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by jbr 17y ago
My favorite: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html (free) Installing anonymous is one of the first things I do when I get a new mac.
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by jbr 17y ago
Just curious, does anyone actually like when employers get cute with job postings? It seems like a move of desperation to me, most of the time. Does it actually say "developer friendly" to others?
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by jbr 17y ago
I've been playing go on and off for over ten years now and _heartily_ recommend anyone remotely interested in learning to sign up for kgs ( http://www.gokgs.com/ ) and download the java client. There is a fantastic community there, includi
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by jbr 17y ago
Agreed wholeheartedly on LaTeX. It also is a great entry point for a warm-up conversation at an interview if you format it professionally. I've been asked a number of times "how'd you do this?" and I'm not doing anything fancier than a tw
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by jbr 17y ago
Probably has to do with typekit ( http://typekit.com/ ). I'm using the beta of typekit because it seemed like a neat way of using @font-face, but I guess it's more beta than I expected. What browser are you using?
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Another perspective on pair programming: Hackers vs Engineers(jacobrothstein.com)
4 points by jbr 17y ago|3 comments
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by jbr 17y ago
I was also surprised, but explained it to myself like this: Autism (and Asperger's, which is something like high-functioning autism) have a certain natural affinity with hackers. If there's something that works for autism, we might collect
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by jbr 17y ago
As far as I remember from an undergraduate degree in psychology, autistic parents are some of the most willing to try experimental approaches. Autism is incredibly difficult for everyone involved and parents are often desperate to find som
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Trading Fours: A proposed panel blogging system(jacobrothstein.com)
1 points by jbr 17y ago|0 comments
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by jbr 17y ago
Wow, I've been thinking of building something like this lately fairly seriously. Why did you stop? I wasn't able to find anything at mentorapp.org; has the hosting expired? I'd love to talk about possibly collaborating on this (although I t
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A Spidermonkey-based CLI REPL for Javascript(ossp.org)
2 points by jbr 17y ago|0 comments
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by jbr 17y ago
Here we are in a fairly lively field with technical skills and a million ideas but (generally) not all that much life experience. The demographic that this article talks about are older, more experienced, but either weary or lost due to un
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by jbr 17y ago
I just ran into http://diagrammr.com/ tonight. Pretty sweet little mini-app that looks like it's built on graphviz/dot.
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by jbr 17y ago
It's actually really exciting that neighborgoods exists. Do you have any idea how they're planning on monetizing? I did this as a weekend project and am considering open sourcing because it doesn't really seem like there's a demographic t
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by jbr 17y ago
Hey, really nice job on pocketsapp. How did you do the phone interface? Is there a good resource for learning that tech? Thanks!
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by jbr 17y ago
I built http://www.sharelocally.org/ for RailsRumble (solo), which I plan to open-source. Anyone interested in the concept? I've got a lot more planned I didn't fit in. This was my first rumble and learned a whole lot about exactly how
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by jbr 17y ago
UserVoice [1] and GetSatisfaction [2] are the big guys in customer feedback. [1] http://www.uservoice.com/ [2] http://www.getsatisfaction.com/
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by jbr 17y ago
Truth be told, we thought it looked weird, too. We don't use "webBeacons" or anything weird; just cookies. Google drops a few cookies for analytics, too, but that's it. I'm going to go over the privacy policy today and make it reflect the r
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by jbr 17y ago
Some things I've learned in the last month of promoting my app: HN gave me a wide variety of feedback, some of it really excellent. Try posting a "Ask HN: Please review my startup vivekjishtu.com" or whatever. Launchly is awesome but doesn
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by jbr 17y ago
To respond to the general idea of the RFS, not RFS1 specifically: I think this sort of feedback to the startup community is incredibly valuable. I take it as an statement of "what they think the world needs/wants/would-pay-for right now."
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by jbr 17y ago
Ideas are cheap and I'm already committed to a project, so here's my take on the RFS. Imagine a site with the following attributes: - Anyone can submit content in any language. - Anyone can translate any content. - Editors (initially the f
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by jbr 17y ago
My company makes a product for exactly this purpose [1]. It's better for this sort of task than UserVoice because it works with an ordered list of preferences, not just plus/minus points, which yields far more granular voting. It allows r
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by jbr 17y ago
If you've got a group of people you trust (a team), let the group prioritize the list together. The result will be higher quality and more people will feel ownership of the ultimate selection. Shameless plug, but on topic: My company makes
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by jbr 17y ago
I did this alone for my winter break of freshman year of college. To the best of my recollection, my itinerary was Portland -> Vancouver (BC) -> Toronto -> New York -> New Orleans -> Ft Worth -> Joshua Tree -> L
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by jbr 17y ago
They're in SF, near south park.
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by jbr 17y ago
http://www.presencetelecare.com/ is looking for a lead engineer (first technical employee). Details at http://presencetelecare.com/careers#1226ffb63eb89022_OLE_LIN... I'm not affiliated with them, but I know the founders are looking hig
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by jbr 17y ago
Checked it out; Deck is invite only but has contact info "for more information" -- it's exclusive, but that doesn't mean you can't poke them to see if you can get in. They probably have pretty strict design and traffic requirements, though
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by jbr 17y ago
Deck is exclusive. From http://www.decknetwork.net/ > Only a single ad will be shown for each page viewed. I hear it's a pretty sweet deal, though.
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by jbr 17y ago
Maybe deck network ( http://decknetwork.net/ ) or fusion ads ( http://fusionads.net/ )?
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by jbr 17y ago
Isn't it weird leaving that sort of thing behind? I also built a "purchase prediction model" right before I left a startup. It did really well on the test portion of the data (which wasn't included when building the model), but I have no

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