iron_ball

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by iron_ball 15y ago
Look at all the people on HN saying they want to hire based on SO rep and a Github account.
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by iron_ball 15y ago
So privacy is either impossible or mandatory? The slopes sure are slippery around here. I shouldn't have worn my dress shoes.
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by iron_ball 15y ago
It was a bad example. Amazon MP3 Store downloads straight to the phone.
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by iron_ball 15y ago
Just started using OS X heavily at work on a large monitor and started to notice a bit of a window clutter problem. Your app looks like it could be the ticket!
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Like xscope?
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by iron_ball 16y ago
I'm not blaming anyone currently alive, but it's definitely sad that millions of people, along with their cultures, were wiped out wholesale by rapacious or at best careless invaders. I don't think that's a controversial sentiment.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
I'm torn on this issue. Socioeconomic class is of towering importance, and has been neglected in favor of pure race for far too long; but racism is very real, and remains a potent force worldwide. It is counter-productive, I think, to look
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Maybe I'm overestimating the learning capacity of two-year-olds, but isn't that something you'd learn after a few times?
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by iron_ball 16y ago
I've seen that too. I don't think it was intentional -- the programmer simply didn't understand what the existing code structure was for, and "defactored" it.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
That stuff has its place. But it's needed less commonly than it's used.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
HTML (1 through 5) enable "crap things" too. As long as skilled users can create quality products, who cares what everyone else does?
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Your friends are bland and humorless? In my experience, that isn't the fault of Facebook.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
America has an open internet, and we're pretty awful at reform. Apples and oranges, though. We're replacing rotten floorboards and broken balcony rails; they're building a house up from rubble.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
It was sarcasm. The point was that the iOS vs. Android wars pale in comparison to potentially world-changing research like this.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Maybe, but it's a direct snapshot of reality; there's not even any special framing, just selection bias.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
True, but I see it as a defining characteristic of "scripting" languages that they are great at quickly and easily automating everyday computing tasks... Something you would be hard pressed to say about Java. But is there a term that expres
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by iron_ball 16y ago
It's more likely that they had the phones respectfully silenced, but wanted to see incoming messages flash on the screen. I leave my Droid 1 lying face-up for the same reason.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Interesting, thanks. Does "browsers have improved significantly since [2006]" mean that we still need bottom scripts for IE?
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by iron_ball 16y ago
I have to say, I like company Facebook pages because it's much harder to make an awful Flash-heavy mystery-meat-navigation autoplay-music unselectable-text mess of a site within Facebook. That's also the reason I quit Myspace.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Believe it or not, this has actually happened to me. I was going through a long literary dry spell, and my SO of the time turned to me once and said "I miss those poems you used to write." I told her, "the only thing I can write right now i
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Can't read it all on my Android phone, either.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
People will be tempted to say "good job, science, now tell me something I don't know", but honestly, taking common sense and elevating it at least to the level of hypothesis is an underrated aspect of science. Every now and then, such a "no
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by iron_ball 16y ago
This needs to happen more on the internet.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Oh man, this is really great. Thanks again!
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Hey, thanks! Last I checked, the beta was closed. I had to jump through some hoops to register, but now I'm good.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Except Swype is not readily available for the Droid. At least my Droid 1.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
It's almost as if the dictator they want to overthrow has been one of America's closest allies in the region. Why, to hear them talk, you'd think America has made the dictator's continued reign a linchpin of their Middle Eastern policy.
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by iron_ball 16y ago
Particularly ridiculous when you notice that he uses "ſ" for the S in both "software" and "design." Wouldn't a reformed spelling use different symbols for the two sounds?
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by iron_ball 16y ago
If businesses haven't upgraded after 12 years, why would another 18 make any difference? I'm beginning to think that IE6 is the new COBOL -- something that's locked into irrevocably locked into business practices. I'm working on a B2B site
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by iron_ball 16y ago
So you can answer interview questions.

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