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by jones1618 13y ago
Scripting should be considered a basic form of digital literacy along with learning enough Photoshop to know what can be faked and understanding why Wikipedia can only be trusted so far. The particular scripting language doesn't matter
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by jones1618 14y ago
You're welcome. I forgot to say that the best way (IMHO) to tell "baby blues" from full-blown post-partum depression is sleep. After a weekend of you or your family taking a lot of the night shift where your wife has gotten good chunks of u
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by jones1618 14y ago
Our experience was that the first 4 or 5 months is exactly like that. You learn to cat nap, sleep and soothe the baby in short shifts. Think of it as being in the military now. Dads (co-parenting ones anyway) need to expect to be partial zo
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by jones1618 14y ago
The Adderall analogy is just a device to underscore his point that judging anything by a single metric (i.e. "productivity") can lead to equally absurd and inhumane work policies. Also, productivity is nearly impossible to measure yet I'd a
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by jones1618 14y ago
tl;dr - Developer writes a legitimate test to prove Test Driven Development will force us to write decent code. We write code that cheats by using knowledge of the test to pass in the lamest possible way. This proves that TDD is worthless?
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by jones1618 14y ago
Great answer, attheodo. In case "embedded systems" seem obscure, in real terms that means that the chances are good that any of your modern appliances such refrigerators, thermostats, cars, TVs, DVRs, etc. all have microprocessors and run c
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by jones1618 14y ago
This article also lacks any economic literacy based on one simple fact: When statistics report that middle class wages have been stagnant for decades (by this article's own account, 48 years), remember this figure is already adjusted for in
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Diigo.com is down
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by jones1618 14y ago
Just because a problem has been "solved" for one platform (Fast PC's w/ Gigabytes of ram/disk) doesn't mean it is solved for all platforms (Web apps for phones/tablets, etc). John Resig (of jQuery and Khan Academy fame) had a really interes
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by jones1618 14y ago
You think? Math don't lie: 20B nickels x 7 grams a piece = 140,000 metric tons. I'd hate to see the UPS bill for that.
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by jones1618 14y ago
It's great for discovering photography by professional or near-professional photographers. Flickr was sleeping at the wheel by letting 500px steal the market for "simple, beautiful portfolios for pros." Still, the norms of the 500px culture
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by jones1618 14y ago
Clearly this IS a bug and not a feature. No doubt. And, yes, this has already been a properly filed (but ignored) "request" for at least a year or more. That's why I'm always glad to see it pop up as a regular post. If HN is listening, here
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by jones1618 14y ago
The problem is that the world isn't a perfect meritocracy. There's no objective way for someone who is in the position to give you a raise or a job can know precisely where you are on your ability and dedication curve. That's why "those peo
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by jones1618 14y ago
While you are in your prime "coding years", it doesn't matter. The problem with dropping out won't hit you until you hit the middle age inflection point: Go into management or career change or jump to a start up. Your competition that start
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by jones1618 15y ago
While I am grateful to see any mainstream story tell the math behind facts and trends, this one kind of misses the point. Since distribution of wealth has always followed a power law, that's not news. So, what causes street protests is not
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by jones1618 15y ago
I like the concept, applying a tiny bit of gaming to idea generation. The interaction you describe sounds a little too one-way/linear, though. I'd love to see a site takes this further and become kind of a social network of ideas where user
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by jones1618 15y ago
This is cool and I'd love to see it working commercially but the MIT Media Lab demonstrated a nearly identical idea back in the late 1980's. Their digital version was inspired by talking busts at Disney's Haunted Mansion that used film proj
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by jones1618 15y ago
I love how in the video the young guy asks "Does it use a frame buffer?" Dude, this beauty didn't use bitmaps or raster graphics at all. Rather, it was a glorified oscilloscope you programmed by directly controlling the deflection of the tu
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by jones1618 15y ago
Sorry, your site breaks the 10-second rule: You didn't _show_ me what your app does or (give me a link that does) within the first 10 seconds of me looking at your site. Sure, you _tell_ what your app does in an offhand, blurbish sort of wa
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by jones1618 15y ago
Harsh but true. Everyone seems to want to grant him instant sainthood. For instance, CNET's reporter asked Woz if he'd compare Jobs to Einstein or Edison. Steve suppressed rolling his eyes and very diplomatically offered, "No, he was more l
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by jones1618 15y ago
I agree with chetan51. There are 36 ^ 4 = 1,679,616 possible four-character short links. I imagine these are permanent. When they run out, they'll go to 5 for the next 60 million, etc.
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by jones1618 15y ago
Wow, look at any top 10 list of deadly diseases and at least half (Malaria, Cholera, Influenza, HIV/AIDS, Small Pox, Ebola, etc) are viral. If we can check those off now, the researchers are going to the top of the Nobel Prize list and ulti
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by jones1618 15y ago
Paradigm shift? No, more like visibility shift. While it is true that shaving megahertz and kilobytes doesn't give you command of a market anymore, engineering still defines market leaders. Look at Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Their "custo
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by jones1618 15y ago
It is brain-damaged that both Reddit and HackerNews do this. Their next page URL's should either be page based ("show me page 4, even if page 4 has changed") or based on the next article ("show me the page that contains article 1234"). You