Harkins

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by Harkins 8y ago
They also test conscientiousness. But, yeah, having just gone through a round of interviews I think there's a big range of quality at work in these, and passed on some companies because of how irrelevant their prompts were or unstandar
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by Harkins 8y ago
Does anyone know the rationale for creating Nixlang? Guix's use of Scheme proves there isn't a novel feature unavailable elsewhere, so it seems like a lot of wasted effort to implement a language that will likely only ever be used
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by Harkins 8y ago
Spam from gmail's smtp servers. There are a number of spam services oriented towards small business. Their users are required to use their own gmail credentials. MailShake and FunnelBake are two services from my inbox this week, though
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by Harkins 8y ago
I believe only once has someone who invited a problem user been banned. That inviter contributed a feature to disable invitations and was unbanned. But I think the possibility also has a deterring effect that prompts people to exercise care
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by Harkins 8y ago
You may qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) if your bipolar disorder is preventing you from getting and holding a job: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/getting-social-secur...
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by Harkins 8y ago
That has become a common misconception. See https://lobste.rs/about#michaelbolton
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by Harkins 8y ago
We have something along these lines: https://lobste.rs/hats
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by Harkins 8y ago
I'm not aware of one, but the Lobsters codebase with very similar functionality is available if you'd like to start one: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters You can get help in #lobsters on Freenode. If you
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by Harkins 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Chicago, IL | Remote OK 10+ years of experience with Rails development, mostly helping startups launch as a consultant. I've spoken at RailsConf and several other conferences, and written a book on Ruby. I also have sign
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by Harkins 8y ago
Patrick has denied this and described it as an attempt to rip him off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17611071
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by Harkins 8y ago
This was probably ~20 hours over two weeks. (I'm the author of the post.)
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by Harkins 8y ago
(author here) I knew Nix came before NixOS but was interested in both for the possibility of managing servers. I'd have made significantly less progress starting from Nix. I can see how Guile would be an improvement over the Nix langua
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by Harkins 8y ago
The search engine broke, too. Maybe it's it's having a negative term like "javascript -npm" or searching only a single subreddit, but changing "www" to "old" in the url often takes a search from zero
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by Harkins 8y ago
The "PC" made me think he was talking about political discussion, but I added some caching in https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/commit/e99c0783aa386740... and I'm thinking https:/&#x2F
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by Harkins 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking for. If it helps, https://lobste.rs/about has some notes on the community and https://lobste.rs/moderations has the log of moderator actions.
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by Harkins 8y ago
SQL isn't a good match for the recursive structure of comments (and our version of mariadb from LTS Ubuntu doesn't support recursive common table expressions), so the app pulls all comments in ActiveRecord objects and threads&#x2F
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by Harkins 8y ago
Lobsters sysop here - we're having trouble keeping up with YC News's level of traffic. We're not going to crash, but the unicorn worker pool is small enough that lots of users are getting 500s. I'm adding some caching.
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by Harkins 8y ago
You can use the https://Lobste.rs codebase from https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters . Before I became the sysop of Lobsters I used it to start https://barnacl.es and the GitHub wiki has few mor
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by Harkins 8y ago
Sysop here, glad to see folks are getting a kick out of it.
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by Harkins 8y ago
This is blogspam ripping off this site and the link should be changed: http://www.wirepoints.com/illinois-state-pensions-overpromis... The authors of this report are former employees of the Illinois Policy Institute: http:
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by Harkins 9y ago
I tried to evaluate it last month. Their login page does some kind of cross-site cookieing or referering that my privacy settings don't permit. Any time I log in, I get a warning that someone's been trying to brute force my accoun
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by Harkins 9y ago
Because the title is "The iPhone is Dead" instead of something like "Why I Switched to Android".
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by Harkins 9y ago
I also do this, and also start talks asking people not to post photos of me online. Also, I don't believe he's kept his picture off Facebook. Unless he avoids all photographs, one of his friends has posted a photo, and another of
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by Harkins 9y ago
They still have your face from scanning your friends' photos and contacts. Combine datestamp, location, messages, and posts over years and Facebook knows who was together for a photo whether or not you've uploaded any or been tagg
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by Harkins 9y ago
> And the legal basis for such rules [prohibitions on employees sharing salary information with their peers] is at best murky—indeed, a large number of U.S. states now explicitly ban them. And besides that, the National Labor Relations B
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by Harkins 9y ago
I'm not sure about exponential growth in public filings (and EDGAR does not track regulation, so it's not relevant). For example, the number of publicly traded companies is down about 70% compared to twenty years ago: https:&#x2F
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by Harkins 9y ago
There's a trick in this clickbait: > According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American works 8.8 hours every day. Yet a study of nearly 2,000 full-time office workers revealed that most people aren't working for mos
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by Harkins 9y ago
No, that's about complying with Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering laws so they are committing fewer felonies.
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by Harkins 9y ago
First point: "I found a bug but can't give an example." Second point: "It adds a feature that's different from a similar language." These are not persuasive arguments. I'm not trying to be unkind, but the
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by Harkins 9y ago
This example doesn’t fit with the React style I’ve seen before, where state is rarely used. This data isn’t flowing ( https://lobste.rs/s/ptfoib/yes_react_is_taking_over_front_en... ) like I’ve come to expect, but o

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