tomx

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by tomx 12y ago
This doesn't seem like a good use of your time. I suggest installing an advert blocking program, then finding a more ambitious way to put a dent in the universe.
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by tomx 14y ago
Is "I don’t read resumes", "I don’t care about your resume", very common? It seems a bit cold hearted and unfriendly. It says to me "I don't care enough to read a bit about you, and your achievements". But that's just me.
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Ask HN: Software for exploring billion row sized datasets
8 points by tomx 14y ago|5 comments
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by tomx 14y ago
Are there any other countries where the education systems often reach this level of legal activity/deliberation/antagonism? Or do they just quietly get on with teaching students?
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by tomx 14y ago
What would the ideal policy be? My ideas are: - Students own their own work; even if they don't really care for it. I don't see any value in a 10 year pile of homework, but if you create a great piece of art, you should be able to take it h
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by tomx 14y ago
"This thinking is backwards. If you care about the reliability, security, and the protection of your data, then you should entrust it to those who are most capable of managing it. If you believe you can match the capabilities and rigor of G
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by tomx 14y ago
I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_week and don't see the point of this. It just seems like stressing people out due to poor coordination and time management.
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by tomx 14y ago
Does Stripe ask for any more information than that available on the card? Normally I'm asked for at least a Post Code, which I assume is part of reducing fraud, through making it a bit more difficult to use a stolen card.
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by tomx 14y ago
I always feel articles such of these should be prefixed with "within my humble experience and within my application area". "Comments are generally only needed when you failed to be clear enough in naming. Treat them as a code smell." ...but
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by tomx 14y ago
Would you use a doctor who had not been to college? As you hopefully would not, therefore your argument has a flaw in it, you might like to enumerate the list of professions or activities you believe do not require college level education.
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by tomx 14y ago
Any thoughts on whether this is: * a long term program to mint more developers (and drive down salaries) * to mint more developers to create more websites to display advertising on faster * ??? or * a genuine good will program * ??? ?
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by tomx 14y ago
- People may feel there is no content they wish to broadcast about themselves to the world. I don't have a desire to promote myself constantly, I'll just continue being quiet. Not everyone feels the need to tell the world their thoughts con
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Ask HN: Percentages of developers who blog, release code online?
4 points by tomx 14y ago|2 comments
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by tomx 14y ago
what is "SSO" in this context?
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by tomx 14y ago
Is "hoster" a valid word? I do not see it listed in dictionary.com. If you hosted a party, would you be a "party host" or a "party hoster"?
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by tomx 14y ago
How big is this problem? A number or percentage of programmers would help to quantify things. Are all these blog posts about 10 programmers, 10% of programmers?...
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by tomx 15y ago
As a UKer, it strikes me the US system of health insurance is just inefficient, even if only from a time management perspective. Do 300M people really have to negotiate their own insurance, and research carefully all the terms and condition
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Ask HN: Company 'monoculture'?
3 points by tomx 15y ago|1 comments
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by tomx 15y ago
The best hosting experiences I've had are with Linode, AWS and Rackspace. Linode for their brilliant custom control panel - a key differentiator between them and those running stock control panels. Rackspace for the support - if I need to s
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by tomx 15y ago
Is there an opportunity for a data driven approach to politics? I would be interested in a service that segmented people into large groups based on their political ideas. A cross between a semi-anonymous Facebook, groups and politics, none
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by tomx 15y ago
Even better, after you consider paying tax on the original amount.
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Ask HN: Long term effect of British children being taught programming?
6 points by tomx 15y ago|3 comments
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by tomx 15y ago
I think whether an open source project improves you, technically, depends on the scope of each project. For example, you could make 100 simple CRUD web applications in the same way, and not learn anything from it. For the projects I tend to
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by tomx 15y ago
Sounds like creating a new filter based on open source participation levels and quality. Potentially this is a pitfall, you're excluding brilliant developers who push all their energies into their (non open-source) day job. Although perhaps
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by tomx 15y ago
I like gandi.net, but struggled and failed to justify using them for domains at work. The third word on their site is an expletive. This made it too difficult to justify in a Powerpoint presentation.
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by tomx 15y ago
In examples like this, is the web page containing the payment form within PCI scope? I would hope you are at least required to perform PCI level security testing on the page, to ensure it doesn't contain any dodgy Javascript and the like (&
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by tomx 15y ago
"In the meantime, be sure to brush up on your coding skills. They’ll come in handy when the new application process opens in February." Perhaps tickets will be sold or prioritised by some coding problems?
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Ask HN: What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz type questions?
50 points by tomx 15y ago|117 comments
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by tomx 15y ago
2^10 - 1 patents by coincidence, or as it's a fun number?
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by tomx 15y ago
Nice idea. Could you include an approximation of each components popularity or longevity? This would allow people to know if they are picking mainstream or more obscure/specialised/enterprise/unstable/etc components.

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