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by vitd 13y ago
So you advocate vigilantism instead of notifying the appropriate authorities? Shouldn't kids (or anyone being bullied) remove themselves from the situation and have the appropriate authority handle it? That seems like the more mature t
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by vitd 13y ago
I'm just learning functional programming with Haskell, and it was great to hear him explain that learning Haskell is really hard because of the terminology. I feel a little (just a little) less stupid. That said, he's a terrible p
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by vitd 13y ago
I've got 2 stories which may or may not contradict this idea: 1) I interviewed a candidate for a junior position. He seemed qualified and came with a recommendation from someone I trust. But during the interview with one of the manager
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by vitd 13y ago
I'm confused about something. After they've implemented their final solution that lets tiles become corrupted before they're overwritten, what happens to the sound? The sound is now being written to the screen, where it will
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by vitd 13y ago
For what it's worth, 9 times out of 10, you can hit the "Reader" button in Safari and it will show you the article without you clicking on anything in the ad. This way you get the content you wanted, you don't look at th
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by vitd 13y ago
Same here! I don't even have kids and I can barely fit in 8-10 hours per week. For my demographic, they're claiming 30+ hours per week. Next time my friends with kids complain about "not enough time in the day," I think
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by vitd 13y ago
I disagree. Native ads are extremely cynical and turn off users more than regular ads, which at least have the dignity to admit that they are ads. They're far less palatable (which is pretty amazing) because they seem so forced. They&#
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by vitd 13y ago
Same with the Los Angeles salaries. It also won't let you sort unless you sign in with Facebook or sign up. As far as I'm concerned, this is essentially a spam entry on HN.
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by vitd 13y ago
My (US) house has such a slot but it has been glued shut decades ago so that nobody drops dog poop, or worse, a flaming piece of mail, into it.
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by vitd 13y ago
Why do horrible pieces like this end up on the front page? From the article: "'Personal posture trainer' startup LumoBack released the results of a study today that examined 'Silicon Valley Syndrome,'...The results
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by vitd 13y ago
Reading this leaves me feeling like the author has some enormous cognitive dissonance going on: "And finally I defended some of YouTube’s UX elements by demonstrating how it needed to feel like the community’s fingerprints were on the
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by vitd 13y ago
I had either 3 or 6 months of salary saved up - whatever it is that experts always say. And I'll tell you this, I was super freaked out about money the entire time. I felt like I was just about to go broke almost every step of the way
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by vitd 13y ago
Does anyone else find it ironic that an article about making your graphics simple and easy to understand is published on a website with a name that is unmemorable and unpronounceable? I will never be able to talk about where to find this wi
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by vitd 13y ago
I have to say - after trying to simply play a 2-player game of Portal 2 with a friend over the Internet and having so much go wrong, I don't have a lot of faith that they'll be able to maintain an operating system. We see constant
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by vitd 13y ago
Did anyone else find it disturbing how the dialog box telling you about SkyDrive tries to hide the fact that you don't actually need to use it by make the "Don't Use SkyDrive" button not a button but clickable text? The
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by vitd 13y ago
I thought the article was interesting and the eventual conclusion good, but really didn't like the sentiment to "have thicker skin" and to basically just "suck it up" if someone is being mean to you. (He doesn'
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by vitd 13y ago
While I agree with his premise, he doesn’t give a lot of useful advice on how to implement his suggestion. In the case of the menswear website, how does calling people and using a spreadsheet help? People on the phone can’t see the clothes.
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by vitd 13y ago
I was thinking about this business from a traveler’s point of view. If I drop my car off and it has a built-in GPS, doesn’t that just give the renter a map to an empty house to rob? I realize not all cars have built-in GPSs yet, but it won’
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by vitd 13y ago
Whatever you do, do not under any circumstances go through the company’s HR department to get a job. I work in one of the best tech companies in the industry, and our HR people frequently reject highly qualified candidates we’d like to talk