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adatta02

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Setfive Consulting - www.setfive.com ashish [at] setfive [dot] com
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adatta02··on Why are programmers afraid of not using semicolons in JavaScript?
Dropping semicolons also breaks a good deal of minifiers.
adatta02··on Pastebin abused
also http://jsfiddle.net/
adatta02··on Why was Boston's winter so horrible this year?
Bostonian also. It felt significantly worse than usual. I chalked it up to those few bitterly cold days and then of course the weekly super storms.
adatta02··on Facebook introduces Two Factor Authentication
Interesting point "If you ever lose or forget your phone and have login approvals turned on, you will still have the option to authorize your login provided you are accessing your account from a saved device."

In contrast to Google's solution which provides you with a set of fallback codes.

adatta02··on Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
As another data point, I'm a pretty small guy (5'8" and about 150 lbs) and I can't stand wearing L shirts - I feel like I'm wearing a dress. Given the choice, I'd much rather a S than a L.
adatta02··on PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, JavaScript-driven tool
Assuming you could get jQuery to run inside this it should be pretty straight forward to translate the Selenium IDE's Selenese commands into jQuery statements.

I'm going to have to give this a run tomorrow in the AM.

adatta02··on HTML4 logo
that whole piece was great. kudos to him for the tumblr 503 error.
adatta02··on My winter break project — Silk
That looks pretty amazing.

Check out Fracture - http://www.fractureme.com/ - I bet they would look unreal printed with their tech.

adatta02··on Heroku for...
Drupal Gardens? http://www.drupalgardens.com/
adatta02··on The Smartphone Explosion
Fred Wilson also has the $$ to show for stating and investing in the obvious...
adatta02··on How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418
Many colleges don't accept cards.

You can however charge your federal income tax (and some state income tax) payments against your card for a fee.

American Express even lets you use rewards points to offset this fee.

adatta02··on DumbledORM a novelty PHP ORM in < 200 lines
check out Doctrine - http://www.doctrine-project.org/

syntas like $peopleNamedJames = Doctrine::getTAble("Person")->findByName("James"); foreach( $peopleNamedJames as $person ){ echo $person->getAge(); }

It's very Hibernate'esqe in some regards also.

adatta02··on My first (quite pointless) Ruby website
Haha awesome Easter Egg - my friend just sent me this:

(6:54:08 PM) Michelle: it told me this: $1,000,000? Seriously? A whole lot of food. No, I won't compute that for you. That's too much. You'd become obese and you'd die. I don't want to feel the guilt for the rest of my life. I might be a webserver, but I'm not heartless. Unlike you after eating all that and suffering a stroke. Your little human body is not made for that. It's a no.

adatta02··on My first (quite pointless) Ruby website
Could probably get it done on Mechanical Turk for a few hundred bucks. I'd start in a single metro area and expand from there.
adatta02··on Moving from PHP to C saved my web startup.
Not to be the unpopular one but couldn't you also have used Flash to open a socket to a server written in [name your favorite language] and had the server intermittently (every 1 second, every 500ms) send out the current tick?
adatta02··on Ask HN: Need feedback from my startup
clickable http://skanr.com/
adatta02··on “Inspect element” is not the same as “View source”
Xerces isn't bad http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/
adatta02··on Writing a Compiler in 24 Small Steps [pdf]
Compilers was one of the few classes where I thought the S actually met the C in CS. I applied real algorithms I'd learned in Algorithm and data structures I had learned in Data Structures to support the theory of computation I had learned in The Theory of Computation.
adatta02··on Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million
strong move - shot across the bow at Bing/Farecast. I wonder where we'll start seeing integrations.
adatta02··on News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments
Craigslist verifies every phone number in order to post in certain sections. It probably isn't to hard.
adatta02··on Digg: 40x Performance Increase by Sorting in PHP Rather than MySQL
in MySQL at least, you can add an ORDER BY FIELD ID (4, 3, 6) to guarantee they are returned in that order.
adatta02··on Apple's Tribute to Jerome B. York
agreed. the actual text of the message is also really honest and heartfelt.
adatta02··on Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men
I'll second the 1MX Express shirts - they always look really sharp and half the time there's some 2 for 1 deal on them anyway.

As far as polos, make sure to buy polos that are actually "polo" material and not some weird synthetic fiber since they look weird. The GAP actually has some decent styles without obnoxiously large logos.

The one point I'll disagree on is designer jeans. I'm not saying you have to shell out $500 for some crazy Japanese designer jeans but jeans in the $120-200 range consistently fit me better and generally feel nicer than the stuff you'll find at Walmart.

If you don't have a significant other or girl to go shopping with (or even if you do and she's lacking in the style department), hit up a Bloomingdales and find someone to help you out. In my experience, their sales people have always been knowledgeable and helped me find stuff that looks and fits great.

Don't forget to buy a decent looking belt.

adatta02··on The Vioxx Story
Although you really have to question the effectiveness of the FDA if their people were duped by such an obvious fabrication. Did no one just bother to run the numbers themselves?
adatta02··on The Free Software Foundation's Reaction to the iPad Launch
And does anyone who is actually going to buy the iPad care? Of course not.
adatta02··on Why do high-end prostitutes make so much money?
you are after all paying them to leave after.
adatta02··on Thinking of applying for a job at Google. Any tips or feedback on my résumé?
I'd be weary of plastering a cell phone # of one of your references all over the internet...
adatta02··on Ask HN: What lead developers look for
There is no contact info in your profile - shoot me an email. I might have an idea for you.
adatta02··on Nexus One
Really disappointed there isn't Verizon support yet :(
adatta02··on Tell HN: Check out my app, RunMeLater, Web Service for CRON Jobs/Scheduled Tasks
example use case I'd imagine would be something like "I want to send burst emails every 20 minutes from my shared host which doesn't let me run cron jobs. So I'll write a PHP script to send the emails and runmelater to ping the script every 20 minutes"
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