspect that entrepreneurs fail because they don't ask good questions. Lack of focus is an unexplored question. Lack of motivation is an unexplored question. Hitting a stinging low after the great initial launch highs are an unexplored qu
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by bprater 18y ago
Man, if you are Y!Hack regular and need an article to create a website, we are all in trouble!
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by bprater 18y ago
So the big question is: can you compress this data using Javascript? Has anyone seen a packing function?

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