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by mcantor 16y ago
Google Voice is an unusable mess. I've literally never missed a vanilla SMS, but Google Voice regularly delivers them hours or even days late.
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Share HN: Hacking Music
2 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
Well, if you change your opinion, that means you were WRONG! And being wrong is... well... WRONG! Don't you see?! You can't let people see you being wrong, man! They might think you're human!
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by mcantor 16y ago
Yeah, there's one built into Vim! :bufdo %s/^R-w/new_name/gc
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by mcantor 16y ago
Actually, I think when Martin says "production code", he means "non-test code", as opposed to "code that will be released to production."
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by mcantor 16y ago
Refactoring breaks a lot of test cases (mostly with renaming variables). This is a red flag to me. Your tests should not know or care what variable names are used by your code. It sounds in general like you might not be doing TDD
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's a shame that people are so desperate for jobs and willing to sacrifice privacy for the illusion of security; if it weren't so, things like this would never have a chance to become real problems, because everyone would just walk out of
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by mcantor 16y ago
FTA: "People who are currently employed … are the kind of people you want as opposed to people who get cut," one recruiter told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in October. This is what recruiters ... people who are supposed to be experts
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by mcantor 16y ago
I feel like Edward Tufte would have a seizure at the way this article juxtaposes two wildly unrelated charts.
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Deletionism Confusionism(thingsfittogether.com)
1 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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Vim Tips(vimtips.tumblr.com)
1 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
What I want to know is, did Lyon make that post because he has actually deluded himself into thinking that EE is still relevant, or because he thought someone would actually be oblivious enough to read it and stop using StackExchange? I'm n
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by mcantor 16y ago
Would the list contain itself? Ohhh. Damn you, Bert Russell! (I kill me.)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Ironically, this is somewhat related to the "grammar & writing style" debate raging in another thread on this very post. If the root poster had written: Google "Cone of Learning" It would not have been so ambiguous!
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by mcantor 16y ago
... I generally think manners require one to give the benefit of the doubt and only nail someone to the wall when you are sure they are not only being an arse but intentionally so. I prefer to err on the side of safety, and never do any c
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by mcantor 16y ago
... being an ESL speaker myself... I appreciate the "please forgive my English" notes, actually. I am a native English speaker, and I have no ability whatsoever to distinguish between ESL writers and sloppy natives. I certainly was not
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by mcantor 16y ago
It might be a good idea to mention that English is not your first language, at the beginning of your longer posts. For shorter posts, it is probably worth your time to spend an extra 1 or 2 minutes making sure the capitalization and grammar
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by mcantor 16y ago
Context is very important, though. I don't think anyone is claiming that there is a correlation between intelligence and writing ability; only that within the context of HN comments from the majority of posters, style is important.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I don't think anybody at Hacker News really begrudges your leisurely writing practices. However, it seems like you feel entitled to have your opinions treated equally despite the fact that you are presenting them differently. This is prob
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by mcantor 16y ago
The rest of us are not Fred Wilson.
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by mcantor 16y ago
The annual review isn't a discussion, it's where your boss has decided what to write in your review and tells you about it. At that point, you need to change someone's mind, rather than form their opinion. The performance review is too lat
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by mcantor 16y ago
I think you're getting downvoted because "they're doing something skeezy" and "prospective partners are free to refuse" are orthogonal. If I walk up to a random person on the street and ask them what their credit card number is, that's que
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by mcantor 16y ago
Suggestion: Show a preview whenever possible before asking customers to "Buy Now". I might have bought a Tumblr poster, but I stopped when I had to click "Buy Now" and still didn't know what I was getting! I might get one anyway, though.
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Git needs a new interface(blog.reverberate.org)
2 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
FTA, from one of Barr's e-mails: "... accept during hightened points of activity..." Did this drive anyone else bonkers ? I think "accept" or "hightened" alone wouldn't have bugged me. But for some reason the juxtaposition of the two in
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by mcantor 16y ago
I feel like leadership is a balance between two things: 1. Protecting your subordinates from ugly work (like doing dishes, emptying the garbage, or doing laborious maintenance coding) so they can focus on fulfilling their responsibilities 2
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by mcantor 16y ago
HTML5 pushState/replaceState is the "correct" way to do this for compliant browsers, though... right?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Didn't the article author assert that you can use click handlers on your links to achieve AJAX loading without a full page refresh?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Both great answers. Thank you!
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by mcantor 16y ago
Pardon my naivety, but... why?

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