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961.
by russell 17y ago
That's the one. He was one of the founders.
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by russell 17y ago
Not so for my son's start up Caustic. :-) I guess it helps to think small.
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by russell 17y ago
I personally think that a blog post as an extended Ask HN is a reasonable way to go. I've considered it myself. This is a fine line. I can see self-posting as the way to spam, especially for opinion pieces. People who regularly blog sho
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by russell 17y ago
Go to Austin, young man. Play with the slider at the top. Everything go swimmingly until 2008, then BLAM. Nuclear explosions all over the place.
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by russell 17y ago
Google "programming interview questions" or the like. There is lots of useful information. Design pattern questions are common. If you know MVC, Factory, and a couple of others, you are probably OK. Algorithm questions are surprisingly
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by russell 17y ago
I think experience trumps GPA except at the most arrogant companies. It sounds like you have the equivalent of a year or two of real experience. You didn't say what kind of experience. Pure HTML isn't worth all that much, but if you have
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by russell 17y ago
Create a public/private key pair. Have the client encrypt some relevant information such as the MAC address, IP Address, and software serial number, and phone home occasionally for authorization. This takes care of the problem of moving t
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by russell 17y ago
I'm not pg or even pg passing as a commoner, but I read 4 to 6 science fiction books per month, 1 or 2 technical books more if I'm starting a new gig, usually not cover to cover, and 0 to 1 general interest science book. Thank whomever for
969.
by russell 17y ago
> Here are four common pitfalls that can cause inconsistent behavior when overriding equals: 1. Defining equals with the wrong signature. 2. Changing equals without also changing hashCode. 3. Defining equals in terms of mutab
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Online [textbook] push in California sschools(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
We seem to be getting a lot of Wikipedia submissions lately. Wikipedia is an itch I can scratch myself. I come to HN to find interesting things from sources not on my every day path.
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by russell 17y ago
I've worked for quite a few women and I've found all to be excellent managers, except for one who really didnt like programmers (she said so herself). I've worked for quite a few jerks, and they were all guys. Maybe it is a gender related
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by russell 17y ago
He did make a couple of points that weren't completely self-serving. He recommended a longer school year. There was an article posted here a couple of weeks ago that showed that much of the difference between higher and lower income kids
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by russell 17y ago
I didnt mean it as an euphemism, maybe a shorhand. The article draws a parallel between racism in the US as a residue of slavery, and xenophobia in Europe as a result of immigration of lower class workers who are different and dont care mu
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by russell 17y ago
You get what you measure. Frederick Taylor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor ) invented "Scientific Management" by measuring the behavior of manufacturing employees at Western Electric. He got amazing results. Only
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by russell 17y ago
> a sober look at its empirical basis suggests that it is an inverted pyramid, a lot of conclusions perched on flimsy premises Der Spiegel examines the US vs Europe in a large number of dimensions and finds that the US differs far less
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by russell 17y ago
And location or if telecommuting is OK.
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by russell 17y ago
The terrible title and blaming Dr Spock for our cultural woes almost put me off the article. Below the fold he starts to make some interesting points. By age 4, higher income children have been talked to nearly 4 times as much as poor chi
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by russell 17y ago
The guy doesn't know what he is talking about. One of the problems with Prop 13 is that property taxes are limited to 1% increase per year. It gets reset to 1% of the property value when the property is resold. Home taxes have been risin
980.
by russell 17y ago
I used macros a lot in C to initialize structs and arrays with constant information, like keywords for a parser. It would still be useful for languages, like Java, which do not have literals for initializing objects, maps, and arrays. Ano
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by russell 17y ago
Air conditioning would be nice. A stairwell in the sun can easily get over 100 degrees. Alternatively some insulation and natural airflow could probably achieve acceptable results.
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by russell 17y ago
I disagree with democratic color selection. I have older eyes and have trouble with low contrast between text and the background. Gray text is hard to read and gray on black is impossible, like what you find on Japanese electronics. The
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by russell 17y ago
They sell it to you at full retail. They order just-in-time, so they dont have any inventory. The article didnt mention how they handle returns. The cynic in me says that the returned items go at the top of the recommendations.
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by russell 17y ago
Guys, we dont need every failed/incorrect/strange result from WA. Even Bing is yesterday's news.
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by russell 17y ago
The black box is sufficiently rugged to survive anything short of a nuclear blast, including fire, crash, and falling to the bottom of the ocean. Real time broadcast telemetry might be the first to go in some instances, black boxes are cer
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by russell 17y ago
You talk to a real woman about your taste and needs in clothing. She picks out a selection and sends it to you. You keep what you like and send the rest back. This is interesting from a couple of points. First, I live 1 hour from the near
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The Trunk Club For Men: Never Shop For Clothes Again(techcrunch.com)
42 points by russell 17y ago|22 comments
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SpaceX Rocket Factory(wired.com)
1 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
Have you used haXe in a production environment or enough to see if it works as it promises, truth verses wishes, and warts? Does it deliver on the promise to seamlessly compile to different target languages? It looks promising. Thanks.
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Ask HN: Flex or JavaScript. Which way to go?
6 points by russell 17y ago|6 comments

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