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by jayliew 16y ago
This one? http://github.com/adamalbrecht/hacker-news-for-chrome Just tried it, there doesn't appear to be a way to check if a URL is already posted or not
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by jayliew 16y ago
One way, although inelegant, would be to post a URL and see if I can delete it right away. If I can, that means it hasn't been posted prior to me posting. I'll have to detect the "0 minutes ago" and the delete link If I cannot delete, that
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Ask HN: How to check if URL is posted to HN (without actually posting it)
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by jayliew 16y ago
Correction: I realized that I might not be conveying it right. Product is not yet another way to discover interesting things to read. The moment you visit a URL, just as you are about to read it, the browser tells you that "hey, before you
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Ask HN: Browser gently warns you b4 reading something you regret spending time(times.jayliew.com)
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In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at HP(bhorowitz.com)
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by jayliew 16y ago
People who are smart enough to be writing social networks are more than smart enough to be doing pharmaceutical research or inventing solar cookers for the third world Although I have a CS degree and I absolutely love CS, I did "just ok"
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by jayliew 16y ago
Walked through and explained the code step by step: http://times.jayliew.com/2010/10/07/ie6-effect-how-it-works/ p.s. I know there's a lot of expert js hackers on HN far better than I am, this is just more for a beginner audience
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by jayliew 16y ago
You take as many classes as you can at community college then you transfer to a real university and technically graduate from there. Massive $avings.
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Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups(jolieodell.wordpress.com)
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by jayliew 16y ago
I recommend 'The Non-Designer's Design Book' by Robin Williams http://amzn.to/aMd1kR
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Re-imagining Enterprise Applications in the Cloud(bhorowitz.com)
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by jayliew 16y ago
Results are in: Top result: Programmer Second result: Software Developer Third result: Software Engineer Honorary mention: Developer (almost as frequent as “Software Engineer”) http://times.jayliew.com/2010/10/06/how-do-you-describe-your..
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by jayliew 16y ago
Speaking of fast followers, I've just started reading this book last week titled 'Copycats' by Oded Shenkar http://amzn.to/cG7vm3 - which basically talks about using imitation slash innovation as one of available tools in your repertoire.
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by jayliew 16y ago
Maybe the back and forth in this particular sub-thread validates that there's there's an opportunity for souped up dev tools for the *nix community?
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by jayliew 16y ago
There's something to be said about purposely inflating one's title to sound cooler (there's certainly bad people graduating with CS degrees), but let's set that point aside for a moment. Sounds to me like you saying that implementing a desi
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by jayliew 16y ago
and if they are non-techies, they by definition don't know how to tell a qualified vs unqualified techie anyways :/
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by jayliew 16y ago
My biggest pet peeve, which perhaps is my own bias is that when someone says "programmer", I take it that they pretty much know how to use an if statement, loops, call functions, but that's it. You can hire people on Rentacoder and elance w
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Ask HN: Explain to non-techies what you do: Programmer? Developer? Engineer? (spreadsheets.google.com)
28 points by jayliew 16y ago|61 comments
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You didn't allude to whether she actually liked it or not - which I think is the more important point. She's the beneficiary of the knowledge the guy gained from Maxim, it would matter more that the guy acquired and used the knowledge, than
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by jayliew 16y ago
Recently I've set out on a quest to actively find new ideas; going as far as making it a goal to find one new idea a day (no matter how crazy, for the sake of flexing my brain and getting it better at stumbling on opportunities). This is as
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by jayliew 16y ago
Isn't that what the article is saying? "Don't forget the planes that didn't return", which is silent evidence because there's no evidence of its absence
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by jayliew 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
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by jayliew 16y ago
As a startup entrepreneur I think it's tremendously helpful. By the way, when you mentioned about the $1 user acquisition by Mint, I couldn't but help think of Andreessen Horowitz's (as championed by Ben)'s view of "fat" startups - "sometim
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Customers buy outcomes, not attributes & they certainly don't pay a premium(radar.oreilly.com)
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San Diego Hacker News Meetup 9(cses.ucsd.edu)
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http://cofoundergoogledocs.com :)
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The Pomodoro Technique | Ryan Waggoner(ryanwaggoner.com)
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by jayliew 16y ago
Same username? That's assuming it's still available. If it isn't ? Then you have to remember a one-off username. Also, I do not use the same password for all web sites. That's the most basic security FAIL. If someone figures out your pass
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by jayliew 16y ago
I'm inclined to think that it's a business decision, not a technical decision. If I had to guess, it has to do with ad revenue. But I agree with the problems, I hate the stupid buffering quirk. It's not as well implemented like say, YouTube

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