mattmanser

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by mattmanser 12y ago
What confuses me is how every person I know with kids complains their life is over, they don't do a lot, they have no control, they have no time for themselves and their life is basically over. And this is a mid-30s guy with a lot of f
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Several bad shootings over decades? What's your point? What a strange thing to say. We don't shoot many people, America do. It's such a huge, cavernous gulf in magnitude that I have no idea what point you're trying to ma
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by mattmanser 12y ago
So how did you get to be 300lb in the first place? Obviously it's not that simple is it. You had to dedicate a long and sustained effort to lose weight you didn't want! If it were simple it wouldn't have taken 50% extra body
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by mattmanser 12y ago
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpo... It's an arms race that will not end.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Why are you hiding behind an anon account to post this?
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by mattmanser 12y ago
You'd pay double for a guarantee?
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Which is for non-payment of debt, which is debtors prison.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Google did heavy advertising over here in the UK for Chrome. Billboards everywhere.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
He's French. You can tell he's French just from his phrasing, without the other big clues of: 1. A .fr domain 2. The rest of the site is in French I guess we're getting so used to English dominance now.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
The homicide rates dropped again, and it sounds like there was never any indication it was drug related anyway: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/drug-decriminalisation-portugal-...
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by mattmanser 12y ago
So? YC can have founder interests at heart and still give out VC biased advice because of the type of startup they encourage. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
CK2 is made by a totally different developer.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
They invented ajax, at that time it was the best.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Enterprise has nothing to do with only 500 companies in the US. There is no real difference. Though some might say if you charge thousands and have dedicated salespeople, you're enterprise, even if you sell to a 25 person architect fir
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Al Lowe says in the article that he doesn't play games and hasn't owned a console for 15 years. And yet somehow he has an opinion of the state of games today. That's what the reference is. It's pretty obvious what rodger
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by mattmanser 12y ago
In my experience, I don't think users hate it. In fact, every time I talk to someone about salesforce and go "what, about that interface, huh? How bad is Salesforce!". They look at me like I'm a little loopy. It's b
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by mattmanser 12y ago
I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and guess it's an MVP where they manually assess your skills. Also, this is a YC company and it looks like this is a pivot or alternatively they're trying to find more candidates for clients,
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Pair programming with daily shame meetings where you have to justify your job by how much work you did yesterday.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
No-one ever migrates their db unless they really are in some sort of serious shit. I'll also guess you've never done it because the EF + MySQL = a world of pain. MySQL does not like nested queries, the EF uses them like they'
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by mattmanser 12y ago
No, because for most of those problems there's an easy alternative, declare another counter variable and you can just go: z++; if(z>100000) { print x; z=0; } When I was taught maths there was no emph
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by mattmanser 12y ago
How is this relevant to the parent? You're talking about someone with a CS degree, which means they have no experience. How can you ask them about the technical aspects of what they did on a project. "What parts of the system did
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Uhhh, the mod operator is not the solution to that problem though. In reality you'd only use a mod operator if you were doing things like sorting into 4 columns or doing an operation on every 3rd thing. And it's not a concept that
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by mattmanser 12y ago
No they're not! Virtually no javascript developer needs to know about TCP. Ajax doesn't go wrong. Most people abstract it even further using jquery and probably don't really know about how XMLHtttpRequest works. What you&#x2
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by mattmanser 12y ago
You ask TCP questions to front end developers? It sounds like you are exactly the sort of interviewer this article is calling out. Do you not think that this sort of specialised stuff is really easy to learn? That you should be asking quest
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Mainly because a lot of the things you just listed are incredibly stupid requirements. If I spent my life doing ruby sites that save basic data into a mysqldb, why does it matter whether I use sometching that takes 100,000 operations or 10,
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by mattmanser 12y ago
This is wrong. Think of all the companies that start on day 1 with 10,000s or millions of products. Hotels, restaurants, gigs, events, posts, people, other users, questions, articles, songs, etc. Manually picking stuff is time consuming and
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by mattmanser 12y ago
It doesn't sound like you know what software design patterns are. This has absolutely nothing at all to do with design patterns, which is about software design and how to manage complexity and nothing else. UX is not code.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
Say how I personally feel, get downvoted. HN on Saturdays.
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by mattmanser 12y ago
I personally find the progress bar very distracting and don't read Bloomberg articles any more because of it. It's something to do with me always using mouse scrolling that jerks the screen by set increments, and that then animate
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by mattmanser 12y ago
But we weren't talking about America, we were talking about the UK.

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