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541.
On College and the IT Field(mmakai.com)
2 points by makaimc 15y ago|1 comments
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College Grad Enthusiasm(mmakai.com)
1 points by makaimc 16y ago|0 comments
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Delegation(mmakai.com)
2 points by makaimc 16y ago|0 comments
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The Iron Triangle revised to reflect people(blog.agilityfeat.com)
2 points by makaimc 16y ago|0 comments
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Consulting Career Mismatch(mmakai.com)
1 points by makaimc 16y ago|0 comments
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Initial Impressions of JQuery Mobile(mmakai.com)
1 points by makaimc 16y ago|0 comments
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by makaimc 18y ago
"Put them on a time clock, dress them in suits, and they become sullen and start sabotaging the product." So "real" programmers can't dress properly and reject any form of structure? Can we push these trivial stereotypes aside and instead r
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by makaimc 18y ago
I cringed when I saw a quote by a student at my undergrad university. Not sure why anyone would respond to a reporter's inquiry on such a controversial topic that could get you expelled from school.
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by makaimc 18y ago
Wikipedia states that this design was originally tried in 1906. If it's better than standard wing designs, why isn't it already used in today's airplanes?
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by makaimc 18y ago
I tried the XML-RPC library and it's very easy to use. However, XML-RPC isn't that common. Do you have any recommendations for using Python with RESTful web services?
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Ask HN: Python and web services
5 points by makaimc 18y ago|6 comments
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by makaimc 18y ago
I wonder if the comments follows a Power Law (80/20 rule), or if there is a linear increase from 0 to about 100 karma points. Is there any way we could get the data and graph that?
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by makaimc 18y ago
Interesting, thanks for the correction. I've been using that wrong for quite some time. There's even a whole Wikipedia article devoted to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by makaimc 18y ago
It looks like it is only sorting the last week's stories by karma, not every story in HN history. Which begs the question: is there a way to see every story by karma?
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by makaimc 18y ago
It's very interesting to me that so many other people had the same experience with Digg and Reddit that I did. At first, I read it obsessively but now I can barely stand to scroll through the headlines. HN has gone through a different cycl
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by makaimc 18y ago
Anyone who has used both Facebook and MySpace over the past few years knows why Facebook won: much less intrusive advertisements and a simpler design for non-technical users.
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Facebook tipped to outshine MySpace(business.smh.com.au)
2 points by makaimc 18y ago|1 comments
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by makaimc 18y ago
I just read about this over the weekend in John Kenneth Galbraith's book The Great Crash. The ticker tape machines were about 3 hours behind in most parts of the country and that caused a massive sell-off as people tried to get out of the m
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by makaimc 18y ago
Whether or not the program is worth $25,000 is up to the market to decide, not just you. Basing the value of a program by arbitrarily declaring "that's just too much money for me!" does not address whether or not the program ultimately offe
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by makaimc 18y ago
I have to disagree with Dr. Greenspun here. Despite the Singularity topic's lack of immediate value some people are still be interested in studying with some of the most famous futurists in the world. Many people (myself included) enjoy lea
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by makaimc 18y ago
I used to work at a major financial institution that spent $300 million/year on IT projects. It had money to throw at every technical problem (until recently), but ultimately many of the challenges were never solved because of the mismatch
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by makaimc 18y ago
That's a good point. But how would you explain that to your average non-technical taxpayer?
563.
by makaimc 18y ago
I really like the analogy used in this article, but would taxpayers really be willing to pay for their government to send out useless emails?
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Is This the Solution to Spam?(computerworlduk.com)
3 points by makaimc 18y ago|5 comments
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by makaimc 18y ago
This would be great if the telecommunications companies would offer a flat-fee monthly data access plan for all devices.
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Want a Wireless Plan with Your Netbook?(businessweek.com)
1 points by makaimc 18y ago|1 comments
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by makaimc 18y ago
It would be interesting to see if comment karma scores changed by hiding the score from your view before you upvoted someone. That would eliminate "groupthink" because you would not know how many other people voted for a comment until after
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by makaimc 18y ago
For certain cases in IT this may be feasible, but too many interactions in business today are still done face-to-face that would render this suggestion impossible.
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by makaimc 18y ago
Eventually everyone will be on the web because the quarter that aren't using it are in two groups: older Americans and rural areas. Older Americans will pass on and wireless technologies will connect rural parts of the country.
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A Quarter of Americans Aren't on the Web(gigaom.com)
4 points by makaimc 18y ago|7 comments

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