abstractwater

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by abstractwater 18y ago
I kind of agree with the end results of your thoughts, but I think for very different reasons. You mention "trust", "steal", "juiciest parts (of ideas)". You seem to imply that ideas (without execution) have a huge value and so must be pro
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by abstractwater 18y ago
I agree, San Jose is too spread out for my taste: it's like a giant suburb. I lived in San Jose for about a year (Glenview neighborhood) and for pretty much everything I had to take the car. I find the East Bay much more livable, in partic
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by abstractwater 18y ago
Yes, I remember that. It was innovative and very useful actually. The new twitter-summize seems not that impressive, not ground breaking at all, and far less useful. Plus we already have tweetscan.com. Is twitter search that important?
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by abstractwater 18y ago
After the first 2 items of the list I realized it was indeed a list until the end: from that point, knowing the structure of the article made the reading even easier.
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by abstractwater 18y ago
These are the impressions I got after 40 minutes of tests: - The UI design is visually distracting, bulky, complicated. There's too much going on at the top, 3 differently colored bars with the powerset logo, tab(s) and huge search bar. T
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by abstractwater 18y ago
recent, pretty good discussion also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=168491
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by abstractwater 18y ago
Before moving to Silicon Valley 5 years ago, I grew up and worked in Italy and I confirm those numbers. The only employment available in Italy right now is basically temp contracting paid a fraction of the relative full time position, with
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by abstractwater 18y ago
I second that. Another great feature is how close and tight the plastic keys are to the metal base: very few things can slip underneath them, and the keyboard stays exceptionally clean.
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by abstractwater 18y ago
Unfortunately, trolls are able to find invitations where there are none.
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by abstractwater 18y ago
http://friendfeed.com/ettorepasquini
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by abstractwater 18y ago
All I care about is reading great stuff to build great products.
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Ask YC: How do you get the word out about your product?
8 points by abstractwater 18y ago|13 comments
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by abstractwater 19y ago
on my MacBookPro: 74 ps 47 kill 44 ls 33 cd 27 sudo 18 pwd 16 ping 16 open 12 cp 11 scons
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by abstractwater 19y ago
I never used MSN search. (For some reason I don't think I ever will.)
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by abstractwater 19y ago
I also had to learn C++ fast, and "Accelerated C++", by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo was great. The book assumes you are a programmer, it's not dumbed down and most importantly it's only around 300 pages. In the time contraints I had
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by abstractwater 19y ago
just got it too! I'm old, but very excited. :)
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by abstractwater 19y ago
I work for a large company and I also feel the way described in the article. What baffles me the most is the constant need of approval in case I'm about to do something that goes a little beyond the "company policies", like setting up a pu
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by abstractwater 19y ago
Blender and Second Life. I also started some work on GIMP but I haven't submitted anything for GIMP yet. To get started I just sent an email to the relative mailing lists.
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by abstractwater 19y ago
1. Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus" (the extremism of the idea, the solemn (poetic?) tone that nevertheless emerges from the sentences of such a rigorous work) 2. RMS reflections about morals in software programming (I
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by abstractwater 19y ago
I work for Logitech