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by Jd 16y ago
Err, from your website: "We offer... consulting services at rates that are much less than you might find from other US based software firms"
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by Jd 16y ago
I'm of the opinion this understates the problem. First, it is an ethical problem. The idea of producing things is not taught in elite colleges, nor is the idea that it is possible to make a positive contribution to society (e.g. rms) withou
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by Jd 16y ago
The title is a suggestion. Discourage your friends from putting their energies into creating financial products of dubious value and instead encourage them to engage in substantive work that makes a clearly positive contribution. Yes, yes,
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Cornell Will Reveal Secret Academic Journal Pricing(techdirt.com)
129 points by Jd 16y ago|33 comments
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by Jd 16y ago
Great article, although there are a couple of things that probably should be mentioned: (1) Part of the reason programmers are bad negotiators are because they don't usually have highly cultivated social skills. If by some chance a programm
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by Jd 16y ago
Question 3 was the most interesting but data on parsing remarkably incomplete. As far as I can tell, we have only lists of possible ways to break down the data without any explanation of how or why one possible way is preferred to another.
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by Jd 16y ago
Homo sapiens didn't have a chance in the first place.
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by Jd 16y ago
First you are comparing the percentage of the US population over 25 with the German population 15 and over. Also, I'm not sure how you came up with the 13.6% or the 22% figure.
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by Jd 16y ago
And included a link to a very colorful but incomprehensible resume.
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by Jd 16y ago
Playing PR games (even if you win) may make you look good at the moment but has a tendency to spiral into more PR games instead of a better product. Also, as stated on the earlier HN thread on this topic, it isn't at all clear that Google w
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by Jd 16y ago
The comparison between startups and PhDs is not esp. appropriate. The entrepreneur often is willing to assume greater risk for greater pecuniary reward, whereas the PhD often is not assuming any greater risk but willing to accept likely les
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by Jd 16y ago
It's not obscuring. Think about it a bit more. guardian(s) = mother and/or father household = guardian(s) + child Before 20% of mothers worked. Now 70% of guardians (including both adults if there are two) work That actually indicates a net
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by Jd 16y ago
Link: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14...
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by Jd 16y ago
Basically the gist is: You need to be prepared for anything to stop working at any time. The tone of this post indicates to me that the criticism and problems experienced by Netflix with AWS are understated, which I can understand given the
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by Jd 16y ago
Whenever I feel lonely I review this classic comment from proggit: http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac295/fractastical/ui2ik9...
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Winners and Losers: Thoughts on the Heroku Aquisition(d3developer.com)
3 points by Jd 16y ago|0 comments
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by Jd 16y ago
I also agree with your rejoinder and upvoted it :)
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by Jd 16y ago
"Apart from crazy people like..." Hmm, I didn't realize Newt Gingrich was crazy. I wonder if your list of crazy people includes virtually everyone not in your preferred political party. "Yet we're to believe that a single private in the mil
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by Jd 16y ago
If there is treason, it is with the person leaking the documents -- not the media vehicle which publishes them.
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by Jd 16y ago
Also a significant discussion of this phenomenon in PK Dick's VALIS trilogy
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by Jd 16y ago
I think there are lots of ways to go about startups and only some subset qualify as the yegg's "startup career path." Which is to say, there are a fair number of things that are startups and can be done with a couple coders and some ramen o
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by Jd 16y ago
It is (2) that got me. It just takes too much time that I've never had. I'm probably 14 kyu.
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by Jd 16y ago
I don't understand. What is a "proper workstation" ? In my home office I have a MBP w/ a Microsoft Ergonomic Elite Keyboard w/ one 24 inch Cinema display (Apple) and one 19 inch flatscreen. I also use an Intellimouse. As far as I can tell,
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by Jd 16y ago
No need to apologize to 37signals. They wouldn't to you!
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by Jd 16y ago
spreadsheet != laziness (at least, not necessarily)
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by Jd 16y ago
tl
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by Jd 16y ago
I use exactly the same 3 tier system, except changing the top tier password about once every 4-5 months and the second tier about once every year.
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by Jd 16y ago
I do development in the Salesforce world but I wouldn't call most of what I do implementations. My blog, linked in my profile, has a link to my Linked in profile.
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by Jd 16y ago
That's about my experience, although under a shorter time frame (6 months instead of 4 years).
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by Jd 16y ago
Here's what I do: (1) Write code that in house devs could not write. Usually integrations for multiple technology sets, including things that I can teach myself that others would need training for, and otherwise complicated pieces that migh

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