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by jere 13y ago
In my experience, no. I suppose it might change if I had an order of magnitude more popular website, but I've left mine in plaintext for a while and not experienced any issues. I had an image instead a few years back, but that's j
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by jere 13y ago
I usually don't care about those fields because they're not _my_ field, but I don't buy the argument no one is talking about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=lack+of+men+in+childcare
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by jere 13y ago
If that is one of the barriers that leads to fewer women studying CS, going into tech, yea, I think that's a pretty big problem.
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by jere 13y ago
Maybe this is not relevant, but did you ever read Blink ? Your comment reminds me of the part in that book about auditions and gender bias: http://books.google.com/books?id=VKGbb1hg8JAC&lpg=PT142&ots=...
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by jere 13y ago
>What’s the last thing you built when you got that high? Decided to write a bot at 8pm. Had it done by 3am (scraping, posting, scheduling, and all). https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14 I know that high well. For me, especially
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by jere 13y ago
That's basically what I had in mind, with liberal use of the word "clever" thrown in for good measure. A concrete example outside of tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6921316 My concern, however, is
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by jere 13y ago
>3. I’m a jack of all trades, but a master of none. I have to commend you on the brutal honesty. I thought you weren't going to revisit what they said, but you did. You also mentioned you were fired from another job but didn't
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by jere 13y ago
My initial reaction was "that's not the definition of hacker" but when I tried to find a written definition that matched what was in my head, I kept running into the related stereotypes and connotations (e.g. being completely
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by jere 13y ago
Sure, why not iPhone colocation too? This seems like buying a Ferrari for your mailman. Well, except the difference is you'd actually get to see the Ferrari once a day.
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by jere 13y ago
Ah good explanation. The use of "vs" in a graph title makes me assume it's describing X vs Y, which is confusing. It also helped when I realized the graph starts at 1 for working set size of 8 and the author corresponding say
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How to Build a Startup(udacity.com)
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Year in Review 2013(jere.in)
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by jere 13y ago
Yes, you are correct. https://www.google.com/search?q=ckeditor+textarea+value
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>It's possible because I did what many of the people whose questions I answered (and got points for) should have done for themselves: I saw a simple Java question, hit Google, read briefly, then synthesized an original answer. I had
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by jere 13y ago
Awesome. I love the idea of wagr. It's like an informal LongBets. Kudos on learnx also. My list is not so impressive, but here goes: -I made a wilderness survival game for 7DRL 2013. http://humbit.com/rogue/ It&#x
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Show HN: LetsPaste
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by jere 13y ago
Another thought: A few people are pointing out use cases where a 39MP photo might make sense down the line: -Group photos -Head to toe shots -Panoramas Let me just point out that this research is done on "high-resolution passport-style
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by jere 13y ago
>He never said that Moore's Law explains everything. I was referring to the fact this is on kurzweilai.net and Kurzweil tends to think it does explain everything: how we're going to beat the turing test in 16 years, how he&#x
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by jere 13y ago
While I am skeptical that every technology progresses in lockstep and indefinitely: storage capacity; storage speeds; network speeds; consumer devices; I'm actually objecting more to "bigger is better." It seems that isn&#x
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by jere 13y ago
Yup, you're right. I'm lacking imagination. Please help me understand a future where social networking sites will maintain and display ~ 6200px X 6200px photos of your selfies. Outside of genetically engineering new eyeballs, I&#x
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by jere 13y ago
>In addition, “in accordance with Hendy’s Law (a derivative of Moore’s Law), pixel count per dollar for digital cameras has been doubling approximately every twelve months. This trajectory implies that mobile phones could soon carry >
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by jere 13y ago
I'm not aware of any best practices, but I'll speculate. >Naively, PINs are 4[1-9] numbers, which makes any type of rainbow table approach based-on a simple hash, much smaller than 8-16[52+] given caps sensitivity and special c
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Cloned at birth: the story of Ridiculous Fishing(polygon.com)
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by jere 13y ago
Oh, don't worry. I don't believe the white paper is at that level. It has typos, smilies, movie references, it's clearly a work in progress, it's very short, and it's written at a high level. Clever logo by the way.
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by jere 13y ago
Yea, I couldn't believe that. There's quite a few other decent ones though.
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by jere 13y ago
And it appears I am receiving getwinky.com I guess I have to make a gay dating site now? [I'm giving away whereisedward.com , which is more or less working as intended at the moment]
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Web Domain White Elephant Exchange has concluded
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by jere 13y ago
I'm surprised at how useful your four ideas were. Nicely done. Dumb question, but how hard was Do Something? I would figure whatever integration you would need would take a lot longer than 1/4 of a weekend.
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by jere 13y ago
Excellent. They deserved some coal in their stockings. >If you go to Google and search for [rap genius], rapgenius.com will not be found on the first page That's pretty crazy. Whenever I put up an obscure site, I notice ranking on t
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by jere 13y ago
I've never heard the use-mention distinction, but its interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction However, the distinction doesn't seem to be relevant here. When Claire Perry is

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