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by jmduke 13y ago
This is why I love programming -- and the programming community, warts and all. Tiffany's an Environmental Science major who had a month of free time so she decided to learn how to make web pages. That's the same way I started (
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by jmduke 13y ago
Things being offline aren't inherently at odds with "us hackers". This is a bizarre train of thought.
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Because sports are fun..?
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Having written a book and created a YouTube channel isn't any sort of evidence for the validity of much more than the creators ability to create a book and YouTube channel. The ability to make a book in service of own's argument
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by jmduke 13y ago
This is oddly antagonistic. I understand that the OP's points don't apply to you, but I'd say the concept of leaving your drinking buddies behind or needing to hear the comforting voice of a familiar friend aren't forei
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by jmduke 13y ago
I read and listened to the speech in both high school and middle school in Virginia, for what it's worth. Even now, its so surprising to me that such a pivotal part of my nation's history is such a great piece of oratory. The ent
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Show HN: jquery.mediumatlarge.js — on-demand links to your Medium posts(github.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
This is so bizarrely misogynistic. I didn't realize people said things like "plow her pussy" outside of bad porn.
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by jmduke 13y ago
Yahoo's entire strategy revolves around the idea that peoples' tastes and habits change over time, but that content is perennial and not even close to the point of saturation. I'm not saying there aren't people for who
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Steve Ballmer's Microsoft (2012)(dcurt.is)
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Amazon launches Mobile Associates API(phx.corporate-ir.net)
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Violin Memory files for $173m IPO(venturebeat.com)
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> Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos. Which is why they didn't have to worry about some silly mobile app with ridiculous 'filters' that only teenagers use when they want to feel ar
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by jmduke 13y ago
While I think overdraft fees are gross and exorbitant (and I fell at their mercy a few times before I finally wizened up and got overdraft protection), I don't really think this is that big of an issue (at least, compared to other issu
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by jmduke 13y ago
I used to -- and still do, to some effect -- fetishize living in a highrise. I was a suburban kid who grew up in a boring (and, in retrospect, wonderful) house surrounded by other boring houses -- I watched Seinfeld and Frasier, and loved
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by jmduke 13y ago
The Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town in New York has eleven thousand tenants, which is at least a fraction.
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by jmduke 13y ago
The Hackathon in question is apparently BattleHack Miami, hosted by PayPal: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/the-starting-gate/2013/08/bat... The winner in question was YellowPepper, who at the very least share
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by jmduke 13y ago
The cadence of your post implies to me that you're exposing some sort of hypocrisy on my part. My entire point was that I had gotten all riled up about something being dumb, but that something had caused me to think in a way atypical o
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by jmduke 13y ago
I was going to write a few paragraphs about how dumb this is -- how I can't imagine an interpretation of it that didn't bother me, because if it was an earnest enterprise than it's doing a bad job of selling itself and uninte
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by jmduke 13y ago
Unsolicited redesigns are great! Unsolicited dickishness is not. There's a difference between really cool "what if" stuff that is done without pretension or expectation (there was an awesome Microsoft rebranding last year) a
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by jmduke 13y ago
The overwhelming majority of Hollywood movies are terrible, shallow stories with formulaic development that are designed to grab money from specific demographics. There is hardly anything artistic left. This argument is not necessarily in
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How to Create a Content Strategy (In Only 652 Steps)(portent.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
What an ironic way of proving the OP's point! (Put another way: this is why so many STEM people get a bad rap.)
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by jmduke 13y ago
I didn't know that cold brew even existed until I moved to Seattle, but its upended my world -- especially on hot, lazy mornings where I'd rather sleep the extra thirty minutes and grab a to-go cup from my fridge than go through t
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Show HN: jquery.tweetable.js, my first Javascript plugin.(github.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
I don't really like Mother Jones, but the answer here seems pretty obvious -- unless Al Jazeera America takes a significant amount of viewership from big networks, they're not going to induce much change. And my limited experience
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by jmduke 13y ago
Er, this doesn't seem to be working on herdingcode.com. Still a great idea, though animating it (there are a few unicode music symbols you could probably cycle through) would make it even better.
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by jmduke 13y ago
I would pay a non-trivial amount of money for an app that, amongst other things, told me which coffeeshops in my area has the least traffic.
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I'm actually kinda surprised that the number is that high. Part of me wants to make a stumble-upon that grabs a random csv from GitHub. I feel like there's probably some really interesting data waiting to be explored.
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by jmduke 13y ago
The money line: Building software is about more than code. GitHub's ably and subtly positioning themselves as attractive for a much wider audience than programmers.

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