mhartl

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by mhartl 15y ago
I wish I had more diverse friends http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/21/14-having-black-f...
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by mhartl 15y ago
On OS X, you can use Command-click for that.
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by mhartl 15y ago
It's a strategic acquisition. Such acquisitions are common, especially in the Valley. This is one reason why startups should primarily work to "make something people want" (the official Y Combinator motto) rather than focusing on making mon
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by mhartl 15y ago
"Onerous" essentially means "expensive to comply with", not necessarily "hard to follow". For more detail on these sorts of issues, see, e.g., http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1752 .
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by mhartl 15y ago
See http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/posters.htm (among many other examples).
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by mhartl 15y ago
Unfortunately, the "comparative advantage" in this case results mostly of self-inflicted woulds on the part of USG. For a company with highly productive employees such as Google, the large fixed cost associated with labor-law compliance isn
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by mhartl 15y ago
Out walking today I saw a car with the bumper sticker UNIONS = JOBS . That view is, to put it gently, a little naïve—and it's a huge part of the problem.
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by mhartl 15y ago
It's the same basic situation, just not as severe. Alice undoubtedly has some inkling that she may become pregnant, even if she thinks it unlikely. If Barbara isn't pregnant or planning to become pregnant, and has taken steps to prevent pre
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by mhartl 15y ago
Rails was promoted as being productive , i.e., able to produce amazing results fast. To my recollection, it was never promoted as being easy to learn .
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by mhartl 15y ago
There are many who have no problem with (sometimes) treating women as sexual objects. Such people often do have a problem with the use of language as a political weapon. See: objectification , sexist , misogyny , patriarchy , glass c
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by mhartl 15y ago
I suggest avoiding the word "discriminate"—its emotional overtones are too strong. Here we're merely differentiating between multiple candidates, and doing our best to be fair. Enshrined in law is the notion that it's unfair not to hire s
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by mhartl 15y ago
Now of course, you would never refuse to hire someone because they plan to exercise their legal right to parental leave, would you? I'm sympathetic to the principal message of this post, but regarding the bit about parental leave: Has it
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by mhartl 15y ago
The videos don't seem to play in Firefox. They work fine in Chrome.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I have a (non-sarcastic) prediction: Kutcher will be excellent in the role.
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by mhartl 15y ago
For sites with a technical audience, IE is pretty much expendable nowadays. For example, looking at the analytics for railstutorial.org shows that more than 96% of visitors use something other than IE.
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by mhartl 15y ago
500 > 75 I don't think anyone has trouble with the arithmetical inequality. The issue is that the recursive Fibonacci number algorithm is notoriously unrealistic (it's exponential in its argument, growing as φ^n). Because of this, the
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by mhartl 15y ago
I agree about the wedding, and disagree about the investor pitch. Underdressing for a wedding might be perceived as an insult. Likewise with an investor meeting, but the risk is much lower since it's not principally a social occasion. Moreo
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by mhartl 15y ago
In this vein, there's actually still a Rails 2.3 version of the Rails Tutorial online: http://railstutorial.org/book?version=2.3
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by mhartl 15y ago
Note : For the purposes of this discussion, "accessible" means "accessible via mass assignment". See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3781317 . The change in Rails 3.2.3 that will likely affect the most people is a new default setting
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by mhartl 15y ago
Rails 3.2.3 is compatible with Rails 3.1 and later versions. The main difference is a change in the default security settings (made in the wake of the recent GitHub mass assignment vulnerability—and, IMHO, long overdue). If you want to get
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by mhartl 15y ago
Blah blah gender blah blah sexism , etc., etc. We may have reached the Seymour Skinner point here at HN: "I don't have any opinions anymore. All I know is that no one is better than anyone else and everyone is the best at everything." ( ht
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by mhartl 15y ago
They're allowed in principle, but in practice the law is so vague that for most companies it's not worth the risk of using an actual IQ test. Thus, we have "puzzles" instead.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Citation needed. I've edited it to read "effectively illegal", but the essential point remains. In practice, any company using a straight-up IQ test in job interviews is practically begging to be sued.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Actually, if you read the whole thing... She had to fight to get them to see her demonstrated aptitude. I did read the whole thing. She "fought" by answering more questions demonstrating her aptitude, and her interviewers eventually conce
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by mhartl 15y ago
I doubt I'd be surprised: my mother is a retired school psychologist, and her trainees used me as a guinea pig for lots of different IQ tests over the years. I've pretty much seen it all. With respect to the content of IQ tests, I tend to a
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by mhartl 15y ago
Many entrepreneurs dip into personal savings in the initial startup phase. This can be stressful, which is one reason I focused on creating a passive income stream after my own YC startup shut down. So, I'd recommend either accumulating a n
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by mhartl 15y ago
There were a lot of questions about numbers such as guessing the next number in a sequence. There were some logic puzzles, the kind where you have to figure out that it’s the baker who rides a bicycle and the mechanic who lives in the hous
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by mhartl 15y ago
Those who disparage "X for Y" descriptions misunderstand their use. When you have only a few minutes (or seconds) to pitch your idea, being X for Y or the X of Y is an effective way to give people the gist and pique their interest. Only
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by mhartl 15y ago
"Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!" I can easily imagine a world in which such a remark is routinely interpreted as a compliment. I can also imagine a world in which it is routinely considered offensiv
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by mhartl 15y ago
Are you really saying that there's no middle ground between being actively offensive and being insufferably bland? The short answer is, yes, there is a middle ground, but it won't stay "middle" for long: the set of "offensive" things expa

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