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by aston 19y ago
That sort of thing scales with cost-of-living. Joel was making NYC money at the time of founding Fog Creek. $50k in South Carolina takes you halfway to a decent house. In NYC, a salary that big is barely enough to pay for an apartment in Ma
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by aston 19y ago
I'm not disagreeing it's a cheap way to get your site translated. But how's that help your user numbers? The point of the article is that the author thinks it'll fuel growth, even without any evidence that that's true. I know from personal
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by aston 19y ago
As the great poet-rapper Kanye West once said, "Having money's not everything; not having it is."
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by aston 19y ago
If there's one rule about getting uptake of your social networking site, it's that there isn't one rule about getting uptake. If there were a clear cut strategy for growing internationally, everyone would be doing it. Most of the time stori
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by aston 19y ago
You get a similar feeling with Javascript by reading the source code of libraries like prototype.js or jQuery. Lots of "Wait, you can do that in Javascript?!?" moments.
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by aston 19y ago
They stopped indexing looong ago.
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by aston 19y ago
It's pretty similar to other session-based systems. Users get an id that they resubmit at some point to the server, and the server pulls the data associated with that id. In the case of Arc, that data is a closure (basically, a function and
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by aston 19y ago
Pretty sure that's what pg's said it is. Personally, that's way too short, as I'll leave threads open for half a day without reading it, then can't comment. I don't see any fundamental reason why continuations have to expire so fast.
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by aston 19y ago
Gotta appreciate the candor here.
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by aston 19y ago
Yahoo's MO at the time was to swap in the current "cool kid" of algorithmic search to fill out Yahoo's own search results. Google didn't really have much of a business outside of selling their results to folks like Yahoo, so I think many lo
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by aston 19y ago
Seems clever, but I don't think it would actually make a difference. Especially since it'd be dead simple to detect when you'd been deleted.
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Ask PG: And we're back...What happened?
27 points by aston 19y ago|9 comments
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by aston 19y ago
The cryptanalysis of Malbolge is pretty impressive. At the end he even suggests some changes that would make the language even more difficult. http://www.lscheffer.com/malbolge.shtml
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by aston 19y ago
I'm thumbs up on question mark reposts, personally. That said, you can't really knock the original submitter for linking to this excerpt. There's a lot of value in highlighting just the important part...
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by aston 19y ago
Or at least against the "more is better" school of thought. 100 lines of Lisp is, however, a non-trivial chunk of code..
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by aston 19y ago
Arrington doesn't really like Valleywag. Also, I think he does really like Hacker News. This post represents the synergy of those two personal interests.
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by aston 19y ago
If I were well-vested at Google, I'd definitely try my best to jump on the Facebook train. Whether or not they're going to make me rich (again), it's probably the most fun place to be in the Valley right now. Doesn't mean Facebook is the ne
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by aston 19y ago
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hating
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by aston 19y ago
Java is probably the heaviest-used language at Google for consumer-facing web apps. More surprising (if this sort of thing surprises you) is Writely, which was in C#/.NET.
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by aston 19y ago
"Liquidity on a position" means getting someone to give you money for the stock you hold.
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by aston 19y ago
I love how Matt Maroon's post titles always sound like he prepared for blogging by swigging Haterade.
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by aston 19y ago
Valleywag is a surprisingly good resource for networking events, yes. It's not gonna get you rubbing shoulders with VC's, for the most part, but folks in the valley show up for stuff. Unfortunately, most of the really good parties only get
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by aston 19y ago
Haha. Right when I saw the post title, I jokingly thought "it prolly runs faster than real Ruby..." Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
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Metcalfe's Law is Wrong(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by aston 19y ago|2 comments
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by aston 19y ago
Yeah, the [] operator works on a variable name, not on the variable itself. Kind of silly.
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by aston 19y ago
Specially cut, though.
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by aston 19y ago
Prolly worth noting that all of the "value-based" exits were basically talent acquisitions of essentially just the founding team (though the Auctomatics had a couple employees). I think the effect we're seeing here is that it takes more tha
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by aston 19y ago
Well, since PHP by default reinterprets bare-strings as actual strings, you can just type the name without quotes, and things should still work. Until you define() a constant with the same name.
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by aston 19y ago
Fun is that PHP still lets you pretend it works functionally. http://php.net/array_map http://php.net/array_reduce http://php.net/array_filter http://php.net/array_walk http://php.net/call_user_func_array (apply) http://php.net/c
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by aston 19y ago
Unlikely. Really, is your job so (un)glamorous that you sit around coding the world's next great sorting algorithm?

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