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by philbarr 12y ago
It actually is a hack in a sense. It's a social engineering attack, for fun.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Thanks for the reply. If you don't mind one quick last question - can I ask which books you used? The only half-decent one I've found is Clojure In Action.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Interesting read! Since you seem to have moved a whole java team to being a clojure team, could you tell us how that went? Particularly interested in: - developer acceptance (unless they were already all clojure guys?) - training materials
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by philbarr 12y ago
Agree RoboVM is awesome. I literally just opened my app up on a Mac, right click, run on simulator and it worked. Amazing!
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by philbarr 12y ago
Wow that sounds great! Could you maybe provide some examples of how you did that? It might be really useful...
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by philbarr 12y ago
Because I also believe that one of the most important aspects of school is learning about social interaction.
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by philbarr 12y ago
I have a young daughter and have come to the same conclusion; not to teach her too much before she starts school. My own parents, being teachers themselves, taught me as much as they could before I attended school. I remember being bored se
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by philbarr 12y ago
Counterpoint on the TV on SKY News from Dr. Mark Bacon from "Spinal Research" who says that this is nothing new, that it is not as significant as a "man walking on the moon" as has been claimed. He says that this is esse
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by philbarr 12y ago
You might want to just learn tablature for the time being, unless you're thinking of doing classical guitar. Not to say don't read them of course; you can read what you like, just that tab is what you'll be using I would ha
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Moolah.io is closing(blog.moolah.io)
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes, but a lot of those are "remote - US only".
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by philbarr 12y ago
like the idea, although it is pretty much covered by many other job sites as they have this feature already. Where are you sourcing the jobs from? This would be perfect if it aggregated jobs from all the other job sites. Searching for remot
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by philbarr 12y ago
I have toast, does that count?
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by philbarr 12y ago
Can't believe this didn't get more attention on HN. I only just found out yesterday evening, searched HN and found this, with 5 points and NO comments.
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by philbarr 12y ago
This makes it sound like you are really only thinking about specific partners at the moment then? So it's not yet for the masses? Like - I'm not really going to be using this in my next Android / IPhone app any time soon.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Could you describe a potential "wow" app, and how you would use the combination of services to achieve it? To get me salivating for more?
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by philbarr 12y ago
It seems that to get a true "wow" moment out of this, you would need to use the services in combination, but there is no demo of this. Each demo looks like nothing more than a database search of the training data - no super amazin
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by philbarr 12y ago
I have some questions: - It says, "During the BETA period, all Watson Services will be available for free on Bluemix." So what are the prices after the beta period? I can't put the time into learning this if it's not via
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by philbarr 12y ago
It does say "it's free!" but are you planning to charge for different plans or something at some point? I'm naturally reluctant to sign up for something where it's not totally clear what the price is, and I'm s
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by philbarr 12y ago
I've been working on a chocolately script for next time I need to setup a windows machine. This is what I've got so far: @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).Downl
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by philbarr 12y ago
I see what you mean - although given my poor landing page design skills pretty much anything looks good to me. Can you give an example of a decent landing page?
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by philbarr 12y ago
By the way, there's a little "up" triangle next to each post which means "this" ;).
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by philbarr 12y ago
The problem with any of these things is that they're just recipes. What we really need is something that deconstructs cooking skills into easily learnt, repeatable practices. It's like with the very recipe here - it's suppose
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes they don't seem to be offering anything above and beyond their competitors, particularly on price. Not even a free tier. I'm not saying that companies should have a free tier "by rights", only that it's a good w
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by philbarr 12y ago
Hating on "marketing people" isn't just an HN thing, I think. I'm fairly sure most people hate marketers, particularly because it's their job to try and part you from your money. In fact, on HN we are probably more
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by philbarr 12y ago
It would probably be pretty easy to create a tutorial that gets someone to set up a github account, introduces the basics of git/html/css/javascript, and ends up with the tutee having a Github Page that demonstrates what they
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by philbarr 12y ago
That's what I like about this story! Pick a stupid idea and just follow it through to it's conclusion for no reason. You'll create all your best stories doing that. For example - on holiday myself and a friend decided to padd
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by philbarr 12y ago
That site looks really nice! I signed up. One thing, how do you get testimonials when you haven't launched...?
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yeah I agree - I think people are overusing / abusing the downvoting thing too much. Although I believe pg himself said that you could use a downvote just if you disagree, the implementation of gradually fading out the text means that
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by philbarr 12y ago
You could probably set up a reseller account with someone, and offer to host people's resumes on custom domains for $x/month.

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