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   by jbranchaud 14y ago

   Great resource, I just added this to my list of programming puzzle resources -- http://joshbranchaud.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/my-somewhat-co...
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   by jbranchaud 14y ago

   The internet is awesome! This kind of collaborative trouble-shooting is epic!
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   by jbranchaud 14y ago

   I totally agree. It is important to take responsibility, but this is going to far. Furthermore, this trivializes the situation of those that feel burdened by failure.
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   by jbranchaud 14y ago

   The title makes it sound as if there is going to be some discussion of how the OP has made web scraping profitable, but this seems to have been left to the reader's imagination. Otherwise, great article! I agree that BeautifulSoup is a grea
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   Getting Serious with JavaScript(joshbranchaud.wordpress.com)

   1 points by jbranchaud 14y ago|1 comments
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   by jbranchaud 14y ago

   Agreed, I would really love to fork this on GitHub and play around with the implementation and features!
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   by jbranchaud 14y ago

   "You could put an exploding creeper in your school..." I am not sure the placement of an explosive thing in a school was the best example they could have come up with. It's not that big of a deal, but it is just generally better to stay awa
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   Essential Addition to Any Eclipse Configuration(joshbranchaud.wordpress.com)

   1 points by jbranchaud 14y ago|0 comments
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   by jbranchaud 14y ago

   I like mostly everything I see, but I have one criticism. The bars in the technical section seem arbitrary. It seems that a person viewing this CV wouldn't know quite what to take away from it. To start, I am assuming this is some sort of p
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    Scraping Business Listings in Omaha(joshbranchaud.wordpress.com)

    2 points by jbranchaud 14y ago|0 comments
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    The vision might not be language-specific, but the implementation will have to be. Furthermore, the language parsers will have to evolve as each language evolves. An advantage of existing versioning systems is that they are language-agnosti
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    I'm confused, if this is a search engine, where are all the ads?
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    I have always loved this montage: Let's Enhance -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    I cannot think of any other scene besides this that actually gives a reasonably realistic depiction of someone writing code/hacking. This is a good one!
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    I must agree this is a classic. The way they try to visualize the inside of the computer and the file system is fantastically ridiculous.
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    Ask HN: What are your favorite instances of software depicted in movies?

    2 points by jbranchaud 14y ago|7 comments
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    I think they copied the W from the label on the can of cashews I am currently munching.
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    IMO, the use of <table> should be avoided in a solution, tables are not intended for page layout.
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    Here's a better venture idea based on the experience, "Scott... got the idea when his computer crashed and he lost a spreadsheet containing all his usernames and passwords." How about designing computers that crash when users try to store u
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    Ask a LEED ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Enviro... ) person.
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    D3.js ( http://d3js.org/ ) is another option to consider. Haven't used it much myself, but the examples show the wide array of possibilities.
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    Unfortunately, user studies are difficult to conduct in computer science mainly because it is difficult to get users that you can study. Like it or not, 49 people is actually a pretty big study relative to what is out there. For better or f
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    by jbranchaud 14y ago

    "Almost no CS papers I've read have contained empirical studies." You aren't reading the right papers then. At least in Software Engineering, you can't get into the main conferences (ICSE and FSE) without a pretty significant empirical stud
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    by jbranchaud 15y ago

    Haskell has no real world use, it just exists because the author wanted it to? Did I misread that or is that what the author is saying?