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by tjarratt 16y ago
This is something I've forgot in the years I've spent working since University. There is a certain joy in hacking on data structures / input management and finding the exact patterns that will handle all of the error cases you've thought of
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that "self-serving political organization" is a tautology, based on the fact that an outsider-serving political organization would be an oxymoron, or at best, a charity by definition. That said, the NDA is probably more so t
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I suggest you spend an hour in a store and try each of the devices. Don't buy one immediately, but try to remember the things that bothered you the most on each platform. Picking the device that has the least memorable issues works well for
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I've used several iOS devices heavily in the past two years and I'm not even certain what he's talking about. At no point have any of my devices become unusable due to notifications. If you can create a scenario where a dozen or more notifi
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Seeing as how Google initially made the entire web more public and accessible, and has done so with much print, it seems likely they will continue as much as possible. I, for one, would like to see some older books that I have little chance
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I hope I'm not the only one that thinks it's hilarious that this news about Google is being reported by Yahoo. Where's the official Google announcement?
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I looked for this on LinkedIn briefly and couldn't find it. Apparently you have to opt in to letting users whose profile you've viewed learn about you. The default setting is for the text to read "someone at SOME TYPE OF COMPANY has viewe
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by tjarratt 16y ago
That's why you have a team of patent lawyers spend a week taking the engineer's specs and extending it into a 50+ page document.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Good point. The last time I was updating my cover letter, I invented the following workflow: -copy/paste in the last email template I had used -start editing sections that are relevant (intro, relevant experience, why I am interested in thi
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Actually I would probably conclude that having a diverse culture makes better decisions than a monoculture. Wouldn't a monoculture of yes-men, for example, be less likely to kill a failing project early on, and save money that would otherwi
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This is a great point. Frequently, people look to hire individuals that will "match the culture" which is thinly veiled as "people that look, act, and talk like us". Trying to hire for diversity doesn't mean you can't hire that excellent 20
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Okay, this makes a lot more sense now. I'll definitely be watching this to see where you take it, since quick development of canvas applications is something we could definitely use more of.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
(Disclaimer: I am writing a currently-unreleased jquery-based canvas helper) I really like the idea here, and am all for more people using the canvas element, but I don't really think the built in canvas API is unwieldy, or even remotely fo
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Meebo is very proud of this bar, for reasons I don't entirely understand. I can see a fair amount of use for it, on some websites, but I really wish they would optimize it so that those that opt to implement it on their pages don't get such
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by tjarratt 16y ago
The saddest element of this story, for me, is that so many children internalize their rage and frustration and turn it against themselves. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone that was bullied could turn that anger around and use
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I understand that in some areas, not only is it illegal to operate an insecure wireless access point (in the UK at least), you can be held accountable for the actions of people that use the access point.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
That's a really great idea! The best part is that if you can cache anything, subsequent loads should be faster, so the initial load serves as a loose upper bound for the entire load process.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This is true, but for the poster's situation, it sounds like he has a lot of data, all of which must be loaded before they can display any UI. In this case, it sounds best to display some real progress dialog. Some people suggested 'reticul
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Given that I'm writing a client/server app that uses messaging and multi-party communication as an integral feature, you might find the node.js chatroom that Ryan wrote to be interesting. http://chat.nodejs.org/ It's fairly basic, but I'm
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Could you offer a translation? I'm curious how it relates, going the other direction.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Based on the parent comment's username, I'm going to guess it's the X-Files. JD-Beast? Government alien jobs? Something spooky is happening in D.C.
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NoScript. No seriously.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
If you start your own company, you can give yourself any title you like. edit: That doesn't mean people will refer to you as such, or respect you, but that's a different issue altogether. On topic, a Chief Philosopher probably would serve a
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This will definitely help, to a point. Reflecting on programs you've wrote and seeing the mistakes you made is also important. I've had colleagues that had wrote hundreds of programs, but they were mostly the same boilerplate, same glue, wi
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Tackling smaller chunks of work at a time, conceptually. That might mean committing my changes more frequently, refactoring smaller blocks of code, or avoiding the temptation to fit a lot of functionality in one class/function/file.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I've been following a very similar approach, writing a web app for an upcoming launch. The hardest part is keeping everything in your head. When you have a cache on the client, a cache on the backend, several databases, throw in some ajax r
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I can't speak on the issue of the German language, but France has the Académie Française, whose job it is to standardize the language and approve new changes. They carry no legal clout, but where they go, the french language usually follows
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Off topic, but why do you have all of your files browsable at http://idont.no ? You should set up a landing page at least, so visitors don't just see /www directory.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Downtown San Francisco, CA Credit Karma is a venture-backed startup in the financial services industry. We are committed to providing free credit scores and are very pro-consumer. We're mostly looking for saavy operations, UX / Design, prod
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I'm sure the spec group would love a massage.

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