dpres

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Ask HN: Can we persist hide YC job postings from the same company?
65 points by dpres 7y ago|52 comments
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by dpres 14y ago
Just counted... I wrote 169,020 lines of code in 9,691.25 hrs over 4 yrs from 2007-11 for a part-time job while going to school. That's 17.44 lines per hour or 0.29 lines per minute, not including code written for school or leisure!
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Zombies RUN (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps)(lostechies.com)
1 points by dpres 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpres 14y ago
When I saw "If this then that" I instantly knew what IFTTT was. However, when showing it to people I noticed they "got it" after seeing the recipe "If the forecast calls for rain tomorrow, send me an SMS message." BTW, really really cool!
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by dpres 14y ago
Hmm... I have 31 purchases from newegg and returned 25 of those purchases with 0 problems. That's 80% return rate with 100% satisfaction. I'm glad we hold companies accountable as consumers, but why do we focus on one employee's action with
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by dpres 14y ago
> I bet this is the last Mac Pro. If you wanted to kill a product line, an “update” like today’s would be a good way to clear out parts and keep selling to a few desperate buyers for a bit longer without any real investment. Apple's pro
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Clinton and Operation AdWords: The Hack That Wasn’t(wired.com)
14 points by dpres 14y ago|3 comments
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by dpres 14y ago
How is Google Drive different from the way Google Docs is meant to be used? Seems like Google Drive is Google Docs with a new name and an intro video.
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by dpres 14y ago
With Chrome you should block all plugins, not just Java. You will still be able to watch a YouTube video by 'right' clicking the plugin's element and choosing 'Run This Plug-in'. Steps: Settings | Under the Hood | Content Settings... | Plug
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by dpres 14y ago
Looks the same to me... maybe it hasn't rolled out to everyone yet? What exactly has changed?
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by dpres 14y ago
jimmyjazz14, I too worked for a large Fortune 200 company until moving to SV and working for a successful startup. "working at a large company has meant I get to focus solely on the thing I care most about, programming" There is a differenc
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by dpres 14y ago
The best part of the video in my opinion http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e...
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by dpres 15y ago
Right on! This should be titled "How not to sell software that costs under $1000 in 2012" because the do/don'ts obviously are wrong for non-cheap software.
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by dpres 15y ago
Can't speak for anyone else, but I always run my browsers with Flash disabled or uninstalled so Flash cookies make no difference to me.
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by dpres 15y ago
Tons of businesses cash checks without a bank account. Another concern is kiosk hacking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSu8z3vrfcY
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by dpres 15y ago
This is a duplicate post. Next time post this as a comment on the original. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537323 .
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by dpres 15y ago
Here is a duplicate post that points to the slashdot story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537862
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by dpres 15y ago
List of Anonymity Networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anonymity_networks My Top 3: 1. .i2p Eepsites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P 2. .onion sites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Hidden_... 3. Fr
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by dpres 15y ago
Here are some of my friend's salaries. 1-4 graduated from the same school as me in TX in the same year, not sure where 5 went to school: (1) $120k/yr - tester - Seattle area - large company - interned 1 yr at same large company as tester. (
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by dpres 15y ago
$600-$1200+/mo for 1 room with room mates in SV $1200-$1900+/mo for 1 bedroom apt in SV $1900-$4000+/mo for a house with 2+ rooms in SV ... from my recent housing searches on CL
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by dpres 15y ago
I'm using this version: http://bayimg.com/CalNEAaDP
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by dpres 15y ago
good news! this reminds me of "Love and Other Drugs" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758752/
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by dpres 15y ago
I was just using Gearman::Client and Gearman::Worker today... it's still used by at least me.
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by dpres 15y ago
Relevant video from article comments: Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiicN0Kg10
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by dpres 15y ago
I read this as, Money is speech because the fact that the government is forcing me to pay taxes is a violation of the first amendment. Money is speech because the government telling me not to give money to terrorists is a violation of the f
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by dpres 15y ago
8. drink caffeine
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by dpres 15y ago
Been there done the Knockout.js thing... try Backbone.js instead: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ Not knocking Knockout.js ;) it's great for really small apps.
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by dpres 15y ago
Sounds like your saying, "Don't use OAuth because it's bloated, create your own API auth protocol and make everyone use that non-standard protocol for my API". That forces developers to implement "custom" protocols per API that may actually
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by dpres 15y ago
Thats why OAuth2.0 protocol is limited to HTTPS and is said to never be implemented over HTTP.
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by dpres 15y ago
Instructions for disabling Flash plugin... in Chrome browser: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... in Mozilla Firefox: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Macromedia_flash#Enabling_and_disa... Really no reason to have i

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