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by diN0bot 17y ago
my best mentors are people who happened to be a little ahead of me and were mature enough to embrace openness. or they were people tons ahead of me specifically looking to mentor. the one thing they all had in common was not viewing me as a
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by diN0bot 17y ago
yeah---i use this tons for wikipedia searches. i guess this could also be useful for imdb and ocw.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
furthermore, with the search box gone, apple-k (or ctrl-k or wahtever) will automatically load google search. (whereas before it would focus on the search box)
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by diN0bot 17y ago
yeah....a landing page of sorts. also, i'd lvoe there to be different lists. not just recently, more recommendations within a genre. i'm constantly looking for science fiction rec's (and even then, i only like certain kinds of scifi...the n
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by diN0bot 17y ago
it does sound like a natural and good step forward for them. i admit it also feels lame to me, but then i'm not extra passionate about blogging or tweeting (though i do both using wordpress and the twitter website).
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by diN0bot 17y ago
hm... i came away with the opposite opinion. how do i know that the example icons he showed hit the "sweet spot" between too much and too little information...rather than everyone being trained to recognize those icons. i'd rather see a use
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by diN0bot 17y ago
kids have been suspended from schools for decades for jokes like this, especially after columbine. meh.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
does anyone outside of hacker news think of "hacking" as "learn about how things work"? i always thought pg made this up. whenever i talk to people outside of hacker news i say "maker" instead of hacker. rambling: i like to think i've found
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by diN0bot 17y ago
> "assertive, self-promoting, and self-confident." true, but slightly more balanced than self-aggrandizing jerks. i hope people of both genders shoot for what you said rather than what shirky said. it's self-aggrandizing arrogant (mean,
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by diN0bot 17y ago
it's better for everyone to become pleasant, collaborative and respectful, then for everyone to become jerks. i'd rather live in the former world. "when in rome..." is a little too simplistic and immature in this scenario. it's almost like
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i believe the layers (stacked lines) and legend are in the same order.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
ranking people based on their roles in a company is a poor perspective. respecting everyone and not putting them in tidy (and possibly insulting) boxes is a better perspective.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
do you ever start planning what you're going to code next while you're falling asleep, or when you take a toilet break or walk somewhere? or when you go to a meeting and sketch out that new module or whatever? reminds me of a hemingway hack
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by diN0bot 17y ago
anyone know of a tool that will generate charts like that when i run my program? perhaps by instrumenting my code? i'd be very curious about this, but i wouldn't want to invest a lot of time into it. right now i use python for my web site s
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by diN0bot 17y ago
because if you already have to write javascript for the datepicker, why figure out if the browser supports html5? why not use the datapicker you just wrote (using yui or jqueryui or whatever)? to do otherwise just adds more work, not only
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by diN0bot 17y ago
> "In the past, information consumption was overwhelmingly passive, with telephone being the only interactive medium. Thanks to computers, a full third of words and more than half of bytes are now received interactively." hmm...how much
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How Much Information Was Consumed by Americans in 2008(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by diN0bot 17y ago
good article, terribly busy website.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i often leave a code comment near a bug fix if there was something non-obvious that i messed up the first time. eg, "sleep required here because blahity blah". it is true that writing a larger overview of, say, the thread timings is useful
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by diN0bot 17y ago
good point. i guess i'm overvaluing the now/tip docs. i definitely delete old docs since that just confuses everything. when i reach that point where i start wanting to revert the repo or backtrack on changes then commit docs will make much
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i've only written extensions for FF. i love it!!! it was a bit overwhelming at first. i was still learning javascript, too. now i feel like a master. i'm an "abstraction/high level" kind of programmer (er, computer scientist)---you can tell
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i'm ambivalent about where the right place is to answer the 3 questions posted by the OP. on the one hand, it seems efficient to put meta-data in the commit rather than clouding the code itself. on the other hand, i'm much more likely to go
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by diN0bot 17y ago
as a developer, i always felt bad for @asdf who for some reason had password "asdf", too. (or something like this)
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by diN0bot 17y ago
then let IE choke.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
wow. pretty sweet. i noticed that Braid is listed under games. i just played it, twice, and i have to say it is the most AWESOME gaming experience i've ever had. i encourage you to buy this $10 game and support its independent developers so
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i especially appreciated the random symbol option. if this were the usual "evaluate my app" post, i would have had to signup with my email just to see what was being sold :-)
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by diN0bot 17y ago
minor nitpick: > "In case that description doesn’t make sense, here’s an exercise to help demosntrate the technique: <more text>" In cases where a description doesn't make sense, a visual example might help tremendously. As soo
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i might be proud at first, but then i would be sad to think that others have failed so terribly and with so little guidance or wisdom. i would be saddened by my pitiful pride at a product so limited by its single creator. my proudest moment
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by diN0bot 17y ago
> "If you’re boring, predictable and don’t enjoy having fun, then you should follow this advice." and stop judging me.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
yeah pretty neat. but then i thought, why not two scrollbars?

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