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by chavesn 13y ago
I almost made a similar point but didn't want to be too long-winded. But you're exactly right on. Certain idioms develop in every language. In Java there's a culture of favoring verbosity over cleverness. In fact, I think
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by chavesn 13y ago
This is one of those criticisms that sounds right if you know a little bit about the topic, and is certainly clever enough in and of itself to make the reader think that it's making a good point. But it's not making a good point.
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by chavesn 13y ago
Um, one small difference, you have to be a resident of Alaska for at least a year, intend to remain a permanent resident and not be absent more than 180 days without a valid reason. [1] [1]: http://pfd.alaska.gov/Eligibility
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by chavesn 13y ago
I think I should have won by now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2hokoh94hujyf2j/Screenshot%202014-... I thought it played normally, and it does for a while, but it always eventually seems to randomly revert your high
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by chavesn 13y ago
This is an awesome project, and I'm really impressed at a quality automatic adjustable desk for so cheap. I almost can't believe it. The website looks great, too, however it has one big problem for me: I felt frustrated to have
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by chavesn 13y ago
I see this complaint a lot. It seems highly correlated to the broadening of HN's voter base. If new users are not taught by existing users what the existing users like and think should be upvoted, then what is upvoted will naturally
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by chavesn 13y ago
I voted in the poll, because it was there, but I will not upvote the post because I don't think it's a good poll. I don't see what there is to be accomplished by this poll. Why do I /need/ to upvote the post?
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by chavesn 13y ago
This article is misleading on several accounts (as others of its type often are). - Yes, initial payload size matters. But where's the true comparison about what each app is loading? How are the features and the UX? Would a power use
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by chavesn 13y ago
"Show HN" is already kind of meta, so this definitely strikes me as meta-meta. I think the main problem here is the post title: "We did a SHOW HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News" . Good for you. Really
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by chavesn 13y ago
> "Since we made those changes, we have noticed the ratio of people who try our presentation demo now is up from an embarrassingly low 1% to a much healthier 28%." I think you've made positive changes, but don't for
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by chavesn 13y ago
Not many posting winning scores, so here's mine: 2048 and 20368 points http://imgur.com/c3aHuT4 I'm not going to claim it was first try. Probably my tenth. However, I got much better at avoiding the key mistakes:
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by chavesn 13y ago
I use Mac, not Windows, so I'm sure I see them rendered quite differently than you, but I prefer Source Code Pro.[1][2] They are extremely similar and I agree nothing else comes very close. It's the lower-case 'i' that
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by chavesn 13y ago
Although they seem to be considered serifs[1], I wouldn't call it stock-standard "mixing", since it's fairly common[2]: - Verdana (the font of this very comment: "I") - Tahoma - Officina Sans - Bell Gothic - Ap
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by chavesn 13y ago
I worked at a place where we tried practicing the principle of the 30% demo. We had one additional point -- at 30%, you should have rough "end-to-end" progress. This made a drastic difference in how early we were able to assess a
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by chavesn 13y ago
All this shows to me is how useless it is to compare by "cost per user". The note at the bottom says "Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 16 billion dollars, the largest startup acquisition to date. Cost per user was comparable
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by chavesn 13y ago
That answerer[1] was also one of the close-voters[2]... [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/157247/t-j-crowder [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/21947452/revisions
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by chavesn 13y ago
(I'm not programming this kind of thing so please forgive my ignorance.) Is that loose of a search not actually desirable in "find in page" instances? In other words, are there many words where 'e' matching 'é&
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by chavesn 13y ago
Yep -- a person in the 50s may not have even had enough context to be as blown away by this as someone who knew about hard drives. My earliest memory of a hard drive capacity -- about 21 years ago -- is 130 MB (although that most certainly
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by chavesn 13y ago
This kind of criticism happens to any popular term. And usually terms become popular because they work . Thinking "minimum viable product" worked -- it turned on the light bulb for many people (like myself) who polish instead
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by chavesn 13y ago
I have a friend in the US Foreign Service and this is very similar to the experience he had. Only after they qualify do they find out the job -- and location! -- to which they'll be posted. This doesn't seem very strange to me at
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by chavesn 13y ago
That article isn't "better", they serve completely different purposes. If you master everything in Yegge's article, but yet fail to show you know how to learn, lead, show ownership and humility, you'll still probabl
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by chavesn 13y ago
If I understand correctly this is the diff between two releases of this code, and we have no way of knowing what each checkin, including the culprit, actually looked like. So even though at the two end points we see the addition of only one
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by chavesn 13y ago
> With the growth they had last year and current growth, their revenue should exponentially rise over 2014 and 2015. You're assuming: A) Their growth stays the same as it is now. B) Users on year-long free trials will convert to pay
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by chavesn 13y ago
This goes along with my One Universal Truth: "You get what you pay for." The only real way to win on price is to find employees who don't know any better, and then, well, you have employees who didn't know any better. D
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by chavesn 13y ago
Wow, nice catch. Sadly it looks very intentional. You can see the Yahoo version has been edited to include the date "2-7-14", even though the copyright still says 1995.[1] It is indeed a 1995 cartoon.[2] I can't imagine Sc
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by chavesn 13y ago
Fantastic point. Abstractions can be dangerous because they often aren't developed right. But that isn't the case here. When something like jQuery comes along, hiding so many gory details, and has been tested to death both in dev
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by chavesn 13y ago
The Bad: The premise of the examples list seems a bit disingenuous. Very few of these things take into account the full convenience of jQuery. It's much more than saving a couple lines of code or knowing the native way to accomplish
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by chavesn 13y ago
One simple solution that I like: - You have a row of credit card icons. By default they are in full color. - These icons react like buttons (hover shows clickability) and act like radio buttons if clicked -- all the others gray out. - When
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by chavesn 13y ago
Why would a company ever ever ever accept 6 digits of a credit card number as a way to authenticate an identity?? Credit card numbers are not secure. Therefore, they should not ever be accepted as authentication. Especially only 6 digi
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by chavesn 13y ago
> You can think to yourself: “ugh, patent trolls are disgusting”. But the protection of intellectual property is what America is built on. Smart people invent things. Then they get to protect the intellectual property on what they invent

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