natemartin

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by natemartin 17y ago
And if anyone is wondering why there's very little discussion here, it's because everyone is talking about it in the chatbox on the spreadsheet.
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by natemartin 17y ago
It's rather scary that engines can "start to thicken with larva" Beware the volcano-born engine larva.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Speedbump updates rarely make the main section of the apple.com homepage.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Of course if your app is aimed at educated people, such as a tool for engineers, you get a nicely self-selected group and can avoid these problems. But you'll never get to facebook-level with a niche audience like that. It certainly avoids
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by natemartin 17y ago
This is fascinating... apparently users are just typing "facebook login" into google, clicking on the first link, and getting very confused as to why they're not actually on facebook. How can you design a web application that is usable by p
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Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"(daringfireball.net)
230 points by natemartin 17y ago|160 comments
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by natemartin 17y ago
Yeah, I guess it's a bad time to switch careers.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Is anyone hiring for less-experienced roles? Either for new grads, or for someone who is trying to change careers.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Where are you based? And if you're not in the SF Bay Area, are you open to telecommuters? I can't find an address on your site.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Or for that matter someone that wants to change their career.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Really? That doesn't make any sense to me. "Oh my, I'm making marginally less take-home money. I should completely change my career and get even less money!" Remember it's a marginal tax system. They would only get taxed more on the amount
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by natemartin 17y ago
I'll let my wife know.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Is anyone hiring for non-technical positions? I'm posting this on behalf of my wife, but I'm sure there's some other people on this site that would be interested working for a startup, but aren't necessarily programmers or designers. So, an
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by natemartin 17y ago
Precisely!
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Ask HN: Anyone hiring for non-technical positions?
5 points by natemartin 17y ago|2 comments
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by natemartin 17y ago
Does this mean that any webapp that uses Amazon's API is prohibited, if someone loads it from their iPhone? So technically then, any use of the Amazon's API is prohibited. Great decision guys!
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Conversational URLs in rails(carsonified.com)
1 points by natemartin 17y ago|0 comments
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by natemartin 17y ago
The boxes with all the pants, shirts, etc scroll very far, but only seem to have 15 or so items. After those items, I can keep scrolling, but there are no additional items. Safari 4 on Leopard.
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by natemartin 17y ago
I just started reading the series myself a few weeks ago, and I'm completely addicted now. I like the idea of a really long series, because too often I get sucked into the world of a story, and I'm disappointed when the story ends.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Yeah, I also think this is the merchant's fault. (full disclosure, my wife works for a competitor of Bing Cashback) My wife's company runs into this issue, and they try to stop the merchants from raising prices, but sometimes a few companie
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by natemartin 17y ago
When you say "UI position" do you mean designer, front-end web developer, or user-experience expert?
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by natemartin 17y ago
A friendly suggestion: If your job posting is location-specific, please post what city you are located in.
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by natemartin 17y ago
DC only, or anywhere?
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by natemartin 17y ago
I recently relearned RoR after not using it for a while. I was recommended http://pragprog.com/titles/rails2/agile-web-development-with... and I definitely found it to be a good book. What helped me the most was to just jump into a projec
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by natemartin 17y ago
I'm looking forward to it, sounds great! (there's your motivation :) )
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by natemartin 17y ago
I don't think you need to use a safe subset as much as you need to run everything in a sandbox of some sort.
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by natemartin 17y ago
The only problem I see is that the author uses abbreviated variable names quite often. For someone like me, just learning the language, this can make some of the examples quite hard to follow, such as: ltrs.foldLeft(List[(Char,Int)]()){
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by natemartin 17y ago
Do you know if there are any for the other functional languages?
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by natemartin 17y ago
This is great, I've been meaning to learn one of the more functional languages. The tutorial-in-website format is fantastic.
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by natemartin 17y ago
I wish I could WFH. Us hardware types don't get that luxury.

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