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JS Everywhere- My First Conference Talk(blog.dcxn.com)
1 points by davidamcclain 13y ago|0 comments
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Etsy announces a $50,000 scholarship program for women in technology(thenextweb.com)
2 points by davidamcclain 14y ago|0 comments
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by davidamcclain 15y ago
Quitting your old job seems like a very sane thing to have done. Your position now is unrelated to your position before. By that I mean quitting your job was one event, and what you did afterwards was another. If the current situation isn't
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by davidamcclain 15y ago
I agree that some sort of cushion/runway is very important. But why do you suggest 12 months? Is the idea that you can spend 6-8 months making no money chasing around contracts and then you've got 6-4 months to find a job?
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by davidamcclain 15y ago
I'm sure I saw that a long time ago. It's just a landing page to explain how businesses can use Facebook (i.e. with ads or pages etc), right?
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by davidamcclain 15y ago
> surely a harder working software engineer will make more money than a lazy one "Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it" Walter Chrysler I always thought that it wa
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by davidamcclain 15y ago
As a colleague said "Wow, you can type really fast... for someone who only uses two fingers". Now he's exaggerating a bit, but I am a slow typer that predominately uses index, middle and thumb. Now, I get stuff done, I'm a pretty smart code
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5 Reasons to Leave The Corporate World and Join a Startup(feefighters.com)
6 points by davidamcclain 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidamcclain 15y ago
It's a shame they're just static images, the sound effects that go along with the GUIs are the thing I get the biggest kick out of!
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by davidamcclain 15y ago
I tried two quick examples in the browser for a little test. Thinking in terms on banal clipart I use the tag "happy" and I get back a very nicely shot photo of two attractive people making out in a doorway. Hmmm. Then I try "friends" think
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San Diego Hackathon(hackathonsd.com)
1 points by davidamcclain 16y ago|0 comments
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
I don't understand any of that (finance n00b). Can you let me in on the joke?
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
Typo in link. Should be: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/add-nosql-capabili...
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Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users(thinkvitamin.com)
1 points by davidamcclain 16y ago|0 comments
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
If Einstein were around today, I wonder if he'd be working on Wall Street?
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
+1 I'm a self taught designer/developer, not a genius but pretty competent with some useful skills. No CS or Art/Design degree so a lot of companies (start-ups included) will dismiss me out of hand rather than for my own merits and failings
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
Something about 4chan /b/ inventing memes that then end up on tumblr unattributed. (I don't know that any particular memes were named in this allegation.)
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
Since the article doesn't say, anyone care to hazard a guess at some of the apps he may or may not be using?
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
Is there any chance that there's bit of a chicken/egg scenario going on here? Maybe we won't see many coupons for LBS until they have a large enough slice of the retailer's demographic (or just a large enough % of the population) and few pe
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
Is making a site or a business around other people's data (YouTube's, Vimeo's etc) a bit risky in the sense that if YouTube changed their policy or terms, or just got arsey, and blocked your access you might be left high and dry? If I were
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
>> "It is OK if a query is slow as long as it is always slow" I'm having trouble understanding the motivation. If a slow query is always slow, then I'm always going to be kept waiting for that page/data. It seems logical to worry ab
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
I don't know how many more of these kinds of posts I have to read before I get my act together. One more at least.
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The Undesigned Web(theatlantic.com)
2 points by davidamcclain 16y ago|0 comments
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
From the site: "Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain." I got 12 right
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
>> My kids are 16 and 11, they're both smarter and more capable than all the rest of humanity combined Beautifully said. I envy you your parenthood!
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
This raises an interesting point. I've often expressed that same sentiment without examining the underlying emotion or motivation for it: I'm sad that you got something done that you wanted to do and I'm stuck here seeing other people coo o
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
Wow, that opened my eyes! That use case didn't occur to me. I might have to add that to my box of treats, especially since I have apps on Heroku too. (Love you really, Heroku).
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
Interesting. Care to share what you're doing/what the heck that means?
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
In my limited experience of reading smashingmagazine.com articles they quite often lack any meaningful depth, are often link bait, often lists of limited value (612 got Wordpress themes that use the colour blue...) and worst of all is that
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by davidamcclain 16y ago
I was going to take a look at this article until I saw it was on smashingmagazine.com.

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