apenwarr

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by apenwarr 15y ago
These early launches are not expected to "stick" - either that, or I've just been terribly unlucky. The only value you need to extract is real-time feedback about what you got right and what you got wrong. Then you tweak it and launch aga
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by apenwarr 15y ago
In Canada, at least, parliamentary discussions are in both English and French, with real-time translation.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
redo as a concept is awesome. redo as an implementation just recently reached version 0.11. So I think your description of "great" above is more than generous enough at this phase :) Thanks for being patient enough to use it so early on.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
You just described the payment model Apple negotiated for the iPad. No contract, no subsidies, just a flat payment: $x for $y GB in 30 days. If you don't use it in 30 days, it's gone, but if you use it in less than 30 days, you can just b
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Here's a transcript of Schneier's interview with a TSA official: http://www.schneier.com/interview-hawley.html It's extremely telling. Schneier does know about the issues, and the TSA official, IMHO, totally fails to substantially coun
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Be careful. I'd see this as a blindly obvious technical need, but not so much a market need. Do business decision makers know they want to pay for it? I love Steve Blank's "hierarchy of needs" concept when evaluating business value fo
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by apenwarr 15y ago
It was just a "rising emphasis" sort of thing. I hate all technology about equally.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Well, no, rewriting from scratch in Ruby is not , in any way, equivalent. If you're going to rewrite from scratch, by all means, Ruby seems to be the way to go. But that's way too expensive and risky. What people want is to take their c
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by apenwarr 15y ago
True, it's a bit weird to think of a Microsoft product that way - but Access is a special case. Microsoft would dearly love to kill it and get everyone to migrate to MS SQL (and boy, do they push hard in that direction) but there are just
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by apenwarr 15y ago
I think it could be done. The plugin itself is actually very clean code and doesn't need a lot of maintenance (well, someone has to update it to Access 2010, but that's probably not so bad). The server is crazy because it has Wine+Access+
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by apenwarr 15y ago
"Back in the day", pre-RISC, with fancy macro assemblers (like Turbo Assembler), programming in assembly was actually not that bad. C is obviously better, but not actually as much better as people seem to think. Nowadays life would be a lo
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by apenwarr 15y ago
What percentage of the total number of human beings do you think use Google? I'm not even off by a single order of magnitude.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Laws are the bare minimum set of rules for your moral behaviour - the stuff that's so bad we have to punish you if you do it. If you can't do better than the bare minimum, then you're doing very poorly at morality. Not all good behaviour c
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by apenwarr 15y ago
If there are 6 billion people on earth, that's 10 millon of them.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
I think I agree that the existence of downslotting was a mistake. However, the problem it was attempting to solve (you got hired at one level, but performed at a lower level, because you managed to fool people in the interview) is a real o
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Technically the particular project you work on is supposed to require approval. So far I haven't met any manager who does anything but rubber stamp anything you suggest, but theoretically you could get one who is picky, and that would defe
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Hi, I don't know you personally, but I joined Google a year or so ago and I disagree with many of your subjective judgements above. I have personally run into the problem of managers hired from outside (heck, I was one :)) and that's serio
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Many, many people have misinterpreted this kind of story and tried to apply prices to everything (eg. "buying" support time from staff in the IT department). That doesn't work either, because you can do the same tricks with money as you ca
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by apenwarr 15y ago
It's not "because they want to do another round." They don't necessarily want to give you the extra money, but the final amount of their return does need to be a multiple of the number they could have invested, not the number they did in
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Wow, nice. I've used the "feature branch until the continuous build passes" method before with great results, but also requiring code reviews before merging could be a great addition.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Try 'export TZ=my/timezone/name' sometime.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
I was interested in the comment that they do "post-push" reviews. It seems to me that you have only two options with code reviews: a) Pre-push: now all your commits are delayed by the review process. Even if it's just by a few minutes, it
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Any organization that's sufficiently large they don't care about the small incremental income. That is, anybody who's not a domain registrar. I'm not a U.S. citizen, but the U.S. federal government would fit the bill just fine, and would b
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by apenwarr 15y ago
You're talking about read errors. Run a ripper that fixes/retries/etc the read errors, and you'll have an identical rip.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
I'm kind of sad that everyone here seems to think overcomplicated names like "Windows Live Messenger" and "Microsoft Office Word" have been around forever, and we're now finally seeing Microsoft come to their senses. As I understand it, Mic
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by apenwarr 15y ago
Apparently github is my de-facto resume, because I got emailed by a headhunter just the other day saying he found me on github, and my Java-related experience would be a real benefit to them. Wait, Java-related experience? I'm pretty sure
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by apenwarr 15y ago
A simple solution for the vast majority of domain squatting: just charge a "property tax" of $100/year per domain. That's not an outrageous amount for a real user, but it makes the "buy a zillion domains and park them until the Big One com
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by apenwarr 15y ago
That's what makes it a dilemma . :) The book is well worth reading, and this is what it talks about.
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by apenwarr 15y ago
So, one thing I really like about this is there's no UI clutter - just an editor and a footer. That would make this sort of thing great for embedding into another app. Another thing I like is you can create a new document simply by navi
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by apenwarr 15y ago
You are completely right for things that don't involve real-time video (like games do). A 1/60 frame skip rate sounds like nothing important, but your eye will see it easily and it's instantly annoying. It's not subtle at all, and not some

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