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by jfaucett 14y ago
How about this revenue model: $5 - to be "invisible" and stalk friends profiles $5 - to see "invisible" stalkers $10 - to be "uberinvisible" and stalk friends who see invisibles $10 - to see "uberinvisible" $15 - to be "uberuberinvisible" $
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by jfaucett 14y ago
as others have pointed out, seems like a lot of unity issues, a "hot topic" new switch in the ubuntu world that has a lot of ditractors. But because its linux you can pretty much install whatever want on top, KDE or gnome and switch your GU
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by jfaucett 14y ago
interesting. But from the very little I know about neural plasticity (ie. according to current research it continues throughout life see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity#cite_note-Rakic... ), I'd want to ask how this is any mo
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by jfaucett 14y ago
native in english, german and spanish here. As a side note, I'd be interested how many other HNers grew up bi(or tri)lingual and if they notice how bad they mix the languages up sometimes.
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by jfaucett 14y ago
Well, the quickest (in terms of initial dev time), would be to just use media queries or any of the tons of grid layout libs like ( http://foundation.zurb.com/ ) or bootstrap. This also works great for small sites, or sites where you don't
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by jfaucett 14y ago
good article. Also I like the word "Naughts" - first encounter for a word that is not too awkard for the 2000-2010 slot.
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High Quality Developer Books & source for free (German)(galileocomputing.de)
1 points by jfaucett 14y ago|0 comments
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by jfaucett 14y ago
I think Ruby has some pretty nice documentation. at ruby-doc.org I love being able to toggle source view for functions and stuff to see how its implemented. I know this is probably violating some "best practice" of don't show implementation
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by jfaucett 14y ago
I'm unsure how to take this. Foreign language skills in the US are dismal compared to just about any other country in the world. Usually by 7th grade most non english speaking europeans can at least communicate in English, whereas in the US
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by jfaucett 14y ago
I'm not a political scientist but being an immigrant myself (not to US but Germany), I've never understood why the whole issue can't be as simple as just letting people come in with a visa, applying for jobs (without law enforced disadvanta
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Learn Hacking(learnhacking.in)
1 points by jfaucett 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Advice for sole dev on massive project
8 points by jfaucett 14y ago|5 comments
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by jfaucett 14y ago
no but living in an english speaking country will http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
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by jfaucett 14y ago
I think you got it :), also PHP is kind of like the "fluent in english" requirement on every job post. While we're at it, what would the Lisp equivalent be?
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Giving Closure to C(informit.com)
3 points by jfaucett 14y ago|0 comments
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by jfaucett 14y ago
Pulling on the parallel to human languages I'd say c is the latin equivalent (except that c is still actively in usage). Basically, c was there first, you could and still can build anything in c and though its easier than x86 its full of pe
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by jfaucett 14y ago
You asked frontend or backend so I'll give you my answer, but this just comes from my personal experience over the past 10 years as a software developer, nonetheless I think its fairly true for the industry at large and will be for some tim
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Ask HN: Most Innovative Web Frameworks in 2012?
9 points by jfaucett 14y ago|5 comments
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Profanity in git commit messages per programming language(andrewvos.com)
3 points by jfaucett 14y ago|0 comments
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by jfaucett 14y ago
speaking for myself as a learner, the only things I've learned to a very high level (foreign languages, computer science, maths, etc ) have all been things that I've had an immense amount of self interest in and have dedicated tons of time
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by jfaucett 14y ago
this is ridiculous, that 1. IEEE would be using FTP (instead of ANY more secure protocol (SFTP/SCP)? and 2. plaintext passwords in 2012 , man...
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Reasons to use Lift instead of Rails(seventhings.liftweb.net)
2 points by jfaucett 14y ago|0 comments
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by jfaucett 14y ago
This was a very interesting list. I like to see redhat on it, it seems to prove there's a viable open source revenue model. Also I'm interested as to why Baidu is "one of the most innovative", sure they're big but is that innovation - also
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by jfaucett 14y ago
really nice! I love the visual consistency and clean modern design. What I like most is that it brings in color in an easy sleek feeling without going overboard. I want to use it :)
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by jfaucett 14y ago
for me its gotta be emacs. I love the keybindings (that also work in bash), also customizing to no end in lisp is fun stuff. So that's what I use whenever I'm programming in c or x86. For java its eclipse and I like everything about it from
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by jfaucett 14y ago
I'm with you on the fence here, I just think it depends on context. drivingmenuts seems to be talking (at least from the examples) about "how to guides/documentation" that is your usual stackoverflow, google run'of the mill "how do I solve
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The world's most influential languages(andaman.org)
78 points by jfaucett 14y ago|68 comments
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by jfaucett 14y ago
unless you lose your internet connection...
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by jfaucett 14y ago
cool, i'd have to add the following though: 1. Schadenfreude (German) - when you're happy about something bad that happens to someone else. 2. ihr|vosotros|wy (German,Spanish,Polish) - the second person plural, I think english really lacks
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by jfaucett 14y ago
Since you say you know html,css, then I think the easiest thing to do would be to learn javascript and jquery and get a github account. This will probably let you see results and start contributing to open source the fastest. Once you get g

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