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by thisduck 17y ago
The information on that site is a bit misleading. How would they figure out your name? Or who your friends were? They would have to already know your name to search for URLs then that would contain your name. That is a lot of work to be doi
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by thisduck 17y ago
URL shortening services have been around for a long time, with the recognition that they weren't permanent. The recent issue with URL shorteners is because Twitter has created a false need for them. What twitter ought to do is assign a fixe
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by thisduck 17y ago
I disagree, I thought he spoke well. And at one point he got very passionate, and that's simply the way he expresses himself. It was refreshing to see.
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by thisduck 17y ago
They keep listing bit.ly's monopoly by way of Twitter. But there is a better solution to the whole URL shortening issue, how about Twitter assigned a fixed length to URLs. So a url in your tweet is say 5 or 6 characters. And it always conve
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by thisduck 17y ago
There was physics/math involved in getting the man to fly into the pool.
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by thisduck 17y ago
I completely agree. It's like saying "farmers farm", and then standing there whipping them.
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by thisduck 17y ago
While I understand the "creative" aspects of designing a resume like this, I find that they end up giving me a headache. Firstly, because the overuse of colour. And secondly, because I'm not sure where to get the information I want to get.
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by thisduck 17y ago
How about training people in the skills they will require for their new position?
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by thisduck 17y ago
Who here has become rich, you know, by reading these books?
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by thisduck 17y ago
Also, there is no content.
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by thisduck 17y ago
How does Google figure out relevance in realtime? With twitter, it's user driver content with tags etc. But with the net at large, blogs etc, this becomes difficult. Incoming links etc are hard to determine in real time (primarily because t
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by thisduck 17y ago
The colour scheme gives me a headache while I'm reading the words.
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by thisduck 17y ago
Which article is that?
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Are great programmers hired or made?(rc3.org)
5 points by thisduck 17y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Books on Agile development for non-developers?
1 points by thisduck 17y ago|1 comments
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by thisduck 18y ago
On the contrary, I think this works out well. As long as people link the original thread in their blog posts you'll be able to follow the entire discussion. HN gets links from the types of readers it's trying to attract. There is more meani