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by ascendant 16y ago
I give the Mozilla guys kudos for realizing they were starting to fall into the same malaise that the IE team had slumped into and are actively working to get back to a faster, more iterative development model.
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by ascendant 16y ago
Am I the only one who would love to somehow switch the "submit" and "reset" buttons on this guy on some random website just to see what sort of anger you could incite? Imagine that blog post...
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by ascendant 16y ago
Yeah, and the default template language (Jade) is a lot like HAML. In fact, I think there's HAML/SASS plugins, but I'm pretty new at Express so don't take that as gospel.
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by ascendant 16y ago
Express is on the right path. I picked it up for the first time last weekend and liked it.
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by ascendant 16y ago
I think it's a valid point. Regardless of the fact his editor wasn't configured properly, the fact that the error messages that were generated did not IMMEDIATELY point him in the right direction is a problem with the language and the compi
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by ascendant 16y ago
And if at 65 you find relaxing is what you want to do, then by all means go for it. I feel "retirement" isn't about no longer working, it's about no longer doing what you have to do and doing what you want to do instead. People that have no
97.
by ascendant 16y ago
It's not. It's just buzzword bingo.
98.
by ascendant 16y ago
Keep it up. I'm sure people who dismiss him with a laundry list of reasons why he's going to fail add fuel to his fire.
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by ascendant 16y ago
As an addendum I'd answer each one of these by saying 1) Take your estimates and add 50% 2) Work 10 hours a day, 5 days a week max. If you have to work a Saturday or Sunday, only put in 4 hours. 3) If you're running a place and making peopl
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by ascendant 16y ago
How to keep your sanity during startup launches: 1) Set sane timelines 2) Don't work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. 3) Realize the world will not end if you miss an arbitrary deadline. As an end user, If you miss your go-live date by a coup
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by ascendant 16y ago
I guess then that delineates the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law and what you value more.
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by ascendant 16y ago
While I disagree with the tone of this comment, I have to admit my first thought was "TDD has jumped the shark". The last thing I want is some random critter getting happier or angrier based on the results of my testing. I don't want "Agile
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by ascendant 16y ago
You're right, and I feel this is a step in the right direction.
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by ascendant 16y ago
I think at some point we have to say "enough is enough" and stop letting people game the system as a business model. The legal system is there for people to seek actual reparation for actual damages incurred. I think it should be taken on a
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by ascendant 16y ago
I see that as the judge telling the trolls to stop trolling. Without the threat of protracted legal costs the trolls have no teeth.
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by ascendant 16y ago
I have no actual basis to back up my statement that more technologically-savvy people are entering the legal profession as judges, but it will happen inevitably as each generation gives way to the next.
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by ascendant 16y ago
It always warms my heart when I see people in the legal system get it right. I think slowly more and more people are entering that profession with a modicum of understanding of modern technology and how companies have been preying on the ig
108.
by ascendant 16y ago
To a degree, yes. Fanboy-ism creeps up on the best of us. I'd like to think that at least in some places (like HN), the commentators are more educated on the topics they're discussing.
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by ascendant 16y ago
Y Combinator has shown that it adds significant value to the process. Seed funding, access to like-minded entrepreneurs as well as heavy-hitters in both the tech and VC world. Obviously Y Combinator has a brand name associated with it now b
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by ascendant 16y ago
This. The OP makes the assumption that all grade "A" startups that apply for a class will get into that class. It seems to me that it's starting to reach a point where it won't scale to keep including more and more people into a class. I'm
111.
by ascendant 16y ago
No, I won't back down from that. Those people all sound like they've gleefully sucked down the kool-aid that Sony spoon-fed them. I'll burn a few karma points to stand by my opinion.
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by ascendant 16y ago
Microsoft calling anyone out on security issues is laughter inducing to the extreme. For those of you that weren't paying attention in the Windows XP/IE 6 heyday, anyone could find remote exploits that bothered to look for more than 5 min
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by ascendant 16y ago
I could hardly hear my own thoughts over the bleating of all those sheep.
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by ascendant 16y ago
But this "war" on terror is an excuse for the government to continue to grant themselves "emergency" powers and give their friends in the defense industry hundreds of billions of dollars.
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by ascendant 16y ago
They gain the effect it is having on other people. For every one of us that gets enraged at this sort of bullshit, there's 9 more that are terrified to speak out after seeing this. The problem with America is that unless we personally are b
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by ascendant 16y ago
Flush in the counter! No, I jest.
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by ascendant 16y ago
I'd like to comment on the first one. I tend to have a goldfish's memory so the inventory tracker would do very well for me if I was out somewhere and felt like purchasing more to remember how much I have at home.
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by ascendant 16y ago
I thought I read that if the current bill passes the president would veto it. Is it because he's pro-net-neutrality or anti-anything-republican? The last question isn't partisan, it's a perfectly valid reason for a democrat president to vet
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by ascendant 16y ago
It's been a mess for a long time. And it's not just the Republicans. Anyone with a brain can look back over the past 20-30 years and see the fingerprints of both parties all over the collective disaster that is the current situation politic
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by ascendant 16y ago
Microsoft lost its way once Gates left. He was the visionary that started the company, and Ballmer was just a businessman. They need a visionary to lead, and from what I've read they need to do away with the internal turf wars. I know I've

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