ZackOfAllTrades

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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
I've kept a diary of sorts most of this year. Every night before I go to bed I try to fill a notebook page with all my thoughts from the day. Think about what I want to do tomorrow. What I ended up doing by mistake which I really like is th
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
I took a look into Hacker News hotness algorithm a month or two ago, and it is way more complicated than just points and time. Youtube videos probably don't rank that high compared to other websites. People could be colluding, but I think i
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Normally I lurk and don't vote. But this is worth people's time to watch.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
You are totally right. For somebody like me who did learn from W3 initially though, those first class functions are conceptually and in practice "inline" functions. If you are talking to somebody who knows the difference between inline fun
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
A rambling side note: If you come from a javascript background, you will have a leg up on most people in terms of learning clojure. You get used to inlining functions pretty regularly. What I am encountering as I chew through Programming Cl
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Node-API: Alternative Node Documentation(node-api.com)
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
I am a student and I worked with publishers last semester for a while to get interactive electronic textbooks published. I got to view things on the inside and what I've concluded is that the publishers don't actually care about students. T
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Well, what's your goal? Why do you comment on Hacker News so much? Do you do it to give back to other hackers? Is it to promote yourself? Do you do it just because you enjoy it? People might not know what they really need, so any advice
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Oh also use scriptsrc and jQuery UI some. Saves time and headaches.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
My path so far with javascript (with examples!): Desire to make neat web pages. Learn enough jQuery so that you can make something move and change colors with maybe two lines of javascript instead of 20. Keep trying to one up yourself in wh
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Neat! Good answers. How do you make money though? Who is paying for what?
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Devil's advocate: Reddit is getting better at the trolling with confirmations from moderators. Reddit AMA gets a surprising amount of important people to pass their way. And technically reddit is in the YC network (though the founders ha
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
I am guessing anyasq is a YC company that just launched? Rationale: Harjeet doing an interview at a relatively unknown company/project. Also, how does anyasq beat reddit ama?
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Yeah, it seems like it would be considered bad taste if you kept working on the project but no longer open sourced the results.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Stark contrast to startup accelerators/incubators: Everything must be triple-y open sourced. Profiting from the idea is fine but not required (or even heavily encouraged). No equity involved. Emphasis on technical mentorship from Mozilla
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
http://www.wdyl.com/#lolcats reveals that there is a patent with the word lolcats in it ( http://www.google.com/patents?q=lolcats ) But besides that and "Scour the earth for lolcats", this isn't really doing much for me. Nice try google i
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Keywiz made me realize I know absolutely nothing about emacs.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
That is how emacs has felt to me. There was a large amount of upfront learning, more than there probably should be for this example to make perfect sense, but after a few months with it I am able to do the basics pretty well. Every time I w
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
That looks terribly depressing to me. Just saying.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
What about Socket.io? Heroku points to this announcement and it looks like the sort of thing that could function similar to Websockets. (I just started with Node so please forgive any glaring ignorance I display.)
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Thought: my linear algebra teach this past semester told me that some of the greatest mistakes in mathematics came from people assuming something was obvious without a proof. After building a huge intricate structure around the assumption,
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Feature that would be useful: When tumblr goes down, redirect to the backup pages automatically. Sort of like a just in case for tumblr. Would be worth the money for most businesses, and would require very little investment in terms of host
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
That sounds like an excellent problem to have.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
1. I have no idea what this website does, but it sounds like it is web based security checking. 2. The web site is down. Potential Delicious Irony: Somebody took down ThreatSim with ThreatSim.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Disclaimer:I am not on your level nor was I in the past. I am a 20 year old student who hasn't really accomplished much compared to what you have done. You sound like you are rocketing towards being established as a prodigy of sorts. Way to
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
If there are only a few options for a variable, could you have them be expressed as part of the object returned by http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items?pretty_print=... Example: Type. Although it is a string, it isn't really a
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Interesting. I wonder how you go about setting up an rss feed.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Neat! What makes it awesome though? How do you go from the quality to the quantity so to speak? Is it some function of the number of comments and points?
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Could you explain further? This sounds interesting.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Does this work? http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

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