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by spokey 16y ago
For the record, I know what "hubris" means, it's the candidates that don't. This may say something sad about the level of liberal arts education among developers. Now that I think about it, this also may say something about the candidates a
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by spokey 16y ago
I "stole" this question from a friend, who may not have invented it either but cultural/language barriers aside [1] I'll often ask something like: * Larry Wall wrote "We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer:
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by spokey 16y ago
That's a bit of a strawman, I'm pretty sure that's not what I said. This much I know: an absolute right to privacy does not apply to children. Like you I mean this in the ethical sense: there are (IMO) beyond doubt cases where it is ethical
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by spokey 16y ago
> It is unethical to use this software on one’s children without letting them know. I disagree. If you had written "spouse" or "significant other" or really any other adult I'd agree with you, but I don't think you can make that absolut
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by spokey 16y ago
I'm not sure if this comment is quite appropriate on this thread (as it is a borderline commercial offer and quite possibly off-topic for the OP's question), but I think your model is interesting and I'd love to know a little more. 1) Is yo
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by spokey 16y ago
I often ask for feedback during the interview. If I'm interested in a position, I'll typically ask the hiring manager what reservations or concerns she may have about hiring me. Factual errors aside I make it a point not to debate those c
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by spokey 16y ago
I wish I could see and possibly review sites without handing over my email address. I'd like to be able to explore the kinds of sites that are posted and possibly the kinds of feedback they are getting before creating an account. (Also, wha
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by spokey 16y ago
> [A] lot of the technology used in communist countries was copied from capitalist ones. Communist countries would have been even poorer without capitalist ones doing R&D for them. But the "communist countries" you are talking abou
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by spokey 16y ago
Also, that guy running the drill was flown in from Afghanistan, right? I suspect he is likely to be a government contractor (capitalist/state partnership) and was probably brought back on military flight.
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by spokey 16y ago
I'm not going to bother to track down the source of every contribution to this effort, so I may have a few of the details wrong, but doesn't it seem like you could also write this article exactly the other way? * The mining company is essen
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by spokey 16y ago
Of course that is unreasonable. I don't think it was meant to be taken literally, but as advice recommending that as a suspect or person of interest one generally shouldn't assume that law enforcement folks are on your side. (I have a lot o
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by spokey 16y ago
> I think the concern is irrational; the alternative (having agents manually tail people) is error prone, > subjective, incredibly expensive, and no less intrusive. Don't underestimate the role of the "incredibly expensive" part. T
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by spokey 16y ago
I'm assuming these are specialists rather than typical web developer positions, yes? Otherwise I might be underpaying.
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by spokey 16y ago
Funnily enough, my karma recently crossed the 200 point threshold, but I didn't recall the down arrows appearing for comments. I just logged in to tell you all that there must be more to it, since I've got 200+ karma and no down arrows. Bu
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by spokey 16y ago
This is strikingly good advice. There's no better way to spend this three months. Independent wealth aside, most people don't have this kind of opportunity very often. (In particular, starting a business is going to either disrupt your coll
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by spokey 16y ago
If they were really dangerous, I suspect they wouldn't let you have them in the cabin at all. "Everyone turn off your phone" isn't the level of safety compliance major airlines typically rely on.
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by spokey 16y ago
There's also shaft driven bikes: http://www.google.com/images?q=drive+shaft+bike The design in the wired article, while interesting, seems like an overly complicated solution to the chain "problem". > "[The] asymmetry [of traditional
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by spokey 16y ago
To be honest, I didn't dig into that site deeply enough to notice that. I pulled this out of an email I was sent just yesterday. Sure, I'd be interested in collaborating if there's not one out there already. The spider part is easy, you jus
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by spokey 16y ago
You might be interested in http://trends.builtwith.com/ It doesn't give you a crawler or API, but they have done a lot of the analysis you're talking about and put it together in an explorable interface.
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by spokey 16y ago
It seems to me that unless the likelihood of a cache miss is fairly small you need to balance the probability of a cache hit against the expense of an extra HTTP call, as opposed to bundling the JQuery libraries directly with your custom JS
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by spokey 16y ago
Note that from December 1999 to December 2009, the average annual compounded rate of return for the S&P 500 was -0.6%, and the average annual inflation rate in that same period is around 2.8%. A 5% return over inflation may be a little
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by spokey 16y ago
> PS: A 90k/per year developer can easily have a family and 1/2 mill in the bank by their late 30’s. I'm not sure that's true, but maybe your definition of "easily" is different than mine. Certainly that doesn't seem to be the case if y
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by spokey 16y ago
I know HN discourages these kinds of meta-discussions, and not to denigrate Sirupsen's post in any way, but how did this get so many upvotes? (Currently 16 in 45 minutes, with only one comment.) This post basically says: Bash, VIM, Dropbox
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by spokey 16y ago
This is a bit tangential to your point, but if my math is right and your $90K/yr .NET developer is spending no more than the typical 30% of income on housing, she's just paid off a $300,000 3-bedroom condo (approximately $2250/month payment
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by spokey 16y ago
Out of curiosity, is there another way to pronounce "cadio" other than cad-e-o?
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by spokey 16y ago
I had always assumed this just meant that you couldn't inject paid ads into the actual Twitter feed, but reading this in detail you are right, you can't simply mix paid and Twitter content within the display of your app. Moreover the Twitte
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by spokey 16y ago
FYI, that link currently seems to be broken. There's an extra %22 at the end of the url, like this: http://awesomenessreminders.com%22 instead of this: http://awesomenessreminders.com/
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by spokey 16y ago
> I don't think it's possible to remotely steal the encryption key as JavaScript doesn't have access to browser's bookmarks. I think a trusted site might be able to read the bookmark URL from the history object, but that seems to be san
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by spokey 16y ago
I like the site. It's uncluttered but seems to give just the right information in an appropriate level of detail. I've never really looked deeply at "password keeper" applications before (I think because Firefox seems to a reasonably good j
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by spokey 16y ago
Wow, that's a lot of screen. And here I am doing most of my coding with a 9" netbook. (Edit: Actually, I think it's the same as cool-RR's post elsewhere on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649828 , just without the externa

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