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Re:Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free? on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:09AM (#8513769)
I'm working on a modern divorce site that helps couples work together with professionals to quickly and safely reach an equitable resolution for this incredibly difficult event. There are lots of creative symbols in marriage and divorce that could make for an interesting photography project.
Re:Ask HN: Does your life have a purpose? on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:47AM (#6131971)
I'm in my late 20s.

I feel there are only 2 decisions because 1) I've felt the unparalleled creative power of controlled, maniacal dedication and 2) I may suffer from typical cognitive distortions despite reasonable achievement and lots of introspection

Ask HN: Does your life have a purpose?

Have you always felt that you had a purpose in life, and regardless of what happens, that conviction never changes even though you don't know exactly what that purpose is?Did you ever have to make a seemingly selfish decision that hurt someone close to you in order to achieve the focus/freedom necessary to fulfill your purpose?Context is that I feel I have a binary decision in life right now:-...

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Re:A Developer’s Year in Review on Thursday December 27, 2012 @02:19PM (#4974657)
> Get better at design.

> Learn a new language.

> Do more open source.

> Write fewer blog posts.

> Focus (utterly failed here)

These seem like prime examples of "bullshit goals" [1] that aren't actionable. For goals to be useful they should be quantifiable and accountable.

*[1]: http://www.two-shay.com/articles/avoid-bullshit-goals

How about a day for each day the market remains closed.
Re:What Can You Expect to Earn in the Valley? on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:00PM (#2828617)
$60k in Denver >> $90k in Palo Alto
"Very" in all caps?

Go to walmart please.

Re:Ask HN: How much do you pay software engineers? on Friday July 08, 2011 @02:02AM (#2741435)
What are the equity ranges for seed and series A? I've heard up to 4% for seed, but not sure if that was correlated with a high-end salary or not.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you pay software engineers? on Friday July 08, 2011 @01:59AM (#2741434)
Oops, meant to specify the bay area.
There are some notable open source EMS' (educational management system) like moodle.org.
Re:Speed up your eclipse as a super fast IDE on Saturday June 25, 2011 @01:16AM (#2695003)
How does the Sun JDK significantly outperform the GCC-GCJ?
Regardless of how effective drugs like LSD and psilocybin are, they make it difficult to maintain traditional societal hierarchies of power and control and thus will be stamped out.
Re:Why I don’t use Linux as a desktop OS on Friday June 24, 2011 @02:31AM (#2691264)
What about VMing Windows? VirtualBox works great for me and its seamless window integration is pretty good.

Also, I've heard good things about Crossover, but never tried it myself.

Re:House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera on Friday June 24, 2011 @02:27AM (#2691257)
This still seems like a valid low-tech hacking technique. Simply take photos of anyones keys (easy to do if you are planning it out) and run some software. This seems like a potentially big problem for any facility secured by only lock and key (schools, homes, safety deposit boxes, PO boxes, cars, storage, etc.).
Re:House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera on Friday June 24, 2011 @02:23AM (#2691247)
Sounds perfect for a RepRap :D
Re:Card.io - fast and easy mobile credit card scanning on Thursday June 23, 2011 @01:18PM (#2688750)
Is anyone aware of any direct competition in the credit card "scanning" space?
Anyone know how much it cost ClubPenguin to get the domain name back?
Re:Sound Based Near Field Communication without NFC Chips on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @12:08AM (#2677386)
Also, I thought Shopkick would have locked up these patents?
Re:Sound Based Near Field Communication without NFC Chips on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @12:06AM (#2677382)
What's really cool about Zoosh is what it does for p2p or m2m behavior.
Re:Ask HN: How to wget pages with javascript? on Monday June 20, 2011 @11:56PM (#2677363)
Thanks for the suggestion. Any idea how to accomplish this task without using JS?

I'm surprised chromium, konqueror and firefox don't offer this functionality for offline browsing.

Re:Ask HN: How to wget pages with javascript? on Monday June 20, 2011 @09:54PM (#2677054)
Thanks. I really want to get this done with the command line and it looks like Phantom JS will do the trick.

Ask HN: How to wget pages with javascript?

I need to wget a url, allow the javascript to execute, and capture the result in a file. I've tried wget, curl, httrack,plugins like lget, and links(2) and none of them execute JS.I want something like $: firefox <url> -s <file>Does anyone know how to accomplish this behavior without using JS?

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