deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Chinese “spy” caught with NASA laptop full of porn, not secrets
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deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Django Best Practices
This book is just a slideshow. The chapters are tiny, and there's very little useful content, just a bunch of "do it this way because we say so." No real justification or understanding here. Author hasn't made anything substantial with Django, and his understanding of Python itself is lacking.
People have been request a free sample chapter since the beginning, and he keeps saying that he's getting one ready. You see a free chapter, and you're much less likely to want to buy the rest.
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Why we love Twitter Bootstrap and why you should too
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Why we love Twitter Bootstrap and why you should too
I thought the whole point was that since it's LESS, you can change things up really easily.
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: How I Fired Myself
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
Create something people actually want and you won't have to spend your life trying to exploit every possible loophole in Facebook's system.
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
It sucks to be small and at the mercy of app developer spam.
Maybe it's time to create real products rather than just exploit the Facebook API to spread garbage?
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Free fantasy world (e.g. not LotR)
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Rude Smart People Locked in a Room?
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to sell my startup?
And how is this bigger than the stuff sold on Flippa?
This is a site with virtually zero traffic.
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Am I being too hard on the developers I interview?
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Am I being too hard on the developers I interview?
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Our Django Book is Launched
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: High school senior, deferred from Harvard. Advice?
I meant your essays for other applications.
I'm a recent college grad. I didn't apply to Harvard but did get into Stanford, MIT, Princeton, etc. One thing you learn attending a top school and actually meeting a large volume of admits is that the people who talked about college admissions back in high school (on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere) didn't know jack shit.
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: High school senior, deferred from Harvard. Advice?
People on here do not understand how strong financial aid at top schools is (or how sharply that aid falls off as you get outside the very top tier), nor do they realize which doors are opened to you.
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: High school senior, deferred from Harvard. Advice?
Care to share stats? Have you had your essays looked over by successful admits or other strong applicants? Most teachers are useless for evaluating college essays at top schools.
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: High school senior, deferred from Harvard. Advice?
deservingend | 13 years ago | on: Startups that TechCrunch missed out on – October 2012
Anything inside a million at least suggests that there are real users visiting the site.
The sites in the millions basically do not have any traffic. Newly registered sites get into that range from a few random search engine hits even before they have any real content.
How on Earth will he find such things when he's back in China?