mhill

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by mhill 16y ago
The 2nd comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799442 ) was downvoted. I saw it after I posted it. It was brought back up by others upto 1 later. Tried as I might I just couldn't understand the rational of the downvotes. I could
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by mhill 16y ago
Looks neat. Can you make it a translucent overlay bar instead of moving the whole page down? Moving the whole page can be annoying visually.
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by mhill 16y ago
I'll show two of my encounters as a limited data point to illustrate that HN is not far from getting to the level of Progit. In one post about shebang (#) being used in Facebook and Twitter, the discussion was about crawling Ajax pages. I
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by mhill 16y ago
You have very good points (I think you meant unprofessional instead of non-professional). Amazing. There are downvotes on your comment. This just shows what kind of community this is.
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by mhill 16y ago
I have seen comments in HN similar to what you have experienced, comments from frequent posters as well. The unpleasant thing is that people expect to be hand-fed their daily dose of intellectual stimulant, and got upset if the dosage is of
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by mhill 16y ago
I actually see quite a bit of the same mentality here. Anything deviated from the main stream of the latest fad will get downvoted. There's little appreciation of diverged opinions or opposite views.
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by mhill 16y ago
Does anyone have suggestion on good practices to make an Ajax page crawler friendly? Since the anchor url (#) are generated on the fly by Javascript, how does the crawler know what anchor urls to follow given the parent page? Are invisible
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by mhill 16y ago
I've never had a chance to use dynamic programming in real life beyond school work. For "challenging" algorithm work in real life, I did topological sort for evaluating dependency graph, bloom filter for skipping lookup, NFA for executing
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by mhill 16y ago
I saw a post in Reddit doing frontpage snapshot yesterday http://redditsnapshot.sweyla.com/ and thought to myself, this is pretty cool; I should make one for HN. Today someone already has done it. Congrat.
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by mhill 16y ago
That would increase the load on the database. Why does that increase the load on the webservers?
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by mhill 16y ago
I thought people on HN are more open to technology discussion. It seems people can't handle their bubble being pierced when presented with facts. It would be more interesting you have facts to refute my statement than downvotes.
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by mhill 16y ago
[Sunglasses On] Sounds like the .Net stack performs much better than the LAMP stack.
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by mhill 16y ago
A corollary: hiring older developers would have a distinct competitive advantage.
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by mhill 16y ago
To support more rows than 70000?
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by mhill 16y ago
Yeah, I thought MORE is an adjective while the other three are names.
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by mhill 16y ago
$500 to $1000 a month for food? The food must be very good.