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by zipfle 12y ago
It seems kind of convenient that the replacement for ads on the web is just a different thing that requires google to track everyone all the time.
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Grep cheats(ridiculousfish.com)
1 points by zipfle 12y ago|0 comments
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by zipfle 12y ago
That's a super old story, at least as old as this zen koan: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/48accurateproportion.html
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by zipfle 12y ago
Citation needed. Specifically, the patent office required that inventors submit working models of their inventions until 1880 [1]. That doesn't sound to me like the founding fathers' decision. Edit: And they still require working
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by zipfle 12y ago
The UML thing made me think of this: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/137
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by zipfle 12y ago
The opening of the piece pretty clearly implied that the candidate did not have trouble finding work. The candidate made a good-faith effort to solve the question given in the interview while also using it as a tool to discover if this was
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by zipfle 12y ago
I'd imagine GP's point is something along the lines of https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ that if all of the currently-moving machines were suddenly bent on destroying humanity, most humans would not be in much dang
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by zipfle 12y ago
I find it really interesting to juxtapose this situation with the current furor over Brian Williams' not actually having been in a helicopter he said he was in. It's odd, but not too surprising, that the only job you can actually
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I Know True Is This Much: A Few Python Koans(github.com)
3 points by zipfle 12y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What resume projects would you like to see?
5 points by zipfle 12y ago|1 comments
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by zipfle 12y ago
I find it really weird that on HN, which in general I find to be a pro-capitalist, let-the-market-sort-it-out kind of place, so many commenters seem irked at businesses 'being cheap' by offloading waitstaff salaries onto tips. I&#
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by zipfle 12y ago
I think that where this falls apart is "laws and rules exist as a benchmark". That should be true, but the conduct of the US criminal justice system suggests it isn't.
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by zipfle 12y ago
It may be a bit different in sports, where handedness matters more directly. At least in fencing, a right-hander going against a left-hander is a very different situation than two people of the same handedness competing, and because right-h
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by zipfle 12y ago
while I think you probably have a point when you describe unauthorized copying of music as "taking [music businesses'] products for free," I also think it's hard to describe the mechanism of copyright (a government-grant
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by zipfle 12y ago
I've heard the idea that banks are keeping foreclosed houses off the market a few times. Do you know of a reference that describes the scale of that?
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The eastward moving house(designobserver.com)
2 points by zipfle 12y ago|0 comments
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by zipfle 12y ago
Well, as we're already dreaming, why not stipulate that the person who gets credit for the breakthrough should be the person who gathered the data, not the person who analyzed it.
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Show HN: DOGWOOD, no-dependency SVG tree UI elements(rluckom.github.io)
1 points by zipfle 12y ago|0 comments
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by zipfle 12y ago
In any case, neither of you have fooled me yet.
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by zipfle 12y ago
I wonder if there's an analog to "parallel construction" that uses intelligence contractors and competitive intelligence firms to move NSA data to the private sector.
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by zipfle 12y ago
It's interesting that this was a "failure" because it was supposed to be a customer acquisition strategy/business plan. I wonder how the math would shake out if you looked at it as a market research expense.
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by zipfle 12y ago
sorry to repost; mistyped url last time.
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What's important after two years of programming(rluckom.github.io)
2 points by zipfle 12y ago|1 comments
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by zipfle 12y ago
I've found that in many environments, particularly on the web, it's much harder to make sure you've accounted for all the quirks and interactions with related systems than it is to find the right basic algorithm. There have b
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Binary operators – a basic intro using Arduino(rluckom.github.io)
13 points by zipfle 12y ago|2 comments
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by zipfle 12y ago
Whenever I hear this, I find I don't recognize the world the poster lives in. Is it a thing to tell coworkers when you're looking for a new job? If not, how many jobs do you need to have and leave before you have a big enough netw
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by zipfle 12y ago
I went from zero programming experience (English major) to a dev job in about a year and a half. There is a LOT of luck involved. In my case, I knew someone at the company where I got hired, and was hired for a sort of 'unspecified ass
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by zipfle 13y ago
I sometimes make calls to collections.namedtuple and other class building functions at the same time as the rest of my definitions.
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by zipfle 13y ago
I always try to write code that my favorite English professors would approve of.
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Ask HN: Were you ever scared of pushing to production?
7 points by zipfle 13y ago|10 comments

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