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by cemerick 13y ago
Yes, that reply was only regarding the particular phrase "100% time", and the very broad concept of self-directed work.
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by cemerick 13y ago
It's close (from http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p... ): We’ve heard that other companies have people allocate a percentage of their time to self-directed projects. At Valv
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by cemerick 13y ago
For sure, there are times when certain things simply have to get done. I didn't talk about that side of things simply because it would have diluted the message, and I figured that it was a given. However, contrary to what the GP says,
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by cemerick 13y ago
I've not had an exit (threading that needle with a small software product business seems to be particularly challenging), but I hope I've been able to accomplish something similar in terms of searching for the next best thing. I
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by cemerick 13y ago
(Author here.) I agree that 100% time does not define anything. That is definitional. ;-) I'm "the boss" of the business, so I'm pretty well in control of what gets done and what doesn't. The whole thing requires
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by cemerick 13y ago
Author here. While I appreciate the reads, I am even more glad for the amusement provided by various comments about how I'm confused about what "100% time" means (since, AFAIK, the post is where the term was first used outsi
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by cemerick 13y ago
Somewhat amusing, maybe. Front page amusing? 74 points amusing? Goodness no, not when e.g. http://this-plt-life.tumblr.com has only ever gotten 4.
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by cemerick 13y ago
Medium, a better place to read things…that show up in the bathroom stalls at the Onion? And, on the HN frontpage, apparently.
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by cemerick 14y ago
gnosis mentioned that the mentioned code is scheme. FWIW, a Clojure transliteration of the derivation example is pretty trivial if that's the sort of REPL you happen to have close at hand: => (def dx 0.0001) #'user/dx =&#
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by cemerick 14y ago
"Cargo-culting" has been redefined and repurposed many, many times for different domains (science, programming, software engineering, etc). It's the closest term I know of to name the process I describe, so that's what I used. As you can
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Why the closed distribution model of Windows 8 must be changed(mollyrocket.com)
2 points by cemerick 14y ago|0 comments
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Authentication is machine learning(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
7 points by cemerick 14y ago|1 comments
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by cemerick 14y ago
When Amazon delivers a £20 book to a lady in Cambridge, how much of that is UK profit? The brand, marketing, procurement, software development, author mindshare, etc. etc. all originate (if not implemented and housed in their entirety) in
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by cemerick 14y ago
I had honestly never considered such a notion. Considering hard goods for a moment: when I order something from a foreign merchant, I sometimes need to pay import duty. I suppose this line of thinking would have the U.S. collecting the sa
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by cemerick 14y ago
I continue to have difficulty understanding the gnashing of teeth around various "tax minimization" strategies, e.g. being "immoral" and all that. Setting aside those companies that deal in 'hard goods' (e.g. Amazon-the-store, Starbucks, et
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by cemerick 14y ago
Yes, the :as option is the same whether you use it with require or use.
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by cemerick 14y ago
use does accept an :as option: => (use '[clojure.set :as set]) => set/intersection #<set$intersection clojure.set$intersection@58ca40be> Prior to the addition of :refer to require, this was often paired with
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Analysis of 20 Bootstrapped Startup Landing Pages(speckyboy.com)
3 points by cemerick 14y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 14y ago
As I said somewhere in the post, I am not a survey or polling professional. So, I'm sure mistakes have been made. But: I don't think many people have the same trouble with this question as you do. A particular type of discussion recurs wi
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Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by cemerick 14y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 14y ago
Don't confuse data used to persuade investors with end-user features and benefits. The article has quotes where Gafni talks about initial feedback from investors; I think it's reasonable to assume that the $9/$60 figures are efforts to est
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Why is India so bad for women?(guardian.co.uk)
9 points by cemerick 14y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 14y ago
Ah, sorry; last I saw, he was heading towards Braintree with a a 6-month horizon for the various merchant account approvals, etc. I hope the current path works out. :-)
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by cemerick 14y ago
As you can see, we slowed this past week, to be honest. Looking for advice on getting back to ~doubling each week. :-) I'm afraid you're probably going to be looking at a plateau until you can get the payments thing straightened out perma
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by cemerick 14y ago
FWIW, I'd love to see a $1.00 option added to the mix. 25¢ is too small, $3 is too much, $1 is just right. :-)
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by cemerick 14y ago
I don't know much about biology or Matlab, but this seems to be a common refrain. *XXXXXists make huge breakthrough on YYYYY* "I can't believe they used programming language Z!" Domain specialists generally have more market le
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by cemerick 14y ago
In truth, I hate these Indeed charts…but then, I started it, eh? Live by the sword and all that. Some additional perspective: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2Cruby%2Cpython%2C%22... The Java market is massive . Nearly everything
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by cemerick 14y ago
(If you watched the O'Reilly live webcast, then give this a try: http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/ ) Riffing on what technomancy said nearby, a lot of the issues that Clojure addresses are so taken for granted in most of t
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by cemerick 14y ago
Some of us have been "marketing" Clojure for a number of years now. :-) The results from the last two years of the survey (e.g. 2011's are here: http://cemerick.com/2011/07/11/results-of-the-2011-state-of-... ) might be illuminating for yo
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by cemerick 14y ago
Is there any sane way to upgrade a 3.x installation to 4.x? The last thing I need is to spend a couple of hours reinstalling and re-tweaking plugins and such.

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