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TheBurningOr

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About TheBurningOr

Always been intensely interested in technology and Silicon Valley culture. Recently moved to the Bay Area to either found a startup or be found by one as a web developer.

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    FWIW The Atlantic covered this story much better ( http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-ho... ) and their coverage included two additional charts. One correspo…

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    Comment #5909781

    Does anyone have any corroboration of this?

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    Comment #5266813

    Needs to have a more prominent share button so I can send this to my friends who have so helpfully 'liked' products that I'm now spammed with.

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    Comment #4551002

    I had the same experience with my Incredible 1. It was wonderful for about 6 months until it became absolutely unusable. Random bugs all over the place. Updates not coming in. So m…

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    Comment #3884907

    Ugh. Yeah. Got to that point in the article and closed the tab. It's a good article, but, sadly, that's the only thing I remember now about the article.

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    Comment #3648258

    The attraction and collision demos are both doing collision detection, which means N! calculations (for each particle check the location of all the other particles that have not be…

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    Comment #3592391

    This reminds me of Zappa.js ( http://zappajs.org/ ), one of my favorite CoffeeScript implementations of a web server on Node (although it's mostly just a wrapper for express). I'd …

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    Comment #3532261

    I tried Blekko for a bit this past fall and was not terribly impressed. I, frankly, don't understand what the /slash notation is doing. is it a filter? Is it a specific type of sea…

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    Poll: As an engineer, which is more important: technology or mission?

    In deciding to join a startup, are you more interested in the company's mission and goals? or are you more interested in the technologies you'll be using and the technical problems…

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    Comment #3172131

    Fascinating article, but I'd still like to know more about that 8th figure on the inflation model. We are told that the y-axis represents energy, but what is the x-axis? It clearly…

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    Comment #3052862

    Do screen readers parse CSS in their reading? I would think this would avoid that problem by using the :before pseudo classes rather than injecting it into the dom directly. edit: …

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    Comment #3020602

    This is one of the best comments on here. 'Talent' is not a one dimensional scalar.

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    Comment #2604280

    I'm not sure that this is entirely true for Google. Recall that Google bought DoubleClick and that much of their current advertising empire is built on that foundation. I think Twi…

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    Comment #2569546

    Genuine question here. How is the right to privacy circumvented to allow for the CCTV cameras and other policies that seem, to me at least, to be a pretty clear invasion of privacy…

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    Comment #2558147

    Especially when I may often as not be getting this email from my phone where I don't necessarily want to have to click through to your web-app.

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