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Report says 75% of VC-backed startups fail(geekwire.com)
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by Maro 14y ago
Fact: They call themselves gipsies ("cigany") when they talk among each other. You hear it all the time on the subway, and I heard it several times while working there. You are right, the PC term right now is "roma". But the distinction bet
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by Maro 14y ago
I recently spent 2 days working on a renovation project at a local slum here in Hungary. The slum is a couple hundred gipsy families, living in unfinished/abandoned houses without water, gas/heating, they steal electricity off the grid. Thi
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Apiary - Document your REST APIs(apiary.io)
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by Maro 14y ago
Works on mobile? I usually have Facebook open in a tab on my desktop/macbook. But I never check it on my iPhone, somehow the content on Facebook (mostly funny pics, articles, sometimes actual photos of friends at events) doesn't fit the con
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by Maro 14y ago
The Lean Startup - Too bad this wasn't around when I was starting my (now failed) startup 4 years ago. Softwar - Larry Ellison's story. Fascinating read. Games People Play - Classic by Eric Berne. Must read psychology. Short, and you will g
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by Maro 14y ago
I tried to read Zen a couple of years ago but lost interest. I picked it up again this year and got through it this time. I think [one of] the basic messages of the book, that of paying attention and enjoying the little things of life like
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by Maro 14y ago
I downvoted you. All the OP really said was > I wanted to point out that there are more enjoyable ways to learn to type now :) But you went off on a rant about using it offline and customization and certification and "facts" about web s
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by Maro 14y ago
I learned how to program in Haskell. Although Haskell is hard, learning a language is still relatively easy compared to writing good 100KLOC+ sized software in whatever language. In 2013 I hope I will figure out how to write good software i
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by Maro 14y ago
Actually it's worse. Canonical made pirates of their customers, too. They downloaded and used a piece of software which they didn't have a license for.
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by Maro 14y ago
Cool, thanks!
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by Maro 14y ago
Actually I disagree on your first point. My first job was maintainenance programming, and for some reason I stuck around and did it for 3 years. That has taught me the suck of trying to maintain and work with shitty code. Now, X years later
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by Maro 14y ago
I pretty much agree with everything you say here. Thanks for the trace and unsafePerformIO tips. > ease-of-writing is a secondary priority In my experience, once you have enough experience and witnessed the suck of maintaining crappy co
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by Maro 14y ago
I hope you don't take offense at what I'm about to say, but the code snippet you provided is not maintainable in the sense of not being readable. It sacrifices maintainability for cleverness. As someone above pointed out, sometimes it's bet
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by Maro 14y ago
Thanks, great comment.
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by Maro 14y ago
> to think about how your change is going to affect the whole system. That's a good thing. I don't think you've made a coherent argument why that's a good thing. Putting in a printf for debugging is not spaghettification and does/should
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by Maro 14y ago
I recently learned Haskell and am writing code in it on a daily basis, although I'm still a novice. In my limited experience, Haskell is like any other PL, you can write clean, readable code or a horrible mess. My major concern with Haskell
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by Maro 14y ago
Downvoted. Having a domain name that is short and rememberable != linkbait. Surely none of her audience expect to see pics of babes on mathbabe.com
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Consistent Development Environments with VirtualBox, Chef and Vagrant(docs.google.com)
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I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare yourself to Spotify (at least on HN). I think a big part of Spotify's business is that they have agreements with the big 4 record companies for each country, and they're rolling out their service a
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by Maro 14y ago
The movie is much better than the graphic novel!
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Jason Alexander's amazing gun rant(salon.com)
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Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Econ Nobel Laureate Kahneman)(bloomberg.com)
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Optimized for Change: Architecture at Etsy [video + slides](infoq.com)
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by Maro 14y ago
The funny bits are the Ayn Rand lines. Rand was a philosopher-writer. She wrote two famous books, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which codify her philosophy, Objectivism. Objectivism has Man as a divinely rational, self-interested, h
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by Maro 14y ago
I have a iphone 4 and it just works, good reception, 3g, wifi, gps/igo, battery life, ux, i'm totally happy with it. I even dropped it and drove over it accidentally, so the back looks like shit but orherwise it just took it.
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by Maro 14y ago
But it feels so good. Europe out.
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That's a good thing.
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One should be careful not to frame a new product as an engineering problem. Users don't care if it's a Wordpress fork or a rewrite. Users care about the product experience, what it delivers, benefits, etc. Having said that, you may be right
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by Maro 14y ago
I'm fine, thanks, but this thread is not about me. I was just responding to your ad hominem attack.

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