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How Basecamp Blew Up(platformer.news)
26 points by samd 5y ago|1 comments
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by samd 7y ago
This post got flagged off the homepage almost as soon as it made it there.
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by samd 8y ago
How much do you have to save on your phone bill before you can buy a house? The difference between a cheap Android and an old iPhone isn't going to be enough to buy a home, or provide food for the family every day, or pay for (or off)
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by samd 8y ago
So damn true, it's so difficult to get statistically significant A/B test results, and the popular tools actively lead you astray. It's rare enough for a startup to have the traffic to meaningfully get results on their homepa
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by samd 9y ago
Four hours without comment, not many upvotes, and clearly a flag or two. Hacker News doesn't want to face the demons in its own industry. Seems that nobody wants to know that the darling Tesla is rotten at the core. Culture comes from
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by samd 11y ago
Are you being coy? I assume you know about the disparity in engineering jobs between men and women, particularly in management and executive roles, but are blaming this on something else. Say what you mean.
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by samd 11y ago
That's good news if true, the women who make it and get promoted earn the same as their counterparts. Still lots of work to be done removing the barriers that keep them from getting these jobs and promotions in the first place.
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by samd 11y ago
Absolutely. How is it just to punish one person with financial catastrophe while another with mild inconvenience for the same crime?
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by samd 11y ago
No, he just asserts it. And it's probably impossible to prove.
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by samd 11y ago
To summarize his arguments: The universe is eternal, which means it has always and will always exist. If there is something that always exists, then it is impossible for there to be nothing. It is impossible for there to be nothing. Not a v
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by samd 11y ago
First two comments come right out the gate and cast doubt on the authors experiences. One goes on and says women and minorities, particularly blacks, are not smart enough to make it through difficult CS classes. This is pathetic Hacker News
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by samd 12y ago
Implicit in your comments is the idea that you can't work with women without the risk of lawsuits. This is classic victim-blaming. The problem is not the lawsuits. The problem is harassment, and further, the men who are so incapable of
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by samd 13y ago
N's tend to be big-picture, conceptual thinkers, whereas S's are detail-oriented and concrete. J's are to-do list sorts of people, they enjoy finishing tasks, tend to "get a lot of stuff done", but can be stressed i
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Dear HN: Please don't start a response with the word "wrong."
19 points by samd 13y ago|11 comments
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by samd 13y ago
I'd say the premise is that people who work in SF should have a right to live in SF.
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by samd 13y ago
In case anyone hasn't already seen it: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ tl;dr Use bcrypt.
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Liberty’s lost decade(economist.com)
6 points by samd 13y ago|2 comments
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by samd 13y ago
"This weekend I was in front of a TV and people were watching Randy To The Rescue." Funny use of language there, especially given he goes on to explain the episode and quote from it. I think that means you were watching television
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by samd 13y ago
Yes, the more you know about your target the more confident you become about their nationality. Though I don't think the target needs to be a specific person, it could just be an email address couldn't it? Given just an email addr
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by samd 13y ago
The supervisor must endorse the analyst's "reasonable belief," defined as 51 percent confidence, that the specified target is a foreign national who is overseas at the time of collection. US citizens make up less than 50% o
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by samd 13y ago
This is the introduction and conclusion to what could be an interesting blog post on how to present and "sell" new technology to people using Go and Ruby as examples. Unfortunately, the entire body of that blog post is missing. Ku
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by samd 13y ago
Every American has to ask themselves, "Is this worth it?" Are the plots stopped and the lives saved worth the loss of privacy, the loss of trust and good will internationally, and most frightening of all, the unprecedented power t
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by samd 13y ago
What's really important is this line: "For that reason, we wanted to let you guys, loyal Cutting Edge readers and Knife Depot fans, know that you might not being seeing Knife Depot ads peppered across the Internet. " If you don't get to ad
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by samd 14y ago
Alright, read the manifesto first, understand it, then go read about Scrum.
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by samd 14y ago
"At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." That's what I mean by retro. Two parts: self-reflection, and change of behavior. Sounds like your problem with ret
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by samd 14y ago
Don't read this article either. Instead read the actual Agile manifesto. It's really short, but very insightful. After you've read it stop and think (we're programmers, we're supposed to be good at that) about how your current process, or a
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by samd 14y ago
That's a great analogy. I think you need a high-functioning team that really understands the Agile manifesto and its principles to roll-your-own solution. If you are going to roll-your-own solution, start with retro and build from there. Re
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Ask HN: What tools and processes do you use to manage your small team?
1 points by samd 14y ago|0 comments
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by samd 14y ago
What I like most about the Nexus 7 is the soft rubberized backing. I'm not constantly worried about scratching it, I can toss it around more, but it doesn't require a bulky, obnoxious case. Have you seen those sci-fi movies where people jus
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Very Basic Startup Marketing(robgo.org)
11 points by samd 14y ago|0 comments

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