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Ask HN: Help me shame a SOPA co-sponsor
7 points by gacba 15y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 15y ago
I think the takeaway here is that if you're going to promote something on HN, put your downloadable content on AWS or some similar CDN first. When there are nerds involved, expect heavy turnout. Yowza.
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2012: Year of the Android Tablet?(informationweek.com)
2 points by gacba 15y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 15y ago
It is precisely this attitude that GoDaddy is counting on, BTW.
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by gacba 15y ago
The words they ranked are also some of the most common words in the English language (Who, What, Why, How), words that get used in posts by theme (Ask, Developer), or pronouns (I, me). What they should have done is to exclude these extremel
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by gacba 15y ago
You may laugh at the utter simplicity of this test, but I administer this several times a week when I interview candidates. I am still dismayed at how few programmers can solve this given 30 min (15 for the correct solution, plus 15 for opt
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by gacba 15y ago
The problem with trolling my FB account for understanding my behavior is that people fall into roughly 3 categories: - Old work associates - School friends - Family and close friends If I have a deadbeat cousin who also happens to be the bl
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Confessions of a self published author(scottberkun.com)
2 points by gacba 15y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 15y ago
Google and Facebook are free because you are the product. They make craptons of money off of you using their service, selling your usage data, showing ads. That's completely different than Pinboard.
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by gacba 15y ago
-1 to GCHQ for not even tracking who solved their damn riddle and actually using that as a bozo filter. Duh.
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by gacba 15y ago
My bad, corrected.
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Can you Crack It? Break this cypher, get an interview with GCHQ(canyoucrackit.co.uk)
37 points by gacba 15y ago|27 comments
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IPad still kicking Android Butt, No End in Sight(lessonsoffailure.com)
1 points by gacba 15y ago|1 comments
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OccupyFlash: Rid the world of Flash apps(money.cnn.com)
5 points by gacba 15y ago|2 comments
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by gacba 15y ago
Did anyone else dig into the quotes section for "Messages from Earth"? ( http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html ) This one made me chuckle because all I could think about was the Simpsons Halloween episode where the aliens h
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by gacba 15y ago
Actually, according to a recent Google blog post, this is exactly what should happen for hot trending searches. They tweaked the algorithm to make hot search topics bubble up in the suggestion box and return relevant results for recent n
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The Legacy of Steve Jobs, A-Z(lessonsoffailure.com)
1 points by gacba 15y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 15y ago
Agreed. The time and money you can waste doing domain search and logo design far exceeds the $250 price they're charging. Having done this a number of times myself, $250 is a major bargain for something that is vetted and pretty much read
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by gacba 15y ago
eBay is the wrong place to sell websites--very high noise and low quality. Look at Flippa instead: http://flippa.com
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Ask HN: Programmer screening techniques that non-techies could administer?
1 points by gacba 15y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 15y ago
In the words of Joni Mitchell, "We don't know what we got til it's gone..." My condolences.
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by gacba 15y ago
I love that they're doing this. It does, however, bring up one disadvantage that the paper record does not. Suppose you're sitting in the room with your loved one and you want to see what the doctor wrote about their condition and treatmen
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by gacba 15y ago
Looking at the scatterplot data, I'm wondering about the actual value of the scoring or the site in general. People are all over the map on most photos I browsed (the scatter plots look like shooting targets with points everywhere around t
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by gacba 15y ago
One of many, but certainly the latest: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha/archive/2011/09/15/... WinRT will require you to completely rewrite your app if you want a total Metro experience. IOW, .NET apps are not fully supported as
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by gacba 15y ago
Source?
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by gacba 15y ago
Mashable, for example, writes about similar topics and has more traffic–but a Mashable hit isn’t as coveted as a TechCrunch hit. In either case, the kind of "hit" you get from either site is of questionable value when you're trying to bui
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by gacba 15y ago
Agreed, the very concept seems reprehensible amongst this group. Unless John Graham-Cunning is suddenly losing faith in HN community for being able to self-police itself on this kind of drudgery, then I say we let it be.
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by gacba 15y ago
Just as his website was MIT-driven by encouraging Mr. Wade’s entrepreneurial spirit and putting him in those awkward social situations, it was also MIT-driven by twisting his view of reality into a purely utilitarian model, completely devo
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by gacba 15y ago
A $99 unlocked phone would be both, IMO. Just like the TouchPad went ionospheric at that price, the sub $100 phone with that kind of power would likely do the same. The issue isn't just carrier subsidy in this case, having an uber-cheap An
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by gacba 15y ago
I love the idea of actual project-based coding interviews where you get to see all aspects of the candidate's abilities (communication, technical chops, design skills/trade offs, etc). But I'm a little skeptical about the statement, "And

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