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Can a $35 computer teach kids to code?(latimes.com)
1 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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Start-ups Dropbox and Box reach for the cloud(usatoday.com)
2 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
This is great! Raganwald is already one of my favorites, here and on twitter. I love to see stuff like this. I guess I know what I'll be doing for the next hour or two. Just a reminder, my ebook is free, too: html on my blog: http://edweis
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5.5+ earthquake is likely in the San Mateo, Palo Alto, Oakland area. Feb 24-25 (quakeprediction.com)
1 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
16. No variable name should be fully self-contained within any other variable name: Wrong: Cust & CustCtr Right: CustID & CustCtr You should be able to do a global search with any tool and get every instance of that variable with no
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How the U.S. Could Pressure North Korea Tomorrow: Quit the $100 Bill(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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How often was Albert Einstein wrong?(slate.com)
1 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
dhh, do you really work that way or did you clean your desk off before that picture was taken? If so, I salute you. I'm still 14 purges away from that level of minimalism.
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Extreme Job Interviewing(latimes.com)
3 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
I love posts like this, not just for what OP has done, but for what you guys have to say about it. I'm continually asking myself 3 questions: 1. Should I do it on the client or the server? 2. What should be travelling between the clie
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by edw519 15y ago
So you were dishonest and bragged about it in a blog post with your name and picture. Some of the very people you tricked may even be reading it now that it made the front page of Hacker News. You'd think that you would have learned somethi
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A professor's love of numbers(lightyears.blogs.cnn.com)
1 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
6. No chairs. People will soon learn to focus on what must be done and skip all the B.S. before they get tired. 7. No cell phones or laptops. People must focus on the task at hand and nothing else. 8. Lock the door at the start time and don
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by edw519 15y ago
I've never been very successful communicating to my customers and bosses the difference between a "super programmer" and a "mortal programmer". It's a critical distinction that eventually must be understood by organizations that build softw
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by edw519 15y ago
Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people. Good for you. Even better for you is the fact that you recognize your opportunity. How sad that so many people in your situation never do until
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by edw519 15y ago
Nice. For super quick learning, it sure would be nice to see how others solved the same challenge. Just a few suggestions for links in the "Your code was correct, great job!" box: - last 5 correct solutions - most common solution -
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by edw519 15y ago
I am an excellent eater of hamburgers, but a horrible eater of cows. If you can build large scale systems, you can code complex algorithms. It's really just a matter of breaking down your problem into bite size pieces and confronting them o
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by edw519 15y ago
A S D F J K L semi! Again! A S D F J K L semi! Again! We will keep doing it until you got it right! A S D F J K L semi! Eddie in Row 3, come on now, keep up! A S D F J K L semi! Mrs. Tomjonovich, I cursed you then. I thank you now.
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by edw519 15y ago
(0) For every fundamental truth, there exists a counterexample: (1) It Has To Work. Counterexample: U.S. healthcare. (2a) No matter how hard you try, you can't make a baby in much less than 9 months. Counterexample: adoption. (3) With
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by edw519 15y ago
This isn't as much about place as it is about time and could have easily been entitled, "Why 1950s Parents Are Superior." We were raised in the U.S. in the 50s and 60s much like the French children in the article. We weren't treated lik
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by edw519 15y ago
Step 0: Find a customer.
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Ways to Become Stressed Starting a Business(workawesome.com)
2 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
"I have an idea for a website. If you build v1.0 I'll pay you a whole thousand dollars and you might get equity if it works very well." If only all the assholes were so easily self-identifying. The real problems are the charming, smooth t
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by edw519 15y ago
Patrick, I completely agree with you, which is why I have never publicized my difficulties with problem customers. But something in my reptilian brain really still likes this. Let me tell you why... You say "Work with better clients." Worki
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by edw519 15y ago
This is great! I once tried to do something like this but gave up because of all the potential complexities. It looks like you have many of them covered. This has a lot of potential if you expand it to "real world" living. A few suggestions
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At Apple's Chinese factories, long hours, injuries and death(msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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Rock And A Hard Place: What To Do With Concordia(npr.org)
1 points by edw519 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
Use things that are going to work great in two years. This is one of those remarks that is obvious to someone who knows what it means but mysterious to someone who doesn't. So what does it really mean? - Don't use a technology that, no m
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Find the Bug in my Fizz Buzz Interview (2:47 video)(edweissman.com)
10 points by edw519 15y ago|14 comments
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by edw519 15y ago
Thanks for the intelligent reply, Batista. Just a few nits... The "war" ended in 1975, long after all the protesting has slowed to a crawl. The war "officially" ended in 1975, but it really ended with de-escalation and the ending of the d

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