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by drhayes9 13y ago
They sure do. We are not a superpower when it comes to how many people we put in prison. We are not a superpower when it comes to how many children die poor on our streets. And we're not a superpower when it comes to ensuring that our
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Superpower in what sense? I mean, I think I know what sense you mean, but there are some glaring socioeconomic inconsistencies with the label "superpower": * We have the highest first-day infant mortality in the industrial world:
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by drhayes9 13y ago
I do lots of front-end work and have tended to do front-end phonescreens for the past few years. I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's five essential phone screen questions: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2
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by drhayes9 13y ago
"Chose not to move" is an interesting angle. I'm pretty sure I don't support these protesters, but you're targeting the poor with your comments and I don't think that's fair. Here are some hypotheticals: *
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This game was great! I didn't read the instructions (bad user, I know) and didn't even know I could shoot for the first game. Once I learned that I had a blast. Might want to inline those keyboard instructions on the attract scree
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Standard reply to those posting about going against the guidelines: "...Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups." It got voted up to the front page. Why do you feel it's
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by drhayes9 13y ago
That was never my point. In fact, I didn't say anything was "wrong" with the results at all. I just pointed out that saying "that's what you get for depending on Google for organic traffic" is more like saying
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Again, apologies for the imprecision. But you'd agree that it has been delisted for search terms it used to do well for? Additionally, far less than <1% of the people who use Google get past the second page of results. Getting your
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by drhayes9 13y ago
That's interesting data. Incognito ["portrait quilts"] and it doesn't rank on the first two pages for me, which is why I felt safe putting in my comment in the first place. Maybe it's a quibble, but most humans don&
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From the site: "...but if you look for photo quilts or any similar search term, Portrait Quilts — which for years was always the top result — no longer appears." I'm being a little imprecise, but her site was deindexed for a
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by drhayes9 13y ago
That's a pretty unrealistic moral in the face of the reality of how the consumer web works. I mean, I get the whole "don't depend on another company for your revenue" (e.g. apps in the Apple app store), but you're s
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Wow, thanks for the warning! I'm pretty sure this happened to me once a long time ago, but I thought it was a bad interaction between FoldingText and nvAlt, not nvAlt*2+Dropbox.
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Those are exactly my complaints about Evernote. I'm on OSX most of the time, and I use nvAlt: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ It's blazing fast, moving at the speed of thought. You can also set
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by drhayes9 13y ago
In the quest of finding "information suggesting someone is good", ignoring the known, recognized biases inherent in your sampling method seems like not such a good idea. You're throwing away data and then saying you have an a
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From the perspective of someone who can make hiring decisions, how do you differentiate the two? Besides, I see it the other way around: they're identifying "can't contribute" instead of "don't contribute"
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> There is nothing whatsoever preventing a person of any sort from creating a code portfolio You're wrong. Here are some likely hypotheticals: * I'm lower middle class with four kids and don't own a computer that isn'
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This line was really interesting to me: > From the perspective of the employer, Github, Bitbucket and other code sharing sites simply do not have these biases - when employers look at these sites, there is no demographic information on u
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The Great Discontent: Merlin Mann(thegreatdiscontent.com)
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by drhayes9 13y ago
I clicked the link and wondered why the author appears to have deleted the original post. "I kinda remember this guy," I thought to myself. "Let me read what else he has to say." Then I found this: http://tedd
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Choosing to not be offended is a prerogative of the privileged. You might get to choose not to be offended but that's likely because you're not the target here. Consider two things: 1. You're saying that someone doesn't
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by drhayes9 13y ago
The phone supports CDMA..? I'm on Verizon and really want this phone (eventually). Are you seeing that it doesn't work with Verizon somewhere specifically? Edit: More comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by drhayes9 13y ago
While this is a good strategy for real files, the .gdoc files in your Google Drive folder are nothing but links to web files . They contain no real data.
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Sure. It's not money itself, per se, but the concurrent corruption it brings.
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It's a big deal because this is a false equivalence. A corporation with a marketing budget and a brand is not the same as an historical figure. I think that explains a lot of the leeriness around this move. That said, I'm leaning
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by drhayes9 13y ago
~22% of China still uses IE6: http://www.ie6countdown.com/ Developing nations have a tendency to not use the latest and greatest. If reaching them is important for you/your product then you have to keep tracking this s
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Agreed, the labels they use are a little imprecise. "Implicit" is a two-way, automatic binding: updates from the server will show up in your app and updates your app makes will be sent to the server automatically. "Explicit&q
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I can't find answers to these questions in the docs, had to stumble around with the library first: - be sure to set an empty object on your scope before setting up implicit binding on that object. If you don't, the error will be c
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Yup. I'm also trying to learn AngularJS at the same time so the hits, they keep'a'coming. ( = It would be nice in the AngularFire documentation if they were clear what was a promise (implicit binding) and what wasn't (ex
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by drhayes9 13y ago
I really wanted this article to get into the meat of how to build an Angular app with Firebase. It gets the basics working but it would've been nice to see some details about Firebase security, good practices about what goes where with
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by drhayes9 13y ago
Non-ugly rape joke from Louis CK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4hNaFkbZYU And, yeah, great discussion man. You've got me thinking. ( =

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