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by kreek 16y ago
We'll have to wait and see for the current generation 'steals from itself' but the baby boom generation have definitely screwed themselves. Other than the few unlucky souls who went to Vietnam the baby boomers lived through an era of unprec
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by kreek 16y ago
It's surprising that a professor of economics would state that the "The college tuition bubble makes the housing price bubble seem pretty lame by comparison". If you're looking at the numbers alone yes the graph looks pretty scary. There ar
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by kreek 16y ago
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 4 evah! :) Has a dot in the center of '0' which differentiates it from 'O' but is more readable than a slash. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....
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by kreek 16y ago
Yes obviously it's art. The way the art is delivered, in this case HTML 5, is affecting its function. Take out the location stuff and there were similar projects being done by the Remedi Project circa 1999 in Flash.
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by kreek 16y ago
Takes minutes to load, CPU at 100%, form over function; aren't these all the same critics Flash receives?
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Ask HN: Start-up idea in existing company, what compensation should I expect?
3 points by kreek 16y ago|2 comments
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Star Wars as silent movie(youtube.com)
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by kreek 16y ago
Not really backwards but more like the wrong direction. For me HTML is all about displaying content. HTML then takes the form of an application when you can edit or interact with said content. If we could start from scratch and build a set
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by kreek 16y ago
Couldn't agree more. It's the sense of always feeling safe or 'home' in any situation that meditation can give you. I found it extremely helpful when dealing with anxiety and I'm not surprised it works for addiction as well. My mother requi
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by kreek 16y ago
I'm a Flex/Flash dev and I've looked at HTML5 a couple of times recently. The main product I work on is a web app similar to Adobe Illustrator for customizing print products. You can draw vector shapes etc fine with HTML5 (or SVG) but fonts
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by kreek 16y ago
Agreed, however I'm working at a job I hate (well not hate dislike) to save up to buy a house in a decent school district never mind retire.
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by kreek 16y ago
There's a huge difference between the housing crash and a potential student loan 'crash'. A house is an asset. A unique asset at that, the only kind you can live in (other than your car). An underwater house, despite the term, becomes illiq
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by kreek 16y ago
The is very true, a friend of mine is an accountant and early on in his career changed jobs every year for four years. In that time he doubled his salary. I also managed to bump my salary 30% by quitting a company and coming back a year lat
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by kreek 16y ago
Dependable and repeatable environments are essential. At my company the issue is that dev/qa/stage/prod are all not ===. We end up with two options to fix something. Make a fix and send it through the deployment process (over and over again
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by kreek 16y ago
Couldn't agree more, this book opened my eyes (or mind). The Mingyur Rinpoche books are great too.
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by kreek 16y ago
1. I used to be a graphic designer so teaching myself programming literally doubled my salary. 2. My safari.oreilly.com account, see #1. $40/m for access to almost every dev book ever written is a steal.