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by 100k 17y ago
I enjoyed "An Amazon clone in 14 lines of Clojure" -- that would be something to see.
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by 100k 17y ago
I like it! What increment did you use?
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by 100k 17y ago
This company is interesting. They call themselves a "venture development firm", as in they invest in your company in exchange for equity, like a VC. http://developertown.com What I'm wondering is, how do they eat? Even if this model did w
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by 100k 17y ago
I hate the git index but his description of how conflicted merges work with git (only showing diffs of the conflicts) is compelling.
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by 100k 17y ago
Rather than increased competition, I think the reason we are not happier is that wealth levels have risen for all classes[1]. Materially we are better off than our ancestors but relatively speaking we are the same. Most people would prefer
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by 100k 17y ago
I think ajross hits the nail on the head here. These people are all very well off, comparatively speaking and they're complaining because their kids can't go to private colleges costing $40+K/year. I think the only really valid point the ar
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by 100k 17y ago
I fully endorse the term "wanklage". Brilliant!
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by 100k 17y ago
I think it's clear that the problem with California is not the taxation rate (which after all at 10.5% is not much higher than the national average of 9.7% and ranks only 6th) but rather that the entire state government is incredibly broken
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by 100k 17y ago
The more things change... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
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by 100k 17y ago
That is a good point that is often overlooked. If you're willing to maintain your own servers, you can get _much_ better bang for the buck than leasing them from Amazon (and way better IO performance which matters a lot for your DB). I some
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by 100k 17y ago
Looks like a great start, Michael!
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by 100k 17y ago
Good question. I always hit my back button as quickly as possible if I inadvertently land on one of their pages.
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by 100k 17y ago
That isn't anywhere close to what Stack Overflow is doing. This isn't selling user details from Stack Overflow (for which all the data is available for download, by the way: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ... )
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by 100k 17y ago
Stack Overflow charges quite a bit of money for the right to search for candidates (plans range from $500 for one week access to $5000 for a year) so that should limit the number of inquiries. Also, you can easily remove yourself from the s
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by 100k 17y ago
I won't go as far as the author but I think camel cased names are going to look pretty dated in the future. As Ken MacLeod put it in "The Star Fraction", written in 1995 and set in the mid-twenty first century: "The name [FreeSpace] had onc
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More YC interview advice from Luke (S09, FanChatter)(railspikes.com)
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by 100k 17y ago
Anyone who has driven across the US with an iPhone (or, hell, tried to use on in San Francisco) knows AT&T's 3G network is total crap. I don't think they win by fighting this characterization.
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by 100k 17y ago
Not sure if I should take naming advice from the guy who registered 000fff.org ;)
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by 100k 17y ago
Yeah, I know that. I had about 40 tabs open with every page I could find. All I'm saying is that It takes a while to figure out stuff like: I would like to call toLowerCase on a list of strings. How do I pass an argument to the function? (m
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by 100k 17y ago
True, this is often the case. I think what Joel is asking for is that students be forced to do at least one project that is long-term and collaborative by it's very nature so you learn the skill of working on a team.
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by 100k 17y ago
I just spent the weekend messing around with Clojure. The docs aren't great (mainly due to lack of examples, IMHO) and it's been 10 years since I seriously programmed in any Lisp so it's been a bit slow going. But I am in love with the conc
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by 100k 17y ago
Amen! This has been one of my rallying points for years: in school, you are not taught how to collaborate on a team, or even basic software engineering practices like source control. This is ridiculous because every software developer needs
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by 100k 17y ago
I compared it to marriage (and yes, I am married) because when you start a company with someone, you're beholden to their weaknesses as well as benefiting from their strengths. For example, if your co-founder only has 3 months of living exp
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by 100k 17y ago
"All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there." Man, I would love to see a probe that can find out if there is life on Europa in my lifetime. That would be so amazing.
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by 100k 17y ago
I've been using sexy_pg_constraints with good success for a while. Doesn't do functions like this though. http://github.com/maxim/sexy_pg_constraints You do have to switch to sql export for the schema which is kind of a bummer because it'
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by 100k 17y ago
+1 for the Computer History Museum. That place is amazing! They have one of two working Difference Engines (reconstructed, as Babbage never quite got it built) plus tons of old hardware that's fun to check out.
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FogCreek enters repo hosting/code review space with Kiln(fogcreek.com)
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by 100k 17y ago
This is by Frans de Waal who wrote the fascinating book "Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals". http://www.amazon.com/Good-Natured-Origins-Humans-Animals/dp... I picked this book up for like $1 or somet
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by 100k 17y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. We're rolling out a new layout for the photo page to make navigation easier. We will look into the keyboard navigation feature.
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by 100k 17y ago
Which non-relational database is powering the NoSQL East website? :) Love the UI...very cool. I was hoping to find some Zork commands in there.

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