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by jakelear 7y ago
Arcadia Power | Senior Rails Engineer, Front End Engineer | Washington, DC | Full-Time | On-site or Remote Arcadia Power is a fast-growing technology company that is revolutionizing the utility industry. At Arcadia Power, we’re guided by a
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by jakelear 9y ago
The title of the piece is actually "Short Trip" as seenin the title tag and the end of the experience. It seems the HN submitter chose "simulator."
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by jakelear 11y ago
We're on Rails 4 now for the general "Chorus" codebase (but you're right, we include a number of varied apps under the same umbrella when talking about our platform)
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by jakelear 12y ago
Hey Connor, awesome work. You would have saved us a lot of work had you created this a year ago ;)
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by jakelear 14y ago
Disclosure: I live with a benefits broker. I'm interested in your friend's story. At 23, male, in VA I had absolutely no trouble buying an individual policy. I have some health issues, but nothing major, but I was able to secure a decent po
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by jakelear 14y ago
This is a smart move by Facebook. I'm almost surprised to see them acknowledge in the initial announcement that they'll retain the ability for Instagram to interact with other social networks, although I'll be interested to see how thorough
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by jakelear 15y ago
The article does have a quote using 'for.' '”They caught him and he was secretly arrested and now works for the FBI,” a unnamed source said to be close to Sabu told FoxNews.com.' Certainly not a very credible citation, but it shows that the
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by jakelear 15y ago
Drawing a star causes the video to appear.
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by jakelear 15y ago
The Double Fine Kickstarter pitch video does a pretty good job of explaining why it can't fund an Adventure game, primarily because publishers generally won't fund anything that isn't a guaranteed success. The Double Fine kickstarter projec
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by jakelear 15y ago
While it would be nice to have a toggle that enables output of HTML5's new semantic tags, I don't believe that it should be the default. Internet Explorer 6-8 require a JavaScript polyfill to support these tags, which means that for IE user
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by jakelear 15y ago
1 point by jakelear 0 minutes ago | link | parent | edit | delete Andrew, I work for Sapient based out of Arlington. I know that we were recently looking for a web developer with python experience. The position may have been filled, but I w
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by jakelear 15y ago
I can definitely understand how the masses would side with Mojang on this one. Big media corp vs small indie self-made studio, etc. However, not knowing all that much about "Scrolls," I feel like Bethesda (Zenimax) has a good argument here.
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by jakelear 15y ago
The author and the publisher are primary stakeholders in the success of the book, not Jobs.
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by jakelear 15y ago
Tens of thousands of non-programmers. A few minutes spent in the livestream chat feed was enough to drive a sane man to madness. 50% of comments were asking if the stream was minecraft 1.8, the other 50% were rude comments about Notch's mar
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by jakelear 15y ago
An interesting, albeit not that valuable, challenge. It's a fun little question, but it's not even valuable as a black hat exercise. It's just a non-sensical hypothetical.
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by jakelear 15y ago
I totally agree. When recently searching for jobs, I found so much value in being able to investigate the company and the opportunity. However, I can understand the recruiter point of view: Many recruiters who are cold calling from recruiti
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by jakelear 15y ago
I think he says clout, as in influence.
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by jakelear 15y ago
I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Carmack recently (here's the photo proof: http://jacoblear.com/carmack.jpg ) and was able to listen to him talk casually, as opposed to in an interview or speaking event. He doesn't turn his brillia
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by jakelear 15y ago
It's probably safe to say that the most downloaded is also the most cached.