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by random_guy 16y ago
The idea is interesting indeed - and easily doable as well: Entry.all gives you all the links on the front page, you'd just have fetch the main page between regular intervals of time (say, once every hour) and then save the entry informatio
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by random_guy 16y ago
Clickable url : http://github.com/bolthar/ruby-hackernews
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Ask HN: I made a ruby library to access HN...suggestions/impressions?
1 points by random_guy 16y ago|1 comments
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I made a ruby library for accessing hacker news - check it out!(github.com)
10 points by random_guy 16y ago|3 comments
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by random_guy 16y ago
This is really sexist, and the very fact that she can get away with it (and even get lots of praise) should make us all reflect on how fucked up social conventions and politically correctness are. I've written about the topic here ->
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by random_guy 16y ago
Web MS Access?
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by random_guy 16y ago
I wonder why Microsoft insist on using this kind of language when talking to programmers: they're just asking for the hate of the hacker community. Couldn't they at least try to fake competence? Sentences like: Today, “M” is not yet a sh
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by random_guy 16y ago
Thank you for this comment. Now, instead of wasting our time considering the article, in which the founder of the SANS Institute is lobbying the government to set up semi-official capture-the-flag contests (which he'll presumably get paid
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by random_guy 16y ago
I couldn't care less about changing what hacker means to the general public. I'd just like to be able to recognize if a topic is about either hacking or security at first glance.
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by random_guy 16y ago
Changing them often causes confusion (editorialising) if I misplace emphasis You're right. Besides I'm pretty sure most here know the distinction b/w "hackers" & "crackers". I think that's not the problem: what annoys me is that, as
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by random_guy 16y ago
Please, clueless journalists, stop using "hacker" as a synonym for "cracker". And also: when posting an article on HN which title contains the word "hacker" it would be nice if you put quotes around it if it's not intended as it should, lik
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by random_guy 16y ago
This is so full of corporate bullcrap that it makes me shudder... Game mechanics in crappy apps -> ???? -> PROFIT!
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by random_guy 16y ago
I've collected and studied data from rubygems a while ago and I came to the exact same conclusion. (you can find the post here -> http://usingimho.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/men-and-women-on-r... ) While at the time I wasn't so sure abo
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It's OK not to write unit tests - of course it is(usingimho.wordpress.com)
2 points by random_guy 16y ago|0 comments
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Unit testing and API desing(usingimho.wordpress.com)
2 points by random_guy 16y ago|0 comments
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by random_guy 16y ago
I'd like to be able to believe that once again. It's really as you said, social skills and no more: it's just about trial and error - knowing a lot of different situations and mindsets and learning how to 'work' with them. I don't really kn
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by random_guy 16y ago
I know I repeat myself but the thing that scares me to death is that this is not about j.random college slut or the housewife looking for adventure. Or about any specific group of belonging.
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by random_guy 16y ago
I have absolutely no idea how it works.
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by random_guy 16y ago
I'm not talking about pick up artists: they explicitly target those kind of girls, and they've developed techniques tailored for that. I don't even know about that stuff, honestly, all I know comes from The Game . I understand your disbeli
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by random_guy 16y ago
(Mind that this is my experience only, so I don't pretend to be right: don't get me wrong on this one) I've been travelling quite a lot and I've been hitting on pretty much any kind of woman and the scary thing is the consistency of the r
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by random_guy 16y ago
The issue lays in what exactly are the 'idealised versions' that women actually like.
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by random_guy 16y ago
I started with 'The Game' from Neil Strauss, that gave me the idea. From then it was all downhill, you just have to go out and try. I never used canned openings and that kind of stuff, i also never read any kind of specific 'technical' mate
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by random_guy 16y ago
I have to say, i lost that too.
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by random_guy 16y ago
Nope. This terrible things work because they leverage some very powerful mechanism that is deeply and unavoidably bound into women's brain. It's not just _statistically_ valid, it's _theoretically_ valid. If you try it ten times and works o
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by random_guy 16y ago
It's all true. The effectiveness of the approach is amazing, I lost every single bit of respect in the female gender in the process of trying it out myself. Now I'm searching for someone on which this stuff doesn't work. I'm afraid i'll end
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Distribution of men and women on rubygems(usingimho.wordpress.com)
1 points by random_guy 16y ago|0 comments
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by random_guy 17y ago
Agreed. But: I don’t really know exactly what these guys are looking for, still I’m pretty sure (because of the ads) they’re having an hard time finding it. I won’t say programming as a profession is special, because it’s not, but from my e
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Programmers are a commodity... right?(usingimho.wordpress.com)
31 points by random_guy 17y ago|20 comments
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This is my keyboard...(usingimho.wordpress.com)
2 points by random_guy 17y ago|0 comments
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XKCD blows up SkiFree's webpage
1 points by random_guy 17y ago|0 comments

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