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by lethain 17y ago
I don't think there is an evidence that Apple is "playing games", they're just inexperienced at processing and delivering payments and thus are doing a bad job at it. As they say, never blame malice where incompetence is a sufficient explan
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by lethain 17y ago
Actually, yes. An opinion without some kind of justification or explanation behind it isn't particularly valued by the HN community. Suggesting that unemployment in countries with high social benefits is the product of laziness places the b
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by lethain 17y ago
The limitations with the tower defense game are the result of programmer laziness rather than some limitation with JavaScript itself. If the game was reworked to use sprites instead of drawing using basic geometric shapes, it would appear m
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by lethain 17y ago
Although to a large extent I agree with you when you say "[Resaerching] talents are worth more than the coding knowledge itself.", I'm not sure you're accurately representing the author's position. Particularly his last acceptable answer is
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by lethain 17y ago
He had an excellent hook, but unfortunately there was not much of an article afterwards.
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by lethain 17y ago
Twitter search was originally another company which was purchased by twitter latter on. It recorded and indexed tweets without any magic sauce, but in a way that other developers could as well. Thus, even if search.twitter doesn't feature a
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by lethain 17y ago
Thus far they don't delete tweets from the search results even after they have been deleted within twitter itself, so I suspect they are append only as you suggest.
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by lethain 17y ago
The inverted pyramid is effective at conveying information quickly, but generally essays are not breaking news, but instead rehashing or adding a new perspective to something old. In the later scenario, I don't think the inverted pyramid is
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by lethain 17y ago
He's basing that statement on a study performed on a number of runners which tried to identify factors that would make someone likely to have an injury over a year, and the only one that was statistically significant was price of running sh
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by lethain 17y ago
I don't think we can argue that it isn't natural. Before the last century or two it was rather natural, among other species it is quite common for genders to have specialized roles as well, and there are certain roles which will always be i
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by lethain 17y ago
You've mistaken me for my argument a bit there. The right's fiscal philosophy is based on the idea that people who earn money deserve to keep it. People who don't earn money shouldn't be re-appropriated money from those who do. In the long
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by lethain 17y ago
When done tactically, government spending can lead to smaller government. The long term goal for much of the right's spending agenda is to create an environment where the government is forced to become smaller via debt fueled program slashi
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by lethain 17y ago
django-compress does this very well (integrates with YUI Compressor, and several other compression filters). I use it on all my django sites.
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by lethain 17y ago
The problem with an engineering student telling a liberal arts student that their degree isn't valuable, is that the engineering student's opinion is very rarely grounded in experience. Although one group happens to have the "right" opinion
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by lethain 18y ago
Also interesting, one of the links on the site leads to another discussion which claims that there is a correlation between higher intelligence and lower wages for those whose highest degree is a bachelors. The study partially attributes th
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by lethain 18y ago
Stallman surely realizes that minifying JavaScript is a standard process, but it doesn't seem particularly relevant to his point. First, it not straightforward to determine the licensing for many scripts, and second it does not provide acce
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by lethain 18y ago
Do you want this individual as a co-founder?, because that is essentially the role they would be stepping in as. At minimum you would need to write a solid vesting plan of some kind, to prevent the individual from quitting in a month and ta
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by lethain 18y ago
Yep. They prorate charges, so firing up an extra slice for a couple of days will only cost a few dollars.
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by lethain 18y ago
I've been running my sites (Django-powered) on Slicehost for about two years and have been very pleased overall. A few observations: 1. Running Apache with both mod_php and mod_passenger (assuming that would be your deployment method for Ra
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by lethain 18y ago
For what it's worth, this is a side project which has given me a lot of perspective on my professional work as well, but is certainly not a "start up" or otherwise intended to directly create revenue.
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by lethain 18y ago
Although that sounds correct, I suspect it's difficult to argue the distinction between an image download and an image cached by the browser to people who are extremely untechnical.
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by lethain 18y ago
Out of curiosity, why is it that you're looking for an internship ? Is your previous experience not related to development? Or is it simply the timing issue, that you don't feel you could find a non-internship opportunity given your narrow
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by lethain 18y ago
I didn't get to explore your service too deeply because the UI really needs work. For example, the "more services" button just unleashes them onto the screen, forcing me to scroll the screen to view them. Also, switching between different
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by lethain 18y ago
There are a number of areas where Findjango--or vertical search engines in general--can outperform a mainstream search engine. It's certainly a work in progress. 1. "Perfect answers" that relate to the topic at hand. For example, Findjango
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by lethain 18y ago
It's important to keep in mind that--in the absence of downvotes--scores only mean that content is relatively more relevant than other content surrounding it, not that it is absolutely relevant to our audience. The current voting system enc
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by lethain 18y ago
Josh Gourneau setup a MyCroft plugin which makes it pretty trivial to use Findjango 'in browser' for IE and FF, but not sure what the options are for WebKit or Opera. I agree that exposure is a huge issue there, as we're not likely to sign
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by lethain 18y ago
Although few sites buck the tradition to have the www subdomain be handled identically to primary domain, it is not a requirement to do so. I don't have examples flowing out of my pocket, but it's just a DNS configuration away from reality.
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by lethain 18y ago
You're right that most of the time www.example.com and example.com are equivalent. But they aren't necessarily equivalent, which is why assuming they are identical is problematic. Your suggested modification will be correct 99% of the t
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by lethain 18y ago
I think this frustration comes from feeling that you're "playing by the rules", and believe that those who don't follow the rules should be punished. (Or at minimum, those who do play by the rules should be rewarded in such a way that they
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by lethain 18y ago
There are a whole mess of questions wrapped up in this project, some of the interesting ones are: 1. Can a targeted search provide a better experience than G/Y/M? 2. Even if that search is a better experience, would anyone use it? 3. Managi

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