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by sumeetjain 16y ago
Not enough people know about Yahoo's projects. Some interesting ones are mentioned in this thread. I have trouble defining "hacker culture", but surely it's about more than just the engineers working at a company. If Yahoo's engineers work
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
It comes down to the level of intricacy in the usage. The extent to which I use... ...the Sistine Chapel - Stand in it. ...my house - Live in it. ...a web app - Click all sorts of buttons, encounter alerts, make micro-decisions. As th
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
I can appreciate the value of various styles, and I think the world would be worse off if all artists decided to reduce their work to some definition of its "necessary" components. Art helps to evolve us. It's also probably impossible to de
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Open market for web apps for iPhone(openappmkt.com)
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
I believe getting copy/paste to work across browsers requires a Flash include.
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
It told me my name, carrier, and location - but the location was of my "rate center". I haven't changed my phone number since moving to northern California, so someone using this service to find me would think I'm in La Jolla.
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
Doesn't this just beg the question of letter vs. spirit of the law?
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Your suggestions make sense - I'll take care of them soon. It's for fun, but you might see an ad some day.
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Review my app - Easily organize your next potluck party(potluckness.com)
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
I haven't watched the video, so perhaps this is answered there. But I'm curious if the preprocessing of CSS is intended to implement some of the functionality available in SASS (like variables in CSS)?
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Climber conquers Everest, goes blind. Friends forced to leave him to die.(independent.co.uk)
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The Age of the Essay(paulgraham.com)
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
In case others have the same issue, http://gist.github.com/421406 . It's a copy/paste of CFA's "For Developers" page.
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
Cities should just pay reasonable salaries to a couple developers and build apps themselves. "Each team returns to Bay Area headquarters and then has seven months to develop their application for their city." Nevermind the potential issues
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
There's another benefit of using proper grammar (and punctuation): It helps people whose first language isn't English. I grew up in a mixed-language household, and I struggled a bit with English (when I was very little). I relied on the rul
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Open standard OStatus lets people on different social networks follow each other(ostatus.org)
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
The next time you see the moon like that, turn your head sideways: It won't be so big anymore. The psychological effect depends on the horizon. Tilting your head to the side alters the horizon's alignment, so the moon next to "some straight
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by sumeetjain 16y ago
Not a startup, but my company is hiring. It's a design agency in San Francisco called AKQA. Right now my team needs web developers more than software engineers. (Send an email to the address in my HN profile if you're interested.)
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by sumeetjain 17y ago
My favorite tool for finding available domains while discovering product/company name ideas is http://wordoid.com - made by a HNer, I think.
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by sumeetjain 17y ago
A friend recommended a fork of GitX: http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads
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US Senate to unveil new bipartisan Global Internet Freedom Caucus(thehill.com)
1 points by sumeetjain 17y ago|0 comments
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Games and trash talking in the workplace foster better team interaction(randsinrepose.com)
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by sumeetjain 17y ago
6 months : 50-mile ultramarathon in real life 2 months : Winning a city-wide karate championship in a movie These seem proportional to me.
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by sumeetjain 17y ago
I don't think the article is worth reading. According to the author, "Effort Shock" is the phenomenon of realizing something is a lot harder than you thought it was. Then you get depressed about it and give up. This explains failed blogs, f
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by sumeetjain 17y ago
As a proof of concept, this is interesting. For fields in which having experience in different cultures is important, the visual of the world map is really useful. I could imagine someone applying for a teaching position using this résumé a
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Preparing your web content for the iPad(developer.apple.com)
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Simple, reliable, and engine-specific CSS generator for border-radius(border-radius.com)
2 points by sumeetjain 17y ago|1 comments
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by sumeetjain 17y ago
Regardless of whose story is correct ( http://www.1938media.com/crunchgate-what-makes-sammy-run vs. http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2010/03/confession-i-was-one-who... ), a real lesson for young people in this community emerged: Your characte
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A gold mine in the waiting: Corporate Social Networks(panchadsaram.com)
4 points by sumeetjain 17y ago|0 comments
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Teach For America’s focus on branding shortchanges its core mission(chicagomaroon.com)
2 points by sumeetjain 17y ago|0 comments

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