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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
It's interesting that this uses points + comment count as the test of importance; doesn't HN use comment count as one indicator of a flamewar IIRC?
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
This isn't to criticize your design itself, but I've always suspected HN was designed to be less than aesthetically appealing for a reason: to prevent a culture of focusing on appearances. HN that looks sexy (for example, I notice
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
the article seems to be saying C# is cheap and fast because it has a really good set of libraries. i have no problem believing this. the question in a startup is, is it more important to have good libraries or a powerful language? e.g. lisp
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
By the time the site gets big enough to make a dent in the properties' reputations, that will also be around the time property owners start hearing about it.
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
I personally feel the same way, especially the bit about always emerging a new person each time, and also do not have a smartphone for this reason. When I'm alone, actually, what I want is to document my experiences-- not necessarily
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Ask HN: Do you use proxies?
2 points by brandonhsiao 12y ago|2 comments
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
I'm surprised this isn't more popular: Python/web.py
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Sorry to ask what are probably silly questions, but: how do I, uh, find these people? Like where do they gather? Should I look up local businesses in my area, call them, and talk about their problems?
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Thanks for the advice. I'd like to take your suggestion to radically raise rates to prevent this from happening again. What do you suggest I do to get in touch with/market to/work for clients willing to pay that much?
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Wow, that is awesome. Wait, that actually sounds like a solution to my biggest problem right now.
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Thanks for the heads up. If you hadn't told me I would never have even thought of it that way.
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
It doesn't cost that much actually; once I find a permanent place and buy groceries etc. I can live off maybe $600-$700/month. The issue is really just that I need money last-minute.
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Ask HN: What to do as a programmer about to go homeless
46 points by brandonhsiao 12y ago|55 comments
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Ask HN/people in charge: What are the distributions of OSes used by HN readers?
2 points by brandonhsiao 12y ago|1 comments
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
SEEKING WORK as a full-stack web developer. Mostly Python for backend and CoffeeScript for frontend, though I know most of the important languages. --- Stuff I've built: * http://betatype.io * http://prototypefor
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Perhaps the best policy is to make a note that these children are gifted, stand by while they do their own thing, and when and only when they start getting bored, give them access to the kinds of challenges they need.
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
I feel the biggest thing differentiating child geniuses is that they get things done on their own without being told to. They'll explore the world, they'll naturally have a thirst for learning, etc. The worst thing you can do to a
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
The real question to answer is, does his idea suck? I think a good way to answer this question in general is to ask him for specific examples of how he envisions users using his product and why. I.e. who the user specifically is and what
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Really awesome, might start using this instead of lichess. One thing stopping me is the chess pieces. They so fancy that they distract me during the game since I have to pay a little more attention to which pieces are which. Standard ones l
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
That is a good point. Visual Studio is actually one of the things I have positive emotions about from my Windows days.
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
I might have expressed myself poorly, but this was really my main point: Overall, I personally feel this was upvoted to the front page more because of the controversiality of the topic than because of the quality of the article. I wasn&#x
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
That is actually a striking thought if it's true. Can you please tell us why you think it is?
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
While part of me still wants to tell would-be hackers to just switch to OS X or Linux, I've realized recently that a lot of hackers are bound to Windows because they use various software that only works on Windows, like games, or becau
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
There's no reason to be insulted by this quote. Either Mark is wrong, and someday he'll learn, or he's right. When kids say mistaken things about stuff they don't understand, adults usually just ignore them because they&
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
I have no clue whether or how much being over 30 matters, but I find this article to be full of poor arguments. > I would guess that a fair majority of the human race has, at one time or another, been young. This supports Mark's poi
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Not to be a party pooper but why is that a big deal? You'll get a neat number like that every 1,150 days or so.
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Fair enough. Guess I deserved the downvotes.
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Just a heads-up: not sure if it's just my own flawed nature, but I almost upvoted the link just because of the clever quote. For me at least, that title is borderline linkbait.
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Is It Worth Being Wise? (2007)(paulgraham.com)
10 points by brandonhsiao 12y ago|2 comments
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by brandonhsiao 12y ago
Two things limit children from learning to program: ability and enthusiasm. Resources to teach programming to "kids" tend to optimize for fixing the former, but in my opinion it's the latter that matters so much more.

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