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by eggbrain 14y ago
So if I buy a safe secretly with the company credit card, and fill it with material I completed on company time, and they fire me, I'm not legally obligated to tell them the combination to the safe?
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by eggbrain 14y ago
For those of you who want the short version of his story, the OP wrote a password-protected program on company time that automated his data entry, and because he was so accurate, was getting most of the bonus money meant for the rest of his
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by eggbrain 14y ago
For those of us who have already gone through the first edition of his tutorials, would anyone have any books they would add that are essential for learning Rails in depth?
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Looks pretty cool, but how does it differ from http://instantwatcher.com/ ?
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by eggbrain 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Ann Arbor, Michigan (Remote ok) Looking for a Rails freelancer to help on long term project. Criteria I'm looking for: Machine learning Rails 3.0 or greater Front end/UI skills a definite plus Near Ann Arbo
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Looks interesting, but there are a few lingering questions remain: 1) Where will the academy be located at? Do you already have the logistics covered? If so, could you share some of these details? (Location/Photos of area/etc) 2) You mentio
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by eggbrain 14y ago
It's getting to the point where we might as well just implement a feed of Facebook's stock price at the top of every HN page.
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I know this is just a demo project, but I thought the game was broken at first, since the portal gun didn't seem to do anything. It isn't until the third level that you can actually use the portal gun, and then you can only use it on the no
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Crowdfunding a startup feels really "gimmicky" for YC -- just because someone raises a lot of money doesn't mean the product is great -- I believe there was a very bad RPGMaker game recently that received $20k worth of funding with barely a
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by eggbrain 15y ago
Feel free, I'm just glad my comments are well received enough to be quotable :)
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by eggbrain 15y ago
The problem I've found, and I know this is true in me, is that people have a gated view of success -- they only consider the people that are more successful than them in their self-evaluation. People look longingly at the friends that went
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I was surprised as well to see that, they addressed that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2787082 Apparently 259 days wasn't long enough to find a replacement ;)
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by eggbrain 15y ago
Well, there's a difference between participating in a boycott and "participating" in a boycott -- the first is voting with your wallet to not buy X (and telling the publisher publicly that you aren't), and the other is yelling and screaming
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by eggbrain 15y ago
The article seemed fairly naive -- the reason why more developers haven't ditched publishers is the same reason why everyone working at BigCorp doesn't quit their job and do a startup -- I mean, Mark Zuckerberg did a startup, and he's a bil
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I remember when Gmail first came out to the public with a whopping 1GB of email storage, 50-100 times what the competitors were offering[1]. It was a great, streamlined mail experience that users flocked to immediately, leaving Yahoo Mail a
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I appreciate rational talks on sexism and discussions -- but if I wanted to read articles with juvenile titles like "OH HAI SEXISM" and that deal with drama on twitter, I would go read TMZ.
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by eggbrain 15y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but does anyone know the cost of the Wolfram Alpha API is after the free 2000 calls? No website seems to give the pricing (except for the old 2009 pricing scheme), and the Wolfram Alpha API site just says to contact them
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by eggbrain 15y ago
My thoughts on your website (not the app, jonschwartz already covered that) 1) Nothing in <title></title> (or favicon) [Looks like you have since added a title!] 2) I chuckled once I realized your app Bounce, used Unbounce a
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I'm hoping the data available at the "premium partner" level will come down to the basic users as time goes on, and it's just to make sure nothing is overwhelmed the first week or so. For those curious, the API limits for basic users: >
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I like the idea, but I disagree that this is a pleasant interface. There's a lot of repetition -- maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have the jobs separated by Fulltime/Freelancer first and then by month, so you'd only have two tabs at the
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I hope John doesn't mind, but I finished up the cipher, and cleaned up some of the transcribing of the symbols, as he got a few wrong (G, P, and a few others) You can check out the modified code (with the translated solution as well) here:
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I'll be frank, if I was Jim Gaffigan, I wouldn't hire you. The reason for me is twofold: The asterisk, and the lack of product. The Asterisk: You make it very hard to understand what "Free*" actually means. When you later say "we'll need to
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by eggbrain 15y ago
This is difficult if your time is already spent though. Exactly. In my spare time I program, but many times it's on client projects that are on top of the 40 hours I work at my job, both of which probably wouldn't want me to post m
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by eggbrain 15y ago
One of the most frustrating things for me, I feel, is that hardly any of the code I have written is on Github for various reasons (NDA, proprietary code, etc). So when an employer asks me for my Github, what do I do? Do I send him my accoun
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by eggbrain 15y ago
For those of you curious as to what the commercial is they are talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cavHNSZTyAg
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I'm going to give you honest feedback here. Your main problem is also what you are trying to sell - your simplicity. The site looks bad -- as in, it looks like the Rails 15 minute blog tutorial with a few extra things. This isnt simplicit
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by eggbrain 15y ago
Wow, this title suffers from some serious editorializing. What's next, "10 ways to know if you are a hacker? (cracked.com)"
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by eggbrain 15y ago
Yes, but you don't read a book by looking at the spine first, then reading the left page, back to the spine, and then the right. We read everything to the left of the spine (the dividing line, if you will), then read all the content to the
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by eggbrain 15y ago
That does seem to help, but I still feel it breaks two common usability notions: 1) Lines are used to divide content and guide our eyes to what is important. In this case, we have to travel "across the line" to see the next piece of content
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by eggbrain 15y ago
I think Facebook timeline differs in a fundamental way from, lets say, newspapers. Newspapers work well with multiple columns because there's no inherent connecting features. Sure a page from the sports section will all have sports related

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