lightblade

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by lightblade 12y ago
If everything is under your own control (no layoffs), I would say the sweet spot is between 2 and 5 years. There was a post on HN talked about how after 2 years, your salary will be held back compare to switching. I added a maximum of 5 yea
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by lightblade 12y ago
But what really qualifies as fundamentals? Database? Network protocol? 3D graphics? I tend to put these in the same league as web programming, they are job skills. Yet there are plenty of university course on these subjects. So why not have
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by lightblade 12y ago
Another reason that's contributing to the shortage is that universities are not emphasizing on it. The university that I went to doesn't even have web development course. There was one experimental summer course, then it never hap
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by lightblade 12y ago
Lots of companies just updated their line up last week at CES. You should do a round of search on "headphones CES 2015". Bose QC25 has best noise cancellation. What you can do is wear a good sounding earbud inside it so you can ge
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by lightblade 12y ago
I had instances of webGL crashing OSX, and this was independent of browser. It crashes whethers it Safari or Chrome.
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by lightblade 12y ago
Yes, but my problem with meteor is that it's a whole package rather than pieces that I can just take what I need.
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by lightblade 12y ago
Well this is my opinion. I always thought CouchDB offers a great RESTful interface to communicate with their database. CouchDB also offers great multi-master replication, this also includes your local data. There is a JavaScript implementat
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Yves Rossy, the Jetman(youtube.com)
3 points by lightblade 12y ago|0 comments
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by lightblade 12y ago
True, but I didn't expect someone post it on Hacker News. It's supposed to be a secret weapon. Not so secret anymore.
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by lightblade 12y ago
Large should be at least 80k lines of code, preferably more than 100k. Another metric I go by is there is no one on team have overlapping knowledge of the code base. In other words, no other teammate is suited to review your code because th
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by lightblade 12y ago
Come to think of it, America was/is that highly advanced trading partner colony. The exploration of this side of Earth had its own share of danger and uncertainty. Remember, people back then think the Earth was flat. Traveling far enou
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by lightblade 12y ago
Is this better? > _.invoke(callbacks, 'call') Short and concise, but needs underscore dependency.
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by lightblade 12y ago
I think we needed something that makes JavaScript's prototype inheritance more stand out.
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Craigslist is now mobile friendly(sfbay.craigslist.org)
4 points by lightblade 12y ago|0 comments
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by lightblade 12y ago
I guess self-XSS also works with bookmarklet?
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“Robocop” security(rt.com)
4 points by lightblade 12y ago|0 comments
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by lightblade 12y ago
Yup, preferably an separable induction heating surface that can be paired with the pan to intelligently control the temperature. Separate so that you can flip that pancake/burger.
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by lightblade 12y ago
Ugh! With all these down voting, it makes it hard for low karma people to voice opinion. I'll just shut up >:(
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by lightblade 12y ago
> ..production with this train in 10 years Another 10 years? That means it goes into operation in 2024? That's 20 years after the Chinese built one.
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by lightblade 12y ago
Perhaps I should add that the maglev train I've ride at Shanghai was already that fast, and it was in commercial operation since 2004. That was 10 years ago. So no, I don't see how this is news.
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RAW – drag and drop data visualization(app.raw.densitydesign.org)
5 points by lightblade 12y ago|1 comments
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by lightblade 12y ago
No mention of how htmlbars will affect famo.us integration?
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by lightblade 12y ago
Not only it is endorsed, it is Ember. The project will get lifted to Ember in github by the time Ember 2 comes around
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Dyson humidifier with UV light(dyson.com)
1 points by lightblade 12y ago|0 comments
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by lightblade 12y ago
This reminds me of HG Well's Time Machine where it explored the theme of one human species eating another human species.
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by lightblade 12y ago
Does America have any state or federal infrastructure project that transfer water from water rich region to the water poor region? Like this one, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South–North_Water_Transfer_Proj...
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by lightblade 12y ago
I'll take a stab at this. A person living in poverty and lack empathy may turn to a life of crime to get rich quickly. Selling drugs, burglary, or prostitution are all path to riches, however illegal or unethical it may be. Those that
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Do intelligent lazy people achieve more in life than intelligent active people?(quora.com)
3 points by lightblade 12y ago|0 comments
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by lightblade 12y ago
Judging from the brush, it looks like it is designed to clean carpet. Roomba had been designing their robots to clean all types of flooring. I don't think Dyson will be a big threat to Roomba.
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by lightblade 12y ago
True, but does those feature phones have GPS?

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