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by 100k 11y ago
People love _using_ Airbnb, but don't want an Airbnb rental next to their home. The negative externalities remind me of cars: super useful for me, super annoying to you.
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by 100k 11y ago
Reminds me of this (fake) interview with Linus where he points out the "easter egg" in git: "Eventually you’ll discover the Easter egg in Git: all meaningful operations can be expressed in terms of the rebase command. Once yo
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by 100k 11y ago
"My company's CTO just told me we need to support more browsers than just Chrome. I put in my two weeks notice." https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker/status/274693354804084736
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by 100k 11y ago
"Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes." http://www.schneierfacts.com/fact/27
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by 100k 11y ago
Is there a one-liner you can use from the shell that preserves order?
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by 100k 11y ago
I used to do this, but now I use jq. The thing about the Python version is that Python doesn't have ordered dictionaries, so the output isn't in the same order as the raw JSON. jq doesn't have that issue which is nice.
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by 100k 11y ago
Or it will extend to the previous generation, like in this Portlandia skit: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLW0MnqH0r8
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by 100k 11y ago
Orson Scott Card borrowed the name from Ursula K, LeGuin. You should check out The Dispossesed (about the inventor of the ansible). It's a great book.
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by 100k 11y ago
Thanks. I was wondering about that, but had never heard of a split in a private company.
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by 100k 11y ago
Can anyone who's been though an IPO comment on what happened to the early employees with their 0.1% stake (of the original 10 million shares)? Everyone understands that they'll get diluted with new rounds, but when I read that Dor
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by 100k 11y ago
Ha. Thanks for the note. I'm reading on Mobile Safari, so without it, I would have thought Dorsey's message was just a single, ambiguous tweet.
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by 100k 11y ago
Another excellent reason to write your own query parser instead of using Lucene's. Lucene's query parser is way too powerful to expose to end users.
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by 100k 11y ago
I'd never heard of hellburner ships, but I _have_ read C.J. Cherryh's novel Hellburner ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_to_the_Belt ). I wonder if that's where she got the name.
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by 100k 11y ago
Yegge's "It's not software" from 2004 has a nice bit about microservices -- pretty ahead of the hype curve on that one: > What if every "API call" were hosted by a different server? Well, you'd have a l
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by 100k 11y ago
This looks really nice. The resources linked to are also cool: http://www.daveliepmann.com/tufte-css/ http://sachsmc.github.io/tufterhandout/
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by 100k 11y ago
Stripe is worth $5 billion. I don't think they hired the wrong people.
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by 100k 11y ago
Sure there are tons of languages, with different strengths and weaknesses. The part that is important is that the early engineers need to be productive in the language. Choose boring (to you) technology.
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by 100k 11y ago
Only if the early engineers could write in a language that they were as productive in as Ruby. Getting Stripe launched was the key thing Stripe needed to accomplish. Everything else follows from that.
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by 100k 11y ago
Pretty sure it was a standard list of questions - perhaps emailed. Still, she is one of my favorite writers so it's interesting to read what she likes reading.
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by 100k 11y ago
Sometimes they are. I really like it. I was selected to speak at a Ruby conference with a blind submission process. I remember feeling pretty good when one of the people who was a frequent speaker at Ruby conferences was whining on Twitter
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by 100k 11y ago
It's the future! http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/
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by 100k 11y ago
I liked looking through my parents' photos as a kid, but there was a couple of photo books at most. I can't imagine my (hypothetical) grandkids sorting through 60 years worth of digital photos unless software has gotten a lot bett
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by 100k 11y ago
Perhaps folks working at also-ran startups are not there because they are bad at picking but bad at getting hired[1] at more successful companies. [1] This doesn't mean they're bad -- they could have trouble interviewing, or be su
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by 100k 11y ago
The rest of the site is a helpful database of tech companies considered to be "breaking out" which would look good on your resume/teach you a lot/maybe make you some money.
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by 100k 11y ago
Very interesting! Direct link: http://www.cosmographica.com/spaceart/pluto-predicted.html
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by 100k 11y ago
You can do that: https://pinboard.in/faq/#filter_by_tags
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by 100k 11y ago
The post ends with "Please don't forget to make backups!" I love Maciej's sense of humor and honesty. Now, to download my bookmarks...
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by 100k 11y ago
You're right, but I think if an early stage company has "developers get quiet working conditions" in its DNA, it's more likely to persist as the company grows.
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by 100k 11y ago
Having a quiet office is a big plus for me. I would definitely consider that when choosing a company to apply to.
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by 100k 11y ago
This Immortal is terrific. And Zelazany in general. Dune and Lord of Light ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light ) are a few of the only SF books I re-read on a regular basis.

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