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by ffn 11y ago
Seriously, unless you're deeply passionate about the vision of the company you're working for, it's super important to keep tabs on the market and leave companies that are (for lack of a better term) taking advantage of you.
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by ffn 11y ago
Why doesn't NPM work for you? If it's an user-permission thing (which is common if you installed node straight-up), consider installing nodejs using NVM (node version manager). This also has the advantage that you don't have
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by ffn 11y ago
TIL ghcjs is a thing; I tried using fay some years back and it had a lot of issues not properly compiling on my machine.
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by ffn 11y ago
As a hobbyist adult mango artist, I have to agree, the internet has done wonders for sex. And, as a ME/CS engineer, I would really like to be able to be at the forefront of further advances in the field of robotics... But all hype and
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by ffn 11y ago
Absolutely, Haskell has a richness of concepts to it that's entirely in a class of its own... but that being said, Haskell is to programming what sex is to life (for a woman... because men's natural enjoyment of sex throws off my
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by ffn 11y ago
This was easily one of the wittiest and funniest articles I've ever read from a British author... But why shouldn't vampires be more lauded than Victorians? Why should Jane Austen, with her painfully circumlocutions, be more acade
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by ffn 11y ago
I don't like facebook either, but can't we just not use something without making a huge sensational scene about it? Also, for those whose eyes hurt from the matrix color theme the site uses, you can change the colors by opening up
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by ffn 11y ago
What about rubbing? I mean, when you rub against stuff (even wind), some of your cells get taken off. I'm all for peeing, pooping, and breathing, but how much weight do we lose just through simple friction? And if it's significant
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by ffn 11y ago
Yes, I agree infinite scrolling is kind of inconvenient, but what do you guys think of one-page-websites in general? For example, a lot of company landing pages do this nowadays, and it looks something like this: -------- some background pi
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by ffn 11y ago
I really enjoyed the RMS comment also; whoever wrote that wins the daily snark award. That being said, yeah, a lot of Google's paid developer facing tools are actually quite terrible (like their Youtube api/v3 - not the iframe one
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by ffn 11y ago
This seriously depends on the person. I personally hate having to commute to an office and would much prefer to work remotely from home, but I know plenty of folks who enjoy the social interaction at an open (or closed) work space. Besides,
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by ffn 11y ago
You're absolutely right, but I'd argue that, by switching to a more balanced life-style, you're still optimizing your life... except instead of optimizing for money-earned by your company, you're maximizing for personal
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by ffn 11y ago
If you read between the lines of this guy's comment, you can infer he is implying that he will get to be the first immortal person.
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by ffn 12y ago
No, but the article is written by someone who identifies as a vicious vegan; not an understanding-vegan, a compromising-vegan, or even a strongly-opinionated-but-reasonable vegan. But instead, it's by a vicious vegan who, judging by th
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by ffn 12y ago
Jesus, so Torvalds built the MVP for git in 1 day and pretty much scaled it up for kernel usage in 10 days. Now, as a humble average developer, how do I achieve Torvaldian levels of productivity?
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by ffn 12y ago
Well, to be fair, saying a JS code-slave (of which I am one) really likes TypeScript is like saying a malnourished man lost for a month in Death Valley sustaining only on dead maggots and his own urine really likes dining at the Home Town B
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by ffn 12y ago
Politics and "what it may mean for the future" talks aside, are there any API / performance / engineering differences between io and node today? I mean, there's a lot of talk regarding why joyent is bad or how joyen
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by ffn 12y ago
In particular, they aren't restful or intuitive. If you've never used youtube's api v3, and someone demanded you give a basic explanation of what youtube data should look like, you'd guess: 1. a user has many (or has one
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by ffn 12y ago
Well I for one hope they put all of their API code up on github so the community can contribute to it. Just have to say, google's youtube api v3 is absolutely awful compared to the delightfully restful API of Github or Twitter.
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by ffn 12y ago
My personal trick was to move the hell out of SF and the Bay Area (this could be generalized to out of any large concentrated hub of people who also do the same thing as you). If you're not dealing with tons of other engineers who need
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by ffn 12y ago
I think there's a good majority of us who grew up playing RPGs or city-builders. We're unfortunately unaccustomed to the ravages of war... even when it's just war on an internet-based tank game.
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by ffn 12y ago
Hey this is awesome! Really love your grid. Any chance you can share with us what frameworks you used? I'm particularly interested in what you used to build your 3d grid.
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by ffn 12y ago
Honestly, social-structure probably has a lot more to do with amount of entrepreneurs in a nation. In America, we utter the word "entrepreneur" the same way a 1960s boy would utter the word "astronaut" (or, if Soviet, &q
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by ffn 12y ago
What do you expect journalists and writers to do? The true secrets to success haven't changed since the days of Aristotle: go at something you love with hard work and perseverance and when (and if) the world meets you halfway, you&#x27
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by ffn 12y ago
lol love this idea... but my target audience is teenage Asian girls who like anime. If OP's current thing is successful, will you be willing to do a theuserisajapaneseschoolgirl.com ?
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by ffn 12y ago
As much as I am anally pained by the following things in JS: 1 + "2" = "12" but "1" - 1 = 0 0 == false ( "if window.scrollTop ..." will occasionally break on user scroll ) undefined == null ( why do w
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by ffn 12y ago
Thanks OP, this actually made me laugh uproariously. Anyway, I'd be willing to bet 100 push-ups that (unless it was malicious and not a bug), this thing is caused by some clean up code somewhere that originally intended to do "rm
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by ffn 12y ago
Just be sure to use @include and not @extend, otherwise you'll wind up blowing through your allowed selector ration and wind up wonky css bugs that you will never be able to resolve without re-writing everything.
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by ffn 12y ago
2cool4school high school semantics aside, "be awesomer" is sound advice. Consider the second word "awesomer" (I assume this is the word you don't like, since I can't see anyone with a qualm against "be&quo
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by ffn 12y ago
Great article, going to come back to this in like 3 months when I'll be looking for work again.

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