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by drgath 16y ago
"Why do people keep saying Twitter is revenue-free?" It's TechCrunch, what do you expect?
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by drgath 16y ago
Interviewing for jobs you know you won't get is one of the best things you can do in your career. The insight you gain on both their hiring process as well as their expectation is priceless. I've interviewed with 5 big web companies, fail
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by drgath 16y ago
I read a lot of books, and many of the PHP books are so-so. "PHP in Action" is the best one I've personally read. http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Action-Objects-Design-Agility/dp/1... Avoid the "Teach Yourself in X Minutes" books. That's whe
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How-to: Secure OAuth in JavaScript(derekville.net)
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by drgath 16y ago
If you think Pipes is cool, check out YQL. It was developed by some of the same people, and has a similar concept. https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
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by drgath 16y ago
Which is why it's at the top of Hacker News?
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by drgath 16y ago
Past 2 decades? Yahoo is only 15 years old and was (arguably) the king of the web until '03 or so. The financial slide didn't start until 2 or 3 years ago after a respectable dot-bomb recovery.
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by drgath 16y ago
You should remove the dates & years from the possible matches. Would be more interesting.
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by drgath 16y ago
Video, demonstrating how blind iPhone users interact with the device. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_TFHqIHBqM
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by drgath 16y ago
From the article: "The law on false patent markings is similar to whistle-blower laws. Anyone can file a claim on behalf of the government, and plaintiffs must split any fine award evenly with it. " Blame the system, not the person.
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by drgath 16y ago
One would hope the two go hand & hand.
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It's not about the idea, or being the first, it's all about execution (and luck). FourSquare is killing it right now, but they were about the 5th major player into the geo check-in playing field. Online coupons have been around for a deca
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by drgath 16y ago
Twitpic is dead to me. The fact that they are shutting out developers is quite comical considering the whole reason they exist is because of the Twitter API.
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by drgath 16y ago
"Front-end Developer" or "FE Engineer" are pretty standard titles these days. It essentially means you deal with the whole web stack (from Apache on up to CSS/JS) on servers that talk to a backend API. Your code typically won't deal with a
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by drgath 16y ago
Seems perfectly normal to me. Is your argument that the only people who are allowed to be called "engineers" those who have a degree with the word "engineering" in the title? Via Wikipedia: "An engineer is a professional practitioner of eng
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by drgath 16y ago
JS absolutely has its faults, and you can hope all you want. But just by the simple fact that JavaScript is supported in every popular browser, and the browser is the largest application platform on the planet, means JS will soon to be the
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by drgath 16y ago
Uhh... I don't see what the big deal is. The dude was a little sweaty while being grilled, but even managed to give a pretty solid answer. Jason is just jealous.
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by drgath 17y ago
Douglas Crockford keeps a SpiderMonkey and a SquirrelFish as pets to amuse him.
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by drgath 17y ago
Which are made of cats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM
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by drgath 17y ago
If Ruby developers would stop trying to debunk the "Ruby and/or Rails doesn't scale" myth, I think the rest of us would forget there was ever an issue. Scaling a web app is language independent, and writing inefficient code is also languag
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by drgath 17y ago
That is silly. Why is adding memcached to a PHP app need to be a "massive change that would touch every corner of your codebase"?? Like any web app coded in any language, if it's properly layered, memcached can be added to an app (PHP or
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by drgath 17y ago
You are totally right. Also, here you are writing on a piece of paper instead of typing in a text box. The viewing interface is also totally different as one is a either a monitor or a mobile device, and another is a crude bulletin board
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by drgath 17y ago
Every now and again? What?! If you can't find problems with today's internet technology, you aren't looking hard enough.