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by commanda 16y ago
I've heard (second-hand) that Twitter isn't discarding users' tweets after they hit 3,200, they just don't provide API access to them. They're still sitting in a DB somewhere, just inaccessible currently, until Twitter provides access to t
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by commanda 16y ago
Not really. They are both professional writers of online publications. This forum is the perfect place for them to stir up controversy to entertain their target audience. I'm entertained, at least.
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by commanda 16y ago
That's you. But for many people, that style of interaction just doesn't mesh with their personality. Some people are more meek, and won't tell you about an issue until you ask them straight out "what's up?" in a setting where they know tha
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by commanda 16y ago
Rands' point is that its not a status meeting. That's what project managers are for. The 1:1 is supposed to be preventive maintenance of a team - a chance for you (the managed) to express yourself about any small things that are getting
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by commanda 16y ago
Seriously. Only someone who doesn't know how to write, needs to add a comma between every noun phrase and verb phrase.
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by commanda 16y ago
"I saved myself $1,500 by finding workarounds for my problems, rather than just purchasing a new laptop straight away." But how much time each day was spent dealing with the fact that his computer didn't have a hard drive? If your time can
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by commanda 16y ago
All of Zynga's flash games are free, and players have the option to purchase virtual currency in the games. The vast majority of players probably don't pay a cent for the entire lifespan of their playing. I'd say Zynga is definitely making
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by commanda 16y ago
My boyfriend is a Python programmer. My main language is Obj-c. Of course we share a lot of languages in common, but I have an almost complete lack of Python experience, as does he with Obj-c. Together we wrote a simple url-shortener in P
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by commanda 16y ago
"Power-law solutions have little appeal to the right, because they involve special treatment for people who do not deserve special treatment; and they have little appeal to the left, because their emphasis on efficiency over fairness sugges
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by commanda 16y ago
"Given the lifestyle in the City, products are much closer to the pavement and are a solution to a real-world problem from Day 1." This makes no sense. How does NYC's "lifestyle" create products that are any closer to "the pavement" than S
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by commanda 16y ago
Speaking at a developer conference. I've always been a natural on stage - as a dancer (as a child, through highschool, and in college (although that was a different kind of dancing)), as an actor (drag king, burlesque), and as a musician (i
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by commanda 16y ago
You should probably re-run your script to catch all the people who added their twitter handle to their HN bios today as a result of your list :). Or even run it on a cron so we can see it change over time?
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by commanda 16y ago
I am also saddened that there is only one woman in the list. If you're interested in following more women in tech on twitter, mashable published this list today: http://mashable.com/2010/07/28/developer-hacker-women-twitte...
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by commanda 16y ago
Maybe you want yourself to be interested in this particular project, but you might really not be interested in it. Sometimes you can't force interest, and it's often tough to focus when you aren't interested. I've felt what you're feeling
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by commanda 16y ago
The decline in the percentage of Americans who work in agriculture is due to advances in farming technology, not due to low pay. Now one person with a giant combine that didn't exist 100 years ago can do the work of tens or hundreds of peo
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by commanda 16y ago
Actually, yes. Many marriages are entered into by two parties with the agreement that one party will be the primary caretaker of the children (home-maker), which is a profession that is unpaid. The other party will work outside the home an
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by commanda 16y ago
RFID tags "implanted" in conference badges? The OP jumps on to this slippery slope argument and lands in big-brother-knows-my-physical-location land. Nowhere at f8 did Facebook announce any plans for stepping into the location-based service
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by commanda 17y ago
Zynga is on a mad hiring spree right now for all kinds of developer positions. http://www.zynga.com/jobs/ Come work on some of the biggest and fastest-growing social games ever, with some of the most driven and successful engineers ever.