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by rralian 13y ago
I think the crux of the question is why this was so interesting, and I would say it's just not. It wasn't surprising or interesting.
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by rralian 13y ago
FWIW, I was on a jQuery-hating kick before I read this article, which explains some of the beauty behind the jQuery api. http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/designing-java... I agree that you probab
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by rralian 13y ago
Yeah, I think it is. Personally, I'll just taylor it myself. But if I didn't have the capability, I'd say it's worth $50, sure. I think paying some amount of money to avoid assholes will often be a good investment. And h
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by rralian 13y ago
These are really impressive, great work. I'd also like to make games and admire the shotgun, just-do-it approach here. If I started working with a framework like phaser, how much of that experience would be applicable to other framewor
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by rralian 13y ago
My trial was to add a drag/drop file upload UX to their (or now our) internal yammer-like communication system (basically a very customized WordPress site). It wasn't a big time commitment, was pretty low-stress, and I didn't
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by rralian 13y ago
That's an interesting angle. My immediate thought was that it's different parts of the government making such decisions. But upon reflection I have no reason to believe NSA et al wouldn't try to influence such matters as they
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by rralian 13y ago
I'm being over-dramatic certainly, and there are incredible things going on at the same time. Lots of numbers going in the right direction. But I've been thinking both about the world my children will inherit and the continuation
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by rralian 13y ago
Quite the opposite actually. Just being honest about what I've been pondering lately.
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by rralian 13y ago
This was a very uplifting article, as lately I've been somewhat preoccupied by the demons of Orwellian surveillance and propaganda, growing class inequities, overpopulation, pollution, mass extinction, the eroding usefulness of antibio
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by rralian 13y ago
What they did doesn't seem "extremely minor" to me. It's about as textbook as you can get as an example of something that will piss off google. Reminds me of all the grey/black methods "facebook apps" (rem
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by rralian 13y ago
That reminds me of an 'interview' I went on shortly after college. There was a job ad in the paper looking for energetic people to fill a marketing position. My dad warned me against it, but of course I didn't listen. I went
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by rralian 13y ago
Thanks so much redler! That's totally it! I found a number of photos of the book on flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/erice/sets/72157625355578461/ ) and they really brought me back to my childhoo
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by rralian 13y ago
When I was a kid, my parents got me a couple sci-fi encyclopedias, which were big books of beautiful sci fi illustrations with some made-up history explaining each painting encyclopedia-style. I loved them. This video reminds me of those il
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by rralian 13y ago
I'm just saying that defining software as information (and therefore nothing but math) seems arbitrary to me. Hell, I'm not even saying I necessarily disagree with it. But I think it's not the only way to look at software, an
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by rralian 13y ago
I'm not arguing as a means to an end, I would prefer to get rid of software patents. I can't really parse your last question, since we're talking about the same software, but keeping the status quo would be unsatisfactory to
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by rralian 13y ago
I see what you mean, but I'm not necessarily moved by it. You can choose to describe software as nothing but information. Or you could describe software as it's own entity, which can carry or store information.
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by rralian 13y ago
I can't imagine anything more than tighter economic integration actually happening, but it's a fun thought experiment to consider how a full-on merger would impact American politics. I (as an American) would certainly welcome the
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by rralian 13y ago
I'm probably out of my depth here, but isn't everything math? Pretty much all science boils down to math. All physics and chemistry can be explained (and predicted) in mathematical terms. But I would think some new substance or
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by rralian 13y ago
Comment on the design of the homepage, there is nothing to visually draw the user's attention to content below the fold. When I loaded this page, it happened to be in a window at a perfect size to hide your overview content. I clicked
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by rralian 13y ago
Usually when I try to nap, that's all it winds up being -- me laying there thinking, and eventually giving up on the nap.
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by rralian 13y ago
My first startup was a bit of a fad. A fast rise to millions of users, and then a slow peter out -- no matter what we tried. We also didn't know what we were doing, to be fair. Anyway, as we were on our last legs we got a couple offers
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by rralian 13y ago
Holy cow, the unit test case is fantastic.
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by rralian 13y ago
Seems like simply combining the fingerprint with some sort of quick gesture could get around this. They couldn't force you to try all possible gestures any more than they could force you to try all possible combinations of a lock (exam
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by rralian 13y ago
Well, you really don't know that he would have survived. He put himself in a precarious position and as others have said, he could have succumbed to any number of other dangers.
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by rralian 13y ago
In my experience recruiters are always impressed and push you forward. It takes very little of their time to put someone forward (relative to your time and the company's time), and if you happen to impress, they get their commission. I
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by rralian 13y ago
I'm not sure you and OP are talking about the same thing. What you're describing as a a tech interview (as I understand at least) sounds like a delight to me. I enjoy talking tech and am happy to wax poetic on any of those topics.
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by rralian 13y ago
Just talking out my butt here, but I think on most votes they have a pretty good idea of where most congresspeople plan to vote and whether or not the amendment will pass. So if some republicans knew it wouldn't pass with their yea vot
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by rralian 13y ago
I worked for a company that Spitzer went after while he was attorney general, and he seemed more like he was running a political campaign than trying to uphold the law. He very effectively spread FUD through a willing media in order to coer
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by rralian 13y ago
This is a great idea. I could see this becoming a very popular coloring book series. I'd buy it for my kids.
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by rralian 13y ago
Please elaborate.

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