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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   Perhaps not directly. But might initially ineffective protests consolidate and inspire the participants towards larger actions?
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   "You have to lean into the wind to stand up straight"
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   But for most human beings: the icing is the cake. We hurt ourselves by thinking that "content is king" outside our own beautiful wonderful nerdy circles.
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   I think the definition of a "dead end job" is one that does not provide clear ways to get promoted.
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   This article includes a statement I've seen several time before: "flux is more of a design pattern then a library or framework". This statement drives me to unspeakable levels of fury. What does that mean? It's like sayi
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   As a former teacher, I found that it was easier to teach kids concrete things and try to get them to glean the abstract then vice versa. In other words, you might learn how to code in order that you then know how to give clear instructions.
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   And Ronald Regan, the Great Gipper, once thought "I'm shot", and it was so. But it was just as true for JFK, who made no such observation.
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   I have always assumed that going to college is not necessarily the ideal financial path for any particular individual, but rather that an educated populace is better for everyone. In other words, it is a collective good that "we"
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   by sopooneo 9y ago

   I think this may just be another instance of the coconut affect. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
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    by sopooneo 9y ago

    Maybe. But I am sure I had put in a thousand hours programing my C64 by the time I had finished 8th grade. And I doubt I'm alone.
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    by sopooneo 9y ago

    When I pay, it is out of a sense of civic duty. Democracy requires journalism and journalism requires money.
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    by sopooneo 9y ago

    I believe this was actually the plot of an episode of the kids educational show "MathNet"* in the early 90's. I've often wondered if people just do this over email now, but automated. And why write to just 512 people abo
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    by sopooneo 9y ago

    Is there a win-win here if we want to strike out on our own as "consultants"? What if we charge exorbitant sums for simple robust solutions, but provide the execs with needlessly technical descriptions of what we've done so t
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    by sopooneo 9y ago

    As I read it, the problem is not the mechanism by which a session is maintained, but the very existence of a session at all.
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    by sopooneo 9y ago

    I believe REST as Fielding defined it has some great benefits. But I'm not a purist. And actually, neither is the person who wrote this post. Because no matter how much the disciples try to wriggle there way around it, using cookies fo
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    by sopooneo 9y ago

    Or rather, why not go on reading? There is enough great work in even a humble public library to fill a lifetime.
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I agree with the way you've responded. But there can be a case where omitting var on a variable definition will not assign it on the global object. That is, if you hit a variable by the same name as you go up the scope stack, you wil
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I expect getting that many requests would be a bigger challenge than serving them.
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I've often wondered, if you could create a gui app maker like this where the app itself could be exported as, say, a Rails codebase at any time. That would help reassure organizations that wanted to use the service but were worried abo
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I have a question that goes into less detail. If such audio equipment defines the highest possible level as 0, then why is silence at ∞ instead of -∞?
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    Dynamic Soaring(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by sopooneo 10y ago|1 comments
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    Companies sell their employees to their investors. Pedigree and similarity sells.
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I'm 37. Developer. I had suffered lower back pain for five years, sometimes severely. I started doing just 20 pushups a day and it is completely gone. Just one data point, I know. But since that data point is 100% of me, I'm stick
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I agree with a lot of this, but I think there is a single correct answer for the best way to first learn about the "Agile Philosophy": http://agilemanifesto.org/
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    It's incentives. The true benefit to the company comes when people can make mistakes and learn from them. But often, the forces on management are not in alignment. Imagine Manager Mark has a direct report, Ryan, commit a big and public
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    PoEA. "Philippine Overseas Employment Administration"? http://www.poea.gov.ph/
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I was fascinated by the idea of "Schelling Points" a few years back and made a sort of reality show demo based on it. Full disclosure, Mr Schelling agreed to watch the video at one point and was extremely gracious, but clearly not
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    Not on HN, but I remember the initial demo of imgur being torn to bits on reddit. And when Joel Spolsky announced his idea that would eventually turn into StackOverflow, it was derided as useless because the work already had enough question
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    Or populations.
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    by sopooneo 10y ago

    I feel like this was the good side of religion. At least within subgroups of people.