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by hammerdr 16y ago
My father did this for me while I was in high school. If you have the opportunity to do this for your kids, do it. It's a hundred dollar jump start to life.
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by hammerdr 16y ago
It's not ironic. Ho Chi Min was literally inspired by the United States. It's a tragedy that we (the US) and Ho Chi Min became enemies. I'm not a proponent of communism, but Ho Chi Min's Vietnam could have had great potential due to his cha
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by hammerdr 16y ago
We can theoretically impact it. Antimatter slowly falls into the black hole and decreases its mass until there isn't enough gravity to maintain a black hole (and then you have a massive explosion). So, in theory, if we could somehow acquire
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Why wouldn't Google use all available channels (let us say.. bringing up the 'unfair' terms that Apple imposes on 3rd parties to the NYT) in order to break into a significant market? As with everything that comes from a large corporation, t
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by hammerdr 16y ago
I think you're forgetting that iOS 4 has a metric ton of additions that were announced at another keynote. Edit: not that I disagree with you, but it should be noted that the focus of this keynote was hardware in part because the software h
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by hammerdr 16y ago
We may disagree on the degree to the 'helpfulness' of diversity; essential may have been too strong of a word. I think that diversity is 'essential' in that we cannot solve problems as well as we could without it. I agree with you that dive
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Why would this be down voted? Diversity is essential when trying to find solutions to problems and there is a huge lack of diversity in our industry when it comes to women in computing.
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by hammerdr 16y ago
As interested as I am in the material, I can't read this article. I can't give the author my mindshare if he's going to include pointless illustrations of that nature in his article.
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by hammerdr 16y ago
How is this different than http://github.com/mwild1/xmppjs ?
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by hammerdr 16y ago
This is great! I love the idea of doing something both challenging and interesting in order to learn a language. I belong in that first group (know Scheme but know very little Haskell) so this is perfect for me :) Is there a tutorial on tes
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Does this automatically scrub tweets or is a one-way street? I think it would be interesting to create non-structured top lists that just cataloged and aggregated from the twitter mindshare. E.g. most popular TED talks
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by hammerdr 16y ago
The applications and review comments are pretty fascinating. You can see them at: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/phase1-applications...
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by hammerdr 16y ago
As a Ruby folk, I somewhat agree. Unit testing is essential in a dynamic language otherwise things are going to blow up. However, this doesn't really blow up the number of test cases. If you're unit testing dynamically typed languages versu
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Why would that be intentional?
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Ask HN: Hacker News Upvote Bug?
4 points by hammerdr 16y ago|3 comments
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by hammerdr 16y ago
I think its a testament to their perseverance and skill that they were able to take such a legacy system and port it to the Mac. They used some pretty cool technologies (Mono, MonoObjC) along the way and solved the problem. This is a rea
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Just very broad: a series of white papers and a sample Java implementation which doesn't have any persistent storage. There is certainly space for someone to document the specifics of the Wave Protocol (and, along with that, operational tra
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by hammerdr 16y ago
I disagree because of this one line in his speech: "none of which I know how to work" which reads like the classic politician's way of distancing him- or herself from the technology (and have heard from technophobic politicians-- http://www
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by hammerdr 16y ago
This makes me sad. Despite my political opposition to Obama, I thought that he understood the culture of the "IPod, XBox era." In fact, he leveraged these tools of 'diversion' in his campaign (and did so very effectively). This seems to be
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by hammerdr 16y ago
No kidding. GitHub absolutely exploded the number of contributors to Rails (at least, judging by this visualization).
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Atlas (and Cappuccino) is going to make developing quality RIAs very quick, very easy. While a RIA isn't something that is necessary for everything on the web, these types of frameworks are going to support true killer apps that will replac
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by hammerdr 16y ago
I think he brings up a point in his post which effectively nullifies his argument. Throughout the article, both explicitly and implicitly, he alludes to the fundamental nature of a strong free press in American society. Occam's Razor; which
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Personal network is something that is very powerful here and will be the top (if not only) means of recruitment for me. How did you go about recruiting and assimilating the members of the team? Just as a curiosity, what is your role? Are yo
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by hammerdr 16y ago
A) It depends on your dynamic. I've found that with people I don't know that I tend to switch very frequently (10 minutes) whereas with my long time pairing partner we can go much longer (60 - 90 minutes) without switching. B) Yes! It is de
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Usability metrics and studies disagree with you. It's a pretty basic usability heuristic that states click targets on the edge of the screen are much more usable than floating targets.
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Ask HN: How would you build the perfect team?
8 points by hammerdr 16y ago|7 comments
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by hammerdr 16y ago
The reversal of the "extends" paradigm is interesting. It seems very natural. What made you go with that? (I know I'm not really responding to your comment but I think it speaks for itself).
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Screenshot of the instant signin http://yfrog.com/iymcjp This was without prompt, as qhoxie states.
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by hammerdr 16y ago
In my experience, this isn't true. In fact, my 'attitude' of approaching work like a craftsman has served me very well in job interviews (even landing me opportunities at pie-in-the-sky type of jobs).
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by hammerdr 16y ago
No. E.g. The ludicrous bashing of Gruber for not maintaining Markdown for the purposes of StackOverflow by Atwood. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-open-so...

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