jaredklewis

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by jaredklewis 12y ago
It's still ridiculous that they are portrayed as victims while Japan is portrayed as a "trap." It's not like these men are refugees from Syria. They chose to come to Japan, they chose to stay, and the nature of Japanese
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
I think whether or not deflation is "good" depends on how you feel about wealth distribution. Inflation is a tax. Politicians don't like raising taxes, because it's unpopular. The government still needs money though, so
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
I imagine he's interested in a bet with a big VC because they are the ones complaining about high, "bubble" valuations. I doubt Sam really cares one way or another if some random guy/the American public/whoever thin
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
While I agree in part, I often find that page html isn't much like a proper data structure at all: it's littered with tons of presentational fluff like wrapper divs. I find that HTML is usually more tightly coupled with the CSS th
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
Are you also against make, cmake, mvn, rake, etc...? Those tools could also be replaced with custom scripts, but programmers in every language seem to agree that build tools make the job easier. I don't think grunt or gulp are perfect,
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
> Currently 99% of websites are not SPAs, but I think a lot of sites will switch to SPAs in the future, since they offer a better UX(no full reloads, more interactivity etc) in most cases. I'm sure customers will demand these sort o
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
I think we all agree that progress on the technological front is important, but I disagree that you can ignore the political and cultural fronts. Even if you have perfect encryption, if the government can demand anyone to decrypt anything a
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
Janitors keep places clean so programmers can focus on programming and thus "contribute to society." Assuming programmers are doing some good, not cleaning their own office lets them do more of it. In this way I think janitors can
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
The criticisms seem valid, but I'm surprised by the extreme negative reactions. VCs have a lot of money to play with, which they usually pump into the latest photo sharing/email organizer/whatever app. I'd prefer mistake
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
I too often read about research that suggests children are better at learning languages than adults, which may or not be true, but I am rarely convinced by these reports. Finding a correlation between the age a person started learning a lan
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
> For example, a common requirement is a faq-like page, a blog section and easily being able to edit other public pages (about, team, contact, index, etc.). Then the real bread and butter of the application is behind some sort of login w
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
So don't, but then when the government wants some user you have, they'll ask you to modify the code so the JS does access their data and send it back to you. Comply or shutdown. My understanding is that in the bit mail case, the
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by jaredklewis 12y ago
Unless the courts ask you to modify your software to access the user data next time they login (iirc, this was the case with bit mail).
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
It's not offensive, it's just not right for business. Outside of work, men use ore (tough and manly) or boku (boyish and charming) in regular conversation. Some my co-workers even use ore at the office if they're making a jok
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
Agreed! I liked the OP, even though it was quite guilty of this. But what is it about programmers (hackers/coders/developers/whatever it's called in your idiolect) that makes us so pointlessly passionate about diction?
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
I didn't call the other game developers incompetent and I don't think the Flapper developer is a genius. I'm just saying that art is pretty mysterious and despite the fact that people have been making video games for quite a
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
It's not the time spent working which is the issue. If you were accidentally put on the no fly list tomorrow would it be okay that you were not allowed to board an airplane anywhere in or bound for the us for 7 years? I understand mist
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
That's all true, but I still think that if anyone (indie, AAA, or otherwise) knew they could have the no 1 spot in the app store simply by making Flapper (a relatively small investment to develop), they would have done it. Even if the
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
I don't disagree with most of your post, but I still think the basic message of the blog post is valid. Obviously, if developers in AAA or indie sector knew that this kind of huge success could be had with a game like this, they would
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
Looks cool. What motivated you to start the project? I'm just curious since there are already so many SRS flash card apps, including the impressive Anki (cross-platform, powerful features, open source, free). Is it just for fun/th
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
Obviously this piece focuses on what we should do politically, which is necessary and important, but in the meantime, we can also try to do things that technologically "restrain" them. Getting everyone to use gpg probably seems im
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
Good luck. You seem nice, but I doubt anyone on HN will be interested unless you're paying a competitive salary. I think most developers looking for co-founders either want another technical person to share the workload or someone with
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
Well, it does seem unreasonable to call Hensher ungrateful; like anyone Hensher has no duty to write except when it pleases him. But Hensher does talk about how this would affect those with aspirations to be writers and I don't think w
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
It feels like you're fishing to be told: quit, follow your dream, but here's some practical advice. If you don't have a relevant degree, getting another job might take time. Unless you're not worried at all about your fi
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by jaredklewis 13y ago
Email, like Google Wave, already is a federated model and you can indeed run it on your own server. Problem it's not practical for people to run servers 24/7 from their home Internet connections. You can remove this burden from pe