cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...
Love it. This site is hella-fast and responsive compared to the other "Try [x]" web apps I've used before. Love the addition of LOLCODE.
Personally, it took me a second to figure out the lambda and eg buttons, but I didn't find it frustrating or difficult. Pretty smart if you ask me.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Would you partner up with someone to learn something new?
I like the idea. I'd like San Antonio or Austin to be added to the list of cities available. Keep up the good work!
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: How To Manage Geeks
Even though I agree with most of this list, I still can't help but feel a little put-off by all the geek-this and geek-that speak.
There seemed to be a basic point that "geeks" usually have a low tolerance for the stereotypical business world and speak. Cheap awards, cheap prizes, pointless meetings, the word "synergy"? No thanks.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: How To Manage Geeks
Exactly. And my bet is that the people that need to read this the most won't read past the headline or first paragraph.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: Clever Foursquare Hack Turns New York City Into a Giant Game of Risk
If you were trying to discourage your girlfriend from purchasing shoes, this method would probably only discourage your girlfriend from checking in to shoe stores.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: Bank of Canada: The New $100 Note
I'm American, and I have to agree with you. I travelled to Ireland last month and having 1 and 2 € coins was great. The different sized bills took a little getting used to, but even that was great because I could quickly tell them apart (along with the different colors). I'd like to see wider adoption of 1 and maybe 2 $ coins here sometime in the bear future.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: Darpa: US Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk
If these people really thought about it, they would see that the market is flooded with lawyers and screaming for quality engineers of all kinds. I know this because my wife is in law school and the law schools are admitting and churning out more lawyers than ever despite many law jobs dissolving into thin air.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: NFC Starter Kits for Android Developers
What a great move to get NFC accepted into the mainstream.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: 10000 things all CS students should do before graduating
I agree. While most of the items on that list are web based, they are easy enough things that can be worked on while taking classes. Working on projects like these get you into the hacking/diy mindset that really differentiate the top and low level CS students. Will every CS student need to build a web app or use MapReduce? No, but learning new technologies and getting your hands dirty teaches you to ask questions, start something, and learn as opposed to being complacent with your current level of knowledge.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: Stop Apple's iPhone Kill Switch
^ This.
If Apple ever decides to use this technology in a way that is deemed censorship, I'll join the "No Apple Kill Switch" initiative, but until then, I agree that there are reasonable uses for this tech.
cbailey
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14 years ago
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on: BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck
I was really impressed with the concept back in January when I tried to get a beta account. Being a 20-something and born into the tech generation, I would be comfortable with a bank that didn't have a brick and mortar presence and used the strategies that BankSimple uses (will use) to get great rates, etc.
I can see how older generations would be very wary of truly online bank. I know people who were baffled when I told them I would be switching to ING or another online only bank.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: Amazon offers Texas 5,000 jobs in trade for sales-tax exemption
While it's common practice for a city government to give tax breaks for large corporations in exchange for bringing a large number of jobs (almost like a "thank you" for bolstering the local economy), the sales-tax exemption is new to me. I had to reread the beginning of the article before it really hit me.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: Inspiration
I'm impressed. A quickdraw holster for cameras, gunslinger => filmslinger.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: What the French 'Civilised Internet' Looks Like
Similar to how the DoHS is seizing domains, and their screwup that resulted in 84,000 wrongly seized domains.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: Apple's infrared 'camera kill switch' patent application hits a nerve
This could be done using geolocation too (e.g., if you're inside the GPS coordinates of the Pentagon, camera is deactivated). Of course, all you would have to do is turn of location services on your phone.
Or, depending on how the tech works, point your camera at an angle such that the infrared light doesn't hit the sensor in your phone's camera.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: Apple's infrared 'camera kill switch' patent application hits a nerve
The article hints at this possibility.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: Living life in 25min increments
I tried a similar technique a year ago, and I had similar results. I found myself straying from the 25/5 by 5, 10 or more minutes.
Ultimately, it was beneficial because it forced me to focus on the tasks and how much time I was allotting to breaks.
Once you get the habits down, I would suspect the timer would be needed less and less. Similar to how people who count calories get used to it and know caloric values of what they're eating, so they eventually stop counting calories (or get sick and tired of trying to keep up with it).
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: Uber drops fares for SF Taxi strike
I hope their advertising doesn't attract more negative attention from the local government.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: Foursquare has over 10,000,000 users
As long as you have Twitter and Facebook hooked up to your Foursquare account... None of my close friends use Foursquare, a couple of them have Twitters, and all of them have Facebook. Communicating location solely through Foursquare would fall under "Maybe not good" for me.
cbailey
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15 years ago
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on: DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
I agree. I think people will surround themselves with a filter bubble with or without personalized search results. Ever tried to convince an avid Fox or CNN reader to read the opposing view's site?
From my personal experience, people rarely search for something as simple as "Egypt," and instead, search for "Egypt travelling tips" like your example.
If your Google-fu is strong, you'll write a query that targets your desired results much better than a generic shot-in-the-dark query.
