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by dceddia 12y ago
As an XKCD comic, I thought this one was just ok, but what made me post it to HN was when I went to check the availability of companyname.website and found out it redirected to the comic :)
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XKCD: Meeting(companyname.website)
100 points by dceddia 12y ago|45 comments
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by dceddia 12y ago
The theory sure is applicable, but employers don't pay for theory. If you got a CS degree in 1990 and stopped learning the day you graduated, you'd surely have a hard to finding a job in 2014. The CS field moves at an especially b
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by dceddia 12y ago
I'm getting the same thing. I wonder though, does that mean it's available in other countries, or is it just not available at all yet? Is that message essentially a 404?
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by dceddia 12y ago
One of the commenters on the article suggested sending the customer an "import template," with all of the column headers predefined. The customer simply needs to copy-paste their data into your CSV import template, and upload it.
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by dceddia 12y ago
Maybe invest in some noise-cancelling headphones, and use a white noise generator. I like SimplyNoise for that. It does a great job at drowning out background noises. And then if you can STILL hear them clearly, put in earplugs under the he
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by dceddia 12y ago
That sounds like an amazing feat from a productivity/finishing projects standpoint, but I'd be really interested to hear about the organization process for a thing like that. I'm sure one can't rely on memory alone to re
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by dceddia 12y ago
'DDoS as a Service'?
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by dceddia 12y ago
That's a good point -- things are constantly evolving and current tech becomes outdated so quickly. At the same time though, I think it supports my point that the training for these kinds of things should be faster than reading a big t
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by dceddia 12y ago
How do developers currently learn to build scalable, maintainable, well-architected systems? Certainly there are some books on the subject, and that might be a good start, but I'd be willing to bet that these skills are largely learned
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by dceddia 12y ago
I was in my local RadioShack (or is it "The Shack" now?) looking for a Hall effect sensor. They didn't have one, but they did have Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits along with some Arduino shields. Sadly though, the electronic pa
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by dceddia 12y ago
Are your devices Apple devices by any chance? We had a similar bug reported at work recently, and it turned out that Windows browsers will always show scrollbars but the ones running on OS X/iOS will hide them until you start scrolling
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by dceddia 12y ago
At first I wasn't sure if there was background noise, or if it was just my laptop fan spinning up. Fun demo.
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by dceddia 12y ago
In regards to selling your data, apparently they've taken at least a bit of venture capital, so it's probably a realistic worry in the future... https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/
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by dceddia 12y ago
You mentioned staying off caffeine, but recommended teas that both (usually) contain caffeine. Not trying to be a jerk, but genuinely curious - is the caffeine from tea better for the body than the caffeine from coffee? Or did you mean deca
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by dceddia 12y ago
I hadn't heard of them, but I just walked through their tutorial called "Improve Your Typography With a Few Simple Guidelines" and was really impressed. It looks like a fun tool. It's a shame to have found it at this poi
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by dceddia 12y ago
This is really great. I always wished something like this existed when I was going through CS undergrad (and grad, for that matter). Have you tried reaching out to any CS professors to tell them about it? You might also spread the word by t
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by dceddia 12y ago
I finished reading this thread thinking that Watsi donations are not tax deductible in the US... In case anyone else was confused like I was, I just wanted to clarify -- Watsi donations ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE in the US. See their FAQ, way down
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by dceddia 12y ago
It looks like Staply solves a problem, but I don't know what that problem is. In your footer next to the copyright you have "We want to see a world where information is never lost or forgotten." -- is this the problem you&#x2
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by dceddia 12y ago
This looks like a great resource, thanks for putting this together. As a developer who's interested in web design/UX design (but not all that great at it), this will be helpful. If you don't mind, I'll mention it on my b
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by dceddia 12y ago
"Left as an exercise to the reader," the bane of my existence as a college student. I especially remember the Sipser book doing this. He'd show a super-simple example, like proving 2+2=4, and then the next thing would be actu
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by dceddia 12y ago
Did you end up using any libraries for the communication, such as socket.io? ( http://socket.io/ )
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by dceddia 12y ago
I feel the same way -- I also tried hackdesign.org and it felt lacking. I think the key to learning design is building a volume of practice, and reading a couple articles on whitespace and color themes won't cut it -- much the same way
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by dceddia 12y ago
I can't count how many times I accidentally hit the Save Game button instead of the Load Game button in Half-Life. The keys were literally, like, right next to each other.
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by dceddia 12y ago
Very awesome! Interestingly, in both Chrome and Firefox, the song stops playing ("mostly") if you switch to a different tab. I say "mostly" because Chrome seems to play a single note every 10-20 seconds even with the tab
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by dceddia 12y ago
Especially dates.
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by dceddia 13y ago
It could be useful to have a site where researchers could post their failed attempts at solving difficult problems, a sort of "Journal of Failed Ideas". I saw this suggested in a reddit thread a while back, might've been the
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by dceddia 13y ago
This post really got me thinking, because I feel exactly the same way. The sequence of events described mirrors my own life so closely it borders on creepy. I've been falling further and further into the trap of "optimizing"
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by dceddia 13y ago
It's a great side effect of the web that a good chunk of an app's source code is open to be viewed and learned from. It's fun to explore another site's code and discover how they pulled off their tricks. Netflix may clai