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by rileywatkins 3y ago
It’s a fun thought experiment, but I tend to revert to the simpler explanation: They’re cutting off third party apps to increase their control over the user experience, to show more ads. The relationship with OpenAI might also be a thing, b
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by rileywatkins 5y ago
I believe zacharycohn meant "regressive" as in "imposes a harsher burden on lower-income households than on households with higher incomes."[0] In this sense, Washington state does have a regressive tax system, in part t
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The Coronavirus Recession and What It Means for Developers(swyx.io)
105 points by rileywatkins 7y ago|34 comments
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by rileywatkins 7y ago
What a milestone! This was the most impressive work in open source decision-making that I have ever followed (in my limited experience). People have contributed thousands of comments discussing this for over a year. It has even caused the
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by rileywatkins 11y ago
Hacker News Highlights[0] is something I didn't even know I needed. There's some great content to be found here (including some insightful comments), but the sheer volume of content means I'm probably missing out on most of i
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Ask HN: How do you choose what to read?
3 points by rileywatkins 11y ago|2 comments
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by rileywatkins 12y ago
Location: Portland, OR Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL at work. Clojure, Haskell, and many others in off hours. Résumé/CV: Send me an email Email: riley@rileywatkins.com I spent the last
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by rileywatkins 13y ago
Typically, it's expected that as a company raises more money, it will probably create more shares in the process. Even though your percentage of equity goes down, over time the company should be worth more money (hopefully). 0.2% of an
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
You can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ .
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
Ratchet.io works well for this. http://ratchet.io/
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
When I consider what my own answer to that question might be, I think the "doing what I love: computers" answer is a given. It's completely obvious to me that I'll still be doing what I love in 5 years. I usually take the question to mean,
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
I'm a bit late to the party, but I love http://www.youneedabudget.com . I've been using it religiously for over two years.
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
Well, you know what they say about headlines and questions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
San Francisco, CA — Software Engineers InstaEDU ( http://instaedu.com ) InstaEDU is an on-demand video tutoring marketplace. We're making personal study help accessible and affordable for everyone. We're looking for ambitious full-stack eng
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
I've only been following Alex since he left Twitter, but [Bank]Simple always struck me as exactly the kind of dream company I'd want to be at (never really considered myself good enough to pursue it though). Given his previous posts regardi
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by rileywatkins 14y ago
InstaEDU — Software Engineers — San Francisco, CA InstaEDU is an on-demand video tutoring marketplace. We're making personal study help accessible and affordable for everyone. We just raised a $1.1M seed round ( http://techcrunch.com/2012/0
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Ask HN: What does this "bubble" mean for me?
1 points by rileywatkins 14y ago|0 comments
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Are We Experiencing an Information Technology Fin de Siècle? (al3x.net)
4 points by rileywatkins 15y ago|1 comments
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, and some ColdFusion and AS3/Flex. I'm open to part-time, full-time, and freelance. email: riley at rileywatkin
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Ask HN: Irrational Fear of Competition
1 points by rileywatkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, ColdFusion (and CFWheels), SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, some Flex and AS3, etc. I'm open to part-time, full-time, and freelance. email: ril
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
Kyle gave a response to this question two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3211965
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
Was just checking out apartmentlist.com for the first time: "We need you to connect with Facebook so we can work our magic." Why in the world...?
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, ColdFusion (and CFWheels), SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, some Flex and AS3, etc. I'm open to part-time, full-time, and freelance. http://gi
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
I use Clickpass on the login page, but I would be okay with getting rid of it if I was able to migrate my account from OpenID to HN.
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
I noticed this earlier, but it seems he doesn't actually run the http://diveintohtml5.com , according to a whois search. As macrael pointed out, the rest of the .org variants are gone.
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Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?
305 points by rileywatkins 15y ago|84 comments
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
See romanvbabenko's fork: https://gist.github.com/3136dbab372c54258973
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
Because of this "duplicate tab" functionality, you can click the link to open in the current tab, then middle-mouse click the back button to open the previous page in a new tab (complete with the full history). You end up with your new page
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by rileywatkins 15y ago
(I'm curious why you would take a job in game development if you weren't into games in the first place. Or maybe you didn't know you'd be working on games before you accepted the job. I'm not sure.) You can't guarantee that every task you'l

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