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by bkovitz 18y ago
Godly.
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Three. The ad I placed was not for a co-founder, but for someone to pair-program with me. At my cube-farm day job at the time, I hadn't found anyone willing to try pair-programming. I missed pairing, and I knew from past experience that I
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by bkovitz 18y ago
I found a co-founder by posting on craigslist. We have very different styles: I am improvisational, creative, always willing to try an idea, in love with writing beautiful code, mostly driven by aesthetics and idealism. He is organized, ma
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Stephenson's idea--generate high-quality stuff on the first run by cultivating your subconscious to spew only high-quality stuff--reminds me of performing improv. An improv scene is anything from a skit to an entire musical, performed with
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by bkovitz 18y ago
I am so sad to see this. Thanks for posting it, though. Maybe I'll...ghhk..ekkk...switch. I went through the entire PEP and found that I'm following every other convention but two (multiple imports on one line, and I seldom write docstri
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Awww, I like 3! 3 makes the tab levels very distinct, without wasting space. Of course it's just a matter of personal preference. But, is 4 really a widespread standard in the Python world?
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Same here, for the same reason.
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by bkovitz 18y ago
This article would have been a lot more interesting if it had said something specific to support its claim. Hans Reiser got convicted, therefore geeks are crowd-followers no less than non-geeks? Hans Reiser committed murder, therefore geek
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Why Analytical Applications Fail(juiceanalytics.com)
14 points by bkovitz 18y ago|4 comments
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by bkovitz 18y ago
I do. I find that code with the spaces around assignment and arithmetic operators is way easier to read.
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Did you read the whole article? The author sounds pretty sick of that stuff, too. For example: "The book's ultimate doomsday scenario -- of a dull and self-absorbed new generation of citizens falling prey to demagoguery and brazen power g
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by bkovitz 18y ago
I'm a TDD fanatic, but I abandon unit tests when writing exploratory code. The whole point when exploring is just to try ideas and follow inspirations. Unit testing forces you to stop every couple of minutes to think things through carefu
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Harrison Owen, founder of Open Space, on Wave Riders(openspaceworld.com)
1 points by bkovitz 18y ago|0 comments
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Well, how about this: an investor just popped out of the woodwork, looking to put $15K into the site. I don't have enough savings to last a year, so I was a little worried about my finances if I do decisionero. This bit of news definitely
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Indeed I am framing this as a rational rather than emotional problem. I think you made a very good point about the difference in the way extraverts and introverts enter new social situations. That really does make a huge difference: just d
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Thanks for the passionate rant. I'm the guy who's about to make the big decision. Something I found especially interesting was your point about unfashionable research not getting respect (and funding) in academia, even if it works out. I
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by bkovitz 18y ago
All this psychologizing about shyness: poor self-esteem, self-consciousness, withholding oneself from others out of selfishness, etc. My own shyness, and that of other shy people I know, has been due to something completely different, and
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Thanks for the advice. The reason I want the Ph.D. is to become a professor, and the reason I want to be a professor is to be paid to indulge my curiosity and to teach (I love both). Delaying a year to do this site is definitely an option
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Muchas gracias for the explanation of repr. I knew I shouldn't have lost faith in Guido. The ctemplate sounds really frickin' interesting. Is this an easy way to get a major performance boost on CPU-intensive bits of Python? Actually, th
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by bkovitz 18y ago
I quit my job six weeks ago. I've had an idea for a web site sitting in the back of my brain for several years now. Amazingly, no one else has done it. I put up an ad on craigslist asking for someone to pair-program with me. We've been
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by bkovitz 18y ago
WTF? Why doesn't the new repr(1L) return "1L"? I thought the whole point of the repr custom was to output something that would regenerate the same object. Are they going to abandon the 'Format %d:%s" % (n, s)' or just add PEP 3101? The %
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Sometimes, I just want to pass a function to a function. And sometimes, I want to just say, very concisely, "do this", without giving a name to "this".
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by bkovitz 18y ago
The problem is that "miles per gallon" gives you a false impression of your costs and the fuel savings you get by switching to a more or less fuel-efficient car. This is likely not a problem that many U.S. citizens are aware that they hav
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How to Become and Entrepreneur - wikiHow(wikihow.com)
1 points by bkovitz 18y ago|0 comments
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by bkovitz 18y ago
This guy sounds like a nerd, as Paul Graham describes nerds: oblivious to the social strategies that normal people use to become popular. Nearly everything posted on Myspace is meaningless fluff. You'll notice that most conversations at bar
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by bkovitz 18y ago
"Me, too." I have my all-out-coding periods and my just-can't-get-into-it periods. I've mostly decided to accept that this is my natural rhythm. However, I have a way to stay productive during the lulls, which has been very effective for
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Haaaaa!!!!!!! This is the greatest use of technology ever!
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by bkovitz 18y ago
Something going wrong recently: People posting off-topic links, especially political stuff.
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by bkovitz 18y ago
I upvote to say "this is worth reading". I downvote to say "this is not worth reading". "Worth reading" means "worth reading and appropriate to Hacker News". No doubt what I, or anyone, considers worth reading has some correlation with ag
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by bkovitz 18y ago
"No special relevance to hackers": therefore it does not belong on Hacker News.

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