balloot

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by balloot 14y ago
I read this and still have no clue what this business is. You may want to consider the possibility that Silicon Valley isn't massively broken and you simply don't have a good elevator pitch.
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by balloot 14y ago
I've programmed large projects in 6 or 7 different languages now and I simply don't believe your statement "I'm dozens of times faster working in Scala than I ever would be in php." That's like saying "I would write that essay dozens of ti
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by balloot 14y ago
The memory profile says otherwise, doesn't it? If you create a named function and call it like "setInterval(draw, 50)", the memory use stays constant.
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by balloot 14y ago
This is silly. You're creating a new anonymous function on every interval, so it will increasingly take up memory to hold these anon functions until the GC kicks in. It's doing exactly what it should do, because you don't want it doing GC
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by balloot 14y ago
Please. The internet and cell phones have changed the world as much as any technology since the light bulb.
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by balloot 14y ago
uh....You do realize that almost every photo on FB is user-generated, right?
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by balloot 14y ago
It is? What interesting thing has come out of Austin anytime recently?
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by balloot 14y ago
Red state. 'Nuff said.
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by balloot 14y ago
You clearly don't hate to be a "genre pedant" :)
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by balloot 14y ago
You can scale development teams and put re-usable patterns in place without pushing all your templates and view logic to the client. That's what libraries like Backbone are made to do, and I would agree it is generally overkill to implemen
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by balloot 14y ago
You're missing the point. There likely isn't a problem at all. His perception that drivers all of a sudden are greater in number and more aggressive since he moved in is probably completely inaccurate. It's definitely the case that most d
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by balloot 14y ago
Perfect example of NIMBY-ism. You bought a house at the bottom of a hill. You got a price that likely had this negative quality priced in, because cars drive fast downhill. Now, you act like people just started driving fast downhill in t
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by balloot 14y ago
I actually just accepted an offer at a startup, and like the idea of a tool like this because I had to approximate it. However, it's simply incorrect to compare your startup job with an VC investment, and the numbers given by your tool wou
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by balloot 14y ago
That's about right. One of the biggest surprises to me as I learned more about how startup equity works was the HUGE dropoff between cofounders and employee #1 in terms of equity.
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by balloot 14y ago
How exactly does screwing the employees out of stock options help the company not shut down? Outstanding stock options have zero effect on a company's profitability/burn rate. In any event, OnLive might as well just shut down anyway. It h
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by balloot 14y ago
I still don't see how people can equate Zynga with the game market as a whole. The "Ville" products are not games. They don't reward skill, you can't win them, and they don't offer any fulfilling multiplayer experience. Most real games fi
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by balloot 14y ago
The fundamental problem with Zynga products is that they're not games. The fact that they famously concentrate on "compulsion loops" and forming habits in their users tells you all you need to know. No real game has to focus on the compul
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by balloot 14y ago
Would totally make sense given it works best in the two browsers most closely tied to the underlying OS.
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by balloot 14y ago
The reason I know about this case and its updates is precisely because of HN. You make it sound like this is a mainstream news story. It's not. It belongs here.
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by balloot 14y ago
What Louis CK is essentially saying is that given a large amount of money already in the bank, it is more valuable for him to have affordable tickets than it is for him to maximize revenue. That is a decision that is perfectly rational. N
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by balloot 14y ago
But the motivation given is to beat the people around you. Which in many cases does not help the company as a whole. It also puts a damper on team coordination. Nobody here is suggesting a total lack of merit pay. We're just saying that
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by balloot 14y ago
The problem I have with stack ranking, and one that I would think engineering companies like MSFT and AMZN would share, is that it is just bad science. I can get on board with the idea that it is good to drop the bottom 10% of the company o
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by balloot 14y ago
Here's the question I don't get - how do you fill "support" roles? Like how do admins fit into this structure? Or HR? Are there really people, who given a job at a video game company and no defined role, would choose to set up meetings a
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by balloot 14y ago
You're complicating something that isn't that complicated. LinkedIn's TOS very clearly states in the terms that it is illegal to "Use the APIs in an Application that competes with products or services offered by us" So when you see: http:
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by balloot 14y ago
It's not that complicated. If you build your company on the back of another company you must abide by their TOS. If your business plan is to build the best porn app on the App Store, you would be similarly disappointed. In general, if you
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by balloot 14y ago
I have an issue with your wording. "Getting free data via LinkedIn's API" != "Working with LinkedIn"
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by balloot 14y ago
I just don't get all the hand wringing. You are not entitled to unlimited use of another company's data. They can shut you off at any time for any reason. And if you build your company around someone else's API, an essential part of the
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by balloot 14y ago
So your client gave its its sales reps iPads when they needed laptops? :)
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by balloot 14y ago
If it bothers you so much, you are free to not use Amazon. It's not like they have a monopoly in the eReader market. What exactly am I missing here?
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by balloot 14y ago
It's not $3 to transmit a file. It's $3 to: Design a great UX Handle Credit Cards safely Give you access to a robust infrastructure that won't crash Market the site Build and research a top quality e-Reader Build data centers all around th

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