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by bsaunder 19y ago
I think to be one of the principle developers at a start-up, you need to do better than feeling like your "skills are lesser than a huge community of people working together". IMHO, the two/three primary developers at a start-up should be a
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by bsaunder 19y ago
"Why the hell would you write your own framework and reproduce all the features of an existing framework" For fun. To learn a new language. Because you have a new idea to explore. Because sometimes people do invent better wheels (I love the
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by bsaunder 19y ago
"the break even point for an automated tester is when they've run their tests twenty times"... I find that (at least in early development), when I'm in the zone I refactor several times a day (differnent parts of the system of course). If
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by bsaunder 19y ago
I'd expect this to be particularly true for Asian and European countries. As had been said before on this forum, an international focus (or at least awareness) in our business plans (in the general sense), would seems like an increasingly
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by bsaunder 19y ago
"Note: This will take you to a page with a java applet. It may take some time to load, so please be patient. " That's all I need to know (thanks for the warning).
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Patent overhaul approved in House(mercurynews.com)
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Questions about competitors and the YC application
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by bsaunder 19y ago
"what you end up with is vast overspending to deliver very little value" I agree completely, fortunately (or maybe unfortunately depending on your view), this waste employees lots of people who want just a "job and a paycheck please". I th
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Having worked in an enterprise environment in the last several years (and trying hard not to get sucked into the process), it sure seems to me that a lot of the problems with enterprise software are self inflicted wounds. In fact I think i
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Yeah, "it serves you ... better" ... reminds me of the Mauve DB dilbert (it has more RAM).
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Yeah, he hardly seemed like an enlightened CEO... exactly the kind of person I want running my competition.
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by bsaunder 19y ago
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Wanted: technical co-founders for YC application and/or potential VC funding
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Yes, I've noticed the same thing. My current idea is similar to several other start-ups. At times it seems like some companies could be competitors if only they changed their product offering a bit. I think this is where the business/mark
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by bsaunder 19y ago
I agree, the idea may be insight to the creativity of the start-up, but it's the implemenation and execution that will make or break it. That's why (taken from app): "your idea is important too, but mainly as evidence that you can have goo
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by bsaunder 19y ago
I think robotics and automation will tranform our world in the coming decade. We are almost at the point where (if we put our minds to it), there's nothing that we can't automate (IMHO).
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by bsaunder 19y ago
For most of the article, I kept thinking, why hasn't he tried SWIG ( http://www.swig.org ). Keep the needs-to-be-fast stuff in C/C++ (hopefully with a well designed API), and code the fun, flexible, interactive stuff in the LFSP of your ch
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by bsaunder 19y ago
I've noticed the same thing, but fortunately for the twitter folks, someone (teenagers?) seems to think their app is useful. It seems impossible to judge the success of an app like that before it's launched. Fortunately, I guess when you
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Is it worse to write relevant content on your own blog and post it, or to troll the rss feeds and jump on content that someone else wrote and post it all the time? The latter one seems even more fishy to me. If you create bad/irrelevant c
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by bsaunder 19y ago
I keep get the feeling that we (technical folks) are doing a great job of solving our problems while most of the non-technical folks get left behind. It seems as though if we better understood the world from their perspective, there's a l
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by bsaunder 19y ago
And they were slow to load... and they had a default UI akin to Lotus Notes... and they didn't fit in seamlessly with the rest of the page.
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Google's a big company with lots of brilliant people. It's hard to imagine any feature or technology they couldn't easily implement. For the rest of us, hopefully those smart people turn into (or remain) researchers don't start churning
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by bsaunder 19y ago
First of all, thanks for the constructive criticism. This is my first blog article, so I'm begining to realize the sensitivity of carefully wording things. With regards to my constraint "(and I mean really program)", I merely wanted to exc
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Let me reconsider (I had forgotten about Paul Graham's, Python article). I suspect there are other langauges (not many) that reach this same level of intelligence tagging. I think the second paragraph of his Python article captures much of
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by bsaunder 19y ago
"Lisp's paradigm is sufficiently different from the normal imperative languages, e.g. C or Python, that grokking Lisp means you understand more than one paradigm. It's this that's valuable, not knowledge of Lisp itself." This was exactly my
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by bsaunder 19y ago
This is the spirit of my post. I feel Lisp stretches the way most programmers think. You have to have determination, intelligence and a knack for understanding different concepts to really get it. Moving from one OO language to another d
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Anyone who knows how to program in Lisp is smart.(occamsoftware.blogspot.com)
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by bsaunder 19y ago
Denim ( http://dub.washington.edu/denim/) is kind of interesting. It's a Java Application with an "interesting" UI (seems a bit ironic). It's probably worth a few minutes of downloading and checking out to see if it suits your style. Per