ottertown

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by ottertown 10y ago
For my family, definitely yes. Though it may just be that non-technical people are going to take longer to understand the gravity of technical problems, and I think that's compounded by most people's latent contempt for software &
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by ottertown 11y ago
Man, I work as a frontend engineer at one of the big tech companies and I understood like 25% of this post. And that's not meant to be a criticism, I'm just reflecting on my total ignorance of most security vulnerabilities. I know
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by ottertown 11y ago
Seriously? I know HackerNews can rock the haterade like no other, but why aim that at developers who took months out of their lives to build a tool for the open source community? And why do so with such unhelpful criticisms? And do you thin
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by ottertown 11y ago
Um, maybe? There's a whole list of unacceptable types of parties for companies to host. Greek may have generated less uproar, but that's not the word they chose.
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by ottertown 11y ago
Lots of comments here focusing solely on the beer pong aspect of frat parties. You guys aren't wrong: there's nothing sexist about beer pong. The use of the word 'frat' really is the difference here. Beer and beer pong a
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by ottertown 11y ago
Can you point me in the right direction? For the life of me I can't find it in the UI.
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by ottertown 11y ago
I really like that you have challenges aimed at frontend developers. Something Hackerrank is sorely missing.
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by ottertown 11y ago
thanks for this. I don't know what I was expecting beyond the jobs board / who is hiring threads. maybe some kind of secret handshake that only ycombinator people know?
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Ask HN: How to get in early (pre series A) with YC companies?
1 points by ottertown 11y ago|2 comments
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by ottertown 12y ago
You don't have to go that far down the Backbone road to get performance that rivals other frameworks is the point. All this comes down to is how do you update the DOM when data changes. React nicely packages up that functionality for y
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by ottertown 12y ago
Ah so that's what was happening. I was trying to post it yesterday with no luck. I wonder why the mods would block this link. I'll admit the article seems more intent on telling a sexy story than commenting broadly on the state of
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by ottertown 12y ago
I pretty much agree with this. They created a D3.js treemap and probably even used a standard Colorbrewer blue color scheme, as seen in this d3 example: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4063582 Was it terribly uncreative fo
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by ottertown 12y ago
The dislike probably is directed mostly at the external recruiters, but a lot of this stuff applies to them as well. I've only had two bad recruiter experiences, one with an internal and one with an external. The former lured me in wit
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by ottertown 12y ago
There seems to be in this thread (and on HN in general) a lack of empathy for the recruiter. Here's my perspective on (internal) recruiters as someone who sits next to them at an office: 1. Recruiters tend to be really nice people. 2.
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by ottertown 12y ago
I grew up watching Jon Stewart and occasionally Colbert. I always thought it was interesting how Jon Stewart would defend against his critics by saying something along the lines of "my show is preceded by puppet prank callers (crank ya
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by ottertown 12y ago
This is an ambitious project but I wonder if there'll be a market for it even if the product is well executed. 1) It seems like you'll need to have some understanding of how web applications work to use the UI, and if that's
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by ottertown 12y ago
was this link not meant for the public? getting a 404 now. mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20140916215429/https://www.gsaadv...
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by ottertown 12y ago
I really like this but I wish the documentation included recommended DOM structure / css styles... it's not as plug and play as the docs suggest
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by ottertown 12y ago
tried using this before (or one similar to it). the reason I still have to use python is for generating different clusters of objects with distinct attributes (e.g. to create a non-normal distribution within objects and attributes). this sy
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by ottertown 12y ago
as a former, disenfranchised education technologist, comments like this: “If this is still an ‘emerging concept,’ why are we implementing it?” are all too familiar. teachers and school administrators are fearful of tech solutions because so