IsaacL

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by IsaacL 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - London, UK or Remote Full-stack web developer; on the backend, I mostly code in Ruby, but I've also got a fair bit of experience with PHP and Java. Frontend-wise I'm experienced with HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery etc. Portfol
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Just by looking at a syntax table, the higher-level differences are not going to be enumerated. Just off the top of my head: - Ruby was always designed as an OO language, whereas Python OO was bolted on later. Ruby's object system is almost
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Sorry, but employees don't care that customers don't care that the company is sorry. In other words: you're right, but frontline employees are rarely motivated or trained to solve small issues in outside-the-box ways like this. At some plac
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Only shipping stuff counts(quora.com)
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The interesting thing I took from it was that a real world, non-tech small business -- in some senses the polar opposite of a VC-backed startup -- still benefits from the same principles; listen to your customers, act on their feedback, etc
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Peter Thiel's new 20-under-20 class? I'm not jealous. Honest.(blog.i.saac.me)
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It sounds like he's taking about the "permissions model" that exists on Android, Facebook, etc. That is, before the user installs the app, they're given a list of what operations that app will be allowed to perform. It's a very simple inter
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I agree with him about email, but not about RSS feeds. I've trimmed my RSS reader to remove all the blogs I rarely read. The TechCrunch slurry pipe was one of the first to go, but I also removed lots of blogs that did occasionally have good
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Stop asking "how will they make money?"(andrewchenblog.com)
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Stop Embarrassing Yourself With a Brand Persona That Doesn’t Make Sense(shoemoney.com)
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I would like to violate the privacy of the people I know and care about(quora.com)
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Thanks, added to the reading list.
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Brogramming with Zuck at TheFacebook Bungalow [2004](motherboard.vice.com)
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Thanks for the reply -- the valuation method I mentioned was obviously too crude, so I was hoping someone would call me out on it. I don't know much about finance but I'm actively trying to teach myself. Anyway, it would be good to find a m
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I'm cautiously bullish too. Been planning to write a blog post about this, but I'm in the middle of finals right now. Anyway, summarised: - They still have lots of growth potential in Asia, and other places as more and more of the planet co
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This discussion raised an interesting thought in my mind: what if CounterStrike was seen as a worthwhile sport by society? If the annual CounterStrike champion was seen as on a par with top sportspeople? If people like muraiki could say "
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Definitely agree. Contrast anglo culture with the great "foodie" cultures: India, China, France, Italy, etc. In China I had some of the best meals I ever had for about $2 - boiled rice and a variety of vegetable/meat dishes with assorted fl
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"When has that sort of line ever worked for startups?" When pitching to every tech VC and angel investor ever. It's assumed that "home-run" startups are going to be chasing large potential markets. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/1
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Agreed. Though I think the problem is not the "his", it's the "woman". "His wife" would sound fine. "HIS WOMAN" sounds like a caveman or Redditor talking.
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I've always thought that if I didn't study CS, and if I didn't care at all about mundane concerns like "career prospects", I'd have studied history. And I'm fascinated by projects like this that tie the two together. Anyone know of any open
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My Best Productivity Purchase Of The Last Year(sebastianmarshall.com)
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It's better than HN. I like HN, but after using it for a few years I noticed something wrong with the comments here that I couldn't quite articulate. Then I saw Quora, which showed me just how good a discussion community could be.
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I both agree and disagree. Anecdote for: when I joined Quora, almost everyone there was from the Valley, which got a bit annoying sometimes, as the default assumption was that you were in California. Eg I asked "What's the best way for a Br
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As a member of generation Y, I think the original "Organisation Kid" article really got what is wrong with my generation. We're not lazy, entitled, or afraid of competition, despite hundreds of articles by gen X/boomers claiming the opposit
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Another option in your situation would be to become an angel investor. (cf Venkatesh Rao's answer to this question: http://www.quora.com/Startups/I-want-to-start-a-tech-startup... "Find a couple of other older people with some experience
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From: t.cook@apple.com To: gou.t@foxconn.com.cn Subject: Re: leak No worries. I understand how sneaky the press can be. Why, just now I accidentally let slip to a WSJ journalist about what really happened to your Chengdu workers. But no-one
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The IPO is because once a company passes certain thresholds of investment/no. of investment, they have to make their accounts public. While this doesn't mean they have to IPO, once accounts are public, there is little reason not to IPO.
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"i wouldn't be surprised if they actually started charging large corporations like nike for their pages usage" That's the thing, I think their valuation is based on the ton of potential revenue opportunities like that they haven't explored
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China has two of the world's fastest supercomputers and an active space programme, so they're not doing too badly. Slightly more outlandish, they're also the world leaders in cloud seeding, as they wanted to make sure that the weather for t
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Google 2011 revenues: $37.9 billion. 96% from AdWords. So I'm guessing someone is clicking on online adverts. Outside of a certain segment of the startup scene, where actually spending money on marketing is uncool and you have to get custom

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