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This is so dang cool. I’m sorry that all people can do is complain!
Just want to say I’ve ridden in this car. It’s a hoot
I so hate timers. I left immediately. Sure, have a count up timer for those who what it, but make sure to allow it to be turned off permanently
Re:Wends of Texas on Saturday January 11, 2025 @01:25PM (#42667854)
My wife is a Wend, and so we visited this area in Texas. One of the things I found interesting was that there was a local paper that printed articles in German, English, and Wendish (Sorbian) – there’s a link in the Wiki article. The church we visited was so beautiful.
Re:Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using Postgres on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:19AM (#41345519)
Let’s normalize recursive CTEs.
Re:TSV – Alternative to CSV on Sunday June 09, 2024 @07:45AM (#40623777)
Because commas are much more common than tabs and so there is less escaping needed
Re:Wordle in legal row with geography spinoff, Worldle on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:05AM (#40534002)
I had to take down my wordle10.com website (a 10 letter version of Wordle).
Sounds like firing to me!
> I have reported all of my experience to the ScalaCenter in 2019. I was hoping to see concrete actions, such as building a reporting mechanism, to protect minorities in the community. Unfortunately, I am not aware of such actions taken.

That sounds like a community failure, not just One Bad Guy.

Re:Rolling Dice as a Service on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @10:17AM (#9531893)
In fact, I don't think the max number ever rolls (e.g. http://roll.space/?dice=300d6 never produces a 6).
Re:Rolling Dice as a Service on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:10AM (#9531095)
I think two-sided dice have the wrong behavior: they only roll ones.
Re:The World Religions Tree (huge visualization) on Sunday May 10, 2015 @08:34PM (#9522063)
The Anabaptist/Baptist branches are also pretty inaccurate.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013) on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @05:05PM (#5640780)
Here is some more information:

Reverb is looking for a senior, hands-on developer capable of interfacing with the Amazon EC2 API and others, who would be responsible for building internal tools to manage our software infrastructure. This would include both back-end workflow as well as user-interface components.

Duties and Responsibilities

Experience with Cloud deployment tools/scripts for AWS Cloud Services Nuts-and-bolts understanding of RHEL, CentOS, performance tuning, monitoring Puppet or Chef automated deployment tools Nagios, Cacti, other monitoring and alerting systems Apache/Nginx support, configuration MySQL, Java application deployment Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP Experience managing high-availability systems User interface development using javascript (Play-Scalate a bonus) Low-level operating system exposure for application and infrastructure deployment Experience with both performance and error monitoring & alerting systems Track record in a high-uptime, high traffic application infrastructure

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013) on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @09:54AM (#5637864)
Reverb Technologies, San Mateo, California: DevOps http://helloreverb.com

We're looking for a great DevOps engineer. You'd be a crucial part of our development team. If you're interested, or just want to know more, send me an email at [email protected].

Reverb Technologies is the the company behind Wordnik.com; Reverb for Publishers; Swagger, Atmosphere and Scalatra; and other specialness soon to be revealed.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013) on Friday February 01, 2013 @10:50AM (#5151382)
Reverb Technologies (aka Wordnik) has a number of good positions available including: iPad Visual Designer, iPad Interaction Designer, Full-Time Web and Mobile Designer, iOS Developer, Frontend Hacker, Server Engineer, Machine Learning Expert, Computational Linguist, and Analytics and Data-Mining Expert. Job descriptions are at http://www.helloreverb.com/jobs/ (where you'll also see a bit about what it's like to work here).

Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you want to apply or have questions — and check out what we're building at http://helloreverb.com (as well as http://wordnik.com, which just got a bit of a refresh).

Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? on Monday January 28, 2013 @08:12PM (#5131789)
This is like asking when humans stopped being monkeys.
Re:Tactful Trademark Defense: An Example on Thursday January 03, 2013 @04:17PM (#5004715)
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you're just back at square one — or perhaps a little ahead, given the good will involved. Of course, you've lost a little time, too.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012) on Saturday December 01, 2012 @01:46PM (#4858557)
Wordnik (San Mateo, California) has lots of jobs available, as we build out [Related Content](http://wordpress.wordnik.com/) and other interesting new projects:

* Product Manager * Product Marketing Manager * Marketing Manager * iPad Visual Designer * iPad Interaction Designer * Full-Time Web and Mobile Designer * iOS Developer * Frontend Hacker * Server Engineer * Business Development Associate * Machine Learning Expert * Computational Linguist * Analytics and Data-Mining Expert

Check out the details at http://www.wordnik.com/jobs or feel free to contact me directly at [email protected]

Re:Putting Money In The Bank on Sunday July 08, 2012 @03:00PM (#4215286)
I suggest a better lesson to learn is to not join competitions in which the difference between a winner and a loser is measured in ridiculously small numbers.

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