dorkrawk

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by dorkrawk 14y ago
What do you mean by "top users"? The top users are those with tons and tons of followers and those followers are what make Twitter valuable to them. Not any feature or any good developer relationships. Do you think any celebrity or company
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Whenever I work from home I make sure that I set a cutoff time or clear stopping point near the end of what I want to be my "work day". Then I remove myself from my computer, take a walk or cook dinner or watch a movie or do anything that
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
I did the sub-40 hour thing for a while at an old job. I was starting to go to grad school full time, so I asked my company if I could could move from being on salary to being an hourly employee and work about 20+ hours a week. Because it
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
I agree, the lack of comments stuck out like a sore thumb in an otherwise interesting proposal. There's no reason to take out the existing comment system from WP. It works! The option to disable comments or easily use something like Disq
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The real problem is that it's REALLY hard to tell which is the better idea when things are just at an idea stage. I bet that when they were first proposed (before building anything or seeing adoption numbers) WebTV seemed like a MUCH better
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And I'm guessing that Microsoft has enough smart business people to get a pretty good estimate of how many enterprise customers will stick with the recently released Windows 7. It was going to be hard to make a product that gave IT departme
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
'Immortal Programmer' might have been a better title for that section.
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If you push the deadline back, everybody gets the extra time. People affected by the storm get a break. I see no harm in it.
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Things like version control should be taught along with the "first week setup" stuff in courses that cover CS topics. For example, in your CS101 class you should learn how to do some basic version control while you're learning to write you
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
No, I think that it's natural to be tempted by immediate gratification (watching stuff on YouTube, checking Twitter, reading xkcd archives) even when you really care about the delayed and more satisfying gratification of progress on a long
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
I think this really captures what a lot of tech-savvy people overlook about companies like Apple. They have their market. They make a ton of money selling to people who (mostly) don't care about being able to take their devices apart. Ma
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
I'm 29. Since I finished my undergrad I've gone to grad school, done work for huge companies, small companies, universities, and worked at a startup. I think all of these first hand experiences will prove to be very valuable in my future
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
Guilt (or at least empathy) can work in a similar way. My girlfriend is in grad school right now and always has a ton of work to do at night. I feel bad spending my nights goofing off or watching TV while she's hard at work, so I've been
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
I wonder what % of each artist's total income these Pandora numbers represent. Is Pandora (or any other streaming service) a sustaining financial source for many of these artists when compared to music sales, touring, licencing, etc. or is
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
I've always thought that a good programmer job interview challenge would be to hand the candidate a laptop (preferably with their OS of choice) and have them build something simple but new. For example: "Have you ever built a web scraper
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
A bit of a tangent, but whenever I hear people complaining about greedy professors scamming students into buying their books I think about how much more money many of these highly educated people (particularly STEM people) could be making i
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A lot of things that are built on Django probably use Python: Disqus, Pintrest, Instagram, Fitocracy, some Mozilla stuff, and a lot of news sites (just to name a few).
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While these sins are good things to be thinking about when building a site lists like this can be dangerous if they cause people to make a fundamental error; assuming you know what "most users" or the "average user" know or want without act
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
I use Fitocracy mainly to track my running, but also for some other workouts here and there. I just like having the historical data of how far and how fast I'm going each run (in fact I wrote a simple API to get at my run info out of Fitoc
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by dorkrawk 14y ago
The trick is to filter the cartridge opening with your shirt THEN blow into it.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting recognition for work that you do. Especially when Github is a great way to show future employers your contributions to OSS. Why make that harder to see?
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This is like saying Chemistry should be merged back in with Physics as one is just a deep study of the application of the other. The edges between related departments are always going to be blurred, but it's still practical to have things
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Not a full fledged IDE, but Panic makes a beautiful iPad version of their editor/ftp client called Diet Coda http://panic.com/dietcoda/
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Wow that's some of the nicest generated code I've seen. This could be a very useful tool.