smokestack

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by smokestack 10y ago
Equal opportunity, not "equal justice under law". Capitalism favors those who are lucky. It's nothing to do with law. Edit: who wouldn't reject these things if they weren't benefiting from them (vast majority of peo
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by smokestack 10y ago
And accept inequality and luck.
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by smokestack 10y ago
I obviously don't think you haven't learned new technologies in 25+ years. It seemed like the claim to ageism was that the kiddies expect you to know the hot, new technology. Requiring knowledge of new technologies for candidates
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by smokestack 10y ago
Tell me how you've survived in technology without learning new technologies!
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by smokestack 10y ago
I doubt that a lawyer, doctor, or (especially) investor could survive more than a year without constantly investing time in learning about their field.
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by smokestack 10y ago
> think you are a useless dinosaur if you don't know what the new hot thing is about. Welcome to the technology industry.
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by smokestack 10y ago
Almost every ageism post I've read on HN ignores the hundreds of thousands of others jobs that exist outside of [hot SV tech companies] (avg age at FB is 28? no way!), and also don't mention those people who are right of the bell
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by smokestack 12y ago
Also, thank you for caring about making a great product rather than caring about making money. There seem to be fewer of you around these days. ;)
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by smokestack 12y ago
Looks great. The majority of the classes I plan to take are on MIT OCW. Are there plans to add it?
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by smokestack 12y ago
Single founders have a very high bus factor, and for any other reason that you decide not to continue supporting the product, there's some insurance for people who invest a lot of time and data in the product as early adopters if the s
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by smokestack 12y ago
I've been playing around with this concept for a couple of years (never having executed) and was expecting to be disappointed but this is very thoughtfully executed. I only wish this was open source :)
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by smokestack 13y ago
I think that's understood
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by smokestack 13y ago
This is complete nonsense.
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Timelapse satellite photography(world.time.com)
1 points by smokestack 13y ago|0 comments
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by smokestack 13y ago
I couldn't find any details on the qualifications of the person giving feedback.
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by smokestack 13y ago
That's only about $18/hour if you're working full time.
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by smokestack 13y ago
maps.google.com does this exactly with a few extra clicks: Click "Get directions" button, click the "Add Destination" link, fill in A, B, and C then click the "Did you mean a different..."
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by smokestack 13y ago
It's actually .com, not .org
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by smokestack 13y ago
What's awful is that the update reportedly enables JS even if you had previously disabled it, though I doubt this was intentional.
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by smokestack 14y ago
Chrome's malware warning stopped appearing in the last 5 minutes. Looks like it's fixed.
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by smokestack 14y ago
This removes a major bash painpoint for me. Wicked awesome.
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by smokestack 14y ago
This one might work then: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
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by smokestack 14y ago
It looks like a lot of time and effort went into this. Two humble suggestions: 1) Delete this post and resubmit it at a more advantageous time. See http://hnpickup.appspot.com/ 2) Remove a barrier to entry and kill the beta invite.
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by smokestack 14y ago
Yesterday was its 11th anniversary if for no other reason.
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by smokestack 14y ago
Would love paypic if still available - email in profile
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Cutts: If you received a message about unnatural links to your site, don't panic(plus.google.com)
2 points by smokestack 14y ago|0 comments
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by smokestack 14y ago
FC15
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by smokestack 14y ago
This is what worked for us. Credit to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769972#c5
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by smokestack 14y ago
It's the difference between Ctrl-Tab and Cmd-Tab, no?
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Apartment List blog: "In response to today’s false accusations..."(blog.apartmentlist.com)
1 points by smokestack 14y ago|0 comments

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