dschobel

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by dschobel 17y ago
done. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089829
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Ask HN: Looking for interns / entry level?
113 points by dschobel 17y ago|102 comments
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by dschobel 17y ago
maybe a general internship thread is called for in addition to the traditional HN "who's hiring?" with summer around the corner?
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's the flip side of the Apple adoration. If Apple releases something which doesn't suit people it's as upsetting as if their favorite band had released a clunker of an album because you know it'll be a long time until they have a chance
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by dschobel 17y ago
I didn't understand his objection here. Is it the inconvenience of hitting the "windows" button? With the iphone's touch interface this is painless and I can't imagine it'll be any worse for the ipad.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Not to mention that having a birds-eye view of the spam situation will let him black list accounts, because a spammer is a spammer for the first user he follows as much as the next hundred.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The syndrome exists (or does not exist) independent of the diagnosis. I can't comment on your second sentence but it seems completely speculative and I can't imagine how you can substantiate it.
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by dschobel 17y ago
very cool. you need to register @followham though and add it to the "do you want to tweet about about this?" message rather than "follow ham" as it currently is so we can refer directly to you to spread the site.
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by dschobel 17y ago
You can read whatever subtext and be as offended as you wish. My only purpose was to highlight his well-known issue with Aspergers. You can do with it as you like.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I completely agree and don't think it excuses his misbehavior but rather helps explain it. I'll leave the moralizing and righteous indignation to the others.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Watch any of his talks or speak to anyone who has ever worked with him. It's not just about being rude but genuinely not understanding the socially correct behaviour to his own detriment. Exhibit A: not realizing that it is a bad idea to po
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by dschobel 17y ago
Bram Cohen's Aspergers is well-publicized ( http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_43/b41050468... ) and essential context for anything you read about/by him.
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by dschobel 17y ago
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/ is the online alumni magazine whose, like every other alumni magazine on earth's, sole purpose is PR about the great things the school is doing. It isn't exactly scientific american.
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by dschobel 17y ago
best quote in the piece: It's too early to make guesses about the success of this effort at the IETF, but Paul Vixie, well known as the original author of the BIND DNS software and no less for his strong opinions, set the tone in a message
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by dschobel 17y ago
I disagree. You can see the repercussions from that in things like the Global Warming stories where everyone at HN collectively cringes when terms like "scientific consensus" are tossed about. There's no short-cut to good science and dumbin
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Google wants to see client addresses in DNS queries(arstechnica.com)
27 points by dschobel 17y ago|12 comments
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by dschobel 17y ago
There's a reason you'll never see that. The problem is that there's no scientific evidence for the causation for the same reason that there's no scientific evidence that smoking causing various cancers as in either case it would be unconsci
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by dschobel 17y ago
Actually, you're both wrong. According to new numbers from the Labor Department, in 2008 only 1.1% of Americans who work 40 hours a week or more even earned the minimum wage. In other words, 98.9% of 40-hour-a-week workers earn more than t
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by dschobel 17y ago
Yikes, I can't imagine any doctor wanting to take that deal without similarly gaining full control over your diet, drinking, smoking, work and sleep habits.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I understand why this position is theoretically reassuring as some sort of an open portal onto the device but as a practical matter, web apps will be just as irrelevant on the ipad as they are on the iphone.
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by dschobel 17y ago
No one gave a crap about applications on iphone before the app store. I have yet to hear one story written about the mad rush to develop web applications for the iphone. The native app/app store combination is incontrovertibly the best way
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by dschobel 17y ago
If you write software for a living you have to write for whichever platform the market dictates.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I agree, and I'm not even trying to broach the politics of it being a closed system. I'm just wondering why lots of very tech savvy people have never minded their ipods, cellphones, gaming consoles, etc, etc, etc being closed. Maybe we shou
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by dschobel 17y ago
I suppose, but from a Stallman-esque strictly engineering point of view, it's all just software running on hardware and the fact that you call one with a 4" display a phone makes everyone accept it being closed but a 10" display crosses the
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by dschobel 17y ago
Wherever we stand in digital history, the iPad leaves me with the feeling that Apple’s interests and values going forward are deeply divergent with my own. It's pretty odd to me how people have willingly accepted Apple's closed phone and
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by dschobel 17y ago
"But at least with HTML5 video tag data, I can download the video and play it offline using a dedicated player." Try to keep up here. That's not the problem that Flash Player is chartered to solve (same goes for HTML5 video). I know you're
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by dschobel 17y ago
It is bad in a totally different way than his other patently silly ones (become a tour guide in NZ) though because it's not obvious what's wrong with it unless you know how IP is attributed and the marginal utility of working in your employ
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by dschobel 17y ago
Go into work 2 hours early, but spend the first 2 hours just setting up your new company. Use lunch breaks and downtime as well. Do this until the income from the new company is 50% of your salary, then quit. I would _really_ recommend n
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by dschobel 17y ago
That is patently absurd.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Shocking but fascinating. Caveat Viewor

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