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by brianwillis 14y ago
Thank you for saying this. The comments I saw on yesterday's post by Marco Arment really upset and concerned me. Hacker News is usually a pretty nice place to hang out, but that comment thread reminded me of the ten minutes hate from 1984.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Looking back, there seems to be a correlation between the times in my life when I've bought lottery tickets, and the times in my life when I've felt hopeless. If I ever feel trapped by circumstances, depressed, lost, or I don't have optimis
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I think you win the prize for the most creative idea in this thread.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
I was surprised to hear that they ask candidates to spend a couple of days working on a project, and then present that project to the company. That's a substantial time investment to ask someone to make on top of interviewing. If I was look
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Instructions on how to do this: http://support.app.net/customer/portal/articles/760978-how-d...
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Combined with the bonus time I got for signing up early, my renewal date is now in April 2014. That $50 went a long way.
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What is the biggest waste of time in your life?(quora.com)
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Pastebin of this article for anyone that wants to read it without the horrifying tooth repair advert: http://pastebin.com/5HnhXJWz
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Pining for the fjords(rowansimpson.com)
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If you're not sure about joining the app.net bandwagon, it really is worth your fifty bucks. It's become a fun place to hang out over the last few weeks. It's like twitter, but reading the global feed is actually possible, and the tone of t
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by brianwillis 14y ago
Diet Coke is the sweet nectar of the Gods and has gotten me through many an afternoon. I often wonder how much of the success that our industry has had can be attributed to caffeine.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
If I was Steve Huffman or Alexis Ohanian I'd be feeling pretty good about myself today. You know Reddit's become a fairly important piece of infrastructure when sitting presidents are conducting interviews using it.
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When asked how long version 1.0 of Stack Overflow would take to produce, Jeff Atwood famously replied "six to eight weeks" without any sort of serious planning or consideration. It took quite a bit longer. Listeners of the Stack Exchange po
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by brianwillis 14y ago
>6-8 Weeks After Stack Overflow, we should really start referring to this as an "Atwood period".
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>First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. It would appear that App.net is now at stage two.
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by brianwillis 14y ago
The way you maximise profits is by making your customers happy. Twitter's customers are advertisers, not users. App.net's customers and users are the same group of people.
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App.net: A summary of the last few weeks(alpha.app.net)
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by brianwillis 14y ago
>This is not a quick read, so it’s a good opportunity to try a read-later method such as Safari’s Reading List, which Apple invented completely on their own. ...was what did it for me.
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Hövding invisible bicycle helmet which inflates like an airbag [video](youtube.com)
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You just doubled my traffic for the month.
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I'm really of two minds about the write for you/write for an audience argument. I started blogging early this year, and so far I've written and published four posts that don't make me want to gouge my eyes out. That's not to say that what I
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Once upon a time we put a man on the moon.(realdanlyons.com)
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Visual Basic 6, Ruby and Getting Off My Lawn(hanselman.com)
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by brianwillis 15y ago
Is the loupe showing up for you? It didn't for me the first time I loaded the page, and I thought the same thing you did. It should look like this: http://i.imgur.com/WUQ7n.jpg
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by brianwillis 15y ago
Really looking forward to being able to use Archer and Ideal Sans on the web. My work is about to become a whole lot prettier.
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It's pretty clear from the second-to-last paragraph that Gruber understands that Jobs was a fallible human being. The criticisms in this post revolve around Isaacson's handling of technical accuracy, and Isaacson's repeated implication that
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Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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Joel Spolsky's farewell to Jeff Atwood(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by brianwillis 15y ago
A quick look at the list: - Field Master: Have 100 fields in a single class. - Overload: More than 10 overloads of a method. - Potty Mouth: Use 5 different curse words in a file. These are funny, but they miss what achievements are good for
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It's Just Stuff(shawnblanc.net)
2 points by brianwillis 15y ago|0 comments

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