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by falien 17y ago
Every request from a different place ultimately is fulfilled by the original host barring some extreme caching (which you can also use http headers to instruct against). This is completely different than the case of it being taken from the
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by falien 17y ago
I would have thought that using the photos to imply endorsement ran afoul of the law for reasons other than copyright.
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by falien 17y ago
"To lock in your users data may be in your terms of service but that does not mean it will stand up in court. Portability is pretty much a given..." It is a given in terms of best practices in various regards, but not in law (at least not i
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by falien 17y ago
I assume (hope) that any sites doing this are already at a fixed width of at least 1024 (or whatever it is to allow for browser chrome).
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by falien 17y ago
Whether they reflect poorly or not is a matter of personal philosophy. If I was face with someone who was blatantly racist, it would reflect poorly on their suitability for a job where they to interact with people who would take offense to
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by falien 17y ago
But its possible that it has an immense bearing on their work. Likewise having 10 years experience doing one thing could have either incredible relevance or none at all. Its a matter of likelihoods and what society has deemed acceptab
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by falien 17y ago
"Founding employees should have similar qualities as the founders." Why in the world would you want that? I wouldn't think even two co-founders should be particularly similar. They need to mesh well certainly, but compatibility is often inv
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by falien 17y ago
1 seems much more targeted at entrepreneurs. I would expect most decent developers to have at least tangential knowledge of him because its hard to avoid when frequenting tech blogs, but I would give no positive points for reading him. From
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by falien 17y ago
I'm young, still gaining real-world experience, and fully aware of the fact that I have very few of the right answers (let alone all of them). Why would I go to the trouble of developing my own tools on a regular basis when other people who
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by falien 17y ago
Sounds more like you needed to read a book about mysql + database design. Its good to come up with workable solutions using what you know. Its better to figure out what you need to know for a great solution and go learn that. That's my phil
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by falien 17y ago
That's what I was hoping it would be when I read it (and also thought the writer was shortsighted in dismissing it) but as far as I can tell it really does search emoticons. The only translation seems to be translating one type of happy emo
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by falien 17y ago
Unless your resume is simply horrific, it should only really keep you from getting interviews at the large companies with a wall of HR before anyone technical will be aware of you. For most companies, you should pay much more attention to y
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by falien 17y ago
of course I meant most of the time. Of course they'll do things to jar you to full consciousness (good or bad). If they were that routine, who would want them?
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by falien 17y ago
Anecdotally it seems this depends a lot on the individual. Based on the actual studies I've read about (though I'll admit this is interpretation by science journalists rather than my reading the studies myself) this would generally be a ver
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by falien 17y ago
You may be legally required to be present, but that doesn't mean you have to do anything. I have no particular problem with copying busywork, but claiming you're required to do any such work is a cop out. (Also it is shockingly easy in the
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by falien 17y ago
As another commenter suggested, there is a stark difference between high school and universities. high schools in the US can be justifiably compared to prisons in this sense, but universities cannot.
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by falien 17y ago
I dont think I saw wolfram (the company) hyping alpha as a google killer anywhere, but all their material about it definitely over-hypes it for what it does right now. Alpha definitely does some interesting things, but all the material I've
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by falien 17y ago
I like how I'm downvoted for a joke response to a worthless uncited statistic. If its because you think its not funny fine. I sincerely hope no readers of HN are dumb enough to actually be "mislead" by it.
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by falien 17y ago
Based on the way he described her spending habits for her children and household, that doesn't seem particularly plausible to me.
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by falien 17y ago
11 percent of murder victims were killed by an "intimate" http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/intimates.htm
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by falien 17y ago
how about philosophical, political, legal, and financial?
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by falien 17y ago
That was my exact thought as soon as I read that line. At the same time though, it is important for google to realize that a/b[/c/d] testing referred to in the article will only get you to local maximums (as much as it can be said that desi
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by falien 17y ago
Red Bull Cola is god awful. It tastes like cough syrup. I couldn't bring myself to drink more than the first even when it was free.
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by falien 17y ago
If you're a person who doesn't need a university program, then you're a person who can get an incredible amount of value out of one as well. No school gives you anything, but you can take a hell of a lot out of a halfway decent progra
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by falien 17y ago
I hope you're wrong, but I suspect you're not.
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by falien 17y ago
Socrates by way of Plato said something along the lines of "I'm the wisest man in the land because I know that I know nothing." It seems to me that many of the geniuses I've read biographies of started with a similar humility and a healthy
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by falien 17y ago
I did not say that the reviewers were generally incapable of properly reviewing papers, I said that they are less likely to. While most have only the best intentions, those who are capable of subjecting research to proper scrutiny tend to b
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by falien 17y ago
I think generally those responses on HN are directed more at the sensationalist reporting by those journalists/bloggers who have even less expertise in the subject matter than your average Science/Engineering degree holder. This is complete
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by falien 17y ago
Poorly written response with as many bad arguments as good ones, but I agree with the sentiment. The startup visa idea strikes me more as one that comes to you and seems good for the first hour until you come to your senses, than one that i
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by falien 18y ago
I'd argue there is really no such thing as a low maintenance developer system. Any good developer will need to customize their environment alot to be as productive as possible, and this means different things for different developers. Perso

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