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bouncingsoul
19y ago
I gave up TV a few years ago, and now I physically can't stand to watch it. It's the ad segments that interrupt the programming – I cringe at the thought of how many hours and hours of worthless ads I've had pumped into my brain. That said
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
Related to what you're saying, I think, is what's on the back of The Little Lisper regarding its question-and-answer presentation versus the expositional presentation of normal textbooks: Reading a conventional textbook with expositions
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
If you think your audience is primarily IE users than you can make a decision to just support IE. But you asked Hacker News. For the people here I'm sure IE is a last choice browser.
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
Or you could skip the magic algorithm altogether and just show both widgets on the page, positioned and cropped in such a way that upvotes affect the positive link and downvotes the negative.
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
This is funny, but it really only applies to a single xkcd comic. And it's way more mean than it has to be. xkcd is hardly shit.
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Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?
(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
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19y ago
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19y ago
Are keyboard shortcuts going to be added?
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
Three people sharing one microphone is awkward.
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19y ago
I couldn't resist: http://fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=3917 It's not cartoon animals, but...
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
Make sure she understands what a startup means, and that it's a serious endeavor. No one wants to be pushed aside for someone's hobby. That said, your relationship probably has to be serious too. Sometimes you're not going to have time for
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
I've seen this before. I really like the presentation style. The conclusion is what you expect: building apps with Django, Ruby on Rails, TurboGears, and Plone is faster and less annoying than with J2EE.
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bouncingsoul
19y ago
The author of the linked article talks about the 90% failure stat in a blog post ( http://robbieallen.com/2007/05/against-the-wrong-odds/ ): > An often cited statistic (presumably from the Small Business Administration) is that 90% of
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Interesting stats on tech startups – only 16% fail?
(robbieallen.com)
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