Ben_Dean

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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
the first question seems a tad ambiguous to me. Is a contiguous rectangular block a rectangle s.t. all restaurants == P, or is it rectangle in which every P has at least one immediate neighbor == P?
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
twice. will do it again soon.
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Silly Sum(codefear.tumblr.com)
1 points by Ben_Dean 15y ago|0 comments
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A pig in a poke: Modern Con Men(codefear.tumblr.com)
1 points by Ben_Dean 15y ago|0 comments
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
+1 for Bringhurst, definitely. Plus, when you meet a cute designer somewhere, he or she will be impressed when you drop that name.
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
men performing sexual favors for men in exchange for money... right?
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
thanks! I do read LtU, and I'll check out this "Kragen's" of which you speak.
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
To Long, Didn't Read: I'm down with what you're saying, but I didn't ask that question. Where's the hot links? Yes yes, I've asked ever so foolish a question and missed the fundamental problem, really failed to develop an overall understand
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
hmm. might could. I am consuming HN exclusively through google reader, so maybe I need to see a little more what it can do for me.
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Ask HN: Somewhere just a little better than HN?
8 points by Ben_Dean 15y ago|11 comments
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Ask HN: How'd you go about getting and managing consulting work?
13 points by Ben_Dean 15y ago|3 comments
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
what. the. hell. A+
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Entrepreneurs are not artists.(codefear.tumblr.com)
2 points by Ben_Dean 15y ago|0 comments
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
I agree with revolvingcur-- I was pretty skeptical at first, but I certainly got the value out of this for free (and was mildly entertained, too.). More to the point, just on principle, one could take a _day_ to find out how realistic any o
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
good, now that joke's been made. The API is weak, though. Everyone knows you lead with something interesting, and go to the name only after an actual conversation. UNLESS you're using friend-based authentication, where a third party initiat
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
Because robots have been the next revolution for at least 50 years.
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by Ben_Dean 15y ago
I think this corner of the flame war is pretty uninteresting. Balance is everything. Have a good idea and do it well. Or just get lucky.
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
Write interesting job posts. You may be able to tap into the small but motivated and smart pool of people with non-traditional backgrounds. Evaluating them means being clear with yourself about what makes one a suitable candidate. Extracurr
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
There was a study in a CS dept. somewhere that had a pretty convincing test. I can't remember where I saw it or the school, so I'll just try to recount it. The test was given to students before the first bit of instruction in computer scien
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Phone = Credit Card(curiositycounts.com)
1 points by Ben_Dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
Someone get this cat a dictionary so he can look up "decimate", a better word for what happened than removing "a handful" of staff.
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
hahahahaahahaha.
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
No. Would you hire someone who made basic arithmetic mistakes?
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
but they do have more satisfying sex lives.
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COICA and IP law(codefear.tumblr.com)
2 points by Ben_Dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
I'm good at photoshop for sure, but I wouldn't suggest it for mockups, either. It's not what the tool is designed for, and it's not what the majority of the userbase is doing with it. That said, if you want to edit photos, or do pixel-based
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
haha. double home is funny.
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
puck ferl
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by Ben_Dean 16y ago
its
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Ken Thompson's Trojan Horse(cm.bell-labs.com)
3 points by Ben_Dean 16y ago|0 comments

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