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by seldo 17y ago
I'm not sure I buy the premise that all of Android is just a blocking move to Microsoft. Microsoft had 10 years to make a dent in the mobile market and failed against Nokia and RIM, and that was before Apple jumped into the game and stomped
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by seldo 17y ago
Forgive my language, but even playing field my ass. This kind of stuff really makes me angry. Do you think when millions of starving Irish refugees turned up in the 1840s it didn't depress wages for existing American workers at the time? Or
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by seldo 17y ago
The horizontal scroll doesn't work in Firefox 3/win :-(
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by seldo 17y ago
The finding that an incomplete degree still has an effect on earning is the most surprising to me. I thought college had mostly devolved into a signal about how committed you were to your career, but clearly at least some courses are impart
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by seldo 17y ago
Agreed. This looks like an embarrassingly reactive move.
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by seldo 17y ago
This advice is remarkable only in its obviousness. Link-bait.
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by seldo 17y ago
Also, from a personal perspective, it makes the assumption that all the male coders in the room are straight, which is in some ways an even more insidious assumption. You can look at the room and say "okay, sure, there are no women at this
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by seldo 17y ago
Pluralizing everything with an apostrophe isn't a usability problem, but boy does this article do it a lot.
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by seldo 17y ago
In the case of Yahoo's login form, the username is explicitly not echoed because people often have quite similar usernames, so they will try to login three times with the wrong username (it exists, it's just not their username) and then o
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by seldo 17y ago
I'm filing this under "things that I'm not totally okay with science knowing how to do".
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by seldo 17y ago
Can we have some more context on this? How was it removed? When? How do you know Google did it?
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Twitter bug exposes private tweets via Google search(mashable.com)
3 points by seldo 17y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 17y ago
I am deeply impressed at the depth and subtlety of this joke. All the worst excesses of HTML 2.0, rendered in perfectly valid, well-structured, completely readable HTML 5. It's not the language you use, folks. It's what you do with it. Brav
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by seldo 17y ago
The fact that Javascript works inside of SGML comments inside a <script> tag continues to annoy me, more than a decade later.
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by seldo 17y ago
It seems as the market for content-creation expands, there is room for infinitely more products simply by taking the mid-point of any two existing products. e.g. Twitter, the mid-point of blogging and IRC. Tumblr, the mid-point of blogging
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by seldo 17y ago
This has definitely given me a better way to phrase my current coding style than "on-demand" or even "lazy" coding. Basically, the way I work is: I build what's being asked for, and no more. I try and anticipate where future demands might c
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FriendFeed's users are abandoning it post-acquisition by Facebook(techcrunch.com)
9 points by seldo 17y ago|4 comments
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by seldo 17y ago
That's where the "leverage" comes in. The exact mechanism is a little confusing to me, but I think it works like this: Say you have $100. You can invest that $100 at 2% interest and earn $2. You end up with $102. Leverage is complicated, an
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by seldo 17y ago
You make a very valid point, and it's one I do think about. I try not to bash NoSQL, because it does make sense sometimes, but there's a recent tide of "SQL is dead, long live NoSQL" that ignores the fact that RDBMS are a superior solutio
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by seldo 17y ago
The problem with a public option in this case is that the investment arms of these banks aren't providing a service to anybody, they are profit-making institutions in their own right. We the public are not "customers" of these banks, so we
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by seldo 17y ago
Stealing is taking another person's property without permission. In this case, taxpayers handed over money to the government on the understanding that it would be used for the public good, to support common infrastructure and institutions.
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by seldo 17y ago
(I also commented on the article, but nobody seems to be commenting over there, so reposting...) The advantage of statically typed RDBMS that he's leaving out here are (a) storage optimization (b) query optimization (as jawngee has already
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by seldo 17y ago
And if we all switched to this tomorrow, six months from now somebody would invent amazing new "static type storage", the advantages of which would include "saves you hours of coding those tiresome data-validation routines we all hate so mu
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by seldo 17y ago
So, to summarize: 1. The US government loans money to the banks at 0% interest 2. The banks buy treasuries at 2% interest Why is the US government selling treasuries in the first place? In order to have money to bail out the banks' earlier
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Ask HN: what's a good pet for the working programmer?
25 points by seldo 17y ago|85 comments
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by seldo 17y ago
I can think of no sentence that more sounds like the 2009 I dreamed of than "Dean Karmen showed some video of the impressive, mind-controlled robot arm he's invented". You look at the video and it's clear that the only thing preventing the
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by seldo 17y ago
This is the first Discworld release since I've left the UK, I think. Why are the American covers always so terrible?
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by seldo 17y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Firstly, web apps can never see anything after a # in a URL: the browser does not send it to them. Javascript can see it, but I don't think that's what you meant. With progressive enhancement, your URL
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by seldo 17y ago
However, top US universities are very generous about scholarships for high-achieving individuals even if they are non-nationals. UK universities have very few scholarships to start with and most of them are closed to non-citizens. I come fr
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by seldo 17y ago
Well, I've heard of it, but then I went to Warwick, which is way down at #58 ;-)

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