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Re:Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:52PM (#15222747)
FYI many (possibly all) of the Whole Foods here in Seattle did in fact change overnight: they added higher shelves, rearranged the layouts & product placements etc. All of this happened within the final day of the switch from what I can tell.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:20PM (#12408552)
Fishbowl VR, looking for a Senior Web Developer/early hires to help with our app. we offer playtesting for VR/AR developers. Seattle area or remote for the right person. fishbowlvr.com/careers/senior-developer hit me up or jobs [@] fishbowlvr [ com ]
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016) on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:59PM (#11817187)
Fishbowl VR, we offer playtesting for VR/AR app developers. We're early stage and funded.

Looking for a Senior Web Developer/early hires to help with our app. An excellent way for someone to get into VR/AR.

Our current stack is Rails on AWS. We do a lot of video transcoding/dealing with large files etc. Most of our tech choices going forward will be very flexible.

Seattle area or remote for the right person. fishbowlvr.com/careers/senior-developer hit me up or jobs [@] fishbowlvr [ com ]

The Moonman devlog has been a great read so far. Good insight into how much work it takes to make a polished game. Looking forward to playing it.
Re:Cargo, Rust's Package Manager on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @05:53AM (#7936877)
The read-manifest command seems to output a JSON of your Cargo.toml if you have tools you'd like to use that require it:

    cargo read-manifest --manifest-path .
Re:Candy Japan 2013 Year in Review on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:04PM (#7192230)
Personally I'm trying to kick my habit of picking up cool art supplies and paper whenever I'm in Japantown.

I think something as simple just monthly 3-4 novelty erasers would sell really well.

I also recall reading that paper yearly planners are popular in Japan right now.

Edit: I was thinking of these http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2135267959864327501 -- http://www.1101.com/store/techo/2014/planner/

Re:Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:34PM (#4512224)
I agree, my phrasing is too vitriolic. I feel that links like this are part of the decline in quality around here but, I'm not helping any.

Apparently I can't delete the comment myself at this point.

Re:Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @10:59AM (#4510948)
It is "Top X of Y" style article that adds almost nothing to the content. Edit: Try googling "Top X TED Talks" or a variation. Almost all of these are SEO spam articles on this exact topic. I'm sure I'm just being too negative but, I find it really annoying.
Re:Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @10:56AM (#4510929)
This is linkbait garbage. Giving Shopify the benefit of the doubt, I clicked on it expecting it to maybe be a parody of these types of articles. Disappointing.
Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? on Sunday August 05, 2012 @10:03AM (#4341443)
For the people who don't like Erlang's syntax, there are alternatives. I've used Elixer (http://elixir-lang.org/) with some success. It has a Rubyish syntax and gets rid of a lot of the warts newcomers seem to dislike.

The language is actually the easiest part, the biggest hurdle seems to be organizing a complicated application to take advantage of OTP. Erlang is really about OTP; not the language.

Re:LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @02:04PM (#4195307)
The call out is "what I want to be" and of the 3 choices I'm given, all 3 are white male 25-30 something techies.

I can't understand why you'd want to advertise that so blatantly. I'd recommend something less abstract, like a useful explanation of what your site does etc.

Re:LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @01:41PM (#4195202)
That's a pretty striking lack of diversity in the call to action on the main page. ^C^P^P.
Re:Static Typing is not enough on Thursday June 21, 2012 @10:44AM (#4142217)
It seems to be a trend; gloss over the article then infer most of the meaning from the title.

The title I submitted isn't great but, I can't seem to correct it.

Haven't you actually purchased a license to the book contents and not an actual book?
Re:Book Conan's TV studio on AirBnB on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @10:10PM (#2968061)
Seems like a poor choice to force logged in users to accept new TOS before seeing anything; not being able to view the listing without agreeing or logging out was annoying.
Re:Ask HN: What are the stupid things Rails developers do? on Thursday August 04, 2011 @10:34PM (#2848741)
- Not writing tests.

- Long finder methods instead of using named scopes.

- Not using restful routes.

- Too much code in their views.

- After saves that should be validations or other confusing AR lifecycle mistakes/abuses.

Re:I Broke Justin.tv on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @04:10PM (#2782852)
Having been at JTV, looking back it almost seems insane to try to do as much work as we we're without good coverage. If it matters, it should get a test.

I think a lot of people also see tests as slowing things down but, they also provide a lot of value in documenting intentions, make upgrades easier, etc.

Re:Polyglot extension for Chrome - Learn a new language on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @05:45PM (#1670204)
I liked this extension but don't use chrome, so I made: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/86091/.

If you find a bug, repo is here: http://github.com/jdeseno/PolyGlop, patches welcome!

A nice checkbox 'send me marketing upates' below the email entry box would be really nice. These days most people appreciate an opt-in experience to opt-out.
Re:Guido on Functional on Monday March 08, 2010 @05:20PM (#1176664)
Couldn't we do this?

r' f (x:xs) | xs == [] = (f x):[] | otherwise = (f x):(r' f xs)

or:

[(f a) | a <- myList]

- another edit -

r' f (x:xs) | xs == [] = x | otherwise = f x (r' f xs)

Re:Bill Clementson's Blog: JavaScript and Lisp on Friday December 11, 2009 @06:58PM (#990827)
Nice but, anonymous recursion is possible with arguments.callee.
Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a Class C IP block? on Saturday August 22, 2009 @09:17PM (#780038)
This is the technical equivalent of: "Hey, I found $100 what should I do with it"? 255 addresses ... woo-hoo.

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