drharris

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by drharris 13y ago
How do you read feeds on 4 different devices without some type of synchronization with what you've read?
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by drharris 13y ago
Donation. It's not a business, so much as a group of geeks who wanted to bring back the heyday of GR. You can Flattr or bitcoin I think, and they've managed to keep a steady influx of donations thus far. By definition, it's e
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by drharris 13y ago
You're describing The Old Reader. It's literally based on "the old good Google Reader".
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by drharris 13y ago
I started with Feedly, but realized there is no OPML export, which locks me in. This Reader situation taught me to not be locked in ever again. Plus, I'm not entirely convinced the transition from the Google backend is going to be smoo
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by drharris 13y ago
Now, now... I can accept snark for snark. Entry level programmers, not entry level people. I already expect any resume for a direct-from-university applicant to have at least "HTML, Ruby, Java, Python". It's basically a bare minimum for a p
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by drharris 13y ago
Agreed, if he could somehow get the $70k now. He mentioned no existing backend experience, so that was my point about getting this future backend ruby job. One thing in his favor is that people are throwing money at it now, and he might be
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by drharris 13y ago
Maybe at the moment, but not by the time he's 30. It will go the way of people turning in a resume with "HTML" experience. It'll be expected as a minimum.
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by drharris 13y ago
Advice about Ruby or Python is stupid. Sorry, but it is. You focus on that, you compete with hundreds of thousands of willing people, which drives salary down. You have to be truly exceptional to make more than $70k outside of SF/NYC, and i
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by drharris 13y ago
With a touchscreen, maybe. The current crop of toddlers have no use for a mouse.
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by drharris 13y ago
It passes the 3-year-old test better than Windows 7, in a personal experiment. My son knew exactly how to tap an icon to open a game he wanted. He does not understand a mouse or keyboard, really, other than knowing what the letters are and
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by drharris 13y ago
I think the difference is that Windows 7 has easy search for what you want to execute , where 8 allows you to search for intent .
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by drharris 13y ago
Thank you... Not very interested in watching a youtube video about it, just want to read.
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by drharris 13y ago
Expensive only really matters in a loop. And this logical operator would short circuit anyway.
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by drharris 13y ago
Yes, the equivalent would be your host asking to see your ID upon arrival. I don't think people have an issue sharing their identity with a single other person. A soulless corporation on the other hand...
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by drharris 13y ago
No, I think "a lot" is more accurate. I have only 3 crossovers. I do not FB friend my coworkers, and I do not LinkedIn random FB friends. One is social, one is professional, and I think quite a few people use it that way. Not all of us cons
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by drharris 13y ago
From what I've seen, men who actually push women down get thrown off the escalator, so to speak. I don't think men are actually pushing women down. Crowding them out, maybe, but not pushing them down. Of course I'm not in SV, so who know wh
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by drharris 13y ago
I think this is the best analogy, much better than the OP. It's really a question of who your audience is, and whether or not they will understand you. For your example, a white hip-hop artist has to speak to an audience that is quite diffe
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by drharris 13y ago
This is a horrible analogy. It sounds really pretty at first glance, but the question is never addressed as to why that's the situation to begin with. In real life, everybody can equally use an escalator. Does the up escalator have a sign s
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by drharris 13y ago
Agreed, and if anything they want people working with .NET even if they don't control it. Their evangelists even encourage use of Mono, MonoTouch, etc. They encourage open sourcing, and it's gradually becoming more and more common to see C#
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by drharris 13y ago
Yeah, my son won't care. In the 30 minutes per night we allow him on the iPad, he binge watches like 8 different shows, and it doesn't matter which ones. He watches Dora, but probably won't notice it's missing. I'm going to say this is much
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by drharris 13y ago
Agreed, and fascinating. To me, an article like this is better than any action novel. Found myself on the edge of my seat trying to figure out how far he'd managed to get! I think it's a perfect look at how building on other people's scienc
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by drharris 13y ago
Honestly I don't mind that. On a longer trip, now that I have a family we wind up spending that long walking around, stretching, bathroom, etc. So the problem isn't really the wait; it's the fact you'd have to do it every 60-70 miles. But,
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by drharris 13y ago
Open lending == piracy. Closed lending? Well, I've yet to see a secure and easy way to accomplish this, so I'll reserve judgment. But given how Amazon has treated the eBook distribution model, I would expect all digital goods to go down a s
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by drharris 13y ago
It would be quite expensive to burn unique codes onto all discs. Also, what happens the first time someone hacks this system, I put in a legally acquired disc only to be told I'm borrowing the game?
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by drharris 13y ago
Agreed, and I still buy blu-rays for this purpose. But, I think the strategy MS is doing is to gradually centralize (like Apple) the distribution model for games on their platform. It would be difficult to go straight to a download-only opt
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by drharris 13y ago
Yes, we should never learn new things.
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by drharris 13y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't care about this? We geeks love to wax romantically about how the legacy distribution models are insane, but aren't willing to compromise with any less than free (as in piracy) digital distribution. It seems to
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by drharris 13y ago
Cynical, but true. Once the company reaches a certain stage, this is a valid (albeit evil) path to travel down. Upper management gets rich, everyone else gets the shaft.
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by drharris 13y ago
Beat you (no google, rotate and zoom only), but I had an unfair advantage on #4 - I'd been there before! http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTU0MTUsInZlc...
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by drharris 13y ago
I imagine Kickstarter turned them down because of potential liability if something goes wrong. Replacing food with chemicals makes sense to scientists and engineers, but I imagine this has the potential to be lawsuit-heavy for the average p

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