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by brianbarker 11y ago
Coffee is awesome. If you don't love it and appreciate a good brew, you're missing out on life.
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by brianbarker 11y ago
Many people here have taken selfies with the cars as they've spotted them around town.
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by brianbarker 11y ago
MaxPoint Interactive | Austin, TX or Morrisville, NC or Boston, MA MaxPoint drives advertising that brings in-store sales. If you enjoy large data sets, analytics, real-time streams, web applications, etc., you will love working with us. We
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by brianbarker 11y ago
"our bodies weren't meant to eat bread." "Our bodies weren't meant to eat meat." "Our bodies are only meant to eat meat and nuts." I love when a nerd forum like HN uses modern conjecture over fact.
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by brianbarker 11y ago
Now that MS is playing great with Linux, it's hard to justify moving away from C# for common web tasks. My biggest issue was not wanting to deploy Windows servers (for my own projects; my company pays for it without issue). Credit is d
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by brianbarker 11y ago
MaxPoint Interactive in Austin, TX and Raleigh, NC is hiring for many positions. I'm a Sr. Software Engineer here, and I can definitely help you get an interview. If you're into Data Science or Engineering we're especially ex
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by brianbarker 11y ago
^^ Just listen to this guy and go do your homework.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Hehe, the post is full of referral links to Sendy.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
That's just the hacker news effect.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Late night runs to a place called Taco John? Sounds like a post-alcohol food run. Maybe start there with the food waste issue :).
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by brianbarker 12y ago
I was coming to add this exact thought! A solution like the umbrella could be activated and easily deactivated at will, since it's a physical object that could change positions. The other solutions, such as putting chemicals into the
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Why is this getting downvoted? Iceland did roll out a crypto-currency, the article did claim this other to be the first. Seems logicalman is being just that ;).
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by brianbarker 12y ago
A flip phone doesn't really stop surveillance. They still track where you are, who you call. Sure, maybe no app data, but since you don't use Facebook and such that data wouldn't be there anyway.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
The mentioned novels seem cool, but an even better reference is Feed. Published in 2002 before MySpace was a household name, it pretty much hits the nail on the head in terms of surveillance, marketing and connectedness.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Integrate a tissue on the nose pad and you're ready for any season!
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by brianbarker 12y ago
'tis a noble idea, but I don't see this project going very far. I think operating systems suck in general, but I can't just sit down with a couple of buddies and write a new one that competes on all the practical levels it w
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by brianbarker 12y ago
I won, too. HN could remove all the undeserved downvotes I get ;).
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by brianbarker 12y ago
In the end you can't have both. If you work all the time your interpersonal relationships with suffer. The original post is asking for advice in a situation where he is unable to spend enough time away from work and appears to want t
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by brianbarker 12y ago
I would also add that perhaps it's time to reconsider your goals. If you're working a ton, or on a startup or side project or whatever, maybe that's not going to give you what you want and maybe it's time to let go. It
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by brianbarker 12y ago
First, I wouldn't get relationship advice from HN, or any pool of nerds. There's a reason our relationships suffer or are few and far between: nerd personalities will spend more time coding at work, trying to build a side projec
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Well, there are some people who think this way. Likely there are many of them on HN. However, watch any presidential race in the US and see the rant about people who mooch off society by not "working hard enough." I come from a
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Star Trek society. That's what can happen, but only if we progress into a mindset that those who don't work for money are not slackers nor taking away from the success of the wealthy.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
When I had LinkedIn I got endorsements for Copy & Paste.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
no-helmeters?? Of course something like that exists. Of course there's a group of people up in arms over helmet use. Of course. Fuck me, nothing should surprise me anymore.
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by brianbarker 12y ago
"compulsory bicycle helmet laws reduce the overall quality of life" So...compulsory seat belt laws reduce the overall quality of life? Say what?
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Yeah I can see how that would be a problem. Maybe it'd be better to clarify that JQuery and Angular work great together; however, JQuery plugins (which may have all kinds of selectors, state, DOM manipulation) cannot be guaranteed t
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by brianbarker 12y ago
But again, is your plugin being called from an angular module, or are you running them separately on the same nodes? That's typically the problem, and it makes sense. If any two frameworks are messing with the same page content, you&
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Since when do Angular and JQuery not play nicely? Angular uses "JQLite" which gets replaced with JQuery if it's already loaded. I guess if you're trying direct dom manipulation on the same elements from outside of Angul
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by brianbarker 12y ago
You can share snippets on any platform using either github snippets or an html/js code formatter like https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/downloads/lis... . Rather than host your own, I prefer
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by brianbarker 12y ago
Put "show HN" on it. After they added the special feed for that the other day, everyone was hacking that and there were about 7 on the front page for awhile. Ironically, this post is sticking on the front page :). Maybe that say

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