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by chubbard 17y ago
Jason Fried == Jack Handy 2.0
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by chubbard 17y ago
My grandma's wisdom on marriage "Cooking lasts, kissing don't." My grandfather and I refinished a cabinet and stained it. He had us smoothing out the stain with our bare hands because the brushes left strokes in the stain while telling me
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by chubbard 17y ago
One of my coworkers used to talk about Ramanujan. He remarked Ramanujan called every prime number a close personal friend. He sort of had this deep relationship with numbers. Then I saw a documentary on people who could do complex math wi
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by chubbard 17y ago
Is Redis stable enough to replace using a database as persistent storage. There seems to be some indication that it is, but then there are paragraphs in the documentation that makes it seem like it's not. Particularly if your database siz
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by chubbard 17y ago
I think a healthy industry eco system requires life long investing from insiders. People starting and creating the business. The people shaping the landscape are the insiders creating and investing in ideas they believe in. This model wa
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by chubbard 17y ago
This just looks like a rehash of techcrunch 50.
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by chubbard 17y ago
Ah man I wish I'd seen this when you wrote it. I think this is great break down of the personalities of sales people. There are different types, and they have different skills sets as you so eloquently pointed out. I think, if I may inte
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by chubbard 17y ago
* groan
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by chubbard 17y ago
Motorola is so screwed right now they have NO choice but to put faith in the one OS that's looking for people to pick it up. They are seriously about be out of the race.
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The Internet devalues everything it touches...(blogs.zdnet.com)
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by chubbard 17y ago
So Technical Debt is natural and expected where messy code should be avoided. While this all may be true messy code has the same results as true technical debt. Get too much of it and your producitivity will take a dive. Maybe with True
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by chubbard 17y ago
When you know nothing copy. Artist have been copying each other for centuries. The Roman's copied the Greeks, the French copied the Romans, etc. I think when you start out you have no choice but to copy. As you get better you can start
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by chubbard 17y ago
This sounds like the best way to find the stereotypical sales person. The sales person who turns everything into a competition. A person who'll race you to the water fountain then brag about how much more they can drink than you. Are thos
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by chubbard 17y ago
Knowing everything you know now. Would you not do your homework, participate in extracurricular activities, play sports, learn to play the piano, apply and attend a good college? If not then what? Do you feel you wasted your time doing t
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by chubbard 17y ago
Yea not gonna work. I think this is just another case of disruptive tech taking down a giant. The giant is accustom to certain revenues that are very very large. Newspapers have historically made 75%-90% margins! Those margins have erod
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by chubbard 17y ago
Education could use some disruption. But, I remember quite often kids at my school talking about the futility of learning subject X. I want to be Y, and I'll never use subject X. It always bugged me when I heard that. I knew I wanted to be
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by chubbard 17y ago
I'm probably crazy for trying to breach this topic on a forum. It probably would take a very well thought out blog post to get my point across. But, this topic touches on a very important issue in software we face right now. Over the lif
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by chubbard 18y ago
I completely agree. How can anyone look at this fact and not see it as totally undermining the intent of bond raters?
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by chubbard 18y ago
I think Lewis' point is that regulation we have today has gotten into a position of disguising real risk when it should be exposing risk so it can be fixed quickly. If we don't have failure and risk then the market can't work. The liberal
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by chubbard 18y ago
Wow. That was a really great post. I've been contemplating about switching to JRuby because of all the headaches C Ruby and Rails has with Threading. This is a very good endorsement to switch. And, with GitHub doing the same. hmmmmmmm
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by chubbard 18y ago
In theory I'd say die die and die some more. I'd like to think that if we let GM just die then out of work car people will move on to creating the cars we actually want/need. Rather than arguing with unions over health care and labor stan
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by chubbard 18y ago
But, government isn't going anywhere. Wouldn't you rather have an efficient government over a non-efficient government given that Free Markets don't eliminate the need for government? As the latest crisis has taught us Free Markets can't
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by chubbard 18y ago
If the main link isn't working try this one: http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2008/10/21/sun-to-change-ticker...
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by chubbard 19y ago
Of all the Joel articles this one was better than most. As someone else said I see Joel has a very practical kinda guy. He so practical that I don't look to him for setting the future. I've never seen a practical programmer, such as Joel
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by chubbard 19y ago
I know this topic is really already past, but what about a fully up to date web browser. Full CSS standards compliance, JIT javascript, nice developer tools, memory models, full garbage collection, just the web browser we all want right.