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by aston 18y ago
I'm lukewarm on Carlin being remembered for that (edit: that alone). His comedy is a lot more intelligent than a list of dirty words might imply.
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by aston 18y ago
I'm trying to figure out whether your "Defiantly." was an accidental typo or an intentionally ironic nod to digg/youtube style comments where nobody actually knows how to spell "definitely." edit: that is, http://digg.com/odd_stuff/D_E_F_I
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by aston 18y ago
It is, however, hilarious.
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by aston 18y ago
Thanks, iJigg. http://tipjoy.com/joy/2385/
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by aston 18y ago
I'm perfectly willing to back up my statements. The general problem we're looking at is that fnid's (and the accompanying closures) are manufactured all over the place, and most of them don't need to stay around for very long. However, ther
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by aston 18y ago
He's not asking why it's broken, he's asking why he has to tolerate it being broken. It's not that hard to fix.
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by aston 18y ago
There's a difference between making revenue and making a profit. While I won't argue your assertion that it's easy to find revenue sources when you're popular, I'd appreciate seeing some hard evidence that it's also easy to pay all the bill
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by aston 18y ago
The obvious question being, has Matt, as a gambling type, figured out a way to place a wager on the bursting side of the bubble? Basically, like a short on Web 2.0. If so, I might want in. You know, to hedge my bets...
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by aston 18y ago
The making of: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417302 edit: This got downmodded? Really? I thought it was at least of marginal interest.
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by aston 18y ago
seconds is a number that grows as time progresses, meaning newer stories will always have a higher seconds score than older ones. The sign is included so that the time component hurts, not helps stories that are rated negative. The conseque
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by aston 18y ago
If your market was thought to be niche or relatively inconsequential, I think it's pretty fair to say the entrance of a major player validates your hypothesis that it was a big deal. You're only screwed if you can't out-execute them. This s
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by aston 18y ago
RCRD LBL, Normative, WeMix. I'm psyched for all these techy twists on record labels. The music industry is due for a distribution shake up like mainstream media is experiencing now with blogs, vlogs, and podcasts. It's just an issue of who'
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by aston 18y ago
Funny, the founder of Jaiku has a Twitter account.
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by aston 18y ago
It's not so much as failing of CSS as a technology as it is an indication that CSS is not the language designers want it to be. What really sucks is that it's actually pretty close to that language. Everything's fine until you hit the cross
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by aston 18y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say he is sanitizing before it hits the database. Not cleaning it up before displaying it to the user, though.
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by aston 18y ago
Joel has also elsewhere that he's a big believer in paying salesmen incentives in cash (via commissions), so I don't think he'd disagree with you there.
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by aston 18y ago
There's an escaping issue: if I type '\', the search box comes back with '\\'. edit: similar issue with the single quote (')
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by aston 18y ago
Most of the lectures are on the ad hoc side. I don't recall ever seeing any of the notes (Sussman and Hanson prefer actual overhead slides to Powerpoint) going online officially, although there might be some student notes? It's been called
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by aston 18y ago
BTW, sickest class ever. Most of the dev team at Dropbox took the course. It's a mindbender, plus you get to hang out with Gerry Sussman. Pretty much every lecture is spent examining a different programming approach and demonstrating that i
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by aston 18y ago
Awesome video. Also old, and also not really right for this forum.
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, but is that really true? If so, why'd Zuckerberg even show up to pitch?
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by aston 18y ago
I like the "pitched Sequoia in pajamas" story. That takes some balls. Also might shed some light on why Sequoia never got in on Facebook...
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by aston 18y ago
I learned about this design pattern by watching folks eat street pizza in NYC.
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by aston 18y ago
My favorite pair up, which I learned at Microsoft, is "slash and whack" for '/ and \'. Killer is trying to remember which is which, but it sounds awesome.
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by aston 18y ago
Best part: "There is a test for programming aptitude, or at least for success in a ﬁrst programming course. We have speculated on the reasons for its success, but in truth we don’t understand how it works anymore than you do."
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by aston 18y ago
Easy option: Submissions from sites that always get upmodded don't add to the user's karma.
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, I was going to write a bot do the same with xkcd, TechCrunch, and (especially) PG's essays. The benefits are twofold: The community gets extremely quick exposure to content it seems to really appreciate, and no user gets huge karma ju
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by aston 18y ago
Underscore.
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by aston 18y ago
Ironic downmods are my least favorite thing in the world. Let's downmod jamongkad just because he claims not to care about being downvoted! Is that funny to people, or something? I just don't get it.
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by aston 18y ago
Now Apple's visionary for deciding not to support a browser? The reality distortion field is stronger here than I thought. When you're building a product for customers, the last thing you should be concerned about is saving developer time i

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