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by chavesn 13y ago
"180 websites in 180 days" - http://jenniferdewalt.com/
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by chavesn 13y ago
Avoid paywall (am I the only one this always happens to?): http://google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...
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One diabetic’s take on Google’s Smart Contact Lenses(gigaom.com)
2 points by chavesn 13y ago|0 comments
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by chavesn 13y ago
The author has a fair point, but I was left hanging waiting for a "so, what?" at the end. I was hoping there would be something more constructive to this than just a complaint. What should be done about it? What are people rea
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by chavesn 13y ago
You can also CMD+click and drag (or double click as long as it's not a URL, which will open) to add to the text selection (like multiple cursors in Sublime Text 2). Also, Option+click and drag gives you column selection mode.
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by chavesn 13y ago
Bypass paywall (maybe the paywall only starts after 1 day?): http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.economist.com/blogs/g...
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by chavesn 13y ago
I really recommend watching this video of the author, Clayton Christensen, talking about the same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSG_d0mmf0 > ""...by competing against non-consumption, all they had to
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by chavesn 13y ago
I've heard this same line of thinking many times, usually in allusion to Git but often not stated explicitly. But I've never heard a good answer to the question of how you can actually have an adequate SCM-merge unless it's
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by chavesn 13y ago
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all if those who jump in to denounce Myers Briggs have similar personality types. Among all those I know who've taken it, myself included, it's been strongly indicative of their personalit
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by chavesn 13y ago
Exactly. I guess I don't totally understand all the complaints about "Pseudo-science" if its so consistent. That at least means something. This is the third time I've taken the test, and given the same result every ti
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by chavesn 13y ago
Contractors hate him! How "one weird trick" will get you hired... ...really.
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by chavesn 13y ago
It also just occurred to me that this is a near-perfect real life use case for Regex Golf... [0]: http://xkcd.com/1313/ [1]: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313...
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Easily filter Geekbench charts (8 lines JS)(gist.github.com)
1 points by chavesn 13y ago|1 comments
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by chavesn 13y ago
As a corollary, I try to think through this any time I say something "isn't a big deal". Is it really not a big deal to me? What people often mean when they say "it's not a big deal" is "it's a big d
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by chavesn 13y ago
Come on. We're supposed to doubt the merits of this entire article about Twitter's philosophy and general large-organization engineering practices because someone outside can't imagine how so many people fill their day? Beca
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Be Stupider(nickchaves.com)
1 points by chavesn 13y ago|0 comments
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by chavesn 13y ago
I disagree; as long as we're generalizing about how "Hacker News" any one comment is, let's call yours the perfect HN comment: Bikeshedding (as if the world is black and white, no less) about who is the most wrong in a
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by chavesn 13y ago
My initial thought: This is terrible, because how would we ever know which sites we can trust? Something as tiny as an extra space would change the hash value. But on second thought, the real problem is that we (the web technology communi
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by chavesn 13y ago
Paid by Apple? He doesn't need to be paid by Apple. Have you seen his sponsorship prices[1]? Of course part of the reason he does what he does is because it's paid off so well for him through blogging as a business. His busines
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by chavesn 13y ago
Is Gruber's goal to break sweet stories or deliver exclusives? Two days after a story breaks no one cares anymore about the breaking of it. But a smart and thoughtful editorialist is likely writing pieces that hold value for years. Ce
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by chavesn 13y ago
Yes, exactly! What I don't get is how hard it would be for someone to say "Hmm, maybe redirecting to the home page is actually a pretty awful idea. If that's the best we can do, maybe we should only auto-redirect pages where
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by chavesn 13y ago
By far the biggest mobile-website sin for me is that a high percentage of sites that auto-redirect to a mobile version actually don't work right at all : - Redirects to home page - Page not found on mobile site - Mobile version has re
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by chavesn 13y ago
I don't know what the few years after the transistor's first appearance actually seemed like, but we've got 65+ years of perspective working for us to appreciate it. Those "papers" do represent actual inventions, no
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The Low Information Diet(mrmoneymustache.com)
1 points by chavesn 13y ago|0 comments
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by chavesn 13y ago
I can think of one more; some sites use referrer to allow you to bypass a paywall if (and only if) you came from search results. The problem is, all of these "features" allowed by referrers are user-hostile actions. If referrers
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by chavesn 13y ago
> people who want to learn to code today have a marked advantage over those who wanted to learn in 1996. True, but they aren't competing against job candidates from 1996. Not that the whole movement is about finding a job. In fact,
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by chavesn 13y ago
Remember to take into account that doing something similar to SO but scoped more narrowly could actually hurt the help/answer community through fragmentation more than help it.
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by chavesn 13y ago
Why do people assume that RTFM does not have a cost? In fact, it's probably higher than searching SO through Google. This is why I'm hugely in favor of even basic questions getting answers on SO.
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by chavesn 13y ago
I feel ashamed to say that I clicked "Meet the Brick" twice (link to home page, apparently) before I tried scrolling. But, I bet I'm not alone.
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by chavesn 13y ago
I appreciate the detailed reply. I guess I'm naturally skeptical in two areas: - I don't quite see how you are factoring in the 60% batting average above (seems like it would water your returns down quite a bit from an average 2%

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