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by dgant 11y ago
Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effort_justification
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by dgant 11y ago
http://ComboDeck.net I'm building a faster, easier way to search for Magic: the Gathering cards. The big question: how can you replace a clunky "advanced search" with a simple smart text box?
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by dgant 11y ago
It's still feasible without the direct tracking. If you see the same body/DNA at three different times, odds are only one person was flying at all three times, and then you have a match.
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by dgant 11y ago
Colonization was originally released as a separate game. It was in the same genre as Civilization ("4X": Explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) but otherwise shared nothing in common but its creator. Colonization was recently re-r
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by dgant 11y ago
Keeping the code around has a cost: the cost of maintaining, reading, compiling, deploying, and building around it. If the new feature isn't adding value, all it's doing is adding to the cost of real value-features you want to dev
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by dgant 12y ago
ZocDoc – Soho, NYC Engineering Manager and Principal Software Engineer: At ZocDoc we are working on real products that are improving people’s lives (at 5 million users a month)! We need an Engineering Manager who knows how to strike the ri
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YC-Backed Boostable Offers A New Way For Online Sellers To Advertise(techcrunch.com)
3 points by dgant 13y ago|0 comments
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by dgant 13y ago
The game also serves as political commentary on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
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by dgant 13y ago
Here's a different way of looking a the data, on page 23 of http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/content/chapter-7/c07.... Americans know about as much as people in similarly developed countries. R
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by dgant 13y ago
Ironically -- or perhaps intentionally -- online coverage of this stunt may garner more traffic than a straightforward ad would have.
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by dgant 13y ago
This is great for Twitch. One of their larger problems is the amount of potential content they're missing out on due to the technical difficulty of streaming. It requires powerful hardware and a lot of software setup. The closer they g
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by dgant 14y ago
As long as environmental externalities of human economic behavior are underpriced, they will continue to happen for reasons that many consider insipid.
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by dgant 14y ago
Progress is usually evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, in nature. Hindsight allows us to identify specific developments that we glorify and put in textbooks. But in the moment, it can be less obvious what those developments will be.
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by dgant 14y ago
If you're reading this article on Hacker News, you are a very unusual person. In fact, everyone's very different and very strange, but you in particular are very strange. If you extrapolate your beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes and expect
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos: The ultimate disrupter(management.fortune.cnn.com)
3 points by dgant 14y ago|0 comments
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by dgant 14y ago
Blizzard definitely struggled with what they were trying to accomplish in attempting to create genre-busting character-centric RTS. WC3's a great game, but the released product seems to be a backtracking from what they were trying to accomp
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by dgant 14y ago
"And the most astonishing thing to me? The mashup itself is catchy, but it's far from being technically great." It's a musical MVP!
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by dgant 14y ago
There's definitely an appeal to the idea. What's a more powerful motivator than knowing that you're 90% towards your goal? That you'll get what you want if you do just this one thing ? This may also be the phenomenon that drives the succes
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by dgant 14y ago
American culture is quick to dismiss the abilities of teenagers. But often, the biggest barrier to, say, teens making video games, is the doubt we've taught them to harbor. "the developers get 70% and MakeGamesWithUs will take 30%." That's
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by dgant 14y ago
These is quite prescient, interpreted liberally: * Very liberally, drive-through car wash * Air as a domain for combat * Commuter air travel * Aerial firefighting * Air mail * (okay, nobody's riding on seahorses) * Roomba * (okay, nobody's
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by dgant 14y ago
It (can be) page load-time friendly, since there's an overhead for each JS file that's sent.
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by dgant 14y ago
As the interviewer, the question I'm trying to answer is "Can you fulfill a role we need fulfilled?" There's no direct way to determine the answer to that. However, a necessary-but-not-sufficient condition for a broad range of development p
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by dgant 14y ago
If anything, it seems likely to become less creepy. There are a generation of teenagers for whom being able to look into friends-of-friends' lives has always been normal.
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by dgant 14y ago
Wilson suggests contacting references not provided by the candidate. That can be a major breach of privacy. When people are looking for jobs -- particularly while employed elsewhere -- they are entitled to do so discreetly. If employer-dire
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by dgant 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness#R... The degree of soreness you'll feel after your first few workouts is a degree of soreness you'll never feel again (until you stop working out and get out of shape).
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by dgant 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 addresses some of these concerns. Since Deep Blue beat Kasparov, it's also worth considering that playing chess could be likened to poorly reproducing the output of existing software; wouldn't writing
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by dgant 14y ago
There are very few software environments where the cost difference of "Read 1MB sequentially from disk" versus "Read 1MB sequentially from memory" is irrelevant.
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by dgant 14y ago
True. I could have been more careful with my phrasing. The original point, stated differently: Understanding software and the modern web -- even short of being able to write it -- can still give someone a sizeable advantage in many fields.
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by dgant 14y ago
Another point to add to Justin's: Few skillsets grant you more of an ability to be self-reliant than the ability to understand and write software -- even if there's no job description written for what you do, or no company who will hire you
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by dgant 14y ago
You mentioned that sales were strongly up for reasons unrelated to the post. What are those reasons?

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