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by eric-hu 14y ago
Instructions for an OS/X install with Brew, Macvim and Pathogen: cd ~/.vim/bundle git clone https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe.git cd YouCompleteMe mkdir ycmbuild cd ycmbuild # Do this only if you don't have cmake installed brew up
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Not sure if that was meant to be a rhetorical question, but here's my opinion: "Best" posts--those which are a good source of information--have a high view-to-interaction ratio. An inflammatory post on a forum or Reddit tends to see more r
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Is Randall Munroe a Unix user after 15 years of using it? http://xkcd.com/1168/
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by eric-hu 14y ago
You guys are providing a service I'm interested in. I checked out your website and, as an interested (American) patient, I could be further convinced if a couple of questions were answered: 1. Which doctors and insurance plans does Patien
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Re: could Amazon has offered streaming video for years now. This is just a guess on my part, but they probably don't receive video from studios in a stream-friendly format. Their streaming format has also likely been updated over the year
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I believe the nimby stance against gambling is that it creates poverty. An opponent with such a stance might say something to the effect of "People are only keeping this in the privacy of their own homes until they run out of money. Then
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by eric-hu 14y ago
He'll be happier than he would be if your site was compromised for someone else's gain. These patches are annoying but some people are doing us a favor by finding, reporting and fixing them.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
These numbers are not mutually exclusive. The caption for that graph is "% of respondents who have worked with a particular language". Some high percent of developers in a web company have most likely worked with Javascript. Let's say it'
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Slightly pedantic, but Keith's note says: "With increasing frequency, we hung out, drank wine, and I helped prepare him for interviews with tech startups" ...so this case doesn't seem to involve women, not directly. Your observation still
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by eric-hu 14y ago
What in particular is bad about a Honda hybrid for those conditions? Are you referring to slow cabin heating or something else?
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by eric-hu 14y ago
My mind went there too. I didn't mention that one because it doesn't seem to be exponential. I actually found a past entry on the xkcd what-if blog: http://what-if.xkcd.com/7/ For a given amount of ship mass, you need 20x that mass in f
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by eric-hu 14y ago
What other feedback loops like that have exponential growth?
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Has anyone downloaded the mod and tried it? I'm curious why they use this mod for recruiting, though I don't own Portal 2 and I'm not interested in applying to Wibidata. What the video shows of the gameplay and puzzles are what I'd expect
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Thank you for sharing these links. I've bookmarked the second one and watched through the first. My first thought is the first link has left me with more questions than answers, but I suppose that might just be the nature of QM.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I understand this argument, and I adhere to it somewhat, but I still use gmail. It's just so much more usable (to me) than any other webmail service I've used. Yes, I am taking on a potentially bad burn of Google ever axes gmail or cuts so
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! I just accepted the black panes in stride because the caption said "...this is not so easy to visualize" I also noticed that the text of the page was angled away on page load in Chrome, but not in FF
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by eric-hu 14y ago
My guess is that the statement "I’d be happy if 37signals is the last place I work." is very similar to: "37signals is the last place I'd want to work" ...which is quite a polar difference from the first statement.
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I believe my Yahoo account was hit by this, since my sent mailbox showed messages with links similar to one I accidentally clicked (from a Gmail account!). The comments in this thread suggest that the attackers now have my cookies. What ca
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by eric-hu 14y ago
> Be sure that what you are doing is something you truly love, and not just something you want to love or want to portray that you love for the benefit of others. Can you expand on this? How do you ever know? Whether I love what I do
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Yes, I agree. I made sure to include 'typically' in my statement because I do see exceptions. Backbone.js has excellent documentation, as does Coffeescript and Underscore.js
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I'm only about 1-2 years into web dev and OSS, and a couple of months into feeling like I can contribute meaningfully to a gem. With that said, this is my current ideal Github workflow: - fork the gem to make changes/fixes - complete fix a
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by eric-hu 14y ago
While I'm a web dev and not a Windows coder, this post is a great example of why I come back to HN. > From experience, I’ve learned that it’s always best to fully understand a problem before you fix it. If you just patch over its sympto
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I shared a very similar path to yours and it's reassuring to read your story.
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This explanation actually provides 2 examples, one before the description text and one after. The description refers to the example before: > listenTo object.listenTo(other, event, callback) I think changing the naming to be more spe
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by eric-hu 14y ago
A comment on the description of listenTo on the Docs page: > Tell an object to listen to a particular event on an other object. The advantage of using this form, intead of other.on(event, callback), is that listenTo allows the object to
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by eric-hu 14y ago
You point out an interesting phenomena. I was just looking at this other AskHN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891470 People rant about how the Reddit downvote system is broken. Maybe this points to a flaw with upvotes and
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Pick a departure date and stick with it. Don't give into concerns about training the company on every possible thing you were responsible for. That could possibly take months to hand-hold them through everything. Do as much as you can to
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by eric-hu 14y ago
My smirk apparently agrees with you. That pseudo-evolutionary statement reminds me of the mouse-over for this xkcd http://xkcd.com/685/
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Didn't answer, I'd like to choose "Yes, all of the above"
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I don't think this is available in Firefox for OS X, there's 2 icons in the search field and neither one responds to click-and-hold

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