Gratsby

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by Gratsby 10y ago
You forget when Herc went and grabbed the portable mic from the spy store and stuck it in a tennis ball. Or when they stuck the video camera in the park and got it stolen. It's pretty much the same thing that happened here. They knew
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Haven't you guys ever seen The Wire? Is this seriously a surprise to anyone?
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by Gratsby 10y ago
At some point every piece of technology that we use was impossible. It's very easy to sit on the hilltop and say "it's not possible". What's not easy is climbing the hill anyways and figuring out a way to make the
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I think it's a little naive to "give up" on a language early on, but on the same note, I've walked away from several for periods of time because they lacked the maturity I needed. I did enjoy the article and the linked a
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by Gratsby 10y ago
This thread makes it seem like the general opinion is that an automatically generated news feed would be better. It wouldn't. Not for end users anyways. It would be a marketer's dream. If you feel like that's the way things
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Per the article there is one coal power plant still active. It's run by Argus (the sometimes good, sometimes bad company from Arrow) near San Bernadino.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Pulling the plane out of a stall used to be a part of basic training required for your license. That doesn't go on anymore?
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I second this sentiment. Especially someone in a biz-dev role. Can you imagine if he crossed the line like this with a customer? It's not something a budding business wants to ever deal with. Someone who feels casually about this ki
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I'm an emacs evangelist and I'll use Eclipse or IntelliJ for Java. I have half a mind to just use a windows VM for visual studio because I think it's a great Python IDE. But then there's everything else. I've looke
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I would agree that the free exchange of ideas is the great promise of the internet, but I disagree that Facebook or any high traffic website has any responsibility to blindly post what is popular. That kind of thing is relegated to smaller
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by Gratsby 10y ago
This seems like a story built specifically for a segment on Fox News where the newscasters feign shock and horror that their news topics aren't being covered by "mainstream media". Of course trending news is curated. All hel
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by Gratsby 10y ago
As a middle aged computer scientist and emacs evangelist, I had to laugh pretty hard at this one. I hadn't actually heard that one before.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
The odds are better than 1 in 6. What you are suggesting is a system that over and over again has proven to create poverty and destroy innovation.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Don't forget cut and sed.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I thought it was pretty clear from the beginning. But I have to say it's pretty cool to see this response. Shouldering responsibility and admitting fault is something that most people avoid and most businesses don't even think ab
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by Gratsby 10y ago
In Santa Clara county the odds of going from the lowest of income earners to the highest are better than anywhere else in the world. There's nepotism all over silicon valley, but there's also a strong respect for brains and the ab
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by Gratsby 10y ago
If you're on the board of directors for a billion dollar search engine, who do you hire as CEO? A guy in a cubicle, or a Stanford grad who was employee #20 at google that spent a career in charge of Search, User Experience, and Locati
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by Gratsby 10y ago
The pool of people who are capable of leading a company the size of Yahoo isn't that big to begin with. Add to that the fact that Yahoo had a recent serial history of hiring then firing CEOs before they brought in Mayer, and the pool o
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I find the part about taking breaks actually increasing productivity interesting. Years and years ago, I worked as a blackjack dealer. We had 20 minute breaks every hour. It seemed ludicrous to me at first, but the job has essentially two
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by Gratsby 10y ago
This is good. That's all I have in me.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
This is more a sign of the power of the media than anything else. The media is looking for a story. There's very little that's compelling out there. Terrorism keeps popping up because it gets clicks. Soon enough there will be
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by Gratsby 10y ago
But what is it's Weissman score?
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Software developers are not dancing monkeys and should not be treated as such. Do software sales reps get told to "sell me this shampoo" during an interview? Do they have to whiteboard the structure of an e-mail campaign? No. B
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Breathalyzers aren't nearly as accurate as they are purported to be and the whole justice system just accepts it because drunk drivers are bad. The justice system isn't a science system and never has been.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
These kinds of "features" are a problem for open source, and I don't know that they are a good idea in general. It's nice to know how and where your software is being used, but in many environments call-home functionalit
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by Gratsby 10y ago
There seems to be a bit of a gap here. AirBnB and Google don't seem like the target market for Triplebyte.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I see "warmer, fuzzier" and then I go to the site, and the example thread displayed in the mobile image has the following responses in it: * "The best evuh" * "hell yeah" * "Speechless, it's F*cking b
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I didn't get that. I guess perception is everything.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
That... that's not what I was referring to. I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
It's always fun to pile on, but what I got out of ASJ's post was "love your job for whatever hours you are there." Negativity begets negativity, but thinking positive and thinking big is just as contagious.

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