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The best way to help developers is to leave them alone(sdtimes.com)
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by VonGuard 14y ago
True. Add to this the fact that things like the Wall Street journal are now Fox News puppets, and MSNBC's desire to be the liberal Fox News, and there's almost nothing left for reliable news. Still, BBC, Al Jazera, NPR are where I go. That,
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Journalist here. FYI, the day someone I don't know emails me with a "hot inside tip" is a day I spend tracking down the emailer and calling my sources within the target company. Just so you know, even at the big news sites, good hot tips fr
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by VonGuard 14y ago
In a way, there is already a system like this in your brain. Reputation is something you formulate yourself based on meta-information about the outlet you're reading. You do this already: ever read an article and look up at the URL to check
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Bit Torrent makes all its money through Ask's tool bar. Ask props up a whole economy, it seems. But hey, at least Oracle figured out how to make money on Java! Sun never did that.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Hey! www.themade.org ! I posted on yer link as well. We're a non-profit videogame museum in downtown Oakland. Additionally, on the data: If Carmack is amenable, the data could be entrusted to Stanford. Stanford's curator is on our board, an
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by VonGuard 14y ago
The dood nails it. If you're considering moving to the Bay Area, read this, every word of it. Very well done.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yeah, thing is though, YA allows people to ask absolutely retarded questions. It's basically a place where teenagers with ultra-religious parents can ask questions about their illegitimate pregnancy. Quora specifically tries to be above suc
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I think hiring programmers should really involve the developers they'll be working with. No trick questions or silly problems. Just have them sit with people from the team and talk about the stuff they'll be working on. If they get fired up
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by VonGuard 14y ago
LOL. OK, simple question: Do your parents know what Quora is? Do they know what Wikipedia is? Quora is unknown outside of the valley. Is there some switch they're going to hit to open the flood gates into this site, and suddenly overnight t
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by VonGuard 14y ago
OK, but again, it's the only source of this info in South Korea. Here, we have a very robust Wikipedia, endless health sites (for those "How I get pregnant?!" Yahoo! Answers style questions, and an infinite array of other very chatty, very
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I dunno. Hasn't About.com kinda been like this for 10 years? Sure it's still around, but does anyone go to About.com on purpose? It's just articles specifically crafted to be Google bait. I find that these q/a sites aren't sticky enough to
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by VonGuard 14y ago
LOL. Quora is such a Crunch-whore. I swear, the only people who know of it or use it are Arrington junkies. Why is this still a "hot" startup? It's just Yahoo! answers with VC and less illiterates.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
This is awesome. So happy to see it. It does make me jealous, though, as my non-profit www.themade.org could run for 3 years on a decimal percentage of that donation. Wish it was being spread around more.
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Videogame Museum in Oakland Hosting Holiday Party Dec 22: food, booze, games(eventbrite.com)
1 points by VonGuard 14y ago|0 comments
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For investors, the enterprise is bringing sexy back(sdtimes.com)
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by VonGuard 14y ago
You've never heard of Ubuntu?
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by VonGuard 14y ago
If you're really into this, spend some more time on tasvideos.org The guys that do these tool-assisted speed runs are incredible. One fellow plays 4 Mega Mans all at once with a single controller doing input for all 4 games at the same time
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by VonGuard 14y ago
We have Vib Ribbon on display now at the MADE http://www.themade.org so come by and play it before it's changed out for another exhibit on December 17th.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
For those of you in the valley, the MADE is in Oakland http://www.themade.org It is, to my knowledge, the only dedicated videogame museum in America. This MOMA thing was interesting because we've been designing an exhibit about visual art
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by VonGuard 14y ago
This. The man knows his field.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Weird, couldn't reply to this, but then, after I posted the above comment, I suddenly could reply... Must be a timing thing.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Why can't I reply to the comment below this one? Anyway, in response: yes, i agree, if someone can't tell you their idea, it's probably shit. Most of the time, when someone won't tell you their idea for fear of you stealing it, their idea i
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Dood, go to a hackerspace. lots of people having Thanksgiving at Noisebridge and Hacker Dojo, I am sure. I know it sucks being alone on a holiday, but you know, yer only there by choice. Lots of friendly people here inviting you over. If ye
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yeah, I can't tell you how many Valley newbs say they have a startup idea, they just need coders, and ooh, they can't tell you anything about the idea because you might steal it. These are the same people who end up living in their cars, th
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Yeah, you're absolutely right. For a lot of people, big data means Hadoop. For others, it means NoSQL. What I really think it means is just having all of your data in one live, accessible and analytics-ready place. That means logs, customer
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Sorry, not going there. Suffice to say, he burned a bridge.
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by VonGuard 14y ago
I'm glad someone is taking on the task of defending Weev because the charges they have against him are ridiculous and stupid. Sadly, Weev's nature is that of a rattlesnake, and he's basically burned every bridge he could on his way here. Th
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by VonGuard 14y ago
Pretty much. That kind of money is "fuck you" money. You can go somewhere away from the business, and pay people to pamper you for the rest of your life. Who would even be able to get close enough to you to tell you yer a shithead? And, of
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by VonGuard 14y ago
The same board that fired Hurd? The HP board needs to go away. They've been fucking things up for years. It's one of those situations where, after 3 CEO's, the first of which was kicking ass, maybe it's time to consider that the board is th

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