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by brett 19y ago
Ha. It's only mildly relevant here, but my inadmissibility to enter Canada just recently expired. I was touring with a band trying to play a show in Vancouver and we got banned for a year for lying to border guards. Boneheadedly, we let th
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A VC: The Fiction of 20%(avc.blogs.com)
33 points by brett 19y ago|3 comments
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by brett 19y ago
The unexpected Ted Stevens reference at the end really made me grin. I find Stevens so hilarious and horrifying at the same time. I was surprised to find it in a PG essay, but on reflection it seems really appropriate in context. Though it
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by brett 19y ago
He touches on something like that in http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html . The other way to tell an adult is by how they react to a challenge. Someone who's not yet an adult will tend to respond to a challenge from an adult in a way th
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The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, Part 3: Where to go and why(blog.pmarca.com)
33 points by brett 19y ago|20 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Nice. I find those more compelling than slugging through all the explanatory text (though I don't have kids, so I'm not in the target audience). You might try and figure out a way to get them on the homepage.
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by brett 19y ago
Screenshots would be nice.
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by brett 19y ago
it looks like nostrademons found it.
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Pmarca: On Steve Ballmer on social networks(blog.pmarca.com)
1 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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by brett 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9965
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by brett 19y ago
I'll concede that my question over simplifies the issue: Burning bridges is bad, you can definitely be stupid about how you try to recruit talent ... But whenever someone comes to work with/for you they're likely precluded for working for
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by brett 19y ago
Since when is trying to recruit talented people stupid?
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Monster IPO quarter coming - to be highest since dot-com boom(venturebeat.com)
5 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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by brett 19y ago
There's a lot of good stuff to read on Douglas Crockford's site ( http://javascript.crockford.com/ ) including a good survey ( http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html ). I would also recommend his series of videos on js (I think they ar
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Wikipedia wars erupt(latimes.com)
15 points by brett 19y ago|5 comments
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Follow the process?(blog.billeisenhauer.com)
1 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Interviews: http://www.fromscratchradio.com/show/?page_id=12
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From Scratch - a weekly radio show about the entrepreneurial life(fromscratchradio.com)
2 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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James Hong: On going (NOT) Free...(james.hotornot.com)
13 points by brett 19y ago|4 comments
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Functional Javascript(osteele.com)
12 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Really? That bad? Why not? I like editorialized titles, and without the editorial DHH's post is essentially a linkjack to something fairly old. I toned it down. Is that better?
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DHH's response to "7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails"(loudthinking.com)
12 points by brett 19y ago|8 comments
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by brett 19y ago
I haven't used it, but you might look into this as well: http://swiftiply.swiftcore.org/index.html with mongrel: http://swiftiply.swiftcore.org/mongrel.html
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Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5(techcrunch.com)
42 points by brett 19y ago|16 comments
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Google launches JavaScript API that allows you to write back(ajaxian.com)
17 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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Google Gadget Ads(google.com)
3 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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PlaySpan, run 12-year-old founder, gets $6.5M in venture capital(venturebeat.com)
8 points by brett 19y ago|4 comments
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DHH: Sun surprises at RailsConf Europe 2007(loudthinking.com)
20 points by brett 19y ago|5 comments
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by brett 19y ago
maybe trollurnalist or some derivative I like the ones that lead with troll better.
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RubyForge vs CPAN - O'Reilly Ruby(oreillynet.com)
5 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments

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