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by christiansmith 12y ago
For those that might pass by this link without clicking, it's worth noting that it's a paper by Sergey Brin and Larry Page titled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine." Looks like a great read. Th
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by christiansmith 12y ago
Can you recommend any alternatives?
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by christiansmith 12y ago
You might be looking at it from the wrong angle. What if we're all intrinsically autodidacts and 12-16+ years of compulsory education successfully trains that quality out of most people? It's probably not a coincidence that those
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Ask HN: How feasible is it to encrypt user records?
2 points by christiansmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by christiansmith 12y ago
It's weird looking down on any aircraft while standing on solid ground. Have experienced this on a couple hikes and it's slightly disorienting.
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by christiansmith 12y ago
#24 caught my attention with the poem/song about the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE_AbM8ZykI Somewhere in between music school and programming for a living, I had the s
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by christiansmith 12y ago
First, I never said "don't use SQL, even where it makes sense." The original commenter wrote, "advice to anyone deciding on a database". I strongly disagree with the notion that any practicing or aspiring creator sh
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by christiansmith 12y ago
This might be good advice if you're building cookie cutter systems for clients that have high turnover of contractors, but for startups I think it's horrible. I'd take one person that really groks devops and database intern
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by christiansmith 12y ago
Some of them write in all uppercase. I'm not joking or being sarcastic. If you run across someone who's a little too happy with the caps lock key... run like your life depends on it.
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by christiansmith 12y ago
Can't remember which book this quote is from, but "Critical Path" and "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" are great food for thought: http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Path-Kiyoshi-Kuromiya/dp&#
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by christiansmith 12y ago
> I'd certainly pay for a good solution to the mess that is bookmarks http://pinboard.in has very nicely solved the problem for me, with tagging and search. Well worth the $10 one-time fee.
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by christiansmith 13y ago
That might work well for someone with domain expertise. But not everyone is prepared to look at raw data and instantly extrapolate meaning. Taken to an absurd extreme, do you also think that machine translation between languages is also a t
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by christiansmith 13y ago
The gist reads like someone looking for an excuse to give up and move on. Every time I run across someone bitching about Node's programming model I'm reminded of "The Blub Paradox". http://paulgraham.com/
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by christiansmith 13y ago
I was fortunate enough to see him perform twice in Boston. Once at Symphony Hall with Di Meola and McLaughlin, and once at the Orpheum with the dancers and everything. He was to his instrument what Tesla was to electricity. He made it come
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by christiansmith 13y ago
This past weekend, Erik Isaksen, Adi Chikara and I built this app for the Static Showdown hackathon with AngularJS and Firebase. The idea is that anyone can issue a challenge, invite their friends, and compete in real time to solve a random
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Show HN: CodeOut, a real time multiplayer coding game(staticshowdown.com)
1 points by christiansmith 13y ago|2 comments
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by christiansmith 13y ago
As much as I enjoy Dijkstra's wit in general (and I agree with the argument for learning functional languages early), I imagine taking a shot at "Texas's solid conservatism" didn't help his case all that much. For
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by christiansmith 13y ago
I'm really glad you have a third option there. Don't get me wrong, I love money and the things and experiences it can buy. But when I die, I want my life to have been about more than collecting the most toys. I want to create usef
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by christiansmith 13y ago
"The largest architectural change we made was to move from our monolithic Ruby application to one that is more services oriented." This validates my recent line of thought that a "stack" is the wrong analogy for modern w
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by christiansmith 13y ago
Sadly, appeals to reason are not usually well received by an angry mob. Every time this subject comes up I remind myself of pg's "What You Can't Say" essay and then I keep my mouth shut. http://paulgraham.com/say.html
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by christiansmith 14y ago
Pride, avarice, sloth and wrath. Did I miss anything? ;-)
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by christiansmith 14y ago
I suspect this will turn out to be a "dead cat bounce"[1]. The record industry still hasn't figured out that its customers are actually the musicians, not the audience. Musicians aren't expendable laborers, they're businesses that need vari
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by christiansmith 14y ago
Hopefully I've replied to everyone who emailed. So sorry if I missed anyone.
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by christiansmith 14y ago
Thanks everyone for your interest! The class is filled and overflowing at the moment, but there will be a next time. If you're still interested, send me an email (see profile) describing why you want to learn JavaScript and your current le
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by christiansmith 14y ago
Send me an email. If I do this again I'll let you know.
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by christiansmith 14y ago
If there's enough interest in a different time, I'd think about doing it again on a weekday evening.
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by christiansmith 14y ago
I'll give it some thought. Thanks!
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by christiansmith 14y ago
Great! I'll be in touch soon with the details!
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Ask HN: Who wants to learn JavaScript?
6 points by christiansmith 14y ago|14 comments
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by christiansmith 14y ago
Here's some constructive criticism for you: turn the anger down a bit. It's a conversation, not a fight to the death. Second, learn how to write coherently. It helps if you want to be understood.

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