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fretlessjazzon Ask HN: I'm way too shy, please help

If you're young, get a job at a help desk or tech customer support. It will work wonders, trust me.

fretlessjazzon Y Combinator vs. Graduate School

Most people don't go to grad school to start companies.

fretlessjazzon The organizational impact due to poor software quality

Thoughtful... but I'm more inclined to believe that the company with said diagram has an organizational problem with regards to handling support requests.

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Seriously, I never knew there were this many technology evangelists. It's practically raining commentary.

fretlessjazzon Mark Cuban: Talking the IPad, Kids, Making Money and Video

I'm constantly amazed that Mark Cuban continues to be regarded as relevant...

Not a personal insult to the guy, but his technology commentary is pretty shallow most of the time.

fretlessjazzon Mac Virtualization: Performance testing Parallels, Fusion and VirtualBox

It would be nice to see somebody run similar benchmarks for non-Windows operating systems.

fretlessjazzon The Apple Tablet Is Here, And It's Called the iPad

The target demographic for this device may not be current iPhone, iPod or MacBook users. Consider the many people that want MacBooks but can't afford them. The iPad + keyboard dock is a lower-cost alternative, especially with iWork applications for $10 a pop.

I see this product as doing nothing but growing Apple's customer base.

fretlessjazzon The Internet of 2009 in numbers

Exactly... a business plan focused on internationalization is more important now than ever.

fretlessjazzon TSA Pays Blogger to Mock People Harassed by TSA

True that you're responsible for yourself, but would you rather go to an airport with no metal detectors, no X-ray machines or armed personnel?

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a.k.a. instakarma?

fretlessjazzon Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold

"Yes, but I haven't seen specific predictions of local chills, only post factum explanations."

This is actually a textbook difference between Climate and Weather. We're better at predicting the former than latter.

fretlessjazzon Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold

"Real science would be predicting the chill before it happened and explaining how it relates to global warming."

I have a degree in Geology and tend to think that, even though I cannot predict an earthquake, I did learn a real science:)

fretlessjazzon Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold

If you don't know enough about meteorology to comment on the legitimacy of weather patterns, then why are you dismissing Norther Annular Mode analysis as not "real science"?

fretlessjazzon Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold

I wonder if Fox News got this memo.

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This is entirely not worth your time.

fretlessjazzon How Do You Look When Merging Fails

* Subversion's developer mailing list, that is:)

fretlessjazzon How Do You Look When Merging Fails

Someone should commit an equivalent patch to Subversion and have it auto-email their developer mailing list.

fretlessjazzon Thinking of applying for a job at Google. Any tips or feedback on my résumé?

Cool. I can't speak for their current interview process, but I went through the phone screen mechanism a few years back. My problem was that I wasn't sufficiently focused in one area; I tried to market myself as both a Systems Engineer and a Software Developer (which is common for start-up-prone types such as myself). My biggest take-away from the interview process was that that was a bad idea. I suggest that you focus on a particular area; web apps alone is still possibly not specific enough. They'll perhaps want to know what specific technologies or facets of modern web apps you are into and proficient in.

Of course, that was then and this is now. Some other HNers probably have better advice:)

fretlessjazzon Thinking of applying for a job at Google. Any tips or feedback on my résumé?

Sorry to answer a question with a question, but what is it that you want to do for Google?

fretlessjazzon The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit

This is not the 36signals blog nor TMZ.com; Jason can say what he wants.

fretlessjazzon Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?

I love your app; I signed up for a Free account today and will definitely be upgrading to a paid subscription when there is more than one dude working at my startup.

fretlessjazzon Ask HN: What company/industry would you like to see open their data?

Real Estate, hands down. The MLS should be more open.

fretlessjazzon "Loading..." Animated GIF Generator

That site is SO 2007.

fretlessjazzon Ask HN: Javascript best practices?

Apache should do this.

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Is it just me, or did myspace.com look better then?

fretlessjazzon Death To The Div

Yah, my post was laced with (semi-blatant?) sarcasm surrounding the fact that this, as byoung2 mentioned, is already possible using a technology that was chosen for deprecation.

I'm not of the pro-XHTML side, but it will be interesting to see what happens after HTML 5. XHTML attempted to solve, or at least provide a stop-gap to, a lot of problems that may not go away as easily as we hope.

fretlessjazzon Death To The Div

Yes! I've always thought that HTML should be more like XML in that arbitrary tags should possess little presentational meaning without an associated stylesheet. Perhaps we'll call this new concoction... HXTML!

fretlessjazzon Ted Kennedy has died

Thanks for your clarification and insight:)

Being born in 1981, I'll write my previous comment off to generational ignorance.

I appreciate your thorough and thoughtful response.

fretlessjazzon Review my Webapp: How to make ______? (food)

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/25/10-common-mistake...

Edit: you may find this useful

fretlessjazzon Ted Kennedy has died

At 10,000 swimming pools at once?