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   by ritchiea 13y ago

   I love stuff like this that talks about web basics in precise detail. Too much of the stuff out there for beginners glosses over the basics of the web. In the midst of receiving tons of info about HTML & CSS & Javascript & whate
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   by ritchiea 13y ago

   What are the best ways to get better?
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   Free Money for Everyone(washingtonmonthly.com)

   119 points by ritchiea 13y ago|241 comments
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   by ritchiea 13y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Brooklyn/NYC or Remote I am a Ruby and Javascript developer who works mostly with Rails. I have also done smaller projects in Node.js, Backbone & Sinatra. In my work I value readable code & making systems as dead
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   by ritchiea 13y ago

   Maybe the OP is a talented marketer at Microsoft
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   by ritchiea 13y ago

   I would make it part of the interview. Look at the code, think about it & ask the programmer about it. Reserve judgements until you have made an attempt to learn something about the context.
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   by ritchiea 13y ago

   Excellent point, it's definitely the context that matters. To me the article is arguing "code is not written in a vacuum" rather than literally "don't judge coders by their code." This reminds me of the fundame
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   Jony Ive has been Removed from Apple's Leadership Page(apple.com)

   15 points by ritchiea 13y ago|20 comments
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   Secret: Do we need another way to be selfish on the internet?(blog.andrewritchie.info)

   2 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    To be fair to the poster you're replying to, he did mention reading Thinking Fast & Slow which is by the nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. That's no web programming manual.
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    So monopoly
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    Who benefits from large corporate mergers like this? What does an all stock deal mean at that kind of magnitude? It certainly feels like little else than a handshake deal to create a monopoly.
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    This letter misses that Dave Chappelle had serious concerns about the cultural impact of his work. He feared that actual racists were laughing at his racial humor that was rooted in a critique of the racism he experienced in his life. Chapp
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    Canadian banks in Switzerland are new top tax havens(randomhouse.ca)

    1 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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    Post Mortem of my NYC Democratic Primary Visualization(blog.andrewritchie.info)

    1 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    Thanks for replying. It's not so much that I don't realize there is a huge world of programming outside of web frameworks and cell phone apps, as it's nice to hear about those jobs. I don't get the opportunity very often
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    What was it like to develop Paper?(quora.com)

    2 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    What kind of work do you do where you find that PhD level education is requisite for good work and an algorithm designer is essential to your revenue? Hope this doesn't come off as accusatory, I'm very curious.
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    It is probably a good idea to add 2006 to the title since that's the date of the last update [1]. 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re...
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    Sorry I'm incredibly gullible today
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    I hope this isn't stupid linkbait and apologize in advance if it is and I got pranked. An Argentinian programmer friend forwarded this to me, which is why I am posting it here for comments. He seemed to believe it was legit but sent it
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    Spanish Hacker Claims this Exploit Returns Facebook Passwords(facebook.com)

    3 points by ritchiea 13y ago|4 comments
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    SEEKING WORK - New York City/Brooklyn or Remote I am a fullstack web developer who typically writes Ruby and Javascript/Coffeescript. I have been working with Rails for the last three years and working on the front end (markup and
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    I missed the HN discussion of the previous article about founder salaries that lead to this [1] but reading it now it's blowing my mind how sheltered from reality the community here is. One HNer & startup founder says 80k doesn&#x2
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    What is the meaningful difference between a Yale degree and 7 semesters of a Yale education? If your answer is "some employers wouldn't consider you as an applicant without the proper degree" do you want to work for that sort
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    The title is deceptive, it would be more accurate to say SMS is on the decline. There is no evidence or suggestion that the behavior of sending short messages (typically via your phone) is on the decline, it just seems to be moving to propr
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    The regular meetup.com mailing list for NYC.rb
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    Looking through my email now it looks like most of the lists I'm subscribed to are through meetups on meetup.com. I'm a member of a number of meetups that are related to technology I use (e.g. Ruby, Javascript), or topics I'm
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    I have had some luck finding part time work over the HN monthly freelance thread and through developer email lists (NYC.rb specifically). In the case of the email list it was as easy as sending an email to the list describing myself and my
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    by ritchiea 13y ago

    This started out with some boilerplate SV platitudes (obsess over your product, obsess over talent), but got quite good by the end. The concrete items, particularly "They make something a small number of users really love" and &qu