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by rianjs 10y ago
> I'd do some research into the wide variety of software that hospitals and health care facilities use and then look into the channels they are purchased through I've done a little of this, and it's surprisingly difficult.
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Ask HN: Organizations keep trying to give me money for a thing I made
7 points by rianjs 10y ago|2 comments
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by rianjs 10y ago
MoneyGuidePro for individuals, instead of just financial advisors.
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by rianjs 10y ago
The Ars Technica forums are generally quite good. The non-tech forums require being a subscriber, though.
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by rianjs 10y ago
HttpResponseMessages also implement IDisposable, and should be disposed. HttpContent also implements IDisposable, but disposing of the parent HttpResponseMessage also disposes of the child HttpContent object as step 1, so you needn't h
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by rianjs 10y ago
More likely their internship program was full already.
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by rianjs 10y ago
So they told you, an external candidate, that they're firing someone, and that you would take their position? That's a pretty big red flag with respect to organizational behavior. It seems incredibly unprofessional.
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by rianjs 10y ago
With significantly better performance: Old dday.ical test suite: ~17 seconds Latest ical.net nuget package: 3.5 seconds
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Dday.ical is now ical.net and available under the MIT license(rianjs.net)
3 points by rianjs 10y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Took over an abandoned library. How do I get people to use the new pkg?
7 points by rianjs 10y ago|4 comments
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by rianjs 12y ago
- Ability to specify WHERE to cache files. This matters, because I have drives for data on my workstations, and partitions for data that're reachable in an OS-agnostic way on my laptop. I doubt I'm the only one who wants to cache
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by rianjs 12y ago
I can confidently say a few things about working at a big company: - I have created whole products from scratch by myself with my tech lead doing code reviews - I have worked on "legacy" code as well I find both satisfying for dif
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by rianjs 12y ago
> we are talking about those people who are willing to trade off security for a chance of building something great I object to your phrasing (though not your thesis), because it's the type of phrasing used for other forms of hero wo
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by rianjs 12y ago
> Some people might do better (even financially) staying at more stable companies. I would venture to say that MOST people will do better financially if they stay at a large, established company. A new grad might think their 0.05% equity
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by rianjs 12y ago
An object can be a value object, and it can be immutable. Or not. (Though I can't think of a reason a value object should ever be mutable once it's created; it would be a very pungent code smell.) These are orthogonal ideas; not c
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by rianjs 12y ago
For what it's worth, this is the first three chapters, not the full e-book. It's in the fine print.
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by rianjs 15y ago
I don't see the connection between college graduation and terrible web design. Could you spell it out for me...?
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by rianjs 15y ago
I have no comment on whether Europe needs to be more like Silicon Valley, but my gut feeling is that it doesn't. That being said, Europe isn't nearly as friendly to failure as the US is. Bankruptcy laws in the EU are waaaaaay more onerous t
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by rianjs 15y ago
I find it amazing that letter.ly finds it amazing that a physical war might disrupt their normal service(s).
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by rianjs 16y ago
Engadget has a video of the actual contest, and an interview with the IBM guys: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer...
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by rianjs 16y ago
What fantasy land do you live in, and can I join you? Yes, if you're networking your way to a job (the best way to do it), you might be able to do this. I've done it several times successfully, but it is NOT the norm for outside applicants.
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by rianjs 16y ago
HR is looking for reasons to disqualify you from consideration. Why give them any more reason to do so? It's silly.
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by rianjs 16y ago
Any extra steps you make the HR person jump through--HR filters resumes before they reach a hiring manager--is a strike against you. If there are 50-100 applicants for the position you're applying for, they won't even look at you, because t
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by rianjs 16y ago
Just FYI, here's another HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109
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by rianjs 16y ago
Congratulations, you've re-discovered blogging. ;P In all seriousness, though, writing does help. The productivity block you're talking about was the reason I started blogging way back in the day. I don't write much personal stuff anymore b
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by rianjs 16y ago
This happened to me when I went to Europe in 2005. I called AT&T and inquired about and then added their international thing (I think it was $10/mo at that time), and no one told me that calls would be billed at exorbitant rates. I forg
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by rianjs 16y ago
Many people are finished--or at least a good way through--Christmas shopping. Thanksgiving time would probably have been better; hopefully these folks will be able to return some of the gifts they've purchased, if that's something they need
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by rianjs 16y ago
Er, that post is from 2005. CDBaby has been sending emails like that since at least 2003. Maybe they still do. That said, I think CDBaby was probably one of the first companies to engage in conversational marketing, which includes emails th
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by rianjs 16y ago
Looks a lot like the Editor's Choice iPad app adapted for a browser. Very nice and clean. That said, I'm not sure how sustainable it is, unless they're planning on turning it into a paid thing. Any significant number of users is going to pu
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by rianjs 16y ago
I disagree. It might be a reason to look for employment elsewhere, but jumping ship right off the bat would be pretty unwise, especially if you have responsibilities to think about (family, bills, eating, that kind of thing).

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