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by jurassic 12y ago
The same could be said of natural languages. People spend a lot of time talking about similar things in every language.
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by jurassic 12y ago
I agree asking for passwords is bad, but he'd probably have gotten cooperation from third parties much more quickly if he were following OAuth, OAuth2 or some other widely used standard. Forcing others to write bespoke code to handle a
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by jurassic 12y ago
Adobe is taking a pummeling this week. This news is nicely timed for the launch week of Affinity Designer, a serious competitor to Illustrator on the Mac App Store for casual and not-so-casual users who don't use Adobe products heavily
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by jurassic 12y ago
I recently went through a very similar ordeal. After kicking ass for two out of three months of contract-to-hire gig, the company said they loved my work and wanted to end the contract early. Awesome. Then they dropped a full time offer for
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by jurassic 12y ago
I am talking about a REST API that hooks into your AnkiWeb infrastructure. I believe I asked about this in one of the google groups and was told you aren't interested in doing that because of the additional load it could put on the ser
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by jurassic 12y ago
My main beef with Anki is the developer's unwillingness to open up the API. Card creation is currently a pretty unpleasant experience, but I can't currently build a browser extension without doing a lot of hacky bullshit because t
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by jurassic 12y ago
That seems ridiculously low for any software job. I've known design interns making almost double that in SF.
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by jurassic 12y ago
I have no problem "showing what I've got", so to speak. But I fear this practice is really just a tactic to strip software employees of leverage at the negotiating table. After going through weeks or months of trial by fire,
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by jurassic 12y ago
Really interesting piece. In my post-college lull, I was once in a major financial bind and ended up doing a brief stint as an academic ghostwriter. I wrote term papers, not admission essays, for a ghostwriting service over a period of ab
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by jurassic 12y ago
>Is it that hard to download a recording app, like the aclu police recording app, and have the most water tight sexual harassment suit ever? So you're suggesting the solution to sexual harassment is for women to go deeper into an al
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by jurassic 12y ago
> I'm using Canary with this option enabled, and all you have to do is click the domain box, then you can freely view, edit, and copy the URL. Does Command+L still work? Because one click is too many.
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by jurassic 12y ago
I don't know for sure that there are no other places to charge, but there's not much in the Mojave desert so it would not surprise me. It's easy for me to imagine no chargers between Barstow and Kingman, because there is basi
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by jurassic 12y ago
I've really been enjoying codewars.com because you get to see the solutions of others after you pass all tests. I've learned a lot of little javascript tricks this way.
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by jurassic 13y ago
The people who hate javascript the most are the ones who wish it was something else. I used to be one of those people. Once I decided to accept it as it is and read a few top books on the language to learn the "javascript way",
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by jurassic 13y ago
Really nice work. It runs fine on my browser (Chrome 34 on Mavericks.)
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by jurassic 13y ago
Games scare me because of their addictiveness, especially for people who need an escape from crappy things in their lives. I enjoy them occasionally as much as the next person, but it makes me sad to see how high the play numbers are for so
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by jurassic 13y ago
There's a Walmart retail location in Mountain View near San Antonio Station.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Leaving aside the fact that many language learners in the US don't know anything about the CEFR scale (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), the CEFR categories are very broad and vaguely defined especially once you ge
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by jurassic 13y ago
Language learning is hard work, and most people fail quickly at it once they realize it'll be several hundred hours before they'll be at a useful level. That's probably why it's so hard to make money with a product prima
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by jurassic 13y ago
Agreed. When I read that bit, I wondered if part of his "bad hire" profile is somebody who has too much self-respect to kill themselves working >50 hrs/wk for his company at what looks like below-market rates.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Minor nit pick here, but carbon dating is not used to date fossils and rocks because C14 has a half-life of only ~5k years. With such a short half-life, the C14 all decays away to trace levels in only a few tens of thousands of years. Other
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by jurassic 13y ago
Randomness isn't necessary to distribute the path names. Somewhere I read that reversing sequential ids is sufficient. So, for instance, if you have some sequentially numbered files you want to store: 123.jpg 124.jpg 125.jpg 126.jpg Y
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by jurassic 13y ago
I loved it. Beyond pure technical chops, Russ Olsen is a great writer which makes his books stand out to me from other programming books I've read. In Design Patterns in Ruby each chapter handles a different pattern with a simple exa
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by jurassic 13y ago
From where I sit, it seems like the 2/3 schism is the result of "one and only one way to do something". While is sounds like a good slogan and I was on board with this party line for a long time, breaking perfectly good feat
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by jurassic 13y ago
Maybe I'm different than others here, but I would advise against software tools unless you know and understand what their actual needs/wants are. Tooling is highly personal, and they probably already have an editor they like that
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by jurassic 13y ago
App Academy also has no upfront payment. I hope that in the long run App Academy and Hacker School will be able to differentiate themselves from the hoard of somewhat scammy cash-up-front programs that seem to be popping up everywhere and
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by jurassic 13y ago
I feel like StackOverflow is a blade that cuts both ways. I find it's most useful for troubleshooting really cryptic/obscure error messages that I would undoubtably blow through huge amounts of time trying to solve on my own; tho
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by jurassic 13y ago
> I have the habbit of pushing small commits that tend to border along meaningless. A perfect example of this would be fixing a typo in a README and commiting/pushing instead of waiting to commit/push with another change. I ask
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by jurassic 13y ago
9) Clouds of second-hand drug smoke. And I don't mean cigarettes.
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by jurassic 13y ago
This statistic is not very useful in isolation. What percentage of people in this age group have tried using ebooks? They say that 45% of those surveyed don't have an ebook-ready device... what percent of the ebook naysayers have not

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