wookiehangover

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by wookiehangover 16y ago
This looks pretty swell. I'm a fan of the UI improvements. I also use a chrome plugin to inject some styling and other fun features to HN. It's on github at https://github.com/wookiehangover/grapeDrink-for-hackernews . Mine's definitely n
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
Downvote this if you hate writing unit tests for code you release publicly.
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
Enterprise JS is 400 lines of code... 0 lines of tests. Kudos, NYT.
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
adding position:relative without knowing what it does... great advice
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Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words(ngrams.googlelabs.com)
43 points by wookiehangover 16y ago|15 comments
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
or maybe even a software engineer...
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
Can't agree more about the value of Discrete Math. Any programming worth his salt can wax about combinatorics and counting problems at a moment's notice. I'm thoroughly convinced I'd be a few years further along as a programmer had I learne
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
I've also had Magento projects rob me of my dignity, so therefore I'm inclined to be sympathetic.
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
My solution is to run a linux media server that broadcasts over UPnP to a PS3 using MediaTomb. Streaming is top notch, it even transcodes filetypes that the PS3 can't handle natively. Anyway, it's way less complicated than a MythTV setup.
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
freenode #jquery is pretty much the place to be
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Getting a project off the ground(quickleft.tumblr.com)
5 points by wookiehangover 16y ago|0 comments
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
I've suspected that they've been rolling their own kernels for quite some time, it's rad that they're making these publicly available!
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
I sat in on Yehuda's breakout session about this at jQueryCon... really exciting stuff! Awesome use of the localStorage.
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
God forbid you're grouped into a caste of skill sets based on experience and/or expertise. If you started off with a homogenous group of developers and set them to work on building an MVC app, the group would eventually split into who favor
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
wow, this nose dived off the front page.... I wonder why? oh ya, don't try and criticize a Y-Combo startup on hacker news. Sorry, Andrew.
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
Object Oriented Javascript by Stoyan Stefanov is worth a read, especially if you've already slogged thru Poppa Crockford's tomes.
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
Can you bring back Clippy?
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by wookiehangover 16y ago
I stopped reading when it referenced Microsoft as it's primary source for information concerning security. What a joke.
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by wookiehangover 17y ago
So that pretty much rules out 4chan, huh?
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by wookiehangover 17y ago
As a college dropout and business owner at 23, I believe that its the personal responsibility of every American to have a marketable skill that they can get paid for. American Universities no longer provide this--they're playpens for the 18
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Externalize all Hacker News links(userscripts.org)
1 points by wookiehangover 17y ago|2 comments
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by wookiehangover 17y ago
True, the anecdotal evidence seems to be limited to certain hardware. Overall though, this is a huge blow to the users that it effects because it makes Photoshop almost impossible to use in a production environment. Given that there's a fin
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Turns out CS4 is the Snow Leopard Problem Child(forums.adobe.com)
13 points by wookiehangover 17y ago|14 comments