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by gwc 15y ago
His point makes a lot more sense in the context it was originally intended. He's not making a point about programming or debugging in general; he's specifically discussing tech support as a one-man indie game shop. In particular, it's all
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by gwc 16y ago
A programmer working defense state-side does not make nearly those figures. 80 to 100 is much closer to what a software engineer with several years of experience makes working for a defense contractor than 250, though of course actual years
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by gwc 17y ago
I should not need to understand the subtle privacy interplay of several different and seemingly unrelated Google products just because I use one of them (Gmail). I entirely agree with this, although I'll point out that IIRC Google Chat di
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by gwc 17y ago
Don't let the FUD fool you. It's "active" in that you can see other people's buzz posts and you get a buzz item on the left menu, but until you create a public profile none of your information (such as follower/followee lists) has been mad
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Pimp My Lock: A case study in Scala API design(uncountablymany.blogspot.com)
4 points by gwc 17y ago|0 comments
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by gwc 17y ago
That's just silly. A confidence interval by definition is a range; the commenter is arbitrarily choosing to post only the low end of that range. If the high end were posted instead, Washington's lead would look that much more impressive.
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Angels and Seed Funding in Boston(blog.bos.genotrope.com)
1 points by gwc 17y ago|0 comments
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by gwc 17y ago
I don't mind smart people with limited relevant experience having opinions or even defending them vigorously. However three passages in particular struck me: Mr. Deese was not the only one favoring the Fiat deal, but his lengthy memorandu
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by gwc 17y ago
That may be true for 'most' founders (although I suspect it is far from universal), but I think it is fairly evident that Peldi has chosen the latter path. See: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=587 Peldi doesn't seem to be viewing Balsami
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by gwc 17y ago
Toyota uses Prius as the plural of Prius, though apparently whatever you want to use is fine with them: http://www.greenhybrid.com/wiki/index.php/Interview_with_Ed_...
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by gwc 17y ago
I had an English teacher in high school who was highly attentive to this sort of construct. He would return many a paper with "VPR" marks sprinkled throughout for 'vague pronoun reference' and points deducted accordingly. Certainly a comm
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A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency (Python)(dabeaz.com)
3 points by gwc 17y ago|0 comments
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by gwc 18y ago
Yes, that is the jist of the last sentence. However that was clearly not the message the bulk of the post was intending to express: He [Charlie Miller] did mention, in his interview with Ryan Naraine, that Chrome was pretty much in anot
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"Good Enough": A Case Study (Ticketstumbler)(tom.posterous.com)
3 points by gwc 18y ago|0 comments
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by gwc 18y ago
i.e. the difference between becoming Ramen profitable and needing to push for funding?
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by gwc 18y ago
Especially when advocating the importance of non-technical courses.
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by gwc 18y ago
Isn't limiting this liability this one of the primary reasons for incorporating?
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by gwc 18y ago
Seems a little involved just to get in on a poker game. :)
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by gwc 18y ago
What if you're not, but would like to be?
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by gwc 18y ago
IANAL, but it is my understanding that at issue here is the deal would (could) have created / extended a monopoly. Antitrust in the US does not disallow monopolies, per se, as you note; however, it does disallow creation or furthering of a
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by gwc 18y ago
I'm not sure Joel wrote about this to brag; at the very least, he wrote about this because it made for an interesting / relevant entry for his monthly Inc.com article. I agree that it might come off a bit as preening, but to be fair Joel's
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by gwc 18y ago
I find that the the weeding your garden example has a more general analogue outside of content: managing code debt. The more mature a code base and the more hands that touch it, the more often little shortcuts, design decisions that lead
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by gwc 18y ago
"above average" in this context usually means median, not mean - i.e. "in the top 50%"
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by gwc 18y ago
7 of the 9 are YC companies - pretty impressive. Does YC have some particular connection to the Web 2.0 Summit or is this simply a reflection of YC's leadership in the " companies that have developed nifty Web 2.0 sites (with only a little
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by gwc 18y ago
There are other types of relevant diversity, however. The authors speak directly to "functional" diversity, which they describe as " differences in how people represent problems and how they go about solving them ". In the context of wanti
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by gwc 18y ago
If you actually read the paper, I think you will find that the authors do not, in fact, make the proposal that you are assuming. " Should the organization hire (i) the person with the highest score, (ii) 20 people with the next 20 highest s
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by gwc 18y ago
This phenomenon is by no means unique to entrepreneurial pitches. I see this all the time in big business: managers BSing customers about stuff they don't know, managers BSing higher managers about stuff they don't know, engineers BSing man
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by gwc 18y ago
This guy is making a generic conclusion (open source does not need money) because of a bad project admin/lead. I'm not sure I follow this assertion. Jeff is asking a generic question, yes, and he does make some generic suppositions, but
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by gwc 18y ago
Is it sufficient to simply not target growth as a goal? HN, if I'm not mistaken, has kept a general upward trend in number of users; presumably, this is accompanied by an ever-increasing variance in quality of those users and what they cons
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by gwc 18y ago
This is a very noble aspiration, but many benevolent stewards of online communities have tried and failed; it is a historically intractable problem. I think the OP is asking what is the "what it takes"?

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