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by hackoder 17y ago
I lost a job in the manner he described - told them I was looking elsewhere, but I'd be more than happy to train my replacement. I did it without first finding work and I thought I was doing them a favor by letting them know as soon as I wa
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by hackoder 17y ago
I dont think there's an issue with controlling the quality and security of the content at a marketplace. Its an issue that its the _only_ marketplace that they're controlling.
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by hackoder 17y ago
I always thought that fail fast meant the following: # From there build the MVP (minimum viable product). I believe in launching with a small set of features and learning from the market before you spend too much money building out a featu
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by hackoder 17y ago
I guess a good compromise would be to not block the ads but hide them after loading (I think thats how the AdBlock extension for chrome works)? I agree that educating users is a good plan here. Users should have adblockers active because ad
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by hackoder 17y ago
I think you missed the sarcasm there...
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by hackoder 17y ago
While firebug is clearly superior, web inspector is much more stable. It ends up being a combination of both (or one of the older, less-featured, more-stable versions of firebug).
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by hackoder 17y ago
Very nice, I like it. I agree with the others that you could improve the first impression- Have a nice big tagline that captures what you do in one sentence. I can see this as being very useful in lots of domains (think disaster recovery et
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by hackoder 17y ago
Beautiful to look at. For anyone who uses this in an app, my guess is that it makes debugging (in firebug etc) kinda annoying? I mean, even though it maps directly to JavaScript, the mental context switch between what you see in firebug and
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by hackoder 17y ago
Nitpick - Jihad does not translate (in its original arabic) to "holy war". It translates to "struggle".
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by hackoder 17y ago
To keep the entertainment going, lets all do our part and promote the article's link up in google's search results for 'facebook' and 'facebook login' :)
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by hackoder 17y ago
blocks and lambdas in Ruby?
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by hackoder 17y ago
Quick comment - is there any benefit in using flash for the start trial now button?
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by hackoder 17y ago
I haven't tried out their product yet, but it seems like that would be one of the first things they would've thought of. Probably a way to do transactions offline and upload when there is a connection.
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by hackoder 17y ago
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/ipad/2010/tours/apple-ipad-...
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by hackoder 17y ago
There's something called Smart Alarm Clock for Android (if you have a supported phone). I tried it as a way to judge if the idea had any merit, and it worked really well. Obviously it doesn't help with sleeping, just waking you up. But for
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by hackoder 17y ago
I dont think its about the $5 a month. If you read a lot of posters, WakeMate simply got the whole announcement wrong. It ended up being very ambiguous (no exact date, free service for EACH month that it's delayed, what are the new features
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by hackoder 17y ago
Same here. What's with the 'fill out the form to stay on our list' bit? Did I not already pay you money to stay on your pre-order list?
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by hackoder 17y ago
I think the point he is trying to make is that we have 'n' reasons why we are better than nation X and we are very proud of those reasons. But despite those n reasons, we aren't prioritizing life, while the countries that we put down consta
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by hackoder 17y ago
Its not all that ridiculous. A company that I used to work for did this. And while anecdote != data, I've seen it happen often enough to realize that a lot of devs just dont care about security.
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by hackoder 17y ago
It depends on what brings you inner satisfaction. Is it the "stupid" idea (I personally wouldn't use the word stupid) that brings you $$$ or the smart idea that keeps you up all night trying to figure out a solution?
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by hackoder 17y ago
Is more transparency always better? If every moment of your day was videotaped and catalogued for everyone to see, yes, it might be good (people might be able to point stuff out that you could improve upon), but would you really want that d
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by hackoder 17y ago
Its not just you, and its not about getting older. Its about being tired of watching a tread (the "social" web) beaten to its death. Its not a "great, controversial" idea, its just silly.
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by hackoder 17y ago
I don't think its about working from home vs working in an office. It should be about 'do what works and results in the highest individual and business productivity'. At the very least, if one of your very good devs wants to work from home,
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by hackoder 17y ago
You know something's not right when people say stuff like how it's normal to not be completely satisfied at work, to hate monday mornings and so on. Feels like we're being told this just so we can shut up and keep working like zombies. And
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by hackoder 17y ago
I (OP) agree with a lot of what you've said. I have done a lot of work in javascript, and my reason for html/js generation wasn't because I believe that everything should be lisp. I enjoy writing html, js and css from scratch. The reason I
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Ask HN: Common Lisp vs Clojure for web apps?
37 points by hackoder 17y ago|42 comments
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by hackoder 17y ago
The biggest problem with this is that your own web site/app depends on some other web site being up. Or am I reading this wrong?
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by hackoder 17y ago
Good stuff. Agree with what has been said about it looking like a domain parking page. Thoughts: - The simple look is very useful. List of books, search, categories. Well done. - The feedback "tab"(?) at the side. Why not move it to the bot
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by hackoder 17y ago
FYI, the site loads with a rails error for me. Not sure if you guys are aware of this.
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by hackoder 17y ago
Further to what vicaya said, when you are building a huge system like Cloudera, you should invest extra time/$$$ and write your own library. Crockford wasn't joking when he called javascript the most misunderstood language. A lot of librari

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