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by smokinn 15y ago
I've recently finished up to chapter 3 and already I can say I highly recommend reading this. So far it's been excellent.
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by smokinn 15y ago
It's definitely an age thing. I've been through both your and the GP's situations since I've graduated university and thought that Facebook jumped the shark... Until I talked to both of my younger brothers that still use facebook the same w
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by smokinn 15y ago
The others might be fine but I'd advise against moving to web frontend unless you're really interested in that. Senior web frontend positions are pretty much non-existent and from what I can tell those guy don't get anywhere near as much re
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by smokinn 15y ago
Cheezburger Network seems to be scooping up the business model you're mentioning, bringing the 4chan and reddit memes that are likely to have a broad audience into the mainstream and monetizing them.
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by smokinn 15y ago
In an event-based system, especially a large distributed one, ROLLBACK as a single command to revoke all previous attempts at state mutation becomes impossible to support. Instead of supporting distributed transactions you have to change to
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by smokinn 15y ago
What roots are you referring to? As pointed out by another in this article's discussion, Zynga has a well documented history of not caring about original production but rather looking around for successfull social games, copying them and th
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by smokinn 15y ago
Thanks, I had no idea about that. Looks like I can start using the site again. =)
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by smokinn 15y ago
If Google was that analytics driven they would get rid of it for people that don't use it. I haven't used it since gmail was in beta, I definitely haven't used it for at least 5+ years. And yet it's still there.
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by smokinn 15y ago
I used to spend a lot of time on t61 which does exactly what you're talking about. http://www.thesixtyone.com/ I stopped using it when they did the big redesign. I find the new interface nowhere near as good or useful as the old one but I
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by smokinn 15y ago
It's called Meal Snap. I've never used it myself but mashable seems to think it works well. http://mashable.com/2011/04/06/meal-snap/
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by smokinn 15y ago
There's a big difference between thinking something is true and thinking something is probable.
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by smokinn 15y ago
For what it's worth I think you and 37 Signals probably do believe what you say in the blog but given how inflammatory it often is it sets of my inner cynic constantly.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Whatever individual 37 Signals people's actual thoughts about VCs and valuations, don't believe that it's necessarily what they write in their blog. Their blog is not an informal discussion medium. They make it out to to be but it isn't. It
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Chartify – A Visualization Plugin for jQuery(daytona.se)
2 points by smokinn 15y ago|0 comments
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How Do Actual Software Engineers Perceive Software Engineering Research?(third-bit.com)
2 points by smokinn 15y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 15y ago
You're right that it doesn't mean the research won't go forwards since it's currently being funded by "philanthropic groups and individuals" according to wikipedia's article on Dichloroacetic acid which is a much better summary for lay peop
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by smokinn 15y ago
When left to my own devices I simply sleep when I feel tired. My normal cycle will be something like sleep for 6-12 hours and stay up anywhere from 16 to 20 hours. Sometimes I'll take a nap for an hour or two somewhere in there. As far as I
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by smokinn 15y ago
Having said that, hopefully the team who created this reads HN and will respond to this and save some face. I've worked at this company. Not honestly.com but I've worked at the type. The people at the company who read news.yc have no prod
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by smokinn 15y ago
Could you expand on this please? I'm one of those geeks that keeps pushing bedtime back. (Right now I'm waking up around 9pm and going to sleep around 1-2pm. By mid-to-late week I'll probably be back to a regular 8am-midnight.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Microsoft does not recognize the disruption? You obviously haven't heard of Office 365: http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/office365/small-business/abou... I don't work for Microsoft but they have a lot of open positions for the Office 365 te
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by smokinn 15y ago
Do you only hire Americans or would a Canadian engineer work too?
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by smokinn 15y ago
Personally, I don't agree. I think a majority of the value of K&R actually comes from the exercises. K&R gives you a very good, clear and detailed explanation of the topic at hand and then immediately gives you several exercises to
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by smokinn 16y ago
Creating a pivot table is very different from simply opening an excel file. Conceptually (it may be more optimized internally) it tries to create a cube of all possible results with all others. (An OLAP cube.) So if you have columns 1, 2, 3
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by smokinn 16y ago
What I used the scores for most was to know when to stop scrolling down when a story was highly commented. I would figure that if there are 100+ comments chances are any threads that start with an initial post < 10 are safe to skip. Now
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by smokinn 16y ago
Seems like a good idea but I doubt the data is very accurate. I live in Montreal which is well known to be one of the cheapest places to live in North America (very cheap housing, very cheap energy, etc.) but WA puts Montreal as the most ex
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Adding a jit to the web stack(smokinn.com)
3 points by smokinn 16y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 16y ago
If you're already implementing messages like that another fun thing to do when the person goes way past the threshold is start making the site slow/buggy. Add in random sleeps, redirect to a random valid or error page, etc. Basically make t
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by smokinn 16y ago
I was really wondering that too. I just opened the inspector and deleted the node to read the article. I'm not accepting any legal-speak to read what's already there.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I heard this as well so when I got my android I didn't install one. But the battery life was horrible. Often, if I used the phone regularly during the day the battery would be dead by 9-10pm. I installed a task killer and killed everything
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by smokinn 16y ago
No it won't, not if their spambot is multi-threaded. (Which all the good ones are.) All it will do is increase the latency, the overall throughput will be pretty much unaffected.

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