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by pygorex 15y ago
I can see the value as an icebreaker - and to potentially knock an interviewee out of the sycophant zone and into a more candid state of mind. Context is everything. Re-reading the article I think I may have been hyper-parsing the question.
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by pygorex 15y ago
My point wasn't to encourage obfuscation or one-up-man-ship but to encourage communication. My point is to stand against formulaic questions that tell neither party anything of value.
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by pygorex 15y ago
> Its a disservice to keep telling people that they are too stupid to understand something That's not the point. Specialization - developing a deep understanding requires time and effort. As a developer choosing a way to store passwords
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by pygorex 15y ago
During an interview both sides should be asking questions in an attempt to explore whether the position is a good fit for the prospective employee. If as an interviewee I'm free to ask any question I want I will get to the questions that
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by pygorex 15y ago
Meh, not so much. The interviewer should be to telling the interviewee the requirements for the position and asking incisive questions that determine if these requirements are met. I can't tell you want you want
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by pygorex 15y ago
Try clicking in one spot quickly and repeatedly for a heart-gasm. Chrome handles it fine, though this technique might crash lesser browsers.
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by pygorex 15y ago
I'm also interested in a similar service for a startup. BeenVerified seems to fit the bill: http://www.beenverified.com/home/web_service_api
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by pygorex 15y ago
Thank you. I've been looking for something like this for a while now.
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by pygorex 15y ago
Chomsky is well-read because he wants to say insightful things. No one is remembered for being well read Chomsky is well-know because of his contributions to human knowledge - being well-read is a step towards building interesting things.
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by pygorex 15y ago
Chrome 17 OSX10.6.18 - sometimes a new font loads on one click, sometimes on two or three+ clicks. This may be due to a slow internet connection - maybe the first click registers then takes several moments to load the next font? Also there'
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by pygorex 15y ago
Agree. That impulse to disregard & denigrate those who make mistakes is strong, and I've made that mistake often. Looking back I see that copping that attitude is a major cop-out. It's so easy . Being nice & teaching where you can
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by pygorex 15y ago
Browser developers are going to innovate new features. A standards body doesn't drive innovation. Innovation is not a top-down process. A standards body exists to ensure some level of interoperability between browsers. What Prefixgate shows
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by pygorex 15y ago
This analysis is spot-on. Especially when it comes to getting small businesses on-board. Groupon, one of the champions of local, spends massive amounts on educating and selling local businesses on the value of daily deals.
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by pygorex 15y ago
Two questions: 1. Right now my screen share app of choice is TeamViewer. You could own this space if screen control was added, very easy to setup and use. 2. Monetization strategy? Are you looking to monetize this app?
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by pygorex 15y ago
FTP is like religion: poorly designed at inception, implemented a thousand different ways and accepted as normal only because it's ubiquitous.
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by pygorex 15y ago
Philosophers are a lot like programmers. The car you drive, the clothes you wear, the food you eat - all of them are touched in some way by a computer program - even if you personally are unaware of how these computer programs design things
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by pygorex 15y ago
You mean Fast user switching? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_user_switching
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by pygorex 15y ago
IOS is really a stripped-down Unix-variant (BSD). You know, Unix, the world's most ubiquitous operating system, that supports multiple user accounts out of the box.
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by pygorex 15y ago
"The MicroPHP Manifesto" is actually "The Lone Programmer Manifesto". Programming in today's world means working with other people's code. All a framework does is provide a set of design patterns and standards that a group of programmers ca
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by pygorex 15y ago
PHP's has mature URI parsing using several built-in functions that provide very similar functionality. parse_url http://us.php.net/parse_url for getting URI components parse_str http://us.php.net/parse_str for getting query string varia
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by pygorex 15y ago
* Teamviewer. Cross platform remoting: http://teamviewer.com/ I use it for support sessions and remote pair programming. * Parallels. VM. Use it primarily for testing web apps in older versions of IE. * Netbeans. Great search tools (searc
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by pygorex 15y ago
Also: don't eval() user-supplied strings.
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by pygorex 15y ago
> Work hard Yes - a strong work ethic is needed to build a company. But hard work won't save a mediocre idea or flawed business model. Don't work hard, work smart - which means working long hours and pushing a deadline when needed. It a
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by pygorex 15y ago
Another highly performant DOM manipulation technique that has wider browser support and works on FF versions prior to 8: DOM Document Fragments http://ejohn.org/blog/dom-documentfragments/
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by pygorex 15y ago
The toolbar works for multiple areas on the page. After clicking on "Test It Out" you can focus on and edit the "Mercury is a full featured HTML5 ...." and "Core Features ...." page sections.
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by pygorex 15y ago
First: the link to Vidyard.com is broken in the opening paragraph of the article. Second: know your audience. It's not surprising that a landing page for a video startup would benefit greatly from having an actual video present. It would be
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by pygorex 15y ago
Cool concept and a great usage of WebWorkers. I can see this being useful to verify the integrity of files uploaded via an HTML form - get the SHA1 client-side and verify it against a SHA1 server-side. Unfortunately this implementation is w
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by pygorex 15y ago
The man is thorough. This line made me lol: "I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up."
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by pygorex 15y ago
FTA: > Is this full type checking overkill? Yes. > But considering the huge number of websites and web applications written every year, and the massive difficulties we consider with browser testing and compatibility, it sure would b
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by pygorex 15y ago
What Facebook seems to be missing is the same thing this article is pointing out: monitoring is not the same thing as sharing. When I write something on a blog or like/upvote something I'm actively curating my experience for others. Knowing

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