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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:40AM (#43014922)
Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American songwriter and musician, hyphenated both of his parents' (married) last names as a joke on this.
Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:33AM (#43014834)
I believe you meant "pedantic" rather than "pandemic".
Re:A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (2014)
on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:17PM (#11731784)
Should include 2014 in the title.
Re:DARE: The Anti-Drug Program That Never Actually Worked
on Saturday October 03, 2015 @08:52AM (#10323676)
The colloquial use of the word "anyways" nearly ruined this article for me.
Re:Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game
on Friday November 21, 2014 @10:24AM (#8641651)
FWIW, I learned a lot of German playing a German-language copy of Civilization.
Re:NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub
on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @05:01PM (#8199801)
BASE jumping?
Re:WhatsApplebee's: the premiere Applebee's-based social chat app
on Friday May 09, 2014 @04:10PM (#7722996)
Check out http://scopit.com/, a SaaS that curates location-based Instagram feeds.
Re:Ask HN: How do I deal with the "unpaid overtime crowd"?
on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:21PM (#7488604)
No matter what, get out. They are toxic people with twisted values who do not understand quality. Get out.
Accept their offer to buy out your contract. If they try to terminate you, be ready to lawyer up for a breach-of-contract suit.
Get out.
Re:Code Reads
on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @09:19AM (#5368138)
as much as people are willing to pay.
Re:Show HN: Like The Onion, But Real
on Thursday February 21, 2013 @08:41PM (#5261987)
This adds another DNS lookup, which will slow down your page load times. Also, it is essentially leaching the bandwidth from theonion.com. However, if your users are already readers of theonion.com, the static files may be cached.
Re:Show HN: a conspiracy theory generator
on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:57AM (#5171280)
I had a similar experience with Ayn Rand at age 12. So glad we both grew up!
Re:A Short Rant About Working Remotely
on Thursday January 31, 2013 @10:44AM (#5145457)
If a developer is need on-site because of "crunch time", the timelines were clearly unrealistic. "Crunch time" is code for poor project management.
Re:Ask HN: Where is the Django community?
on Monday July 18, 2011 @05:14PM (#2778290)
absolutely true.
Re:Appcelerator Titanium: From a developer's perspective
on Monday April 04, 2011 @02:39PM (#2407885)
I have been using <a href="http://the-m-project.net/>The M Project</a> for several months while building a web-only mobile app, currently in private beta and so domain-specific as to be useless to the general population. The framework builds on best-of-breed frameworks node.js and jquery mobile. Javascript ftw! The core developers hang out in IRC, or at least jump on when someone pops up with a question.
Turns out, they also have phonegap support, so I <em>could</em> deliver an app, but that sounds like more of a headache than its worth.
Re:Poll: If you had to optimize for 1 screen resolution, which would i...
on Sunday August 08, 2010 @12:10PM (#1585527)
http://www.blueprintcss.org/ uses an 800px wide content area.
1024x768 hits the sweet spot for my clients.
Re:Ask HN: What makes you happy? What is your American Dream?
on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @12:23PM (#1229501)
satisfying my needs is happiness. simplify: skip the bars and the drama, ditch the time-sucking girlfriends – and the time-sucking guys, too, quit the day job, learn to cook "peasant food" from every part of the world. within two months of making the above changes, i went from spending to saving, eating better, coding better, and playing better.
Then there are some seasonal things that increase my joy:
Winter through spring * average five hours of snowboarding a day * average five hours of programming a day
Summer through fall * average five hours of surfing, kayaking, hiking, and/or fishing a day * average five hours of programming a day
I try to block my days into ten hours of activity. Figure eight hours of sleep a night, that leaves me with six hours I can spend however I want. Some of that gets used up getting to snow and surf spots, or (blech) on-site, but a lot of it is spent doing small things that lead to happiness: such as yard work, house cleaning, chatting with neighbors, teaching my old dog new tricks, strolling, making music alone or with others.