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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
"The government bombs another country every 1-2 years" This is dumbing down history. The world would as we know it would not exist without all the US army involvement around the world in the last 100 years: notably WWI,WWII, the c
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
"We're having a conversation!" is a perfectly legit saying, even to someone who is not a stranger on the street. On the other hand, Naval is a celebrity, and it's more expected for a celebrity to get such requests - mayb
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
Nothing special, really. On a virtual machine you can even leave everything open as is, so it's ready to continue. If I'm near a commit, I will not commit until next time. Then I start with the commit review, and commit.
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
(1) Stop working in the middle of something, so when you get back you don't have to guess what next. It's an old hack (2) Keep a "what's next" list of 3-5 items, in addition to the project plan/to-do list (3) D
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
javascript is OK too. Avoid Python.
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
I just launched my product in just 2190 days. The interesting thing is that only a handful of key decisions, maybe 3-4 decisions, would save 80% of this period. But this is the (now) expert hindsight. It's not easy to spot it in real t
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
Maybe, but more downvotes were for the initial comment
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
yet again: not agree = downvote.
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
People change
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
Sometimes you learn about a person implicitly more than his explicit intentional declarations. This is the same Vinod Koshla who seized a public beach, and a beautiful and rare one, to his own utility against the law. This says a lot about
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Extreme cases are never good examples for a general make sense rule. Most of the west ads induced consumption is not self expression purchase, but rather a desire to confirm to an imaginary false standard that ads present as something real.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
On a broad scale, we have moved from a culture of ads as info, to ads that push you to buy whatever the factory produces. This huge supply and false demand for things we don't really need has a huge impact of consumption culture, perso
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Ask HN: What is your favourite colour?
1 points by DodgyEggplant 12y ago|2 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Well, two comments: First, it's hard, but never before a single person or small company could at least technically reach millions of people with feasible investment. Now you can. Second, by the time people who do paper work got to po
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Better title would be when the "modern capitalism is rewarding value extraction over value creation" argument. Think twitter, starting with "do good" argument attracting devs when they need them, then shutting them out l
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
For the record, drawing on screen was poking bytes directly to the screen memory.
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The New “Don't Be Evil”: Asterisk Free Marketing(developingperspective.com)
1 points by DodgyEggplant 12y ago|0 comments
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The Pmarca Blog Archive Is Back… as an Ebook(a16z.com)
3 points by DodgyEggplant 12y ago|0 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
In some fields, especially science, you probably need to be 10-15 years in to start something, so 30's and up. The question: what is the age stats if you do not calculate science oriented startups.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
>> I only look at technical accomplishments Without age discrimination >>accomplishments are in light of how much time they've had to achieve them Age discrimination by definition
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Yes. Age is a fundamental figure for any demographics. Gender, ethnic group, and age. The fact that age is totally ignored is a huge blind spot.
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Learn X in Y minutes(learnxinyminutes.com)
11 points by DodgyEggplant 12y ago|1 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Downvoted. Nevertheless, it's a an important issue to consider. Not less important than other aspects of the technical OS features or corporate issues of Apple/Google/MS/Amazon etc which are frequently discussed here.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
The true added value of the price of a Windows license
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Not all basketball talents play at the NBA. And there are musicians after Mozart and the Beatles. Look at people you can admire, and make even tiny steps by their standards. You can be 10% Bill Gates (example, pick your own), or 1%, or 0.01
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-on-tech-bubble-a...
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
This is a nice article, that clearly demonstrates the great value that hedge fund managers contributed to humanity along the years
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
This is a huge case, maybe rare, how money is better used than a tax payment. Non of this would happen if sunk into the government
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Well, this is the debate. OO tends to reduct the total lines of code, but increase the lines of code you have to view when you debug per issue. When you look at the code that triggered the bug, it's hard to tell what is local a
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
And while we are at it, maybe the reader Joel Spolsky would like to do something about it

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