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by 10ren 16y ago
The recent posts on how easy it is to launch a start up these days screamed "glut" to me. One solution is to target a niche that wouldn't be well enough served by a universal solution. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that monitoring comp
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excellent work! The only think I'd say is to make the "update" button more prominent (eg add another one beneath the "searching for tags" sliders). A few times I wondered why it was not updating the results, and had to hunt around for it. M
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by 10ren 16y ago
I believe race conditions can still occur in pure message-passing languages, like Erlang (Joe Armstrong says so in Programming Erlang , p.173). This doesn't get much press, perhaps because it's much easier to get right than shared-memory,
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by 10ren 16y ago
About the lisp in unix question (#3): ocaml has struck me as lisp +c, because it's functional + mind-blowing performance. I'm not experienced in ocaml, it's just that when I tried it, it was that fast. I don't know if it has the homoiconism
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Assuming you aren't only mocking: when you're lost in a problem so complex that you don't even know where to start, you can focus your efforts (ie. narrow the scope) by trying to express your concern as a specific question (just one; tryi
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Anthropomorphic terminology --> operational thinking [Dijkstra](userweb.cs.utexas.edu)
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by 10ren 16y ago
- Ask a question. Define the nouns. - Sleep 2 hours extra. - Find a purpose that means something to you (not success/cool/clever).
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I thought they were going to allow seamless zooming down the street. That would be cool, and the data is available to do it. The as-perspective-as-possible transitions could be a lot smoother, but I guess they wanted to minimize the process
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Cool! You could improve the contrast by preparing two at once (so a total of four colours), and then crossing them. Perhaps have one colour the same, to act as a "background".
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my opinion: you are spending emotional energy on judging yourself. This energy is then not available for your goals. (Emotional energy is like a limited supply of money: spend it wisely, don't throw it away.) It undermines your motivation,
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by 10ren 16y ago
> you don't understand your startup's assumptions. The cure reminds me of what Fred Brooks said in The Mythical Man-Month after 20 years , at p.258-9 ( MM-M , 2nd ed.) about defining the user set (ie. who the users are), as a populatio
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Great story, sounds too good to be true, it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone#Success_with... Here's poetry and stories of edgar allan poe (fulltext): http://poestories.com/index.php May it get us, too, out of ourselve
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OCaml as a scripting language(ocaml.janestreet.com)
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Newspeak: a principled dynamically typed language(newspeaklanguage.org)
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Mirah: JRuby + static-typing + fast JVM bytecode(mirah.org)
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Survey of startup competitive advantages(radar.oreilly.com)
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XSDs provide type-checking.
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1. Perhaps we need to actually have the hardware before we can start playing with it, and come up with solutions. That's how it usually goes. 2. Maybe they are jumping ahead to "many-core". Instead ask: what can we do with this extra silico
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by 10ren 16y ago
My opinion. It's partly because teams who do webapps tend to be small, young and agile. First, prejudices: they prefer new things (Java is old); they dislike the environment that is Java's home (big enterprise) and the practices and persona
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painting by numbers (art by demographic statistics): http://www.amazon.com/Painting-Numbers-Komar-Melamids-Scient... When I was 10, The Flintstones had an episode about this. Fred and Barney gathered statistics about what people wanted in
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by 10ren 16y ago
So it sounds like you're convinced you should aim lower, but are having trouble actually doing it. Oh no, you don't ask for feedback from your colleagues - you get it from people with the problem you're solving. From users. Your fellow deve
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You aim too high. Is it because you are not convinced that aiming lower is the right thing to do; or do you believe it but you have trouble actually doing it? Perfectionism is common in programmers (perhaps because imperfect syntax doesn'
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"finished" is a dangerous concept. I'm not clear on what you mean by "losing faith in the product". Do you mean that you stopped believing that it had any value whatsoever; or that any/enough customers would ever like it; or that you lost f
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You found a great article yesterday - now you can't find it! I think the above style of copy works far better for connecting with readers and calling out the problem you solve. It's shorter (always good) and assumes the reader agre
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This essay is mainly based on the common folk wisdom that you see everywhere, on iteration and solving the actual problem: 37signals. Steve Blank. Fred Brooks. esr. extreme programming. Moore. In Search of Excellence. Linus. [off the top of
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I agree, it's not Arc, it's the webapp. And it does seem bizarrely unprofessional (I often consider my comments for a long time, so I almost always get the timeout - I'm being punished for thinking! ). There also had to be a substantial
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by 10ren 16y ago
The "try coffeescript" demo ( http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ ) is really cool. It converts to javascript in realtime/as you type, including error checking on the fly. I like the lambda syntax (I don't recall seeing exactly this
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This is by Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) single page: http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/pr
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Moore gives a case-study of how Quicken got started (in crossing the chasm , in ch 6 define the battle - p.139, rev. ed.). Sounds very relevant and useful, and I commend it to you, even though it's about a later stage (providing the who
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(naive) Question: What do web startups need $20mm for? (linked from the article: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/07/some-thoughts-on-the-seed-fu... ) I mean, what can they spend it on? I can think of servers and bandwidth (but they're pretty

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