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by smokinn 17y ago
Canada makes that easy. Here you can only call yourself an engineer if you're actually an engineer because it's a protected term. (Like doctor.) We don't have the ridiculousness of sanitation engineer and the like so if the job posting incl
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by smokinn 17y ago
For the first idea, have you checked out tinychat? http://tinychat.com/
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by smokinn 17y ago
This is my favourite comic from that meme: http://browsertoolkit.com/fault-tolerance.png
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by smokinn 17y ago
A co-worker bought it and his ipad wifi connection issues was all he could talk about today.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I think it's mostly a combination of B and C. I have enough monitor and pc power cables to last me the rest of my life at this point but they still package new ones whenever I buy a power supply or monitor.
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by smokinn 17y ago
It would be nice if they pointed out why rather than a simple "this sucks" with no reasoning. I tried getting OpenAMQ up and running about a year ago but it was like pulling teeth. On the other hand, I got RabbitMQ installed and working in
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by smokinn 17y ago
For filter icons usually a funnel is used: http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=fil... Magnifying glasses typically represent search.
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by smokinn 17y ago
When starting a technology startup a massive amount of the company's value is in the heads of the employees. If you're going to go the route of underpaying over-qualified employees you'd better make sure you have them document their systems
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by smokinn 17y ago
Exactly. Conversion is always immediate, especially in high end products. I think they timed this competition very well because isn't prom coming up very soon? How many of these girls that didn't buy their design are going to be pestering t
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by smokinn 17y ago
The discoverability is much, much higher for free apps. 7% of visitors used the free filter, vs. less than 1% enabling the paid filter. The evidence following the statement doesn't seem to support it. If 92% of the time having a price d
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by smokinn 17y ago
It doesn't really matter what Apple does at this point, there will be whining either way. Either they reject it and people whine that they want Opera or they accept it and people whine that Apple is giving Opera preferential treatment.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I imagine that's a byproduct of our productivity fetish. If we can do something else, but we aren't, we feel lazy.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Think of the medium. While it's entirely possible to listen to entire albums on the ipod/phone, it's just as easy to listen to a single artist/genre/list/random. It used to be a pain to get up and change the disc/tape/cd so people would fol
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by smokinn 17y ago
I don't really need a whole blog post to explain why people don't like jazz; it's because to most people it sounds like a cacophony of random noise. (Especially in "live jams") Unless you've studied music and know what they're trying to sho
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Negative Mass An amusing thought experiment, or the Secret of the Universe?(triplenine.org)
53 points by smokinn 17y ago|36 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
What an excellent way to go out. Great last article Joel.
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by smokinn 17y ago
English translation please? I have no idea what that keyword might be.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Maybe you could switch it up and use commonadult along with tokenadult depending on the perceived demographic? Though I'm not one to speak, I've used "smokinn" (or "Smokinn" which I generally prefer) for, I believe, 16 years now.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Do you keep a corpus of all HN comments? I doubt PG would appreciate all of us hammering the HN server to collect the data.
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Advice to Lawyers Suing Toyota(satisfice.com)
7 points by smokinn 17y ago|1 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
It'll be nice to see independent verification of their SunSpider benchmarks but if they hold up that's very good news.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Why flip pages at all? I like yan's suggestion of detecting the music in the app and scrolling along as the person plays.
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by smokinn 17y ago
The fact that the request is absolutely insane seems to have little to do with whether it gets approved or not.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I didn't read past the url: redmondmag.com
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by smokinn 17y ago
But that pay rate is typically for a 4 or 8 month internship. These guys were taking advantage of the fact that MIT in particular gives the month of January to students to work on their own stuff. MS, GOOG, etc wouldn't go through the HR he
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by smokinn 17y ago
Giles has a video he wants to sell you: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/03/programmers-what-to...
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by smokinn 17y ago
Really? Investing in Canada must be really bad then because moving to the US is not easy. (At least not if you aren't sponsored by BigCo whose large legal department will take care of the insane paperwork for you)
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by smokinn 17y ago
I hate people. Seriously. I really wish I hadn't read the comments on the blog post and the "discussion" here. Sigh. What a waste of time.
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by smokinn 17y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+bricked+iphones It's been quite a while now that no matter how much you pay for a device it's still owned by the company that produces it. You're only allowed to do with it what they deem acceptable. A
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by smokinn 17y ago
Well if Apple can get away with bricking an entire physical device I don't see why Ubisoft can't get away with a game being unplayable for a while.

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