sycr

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by sycr 14y ago
Thankfully Git is a decentralized platform so it needn't actually interrupt anyone's workflow. Unless, of course, they're not using Git properly. Also it looks like they're back.
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by sycr 14y ago
Rob, I think that if you re-read knowtheory's comment you may find that your reply does not address its substance - and that, in fact, you are in broad agreement. Knowtheory cited the case of male nursing precisely because it's a dissimilar
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by sycr 14y ago
You'd be surprised how many vendors and merchants simply do not care. I was employed with an e-commerce vendor that indefinitely stored CVV2 in plaintext (among other numbers).
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by sycr 14y ago
Why? Everyone who upvoted this is an employee of that company.
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by sycr 14y ago
I'll give you sistas. But ladies? Really? Why?
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by sycr 14y ago
How's that working out for Best Buy?
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by sycr 14y ago
Only one minor point from me: the Dan Shapiro quote is a bit off. > To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity. From the figures I've seen, the handicap is in the 25-30 percent range based on the percentage of women in the
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by sycr 14y ago
This needs to be more than just updates from friends. Facebook does that well enough. Simply organizing a certain type of update into a stream isn't a sufficient reason for people to use the app unless everyone else already is. Here's wha
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by sycr 14y ago
I think that you might be discounting the value of Kickstarter's execution - or rather, a hypothetical Joss Whedon would be discounting the value of their execution. In the same way that Twitter is "just a database of SMS messages", Kicksta
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by sycr 14y ago
> You'll cut off the lifeblood of a community whose participants are moving very quickly past the phase where they're excited to be involved in such a community—people get successful, busy, jaded, etc. I was about to respond to this wit
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by sycr 14y ago
And with that, I'm getting back to work. I enjoy writing with Ruby, and Rails has made web development a joy for me. Beyond that, I don't find these kinds of things interesting in the least. I'd wager that most of its user base (Ruby that i
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by sycr 14y ago
Yes, I did :). As mentioned below, it's not a comparable product. Custom Search is site-specific. It's an API for the "search this page using Google" forms you sometimes see on blogs and the like. It's not an API for "capital S" Google Sear
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by sycr 14y ago
Google doesn't have a search API (it was long ago deprecated https://developers.google.com/web-search/ ). So the API itself is the advantage over Google in this case.
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by sycr 14y ago
I'd be curious to know the kinds of industries female founders in NYC gravitate towards - or if there isn't a clear cluster at all, and it's a fairly even distribution. If it's the latter, what does New York have that other cities don't?
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by sycr 14y ago
As has been pointed out, I was referring to Geocoder's rates. I had the same confusion though. The request for donations certainly makes it seem like they are beneficent, but they are themselves selling the data. Not that that's legally or
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by sycr 14y ago
They charge $500 for their data set. An easy way to combat this litigation would be to release the set gratis. Let the information flow.
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by sycr 14y ago
Nothing overly ambitious. A jQuery plugin ( https://github.com/jdjkelly/jQuery-haversine ) and a Chrome extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fljocfllbkbekpoaih... )
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by sycr 14y ago
Superb. As a fellow Torontonian, programmer, and just a guy with a mom, this story warms me up. She sounds badass.
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by sycr 14y ago
This is Hacker News. Learn the etiquette.
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by sycr 14y ago
Fantastic work. Much more in tune with what ought to be the spirit of hacking! Building, growing, and innovating on each others' work. Are you going to separate this interface into its own git repo or fold it into Gum?
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by sycr 14y ago
It was copied in a few hours - not made - the design itself surely took longer than that.
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by sycr 14y ago
It's Rails. You can tell by taking a look at blog.js - there's a reference to https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs
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by sycr 14y ago
To recap, this is the thread that was removed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913
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by sycr 15y ago
Please take care in submitting "roundup" posts such as this - or altering the submission title in the future. It's generally frowned upon to do the whole "{number} Ways to Do {design/dev topic}". As mentioned in the guidelines: > If the
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by sycr 15y ago
How does this have 22 points when the link is down?
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JQuery Haversine Plugin 0.1 Released(robotfuture.net)
1 points by sycr 15y ago|0 comments
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by sycr 15y ago
Similar to Joyride: http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery_joyride_feature_tour_p...
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Backbone.js with WordPress for Music Blogs(robotfuture.net)
1 points by sycr 15y ago|0 comments
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by sycr 15y ago
What kinds of technical skills are you looking for in testers?
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by sycr 15y ago
Anyone in Toronto?

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