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by why-el 14y ago
I hope the author realizes there is a difference between raising a kid (requires legitimate use authority != rules) and doing business.
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by why-el 14y ago
Got it. Thanks for the clarification.
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by why-el 14y ago
I see your concern, if I was a beginner and I googled around I might be inclined to learn the supposedly good looping which might be difficult.
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by why-el 14y ago
I don't see the relevance of the style guide mentioned for the debate over how to teach beginners. When you check out a guide, it has to be assumed you are familiar with pretty much most of the syntax of your language.
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by why-el 14y ago
He has been an Emacs fan for a long time now. You should probably check out his "Effective Emacs" article. Lots of good advice there.
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Ask HN: What can a CS undergrad from abroad do when visiting NYC for two days?
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by why-el 14y ago
Its also interesting to know that Readability, which I use to format anything i want to read, cant parse this, so I am stuck reading in this unfamiliar (to me) format. Update: Safari's reader, however, worked just fine, and it looks fabulou
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by why-el 14y ago
> The fundamental promise of any version control system is this: “Once you put your precious source code in here, it’s safe. You can make any changes you like, and you can always get it back. Git breaks this promise”. Right there. I don
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by why-el 14y ago
Pardon the ignorance, but can't this be achieved by simple Ajax requests provided by any of the js frameworks? How is this better?
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by why-el 14y ago
Yep, prose is very cool and Michael did a great job listening to feedback from fellow developers. I already use a custom version on an upcoming opinion website that I based on Jekyll.
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by why-el 14y ago
I think we should give it a day or two, then start another one, provided this question gets voted up.
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by why-el 14y ago
I think George Orwell's Politics and the English Language has some good advice on writing clearly and precisely, albeit later in the essay.
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by why-el 14y ago
I actually enjoy these types of videos. I think actually typing stuff off of the video, and sometimes changing it a bit, works best for me. It's even better when you watch the video once, get the gist of it, then try to rewrite the whole th
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by why-el 14y ago
I stay focused with pretty much anything in my ears. Sometimes I even listen to very thoughtful discussions while coding, like an interview with the maker of The Wire for instance :) It won't work for most people, but it does for me. With t
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by why-el 14y ago
Yep, that's what I ended up doing.
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by why-el 14y ago
Do you have an issue with "tender love making" branding or branding in general? I think a healthy dose of personal branding is ok for me. With that said, the developer community is much much tolerating place than other communities. I mean,
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by why-el 14y ago
Do you have issues when developing? I have spent hours diving in my code thinking something is up before realizing it's just Chrome caching thats ignoring my changes!
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by why-el 14y ago
A feature to save the songs will be great. I know that I can go back to SoundCloud when clicking on a song but its a hassle so far. So how about adding a small profile? Otherwise excellent idea.
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by why-el 14y ago
I am a little confused by the wording of this. I usually think of a growth hacker as somebody who helps scale an app, like an Instagram engineer for instance. Is anybody else confused by the naming?
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by why-el 14y ago
You cant label something as a fact then proceed to say "I think". (ii) is poorly defended. You set out to outline Chomsky's long and engaging political life just so that you can say that it influenced his linguistic theory. Chomsky himself
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by why-el 14y ago
> most advances in human history have been done by for-profit organizations You mean most advances in (very) recent history right? And I am a bit skeptical about the claim that companies are developed for the benefit of the people. Ag
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by why-el 14y ago
I don't know what are the requirements really, but I think that in blogs' case, where people just want to read you, positioning your text in the middle so that safari or Android browsers can easily focus the text is enough. With this said,
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by why-el 14y ago
Neat. I have a more or less similar idea, in that I want to stuff with people's feed. I am currently looking at implementation options. Can you guys share with us what you did to build this and the types of issues you faced? A post-lunch fo
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by why-el 14y ago
Very well done, and the show is recommended.
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by why-el 14y ago
Checkout iTunes U, there is so much in there that I get lost sometimes.
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by why-el 14y ago
Does this block all internet? How can you code well without resort to some googling? Edit: By this I mean it would be preferable if I can leave some sites up, like SO for instance.
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by why-el 14y ago
Exactly, and does it really matter? I mean, how many people in usesthis.com actually use Vim? And they are all brilliant people.
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by why-el 14y ago
There is a whole class of web applications where it does not even make sense for search engines to index your site: todo lists, real-time chat, finance, and so on. So yeah, if you think it is important for your app to export content, then b
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by why-el 14y ago
I was actually thinking about this earlier. Why is pdf so hard to deal with? And why is around in the first place? I can imagine a future where html5/js combo is enough to convert a set of html pages to a nice offline-supported readable for
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by why-el 14y ago
Ah ok! thanks for the clarification then. Good job! ;)

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