tim2

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by tim2 18y ago
Indeed, indeed.
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by tim2 18y ago
If this is the case for hackers then I can at least see a very good reason for it. The _only_ reason I learned to program was for the power it gives me to create new things and explore whatever I want. Take that away from me? Forget it, I'l
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by tim2 18y ago
I just thought that, all else being equal, people on both sides are equally stubborn about sticking to their own ideas. Do you find this not to be the case?
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by tim2 18y ago
Nonsense, everyone wants to work on their own ideas.
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by tim2 18y ago
Because typically the programmer will end up spending 1000x longer to complete his part. This is no exaggeration.
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by tim2 18y ago
My strategy has always entertained me because the guys I've known were so thrilled about their rediculous "world changing" idea that they were crushed to find that hardly any outsourcers were even interested:) Yours will work well enough, b
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by tim2 18y ago
Two things: 1) It would be great to have more reasonably good people here. 2) But I just don't want the scoring to be screwed up. If the voting keeps stuff that's only of interest to people who are into hacking and startups on the front pag
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by tim2 18y ago
In theory, but we're talking about guys who think that you love programming so much that you'll just work for some of their worthless equity.
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by tim2 18y ago
Send them to an outsourcing site. Tell them you'll offer a competitive rate. Most of these guys won't think of spending a dollar.
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by tim2 18y ago
Even the least skillful trolls mask their ill intent by blending in and maintaining a non-descript tone. This is done in order to get past the "human spam filter." If you run stupidity detection based purely on the contents of their comment
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by tim2 18y ago
Thankyou for the clarification.
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by tim2 18y ago
[nevermind] ---Untrue. Unless your product has already shown considerable traction or you're a startup legend, it is 100% percent certain that they will not accept you as a single founder. Not making a judgement on this policy, it just seem
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by tim2 18y ago
You do realize that this is the antithesis of the core reason of why startups work, yes? What's fundamental is that it is those few abnormal people who change the world 1000x more than the regular person. When you have near infinite money l
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by tim2 18y ago
Wow. %%%king unbelievable ending. I would have punched that guy in the face.
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by tim2 18y ago
"The single most important item in 2008 households is the computer." A true visionary.
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by tim2 18y ago
Bad voters, bad.
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by tim2 18y ago
Investment bankers trashing hackers. What to say.
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by tim2 18y ago
Missed it here to. Can't believe it, I was hacking all night... Anyway, 16th? Great, I'm there.
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by tim2 18y ago
Cache cache cache. Pre-cache, serve slightly stale cache, write your own data structures to store cache data in special ways. The obvious method is to use mem-cached, but beyond that, nothing seems to be standardized. Use every trick you ca
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by tim2 18y ago
The way they have it executed is incredibly annoying.
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by tim2 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143097 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143451 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96078
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by tim2 18y ago
But the chicks are AWESOME.
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by tim2 18y ago
There's an economic principal on how specialization can increase output for the same amount of work. Otherwise, clearly some failed startups can tell that they're doomed before they finally give up and this might give them something more va
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by tim2 18y ago
"optional office space"
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by tim2 18y ago
Google does give almost everything away for free. Apple's... users are pretty ruthless by proxy (alright, got me there).
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by tim2 18y ago
> Five percent of the equity in each company will be distributed in a pool to be shared by other Founders Co-op firms. Smart way to encourage people to help each other.
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by tim2 18y ago
Try using a proxy to get a server in a different location.
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by tim2 18y ago
gmail+gchat working fine here.
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by tim2 18y ago
> rejected simply because I'm a sole founder. The application certainly makes it seem that this is the case.
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by tim2 18y ago
Utilizing reputations through clustering of voting histories in order to produce their recommendations is a pretty good description of what's going on there now. Next they're planning on giving you even more control by allowing you to contr

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