hodgesmr

"the telegram has lost too much ground to smartphones"

I don't really have a pattern that I follow when I launch the terminal, but I'd say the first command that I run is either git status or git pull --rebase since I'm usually working in a git repository. It helps to have a custom "environment" configured just how you like it. I keep my dotfiles (configurations) hosted on GitHub (http://github.com/hodgesmr/dotfiles) so that I can easily load them up on any machine I'm working on and others can use the if they like.

Zach Holman did a good post about dotfiles: http://zachholman.com/2010/08/dotfiles-are-meant-to-be-forke...

Sure. But let's say you want to get in to enterprise development. Almost every large company out there has an IBM (Java) or Microsoft (C#) stack on their backend. And yes, I'm talking about for web apps.

Despite what HN would have you believe, most of the big guys aren't using Rails or Node.

Getting a degree can only help your chances of getting hired. You're right, many employers see that you don't have a degree and immediately throw your application out--no matter how unjust that might be.

Never count on the employer to follow up or get back to you. That is your job. Send your own follow up emails. It makes you stand out.

Don't be so sure that you won't use Java/C#. You never know where your career will take you.

Computer Science is not about learning languages, it's about learning concepts. You will gain a lot of knowledge in a CS program that is language agnostic.

Pull requests are always welcome :)

Perhaps. This was something I threw together around midnight last night. Instinctively I made a git repo, no knowing what it would turn in to.

Thanks for the feedback, but I meant what I wrote. I'm a big fan of the HackerNode app, but I find it extremely hard to traverse the comment threads when reading with it. I've been contemplating for a while on better ways, but haven't come up with anything yet.

I also found that personally, I just want the stories. A lot of the time that I'm on Proggit or HN, I'm not even logged in. So I made an app that did what I want.

Same with voting. I made a reader, not a client.

However, forks and contributions are always welcome, so if you have ideas and are jonesing to contribute, feel free!

Thanks! And yes! If you check out the CoreDataManager -- https://github.com/hodgesmr/CoderNews/blob/master/CoderNews/... -- you can see that I'm checking by url and title. There could be improvements though, like parsing trailing slashes that sometimes allow for dupes.

I couldn't agree with this more. Unfortunately, for every "I am a person" developer out there, there are 2-3 "all I care about is code" developer. It's depressing.

Load time is impressive

Banks that handle USD follow strict federal regulations on security procedures and insurance. If this happened at a bank, the OP would absolutely get his money back. Bitcoin needs federal regulations... oh wait...

Watch out. You posted an article on HN that doesn't praise Bitcoin. And, you know, all software developers are also economists. Expect a backlash.

"Because history does not repeat itself, esp. not when it comes to speculation."

See every bubble ever.

Hacker News: for when all you really want to talk about is Bitcoin and Aaron Swartz.

At first I was thrown by the domain name.

I would assume so. Living in Ohio, I nearly choked when I saw the lowest was $80k

Requires www.

That's the magic of open source.

This has nothing to do with pre-filled passwords. Type any text in and click the link in the demo (without POSTing or having the browser save) and it pulls the text out. XSS works on what the field is populated with, whether typed by the user or pre-filled by the browser.

They used to do that. Perhaps it failed and they think they will have better luck with a browser?

You bring up very valid points. I was speaking in terms of asymptotic runtime analysis, which does not care about constant overhead. However, the cost-per-operation will be dependent on the architecture that runs it.

Sorting is still necessary... but you might be interested in ShelvAR - http://shelvar.com/

The article says this about insertion sort:

This is the fastest sorting algorithm for small arrays, up to maybe 20, 30 elements. Even in software!

No no no. Insertion sort is fastest only when the items being sorted are in nearly sorted order. Its runtime will always be dependent on the number of items, n, being sorted. For a completely randomized array of items, it will run at O(n^2 ) regardless if n is small. Quicksort and Mergesort will do better in these situations.

Before I log in, can you explain the service a bit more?

http://deductivepolitics.com/ Not making any money off of it, just an experiment I'm doing. I try to predict who people will vote for in November based on Facebook likes.

"1% of apps were making 36% of the revenue." Occupy the App Store.

He's also dropped the trolling: http://teddziuba.com/post/24585610978/starting-over

As the author, allow me to address this.

I agree with your statement that sharing passwords between sites is a bad idea. And I don't do it. But I would assert that longer passwords of wider character sets will be harder to crack if a database is compromised--as was the case with LinkedIn. If my password is 8 characters, alphanumeric, it doesn't matter if it's original to that site. If there's a compromise, I'm not going to be in a good place.

Also, my bank doesn't allow for password resets via email. But I would agree that my email account is at the top as well. Fortunately, Google is much smarter about their password rules.

You can still grab a lot from his GitHub repo which hosted the blog - https://github.com/teddziuba/teddziuba.github.com

Um. Haven't we known not to use MD5 for years now?