devin

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by devin 17y ago
Digging back in the logs and I found this-- Not sure if you ever changed this, but that's a weird tagline. The other poster is right, it sounds very 1994. It seems redundant in one sense, and awkward in the other. A website suggests a d
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by devin 17y ago
DreamHost? Uh oh... Methinks you aren't getting 1/1,000th of the hits you could be. DreamHost = dog slow with two concurrent connections to a fairly light rails app, in my experience. Please tell me you're running a VPS with them or som
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by devin 17y ago
Chomsky on YC?! Voted up! Read this a few years ago-- great to give it another look. Thanks.
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by devin 17y ago
"And yes I saw the thing about Plan 9 compiling a kernel for all arch's with no ifdefs - well they only way you can do that is by cheating and either making your own preprocessor, or a fancy makefile. So big whoop." I think that's a rather
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by devin 17y ago
I totally agree with Rob's final statement (Community = Good), (Communities = Bad). In fact, you can apply the same analogy to all sorts of other relevant real world situations. Think: politically, racially, religiously, etc.
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by devin 17y ago
By "messes with your brain", I mean it alters what your "normal" conscious state is. I don't think you can really argue with this, but have at it. You mention reading, studying, etc. This is all well and good, but your approach to these p
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by devin 17y ago
This is a pretty typical response that I've heard many times. When I read your comment I hear: "I am comfortable with my brain and I don't want to do anything to change the way it works." And yet, you talk about how you take medication, pa
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by devin 17y ago
Actually there is a small (very small) grain of truth to what he's saying. If you have a history of mental illness (Schizophrenia in particular) in your family, it can bring it on faster. Meaning: people who go crazy from doing psychedelic
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by devin 18y ago
I would consider linking characters by various criteria (the sound, the radicals, the meaning). In Chinese my experience has been that understanding the relationship between characters is not a science. What I mean is, I don't really care
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by devin 18y ago
Woo! You rule! If you were here right now I'd shake your hand. I've been using your app for months. This is a fantastic way to practice character writing. Simply phenomenal work. Thank you!
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by devin 18y ago
Not to be a grammar nazi, but I think you mean 'flesh'. "Flushing" something out sounds toilet-related. Gross.
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Ask HN: Supplement for a CS degree?
7 points by devin 18y ago|4 comments
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by devin 18y ago
Yeah. One thing I'd like to add is I'm all for a good discussion on this topic. However, I really dislike the way blog articles, specifically their headlines, are always being written with this "1 vs 0 -- CAGE MATCH!" style. It often tur
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by devin 18y ago
Haha -- At least someone in here spotted the BS. This article is garbage.
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by devin 18y ago
This reminds me quite a bit of the "failure" vs "success" posts that are always showing up. I don't think this is binary. You can be a generalist, and still be a specialist in a given area. Why are people always jumping at the opportunit
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by devin 18y ago
They might feel left out at Stanford, but people are writing articles about them, so I don't feel too bad.
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by devin 18y ago
Amen. The first person to make steps toward getting rid of the ivory tower universities in favor of cheap online accredited degree programs is my hero. I am absolutely amazed there aren't any good options out there for people who want a m
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by devin 18y ago
This is an interesting example to think about. One might consider that Apple's failure after Jobs' departure suggested Jobs was successful. We're getting into the crux of the interplay between success and failure. They are dependent on on
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by devin 18y ago
Totally agree. One other thing I would like to add with respect to this article is that it reeks of a blog post designed to elicit a reaction by pitting two concepts with opposite meanings against one another. This sort of thing is useful
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by devin 18y ago
Oh look! Another binary discussion on learning from failure vs success! One word: Balance. One is not better than the other. These concepts do not exist without eachother. Failure would be nothing without success, and vice versa. Learn
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by devin 18y ago
My comment on his site: "This is the nature of the beast. Developers build software. The good ones support it, and the bad ones make it someone else's problem. The good ones write documentation, and the bad ones tell you to read the code. I
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by devin 18y ago
Again, I would say the same thing-- A "bad" usability website underlines the importance of "good" design, and promotes dialog in the process.
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Netbooks -- Who buys them?
7 points by devin 18y ago|15 comments
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by devin 18y ago
Nielsen's site certainly accomplishes its goal, but what the goal is, in my opinion, is more subtle and complex than simply the conveyance of information. I would suggest that Nielsen's site, by virtue of the fact it is a site about usabili
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by devin 18y ago
I rarely comment on here, but this article is crap in so many ways. DEVONThink is not even close to what he makes it out to be. It's a research tool-- an incredibly valuable one that does /way/ more than he gives credit for. Using these
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by devin 18y ago
Hackers and Painters, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, Prism of Grammar