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   by specialk 12y ago

   Personally from my college experience I know that I have used my laptop in lectures for both good and evil. I have legitimately used it to google work, ideas and to open tabs on papers/etc. to read later. I also used to write code in a
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   They All Look Just the Same(medium.com)

   8 points by specialk 12y ago|1 comments
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   by specialk 12y ago

   I think this article is blatantly missing the point. Adding two-factor auth is the best way to stop shared compromised credentials (we all know people who don't use a random password everywhere) being reused on every common login form
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   by specialk 12y ago

   I think I spent three years in college getting examined on UML diagrams of all sorts. There is so much detail you can put into a UML diagram that means so much, like arrow heads mean class A implements interfface B. I have never seen anyone
5. 35.▲
   by specialk 12y ago

   Thanks so much for the response. Can you tell us more about the algorithmic changes, or is the HN source code public?
6. 36.▲
   by specialk 12y ago

   I find the idea that commenters with higher karma having more powerful down-votes slightly disconcerting. My fear is that if people down-vote comments that are well meaning and relevant but they disagree content we will only ever see one tr
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   by specialk 13y ago

   Is a twenty-something founder going to hire people twice their age in the early days of their company? Unlikely.Twenty-something founders hire people they know, who are usually their own age. Friends from college, or the other twenty-someth
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   by specialk 13y ago

   Sometimes I forget that I've skinned HN until I see posts like this or get asked what am I reading. I've used this Chrome extension ( http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/ ) for a long time, if you'
9. 39.▲
   by specialk 13y ago

   I see this as a great tool for teaching the basics of git. Definitely saving this for the next time I have to explain why branching is useful and how it works. Great tool.
10. 40.▲
    by specialk 13y ago

    I disagree with this article almost completely. Frameworks are great for getting stuff done, which is exactly why I do recommend them to beginners. Beginners are learning code/a new language for a reason. Usually that reason is to get