babakian

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Chatterbug: Free Lightweight Issue Tracking, for Teams Who Live in #Slack(fogcreek.com)
3 points by babakian 11y ago|0 comments
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Is Coding the New Literacy?(motherjones.com)
2 points by babakian 12y ago|0 comments
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by babakian 13y ago
Ha! I should have used larger made up numbers! How about $100/yr from 5% of their users? Anyhow, you know that the investors are betting that the numbers will grow. My main point is, Snapchat has a lot of users who have formed the habi
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by babakian 13y ago
What Snapchat has is millions of users who have formed the habit of opening the app every day and using it to communicate, sending 350 million* snaps a day. You can go ahead and make clones of Snapchat (or Facebook or Twitter), but building
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by babakian 13y ago
Transcript: http://votesmart.org/public-statement/295064/cbs-early-show-... SEN. BIDEN: But this idea that no court will review, no Congress will know, and we've got to trust the president and the vice presi
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Europe's economic crisis and birth rates(economist.com)
2 points by babakian 14y ago|0 comments
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Pacifist: A deal with North Korea(economist.com)
1 points by babakian 15y ago|0 comments
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Militarist: Bunker-busing bombs vs "smart concrete"(economist.com)
1 points by babakian 15y ago|1 comments
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Cutting the Cord on Cable (online.wsj.com)
45 points by babakian 15y ago|59 comments
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by babakian 15y ago
Hi raganwald. Your post might be dangerous. I am not an expert. It is worth further research. You can start with the following sections on Wikipedia to give you a gist of why it might be dangerous and then research further: - Journalism cod
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The vanishing began at night, frightened families packed after hearing the news(nytimes.com)
3 points by babakian 15y ago|2 comments
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by babakian 15y ago
Joel has taken inspiration from Philip Greenspun, as described here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000021.html
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Six Apart (Movable Type, TypePad) allegedly being acquired by VideoEgg(techcrunch.com)
14 points by babakian 16y ago|5 comments
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Computers Make Strides in Recognizing Speech(nytimes.com)
11 points by babakian 16y ago|4 comments
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by babakian 16y ago
Yes. It is a safe to say that Jonathan Ive has studied the work of Dieter Rams. When it comes to industrial design, Dieter Rams is one of the greats. There is nothing wrong with being inspired by him. It is important to note that this inspi
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All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions(nytimes.com)
1 points by babakian 16y ago|0 comments
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Stack Exchange 2.0(blog.stackexchange.com)
187 points by babakian 16y ago|96 comments
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by babakian 17y ago
You've introduced a new idea here by comparing FogBugz to Facebook. Those earlier comments are comparing the strategy that Fog Creek took versus the one that Facebook has taken. The strategies are similar, and so the comparison makes sens
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Programmer search engine(joelonsoftware.com)
90 points by babakian 17y ago|86 comments
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by babakian 17y ago
No, not really! (Though, he would make a good sitter.) I was trying to be funny, but I guess I should stick to making silly faces in pictures. However, he does enjoy making lattes for visitors at Fog Creek HQ, and people around the office.
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by babakian 17y ago
Hi. I'm that employee ( http://babak.ghahremanpour.com/ ). Joel does pay me for using the photo. He babysits twice a month so my wife and I can enjoy romantic dinners. I get shoulder rubs when I ask for them. And, he makes me the best latte
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The rich are having more children -- an important change in demography(economist.com)
12 points by babakian 17y ago|4 comments
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Stack Overflow DevDays(joelonsoftware.com)
46 points by babakian 17y ago|22 comments
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by babakian 18y ago
Actually, that's a shot of Joel's office. But, yeah, Fog Creeker's other than Joel do read Hacker News.
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Obama takes a stand for making decisions based on science and facts rather than ideology(change.gov)
1 points by babakian 18y ago|0 comments
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by babakian 18y ago
To the point about getting your data out. FogBugz On Demand lets you download a snapshot of your database, at any time, in three different formats: MS SQL Server, Access, and MySQL. The FogBugz database schema is open and fully documented h