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by arohner 17y ago
Let's approach this from another angle. Lets say you have two equal founders, one business guy and one tech guy. Then let's say the business guy becomes CEO. What title does the tech guy have? What are the tech guy's responsibilities? Let's
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by arohner 17y ago
I really enjoyed the distinction between languages based on turing machines and languages based on lambda calculus. I'd had a fuzzy idea of the distinction before, but this article set it out clearly.
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by arohner 17y ago
> Terrorists, downloaders and pederasts... Pretty harsh to group all of those in the same group.
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by arohner 17y ago
> A better thing to do is to not use raw integers to represent money at all...Money is Money and should be represented by an appropriate abstraction of its own. Good point. This makes me wonder though whether it is ever acceptable to
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by arohner 17y ago
I take a different stance as well. I want a non-SQL RDBMS. I want transactions and declarative queries, etc, just without the brain-dead SQL syntax and string manipulation to write a query.
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by arohner 17y ago
One easy example is FP in low level, performance sensitive code. There are many algorithms where there is an FP implementation that is almost as fast as the imperative, mutable state version, but there are several algorithms with no known e
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by arohner 17y ago
The corollary to this is extremely important: Every paradigm has a place where it doesn't belong. OO, FP and whatever flavor of the month all have places where they shine, and places where they don't. And arguably, it's more important to kn
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by arohner 17y ago
Why don't we just break into amazon's systems, take the books we want, and distribute them ourselves?
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by arohner 17y ago
My problem with the first point - Make them Design Something - is that design is a lot harder to grade than the second two. It's easy to see if someone can write fizzbuzz, or find the bug, but it's significantly harder to grade a design. Go
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by arohner 17y ago
Well, I can't comment about running barefoot, but I can comment about running in traditional running shoes vs. running in cleats. When I first started playing ultimate frisbee, I used running shoes because that's what I had. I got shin spli
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by arohner 17y ago
> It's easy to share state. I am not yet sold on the idea that all shared state is evil (since I think there are problems that are easier to deal with when using shared memory) There absolutely are problems that are easier to deal with
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by arohner 17y ago
Yes. This advice is similar to Jerry Seinfeld's, which I also find to be excellent. http://lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-pr...
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by arohner 17y ago
> It was an experiment to get some sort of quick market validation Market validation is once you have the data to say "customers in demographic X will pay Y dollars for this app, I will make a margin of Z percent, and there Q customers
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by arohner 17y ago
I'm new to web development, and I keep asking this question but I've never heard and answer to it: What's stopping us from making a tool that parses HTML/CSS and points out constructs that are known to be bad in certain browsers? Sort of li
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by arohner 17y ago
I'm honored you read my post and replied to it. > I'd also argue that code size is a more meaningful measure of readability than familiarity ... but since whatever notation you put in a language will eventually become familiar to its u
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Can your programming language do this?(arohner.blogspot.com)
50 points by arohner 17y ago|61 comments
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by arohner 17y ago
Given that I applied to cap factory and got denied, I suspect the latter. :-) From what I saw, they appear to be looking for more polished startups, and their application process does not have the same focus on finding talented hackers that
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by arohner 17y ago
(to imitate sibling poster @roc) I'd rather reduce the overhead of gathering information, so I can think about the actual problem rather than think about where I'm going to acquire the information.
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by arohner 17y ago
My point was that the correlation between SAT and IQ is not perfect; I said nothing about its usefulness for college admissions. You also imply that there is a single 'motivation' scale. There isn't. I am highly motivated at my startup and
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by arohner 17y ago
I can say that I got bored during my SAT test. At the time, I was taking AP Calculus (which I also found easy), and the SAT was testing pre-calc. I sped through the answers just to get out of there. If I had actually cared, I'm pretty sure
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by arohner 17y ago
Right, except that they keep banning all of the devices that would be convenient to play TV on your couch
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by arohner 17y ago
So I have a 23" widescreen monitor that can do 1080p. What if I had a 30" monitor? Would Hulu want to block it then? What if I have a 50" monitor? When does it turn into a "TV" that Hulu would block? When you put a couch in front of the mon
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by arohner 17y ago
I've been writing Clojure full time for the last few weeks, I didn't even slow down to parse that sentence. :-)
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by arohner 17y ago
Fine, don't use Clojure. Myself, I'll get stuff done, and not whine about the fact that my laptop's BIOS is not written in lisp.
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Startups are big functions(arohner.blogspot.com)
1 points by arohner 17y ago|0 comments
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Preventing unit tests (or 5 Whys in action)(arohner.blogspot.com)
2 points by arohner 17y ago|0 comments
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by arohner 17y ago
This locks vs. STM debate is a lot like the old malloc vs. GC debates. "Look at my fancy new Java code. I just do foo = new Foo(); and everything is taken care of" and then a C++ guy responds with "so? I can do foo = new Foo(); delete foo;
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by arohner 17y ago
This demonstrates a major flaw in Hunch. There is huge selection bias. I answered this, and got a 74%. Right on the page is another question asking me "Do you agree with this result?". I claim a few things: 1) people who are in startups o
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by arohner 17y ago
How does this compare to solr, compass and other "search frameworks"? I'm currently using Compass (Java wrapper around lucene), but that was just to get something implemented quickly.
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by arohner 17y ago
This is an excellent idea. I would make just one small addition, which is do it with your co-founder. Make your list. Have them make their own list, and then compare notes over dinner/beer. Doing it with a friend will cause you to come up w

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