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by commanda 15y ago
I guess this begs the question - was it one of their monkeys that caused their outage on Sunday night?
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by commanda 15y ago
I worked for 5 semesters as an undergrad teaching assistant in the CS department of my university. We had generally 1 to 2 cases of cheating per semester in classes of up to 150 students and ~10 assignments. We identified them using Moss[
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by commanda 15y ago
I'd most likely be a homemaker because that was all that was available to most women 100 years ago. I often count myself lucky that I was born in an age when women can become programmers.
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by commanda 15y ago
At one point, I (naively) thought that by starting a company, I would be helping to alleviate unemployment in the US because I would be creating jobs. Now I realize that the programmers and designers I employ are/will be people who could h
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by commanda 15y ago
What is Spring?
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by commanda 15y ago
Speaking as a technical cofounder, it depends on the potential technical cofounders that you meet. Personally, when I met my non-tech cofounder, he already had his idea well thought out to the point where he'd made a trailer video demonstr
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by commanda 15y ago
This is why it's often a good idea to outsource tasks that aren't your business's core competency. I've used Flurry for mobile stats tracking because they've devoted a lot of time figuring out solutions to problems like this. Time I don't h
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by commanda 15y ago
I honestly don't understand how this is a scandal at all. Sure, it's a mild annoyance to receive 27 reply-all messages. Newsworthy? Not in the least.
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by commanda 15y ago
From a great number of people's reports about their experiences while using psychedelics, they all seem to follow a common theme (things about opening their mind to God, communing with the great underlying themes of life, opening previously
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by commanda 16y ago
So because there's no history or common idiom referencing women in leadership roles, we should just speak of all hardship as though only men have ever, do ever, and will ever perform in difficult rites of passage? Please. This isn't clumsy,
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by commanda 16y ago
As a dev with a remote team, Skype 5 is probably my most-used desktop application on OS X, besides my IDE. The other day, after upgrading, I could not for the life of me figure out how to bring up the number key pad while on a voice call.
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by commanda 16y ago
Or maybe Europeans consume milk and alcohol because they can easily digest it?
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by commanda 16y ago
The ad I saw on the right side seems highly inappropriate. Or, perhaps, appropriate - I'm not sure. http://adb.nikkei.co.jp/ad/logo/2008b/NikkeiWeekly080722-NNI...
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by commanda 16y ago
What I find fascinating about Hedy Lamarr's patent is that it formed the basis, many decades later, for spread-spectrum communication tech used by wifi and CDMA networks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Frequency-hopping_s...
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by commanda 16y ago
I think this makes a lot of sense. You have to build the cake before you can put the icing on it. Your CSS is invisible unless it has html to decorate.
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by commanda 16y ago
Is this device "Made For iPhone" ( http://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/ )? If it is, I suggest putting the badge on your front page. If it's not, I suggest applying for it to be.
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by commanda 16y ago
I recommend that you see a therapist. My therapist's practice is mindfullness-based, which I highly recommend. One of the things I've learned is how to look at all my own italicized parenthetical statements as the bullshit excuses they are
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by commanda 16y ago
This isn't a case of "copying" though. That would entail reverse engineering an existing product, which Bing is (according to this post) not doing. They are instead importing the search results themselves from Google.com.
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by commanda 16y ago
Literally, I think Egyptians just became the world's biggest internet losers.
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by commanda 16y ago
Before, all you needed to do to revoke access to all those crazy 3rd parties you gave your password to was: change your password. Now, you need to figure out where to go to revoke permissions, figure out what 3rd party app you no longer wan
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by commanda 16y ago
Perhaps you could let us in on the joke?
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by commanda 16y ago
Do you mean for general workflow tasks, or for creating documents given a set of data? For workflow tasks, Automator.app on OSX is pretty great, even for non-programmers. There's probably something analogous on windows/other OSes. For docum
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by commanda 16y ago
It's really unfortunate that this poorly-chosen title overshadows an otherwise very attractive job posting. Sexism is still sexism, whether or not it's from 1914. -female and feminist programmer here.
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by commanda 16y ago
Honestly, I don't think "Learn how to do it yourself" is a viable option for non-technical entrepreneurs looking to start a company. It takes years to become even competent at programming, and longer to be able to design a scalable web app
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by commanda 16y ago
You say you don't believe that mashing together frameworks is actual development, yet you recommend the jQuery framework for front-end coding. Do you draw a distinction between front-end and back-end - is front-end work not really developm
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by commanda 16y ago
Pointing out privileges that a group experiences does not mean putting the blame on that group. The purpose of this kind of list is to bring awareness of privilege, not to place blame. How can a person work to eliminate XYZ-ism if they ar
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by commanda 16y ago
Here's a discrepancy. You said: "it suggests this is a problem we (HN programmers or some other applicable group) can and should solve." But then you said: "stop whining and start trying to change something." This list is absolutely on the
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by commanda 16y ago
I agree. Also about (ii), she was assuming that she could speak for all women in the audience - that just because she found the slides offensive, that all women necessarily would be offended by those slides. A central tenet of feminism i
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by commanda 16y ago
Intuitively, this makes sense. If your company has walled itself off from hiring 1/2 of the population, of course you will be passing over some highly skilled applicants who are in the sector you've walled yourself off from. By broadening
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by commanda 16y ago
This is awesome. When I was growing up, in Saudi Arabia, I never once saw a Saudi woman at a desk. I've read that King Abdul Aziz University actively recruits women professors and students, and that's such a wonderful thing to hear.

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