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by cal5k 12y ago
Fire the managers because they disagree with my point of view! All management decisions should be based on double-blind studies! Managing one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the Internet is easy because it isn't hardware!
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by cal5k 12y ago
It's not fair to him at all. DHH is espousing his opinion in his typical loud-mouthed fashion without taking the time to understand the facts on the ground. He had the same style of firebrand exchange with Travis Kalanick over the Lyft
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by cal5k 12y ago
Human spaceflight has really only ever been well-funded in response to a Russian (or Soviet) threat. So bring on the new cold war!
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Turn your smartphone into a puck.(mypuckdigital.com)
3 points by cal5k 13y ago|0 comments
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Salespeople: Do Your Fucking Research(dustinwalper.tumblr.com)
6 points by cal5k 13y ago|0 comments
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How to Acquire Your First Customers(myplanetdigital.com)
3 points by cal5k 13y ago|1 comments
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A brief history of JavaScript(myplanetdigital.com)
4 points by cal5k 14y ago|0 comments
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by cal5k 14y ago
It is frustrating sometimes, but I think with the increasing popularity of books like The Lean Startup and an overall broader understanding of how startups actually work, people are more willing to try new engagement models.
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The agency model is broken: Why we sell teams, not projects(myplanetdigital.com)
4 points by cal5k 14y ago|2 comments
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Developing enterprise products with Lean UX and JavaScript(myplanetdigital.com)
3 points by cal5k 14y ago|0 comments
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by cal5k 14y ago
A few people at our company signed up for Hall and invited others, causing a runaway chain of invitation reminders that drove our entire team nuts. Not a great way to get introduced to a product.
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Responsive: A Task for the Developer or the Device?(myplanetdigital.com)
20 points by cal5k 14y ago|9 comments
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by cal5k 14y ago
You are aware that Amazon owns Abebooks?
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by cal5k 14y ago
Absolute nonsense. The only reason that probably got posted was because whoever posted it had no idea what they were doing. Demand for talented engineers in Canada vastly outstrips available supply. Period.
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by cal5k 14y ago
As an individual Canadian entrepreneur, really your only course of action is to ignore the talk of doom and gloom and just get shit done. It does seem to be the reality, though, that beyond a certain stage the only way to get a good valuati
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by cal5k 14y ago
"It is a huge sum, even in context. Zuckerberg’s impending fortune is more money than Wal-Mart’s 10,000-plus stores made last year." This line is a little disingenuous. It's more money than Wal-Mart "earned" last year, not "made". Wal-Mart
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On building rockets(dustinwalper.tumblr.com)
1 points by cal5k 15y ago|0 comments
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by cal5k 15y ago
For what it's worth, I've noticed that practically every article in this genre is written by women. Is this really a new phenomenon, or is it perhaps a well-worn trope that garners attention? The men are all "losers", not worthy of the atte
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by cal5k 15y ago
Subreddits are the new forums.
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by cal5k 15y ago
Part of the problem right now is that online education has such a bad rap - for example, The University of Phoenix is widely recognized as a degree mill. It remains to be seen whether companies/institutions (like Udacity) can get the certif
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by cal5k 15y ago
That was absolutely frustrating to watch. Alexis is a well-spoken guy with cogent points to make, but I think he was outmatched in that debate by a guy with way more media experience. Richard Cotton stuck to his deceptive, populist talking
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by cal5k 15y ago
Ah, herein lies the genius of experienced lobbyists. It's straight from the regulatory capture playbook - in Canada, for example, telecoms know they need to approach the CRTC (which regulates telecommunications) with an extreme list of dema
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by cal5k 15y ago
Right, but $16,000+ is still a reasonable amount to pay when you consider the target market - researchers, educational institutions, museums, etc. It's not quite within reach of your average joe just yet, but this is a step up from what it
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by cal5k 15y ago
I was thinking about this - when such humanoid robots get to the point where they are truly useful, wouldn't it be reasonable to shell out about as much as we would for a car?
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by cal5k 15y ago
Unfortunately Canada plans to support this too, and our current Conservative government steamrolls any and all legislation on their agenda right through the house. Our senate is functionally useless, so it's essentially a foregone conclusio
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by cal5k 15y ago
The key distinction between this and Virgin Galactic: orbital spaceflight!
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by cal5k 15y ago
Ouch... I was being tongue-in-cheek, not intentionally a jerk! :-( From the author's submission history he has only ever submitted his own stories to Hacker News.
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by cal5k 15y ago
Must be hard times at the NYT when journalists have to resort to submitting their own pieces to Hacker News ;-)
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by cal5k 15y ago
Are you planning to do each course sequentially, one at a time? Also, do all of these have lecture videos or do many require just reading and following the curriculum?
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by cal5k 15y ago
This is probably true on the small end of things, and I've had discussions around Drupal vs. Wordpress in enterprise-ish environments, but Wordpress is still not a serious contender in the enterprise space. I'd be interested in talking to t

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