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by sp4rki 16y ago
But then we're back in "is it telling me to create the user again when I already clicked the other button on creating a user on the other page?" territory. I think we should use whatever feels right and A/B test the hell out of it, but spen
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Sometimes this type of problems and feelings just don't go away, regardless of if you make it to the top of the hill. The internal pain and suffering becomes part of you and you're forever changed into someone else. We as human beings are d
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Really? Who are you to tell someone he just needs 'counseling, attention and love'? I can tell you from personal experience counseling, attention, and love can very much be not only unproductive, but can easily make things worse. It's tirin
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by sp4rki 16y ago
If you click on a link or button called 'Create a User' that that takes yo to a form, it would be almost universally more usable to have the button at the end say 'Save' instead of 'Create this user'. Verbosity is not always a good thing on
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I totally agree. Using buttons with concise messages is best when they're used to access some functionality, but when submitting data the users have been clicking on submit buttons for more than a decade to do so. I'd even go on and say tha
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Yeah I noticed it too late to edit the post. I'm on the 30th hour of a coding marathon and I'm starting to feel my neurons burning up and leaving me numb as hell. You can easily spot places where my train of thought kind of crashed into a w
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I'm probably an edge case, since I've dropped out of college twice because it just wasn't doing it for me. I plan on finishing because I want the piece of paper, but honestly there's no social aspect that you can't get elsewhere in some oth
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Joe Ades wore custom thousand dollar suits and lived in park avenue while selling potato peelers on the street. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia7TF2yVQU I reckon I'd hate to sell water bottles in the beach to make a living, but don't kn
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Wether the rocket scientist likes it or not, money is a necessary evil. It sounds very noble to go on and on about how you're not interested in the 'money', but when you're sabotaging aspects of your life that require money it's not nobilit
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I totally agree. You should invest as much time as you can in improving the quantity and quality of your knowledge on any field and topic that you find interesting. You always see huge bookshelves with thousands of books in the home's of th
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Perhaps because you are reading an article in O'Reilly's website, whom sells David Flanagan. That out of the way, I thinkn he's entitled to a little self promotion at any point in the article since this is the man behind such gems as JavaSc
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I just want to point out two things: 1) Get instant access means nothing to me. Watch a video does, and if I take the time to actually watch the video I'm more likely to commit if I find your product worth my money. There's a disconnect on
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I second Clojure for a functional programming language on the JVM. Why anyone would want to do functional programming in Java is really beyond my comprehension though.
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I could have received a better education from my local public library. - How'd you like them apples? Sorry couldn't resist some good will punning. Anyways, I've always said (even when I was in high-school) that I'd just get a bachelors de
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by sp4rki 16y ago
You beat me to it. I also bought the same bundle because Tweetie 2.0 made it a really good deal. Then boom Twitter bought the iPhone app and employed the dev and we where left in the dark. Now if it's free, I'll feel a tiny bit cheated. If
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by sp4rki 16y ago
No no that's not what I'm saying at all. I did not meant to say that you should put up with a slacker, but that you should give enough flexibility and empowerment to the employee so that he feels at least a sense of loyalty to your company
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by sp4rki 16y ago
That's exactly the point. If you're willing to pay a dev 100k without the perks, what makes you think that a company that really wants great talent won't pay the 100k plus the perks. You make it seem like employees have to earn respect, b
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Ahh but those are perks indeed. The thing is, if a developer is mediocre with the perks in place, you take them away. If he's still mediocre, you let him go. He was a mediocre employee however you see it. Here's the catch. To make sure you
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I'll go out on a limb and explain what developers 'feel'. Say that you're comfortable with remote work - In the case of a local employee, I don't want to have to commute 5 days a week, 2 hours to an fro. Sometimes I just don't feel well e
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Facebook has been 'covered on TV news' also, and hell a movie has been made about it. Would you call an interesting article about Facebook something that shouldn't be on Hacker news because it was covered on TV? "if they'd cover it on TV Ne
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Ahhh that's a whole different enchilada! If you told me that bribery in which money changes hands generally has a higher incidence when the briber is significantly wealthier than the bribee and can provide a monetary amount worth while for
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Read. Buy every book you think you might be interested in and read. Then apply what you read in either (or both) side projects or open source. Then read some more. When you feel decent enough to land a job, go for a job where you can learn
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I never meant to say that the intern should not do such things. I just meant that it's not behavior to be encouraged on the workplace because it can have negative connotations that can hurt the social aspect of the team and/or can cause bur
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Because regardless of when the tools where created, the important thing is the quality of such tools. I'd rather go with tools that make me productive, while keeping out an eye for the new players, than to be on the cutting edge and lose so
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by sp4rki 16y ago
If you're an aspiring painter, you buy brushes, paper, inks, etc. If you're an aspiring CSS guru, you buy the CSS editor that makes you more productive. For me it's Vim (whoa wait... free!), for some it's Textmate, and for most it's CSS Edi
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by sp4rki 16y ago
You can see it however you like, however you're completely missing the point. If you pay 100 bucks to a teacher to look the other way while you're living on ramen and have 300 bucks in your savings account, while your professor has say 20k
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I wanted to know if hard work paid off so I worked from 10am to 12am While I agree that an internship can be a great motivator (or an early de-motivator for people that chose the wrong career), I don't think this kind of extreme behavior
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AMD announces first Fusion chips(engadget.com)
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I can, for example, give 100 bucks to a friend to do my homework, and he might accept and do my homework even though he has more money than me. Trading money for favors is not necessarily a measure of wealth, and wealth does not preclude as
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I don't mean to be rude or patronizing (it's not my intention at all), but if you found getting the mouse and triple clicking to select a line instead of using 'Shift + V', and double clicking to select a word instead of something like 've'

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