jdowner

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by jdowner 1y ago
All of the links under "product" seem to be relative to whatever the current page is. That only works on the front page.
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by jdowner 2y ago
It's not for me. I can see the appeal of these shortcuts, but I can see it being a wtf down the road once I've forgotten that I have them in place. Also with something like auto-correct, you have a visual affordance that alerts yo
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by jdowner 2y ago
So I am not alone! There seem so few people who hold this view these days.
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by jdowner 3y ago
I was able to login just now using an email address.
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by jdowner 3y ago
Out of curiosity, I had a look at my account on glassdoor and my name is "Rollo Tomasi". Seems about right :)
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by jdowner 3y ago
Goodreads should consider putting some effort into the platform they have allowed to languish for years.
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by jdowner 3y ago
I was interested in the claim that it is warm-blooded (based on your quote). I went to the article and the link associated with the term 'warm-blooded' leads to an article that makes absolutely no mention of warm-bloodedness or th
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by jdowner 3y ago
Sounds like something Epicurus would say.
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by jdowner 4y ago
I agree but I think there is concern about the perceived value that those creative skills will have.
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by jdowner 4y ago
In your situation, my concerns would relate to evaluating your (1) ability to write professional software and (2) what are the gaps in your knowledge. To address these concerns, consider contributing to an open source project. Many of the h
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by jdowner 4y ago
So, 'write once, run everywhere'... I think we've been here before.
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by jdowner 4y ago
House of Design | Software Engineer | REMOTE or Nampa, ID | Full-time The House of Design creates innovative solutions for construction automation, and our software plays a critical role in achieving that. The Applications team is responsib
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Ask HN: Ideal job description for software engineers?
2 points by jdowner 4y ago|1 comments
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by jdowner 4y ago
House of Design | Linux Software Engineer | REMOTE (within US) | Full Time House of Design create automation systems for truss creation in the housing industry. I'm currently looking to bring on someone to own the definition and mainte
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by jdowner 4y ago
Parsimonious is quite nice.
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by jdowner 4y ago
I like it. I thought it was pretty calm and reasonable. Maybe some things could be worded a little better, but I'm not sure why there are so many strong, negative reactions about it.
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by jdowner 4y ago
Is that a clang based shell? ;p
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by jdowner 5y ago
"You want to work at a company on a strong growth trajectory for lots of reasons, but a big one is your own growth potential. You will learn the most the fastest at places that are growing fast, and have way more openings for promotion
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by jdowner 5y ago
Yeah, I doubt it's ever going to catch on.
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by jdowner 5y ago
Being able to better communicate with one another is obviously a good thing. The point is that the language being used isn't facilitating that and that is why the autistic community has pushed back on it. So it seems to me, that it is
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by jdowner 5y ago
The reason that some autistic people get upset by that usage is that is diminishes how they experience life. It's like saying, 'everyone is a little black'. There is a big differences between having the genes of a black ances
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Ask HN: More effective YouTube recommendations and filtering
1 points by jdowner 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdowner 5y ago
I had a similar hope. Not long into the article, it was apparent that the author was not using the term 'noise' in a particularly well-defined way. For me, 'noise' is unstructured sound. People talking is structured, whi
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by jdowner 5y ago
Weeee! Back around again...
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by jdowner 5y ago
k
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by jdowner 5y ago
My favorite is when you've finished interviewing or whatever and then they ask you to sign an NDA. Haha, no.
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by jdowner 5y ago
I am beyond sick of hearing about 'best practices' for everything. It is such an obnoxious statement! So often it is used as replacement for 'in my opinion' because it brooks no argument -- these are the BEST practices!
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by jdowner 5y ago
Maxwell's kinetic theory of flies?
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by jdowner 5y ago
I can say that this is true for me. I like helping people but I get my motivation from feeling that I have solved a problem well. Maybe it is the nature of the kind of software I tend to write, but I'm not all that interested in whethe
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by jdowner 6y ago
You might find, https://github.com/sharkdp/fd to your liking. It is simple, intuitive, and very fast.

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