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by jared314 12y ago
That is an interesting move to empower users with a feeling of ownership. Although, it would be more interesting, to me, if they tried to push towards a distributed autonomous corporation instead. The type and amount of operations that coul
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> It goes down to 90% by 2014, and could very easily be pushed below that later on--Republican governors used that as an excuse not to expand. It is phased down to 90% by 2020, and, in its current form, doesn't fall below that. The
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You must keep in mind Google's perspective. They have a firehose of great candidates to choose from, requiring an assembly line of recruiters and interviewers to filter them. They could use any filtering method, no matter how inaccurat
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You should be worried. You are joining a pop culture that measures, judges, and hires people by how much they know about the current pop culture. Worse yet, everyone who tries to escape this conformity appears to just switch to a different
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I do not understand your second reason. > So in more than half the states people making just above a certain threshold get essentially free healthcare, while people making below it get nothing. In these states ACA has done almost nothing
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It reminds me more of the Planet Ice tanks from Shadow Raiders[1]. They even rolled like the MorpHex[2]. [1] http://youtu.be/7TfF3TUFNE8?t=8m49s [2] http://youtu.be/-R_QhDBjKBQ?t=11m34s
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I have always liked the idea of these bots roaming github, looking for bugs to fix and code that could be improved. But, it almost always ends up annoying somehow. Either the change is a false positive, the bot doesn't understand the p
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The text is using BeeLine Reader[1]. It tries to make reading faster by using that color gradient to guide the reader's eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. I reads a little better with the blue and red coloring,
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> Remember that there was a time we programmed without copying our work. Nope. I remember specifically copying from known solutions in large organized reams of marked paper (a "book" we called it). They used to have whole rooms
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> The question we should be asking is why talent doesn't seem to increase with age as much as we'd like. This question has been answered many times before. People are re-solving the exact same problems with a new framework, pla
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I think basing it on light is a mistake. I much prefer the solid core construction idea, with either a thin layer of plasma and/or a highly excited core material. I re-watched Star Wars Episode 1 recently, and, as soon as the first lig
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> ... this has the potential of freeing us from the horrible disaster for layout that is CSS, and giving us a sane replacement, without waiting for browsers or the W3. I said this exact thing when I threw together my attempt at solving t
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EDN [1] has one flaw. It is not JSON. I will just repost the response [2] I received when I mentioned wanting EDN support in PostgreSQL. > So the same argument as (say) YAML, Lua tables or TNetStrings. Or, if you include binary represent
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> It's just funny to see people (the Light Table fans as well) rediscover what Emacs users already knew Since many of the Light Table fans either use or have used Emacs, I would say that it is more of a relief to have something that
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With hnsearch.com being shutdown, I believe he is referring to: http://hn.algolia.com/api
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> I always prioritize security as number 1. > I've made sure that my code was secure > has just always been embedded into my programming philosophy > So their environment was broken to me. > I've began to realize th
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The syntax issue is why I think the Elixir programming language[1] has a good chance of improving the ecosystem around the Erlang VM. Although, most Erlang programmers, who i've spoken to, feel the syntax is a non-issue, so it is more
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Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5699552 (9 months ago) High Scalability Post: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-m... Original Shmoocon
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Unfortunately it does not seem to have the accuracy, or breadth, of the old hnsearch.com. Hopefully this will be fixed in time, but I have found it lacking relevant results and myself switching back to hnsearch on most occasions. I also won
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The important thing to remember about the big G or MS style is, they have a massive stream of extremely qualified potential hires, who want to work there far more than the company needs them. The company needs an assembly line just to handl
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For those devs, like myself, who are unfamiliar with large javascript projects, do you have a link to an open-source javascript-heavy project that fits your points?
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I have not heard that suggestion before. I have heard to not use your medical insurance, or credit cards, and avoid a formal diagnosis. I believe the service provider is required by law to keep records for their legal liability, but that wi
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Another irony is, the act of seeking mental health services can, in some cases, be used against you in future medical, legal, and employment situations. This might also explain why so many people, while being supportive of professional ment
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A few years ago, I believed outsourcing was the main culprit removing the bottom rungs on the career ladder. That was until someone, older than I was, told me: "A career is not a right." That's when I understood that it is a
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by jared314 13y ago
> No offense: the centering topic is really well covered right now It sounds like you are fixating on the example of centering, where using a physics model to generate positioning and layouts, without CSS or HTML tables, is the goal.
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Show HN: Centering a Div with Physics, Instead of CSS
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> We were having a problem getting front-end people so they had managers put 15 front-end engineers on the task full time for a month I have never heard of a hiring war-room or lockdown of that type. Are you redesigning/improving th
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> should the effort fail, but as a retiree you are looking at old-age poverty As mooreds mentioned in his comment[1], they might already be looking at old-age poverty. People are living longer, healthcare costs are rising, retirement fun
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by jared314 13y ago
Hangout Fishbowl - A way for the audience, of a Google Hangout On Air, to request an invite in real time. In the next iteration, I hope to add automated invite moderation, like auto-accept if the number of participants is below a specific n
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> Decent developers routinely charge $40-$50/hour on remote work sites like eLance ... This topic comes up every so often. It rarely ends up as a silver bullet to financial independence. https://news.ycombinator.com/

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