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by aminuit 16y ago
When you find a really good site on HN, add it to your RSS reader. Check out proggit. If you have an industry you're interested in or a problem you're trying to solve, start googling and keep track of all the interesting sites you come ac
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by aminuit 16y ago
Selection bias much? He's complaining about an over abundance of consumer facing web businesses at an event sponsored by a blog that focuses almost exclusively on consumer facing web businesses. There is lots of real computer science going
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by aminuit 16y ago
Just wanted to apologize again for sniping at you yesterday. It was uncalled for. Glad to see you've been able to incorporate it into a proper discussion.
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by aminuit 16y ago
I worked at a cool little company where we built a useful product. We just built it. We didn't use waterfall, agile, or any real process. We just made sure to communicate and only hired people with good judgement and critical thinking sk
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by aminuit 16y ago
Ever notice that virtually all Agile success stories are written by Agile consultants and not by developers? Ever notice that nobody actually claims to have built anything from scratch with Agile? The stories all read the same. Product ha
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by aminuit 16y ago
(disclaimer: Agile consultants ruined the software group I work in.) Making good software is hard, and anyone claiming to have a magical process that guarantees good software is selling snake oil. I can appreciate your wanting to make a bu
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by aminuit 16y ago
FYI apt-get update does not update any packages. It just downloads the current list of packages and their versions from the repository.
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by aminuit 16y ago
In summary, hard work is hard. I know HN is targeted towards the startup crowd, but do we constantly have to vote up these self-aggrandizing, self-congratulating posts about how it takes some kind of special breed of human to work hard for
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by aminuit 17y ago
> This is where you hire a copywriter for your website and he or she fills the pages with cleverly crafted, delightfully delectable prose that oh-so-playfully sing and dance. Prose is singular. The plural of prose is proses, though it'
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by aminuit 17y ago
Initially (or at least a couple of years ago) if you submitted a PDF, the link would only be available through Scribd. It was a topic of much discussion. See here for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195431
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by aminuit 17y ago
Google is going to have to build (or outsource) a lot of what Verizon already has. He may be considering those costs when he does the per household numbers. Consider that Verizon has an army of trained field technicians, fiber trucks, cal
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by aminuit 17y ago
FYI the term 'corporate welfare' typically refers to governments giving special treatment to corporations, not corporations tolerating unproductive hangers-on.
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by aminuit 17y ago
Not in the article, but worth mentioning: Wattvision is a YC Winter 09 company.
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by aminuit 17y ago
I get where you're going, but the toaster analogy doesn't work. If you want to sell toasters (or basically anything that takes mains voltage) en masse in Western markets, you'll have to fork over several large to Underwriters Laboratories
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by aminuit 17y ago
An article about a report from the "International Boys' Schools Coalition" suggesting that all boys schools are advantageous to mixed sex schools. This is on the front page of HN? So long and thanks for all the fish.
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by aminuit 17y ago
Yes I read your post. That's why I was able to quote from it. If you want to hire a good programmer, ask them about programming. It's that simple. Set up a few scenarios and let them talk and whiteboard their way out of it. Ideally you
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by aminuit 17y ago
> "lame excuses like charity work" Buzz off. How is this at the top of the front page on HN? Also, it's idiotic to to perpetuate the "rock star programmer" meme. All the great developers I have ever known would never consider themselv
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by aminuit 17y ago
* Nobody knew where Banda Aceh was * Barack Obama was a little known Illinois state senator * xkcd did not exist
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by aminuit 17y ago
Unless you live or have loved ones who live anywhere near The Gulf Coast, in which case it is very much true.
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by aminuit 17y ago
Making the DNS even more unreliable isn't good for anyone. Also, you're talking about returning an IP that is probably blocked by GFW anyways. So instead of getting the web page for the "innocent (to the Chinese govt)" website, the end us
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by aminuit 17y ago
You run a hosted application environment. You experience an outage that affects all of your customers. Do you a) admit that you encountered a problem that sysadmins have known about since the dawn of the Internet, or b) spin it as a novel
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by aminuit 17y ago
There is a good point in the comments that isn't made in the article. Unlike a traffic light outage due to power failure, the ice buildup may only affect one of the signals, so the conventional rule to treat a dark traffic signal as a four
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by aminuit 17y ago
The expert: Jeffrey Moyer, chair of the National Organic Standards Board He has an agenda, and his story sounds apocryphal.
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by aminuit 17y ago
The On Language column in the Times was written for about thirty years by a guy named William Safire. The column usually criticized some recent instance of language usage in popular culture. He was frequently peevish but managed to avoid
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by aminuit 17y ago
I blame Howard Roark.
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by aminuit 17y ago
He mentions AOL and UUNET because he has worked at AOL and UUNET. The blog post is 90% strokefest and has no real point.
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by aminuit 17y ago
If you're bragging about 300ms average response times... If you're using "spidey-sense" to determine the underperforming elements in your software stack... There are a number of uncomfortable ideas in this article.
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by aminuit 17y ago
Do you plan to host reocities indefinitely, or is this just a stopgap measure before you can donate the collection to another organization?
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by aminuit 17y ago
The rest of this article discusses why dynamic linking does not deliver on any of its promises and why, just as communism, it might be an idea that only works in an ideal world. He depends on that comparison because the rest of his argume
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by aminuit 17y ago
"It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, to the Middle Ages. One of its characteristics was that "reasoning by analogy" was rampant; another characteristic was almost total intellectual stagnation, and we now see w

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