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by ambition 18y ago
The trouble with technical debt is that it can be the right business decision to take those shortcuts. Let's say you choose to take the extra few weeks or months to build a more maintainable, properly factored, fully tested system that will
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by ambition 18y ago
Rent was 15% of revenue, now it's 2%. Conclusion: Fog creek revenues have increased around 7.5x since they moved into their current space. Impressive.
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by ambition 18y ago
Help me understand. Is this basically twitter + filtering based on profiles?
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by ambition 18y ago
I'm scared of what happens when preparation doesn't meet opportunity.
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by ambition 18y ago
Cheaper, simpler than alternatives? Check. Competing against non-consumption? Check. Success encourages competitors to flee upmarket? Nope. Reference: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.
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by ambition 18y ago
Some of these problems have already been solved with timestamp-based migration naming.
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by ambition 18y ago
I like the approach to random data from Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python. Use a grammar, walk to random productions. The advantage is that one powerful piece of code can generate lots of decent-seeming fake data of many types.
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by ambition 18y ago
I still prefer books, papers and articles. Much faster for information transfer. Pragprog seems to position screencasts as being like sitting next to an experienced programmer. I don't think it's true. I don't think there's a good substitut
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by ambition 18y ago
I've never hit a CSS rounded corners solution that met all my requirements: * No image files (Extra HTTP requests/inflexible to colour changes) * No extra markup (All the benefits of a clean DOM) * Cross-browser without relying on parsing b
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by ambition 18y ago
And here I was wondering why there was no RSS feed on the essays page.
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by ambition 18y ago
Seriously, mqt, do you have a script that just sits there and polls paulgraham.com/articles.html for changes?
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by ambition 18y ago
I think the professor's point is that using red-black trees is a dominant strategy over using AVL trees.
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by ambition 18y ago
I share your hesitation. Those that are little-known tricks would cause any reader to do a double-take.
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by ambition 18y ago
I say go for it, it'll be fun, but I don't share your sense that there's a problem to be solved here. Personally, I'm most interested in communities where I can meet folks in person in addition to online interactions, i.e. geography-based i
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by ambition 18y ago
OK, what's the upside?
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by ambition 18y ago
It would be nice in cases like this to include a warning in your title about the file size, e.g., "The secret history of Star Wars [4.4MB PDF]."
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by ambition 18y ago
A jumble of thoughts on social news site quality: What are we measuring, exactly? It's hard to talk about without defining what we're measuring. A stab at defining some quasi-objective metrics, or, How I think about social news quality: Are
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by ambition 18y ago
Systematic factors inherent to social news sites degrade their quality over time. Voting is broken because of the nature of the people who vote the most and thus have the most influence on the front page: They are people with too much time
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by ambition 18y ago
This is neat. It's actually 100 short tips for entrepreneurs in PDF form: http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/files/2008/02/ebook.pdf The tips might be common sense around these parts, but they're good as far as I can tell.
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by ambition 18y ago
It was submitted as a standalone post. There are no comments on the new submission.
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by ambition 18y ago
The python code in the book Programming Collective Intelligence is aesthetically poor, with unclear naming, bad spacing, errors and some ugly duplication. But it doesn't matter. The algorithms work, the concepts get taught, and you still ge
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by ambition 18y ago
When have parents ever been supportive of risky behaviour in their children? I say this in defense of my non-supportive mother and somewhat-supportive father.
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by ambition 18y ago
There's a lot of momentum in parts of the Rails community away from Rails and towards Merb. Perhaps this is a factor you want to consider. Maybe you could gain some insights about Rails by learning how Merb is distinguishing itself. Sorry t
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by ambition 18y ago
Only a few copies on amazon.ca, unfortunately, with astronomical prices. But it sounds as if the author is gearing up for a reprint, or at the very least will post a large number of the interviews over time.
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by ambition 18y ago
Am I understanding this correctly? In the US, you can create driver's licenses and bank accounts with only a social security number?
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by ambition 18y ago
Lack of perks, by itself, does not a crappy job make. It may be indicative of other crappiness, but not certainly not definitive.
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by ambition 18y ago
I think of job satisfaction as a function with weighted attributes. There's a "perks at work" attribute, a money attribute, an attribute for how much you like your team, how many weekly hours the work culture demands of you, how much you li
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by ambition 18y ago
Oh, I should mention the bookmarklet, though, which allows submission of sites: http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html . I don't use it, so I'm not sure if it upvotes already submitted stores. But I guess you could use its infrastructure
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by ambition 18y ago
It looks like it isn't easy to hack one, either. When not logged in, the upvote link is a x?fnid=<random chars> link which times out. When logged in, the link is tied to your userid, and presumably checked against your login cookie.
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by ambition 18y ago
I'm already very familiar with Emacs, but I picked up TextMate anyway. I'm happy with my decision when working on a Mac. TextMate has a free trial, and the Pragmatic book on it is a solid introduction. But since you're just starting, the pr

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