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Haters 7 years ago

Sloppy work in this article. I wonder what drove him to write something like this. It sounds like he's a true hater ...of haters!

haters are just part of life. No need to get worked up on them and make sloppy, weak arguments about them.

"I've been able to observe for long enough that I'm fairly confident the pattern works both ways: not only do people who do great work never become haters, haters never do great work"

He's a social scientist doing work on human behavior?

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Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight 14 years ago

This is a bad idea. Not only is it against Southwest policy, it also pisses off people like myself who actually go and check-in "exactly" 24 hours before and end up with a "B-7" boarding pass!!!!!

Clearly, Southwest has their reasons for assigning boarding priority 0-24hrs before flight on a first-come-first-serve basis, or else they would just assign priority during payment (early-bird checkin $10 notwithstanding).

Possible Reasons: 1) Loyal customers can get a "one-up" on new fliers or people who don't really care when they board and where they sit. 2) People who don't change flights within 24 hrs of takeoff can also take advantage of this --the rest might be "penalized" in this model.

Sites like "checkintomyflight.com" break apart the aformentioned model.

But, this is hacker news. So, congrats on building this service.

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Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js) 14 years ago

"As a Django developer, there wasn’t a straightforward and obvious way to just do things in the background on a page request. People suggested I try Celery, but I didn’t like that option at all. A distributed task queue? What? I just want to do something in the background without making the user wait; I don’t need some super comprehensive ultimate computing machine. The whole notion that I would need to set up and configure one of these supported brokers made my spidey sense tingle"

It's not really that hard. I just latch on to a broker that I'm already using elsewhere in my stack (Redis). Celery makes it super simple to run a command in the background.

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17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine 14 years ago

Not to diminish his work in any way, but markov chains are (were?) part of the senior finite math curriculum in Ontario.

E.g. We used them to examine weather prediction models in gr. 12

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Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes 14 years ago

This is getting off topic, but it doesn't really matter how Canada is doing financially (from what I hear, we're doing quite fine).

US still has a better standard of living. Canadian housing is getting ridiculous and needs to be controlled. We need cheaper housing. If I were a young person buying a home, I'd rather be buying in California instead of Toronto.

BTW, I'm Canadian.

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Dropbox adds drag and drop 14 years ago

nice to have, but don't see myself ever using this feature. I normally just drop files into my drive-mapped Dropbox folder.

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Multi-player piano 14 years ago

look at the js file

var key_binding = { 65: n("gs"), 90: n("a"), 83: n("as"), 88: n("b"), 67: n("c", 1), 70: n("cs", 1), 86: n("d", 1), 71: n("ds", 1), 66: n("e", 1), 78: n("f", 1), 74: n("fs", 1), 77: n("g", 1), 75: n("gs", 1), 188: n("a", 1), 76: n("as", 1), 190: n("b", 1), 191: n("c", 2), 222: n("c#", 2),

		49: n("gs", 1),
		81: n("a", 1),
		50: n("as", 1),
		87: n("b", 1),
		69: n("c", 2),
		52: n("cs", 2),
		82: n("d", 2),
		53: n("ds", 2),
		84: n("e", 2),
		89: n("f", 2),
		55: n("fs", 2),
		85: n("g", 2),
		56: n("gs", 2),
		73: n("a", 2),
		57: n("as", 2),
		79: n("b", 2),
		80: n("c", 3),
		189: n("cs", 3),
		219: n("d", 3),
		187: n("ds", 3),
		221: n("e", 3)
	};
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