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by d--b 14y ago
Well I guess you could say that you could split the goals to things like "make a prototype", "convince some VCs", raise "$100,000", etc. That makes for bitable chunks, but the goal has to remain. Otherwise, what's the point of breaking one'
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by d--b 14y ago
Ok I see your point. But that only works because before becoming the podium winner, you have to go through the mid-pack stage. Product design is not like that. Take Square for instance, where is the small first step ? Build a device that wo
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by d--b 14y ago
'You can think of goal creep as the test-driven development of a real-life pursuit.'. No!!! Think about it!!! Test-driven development would be to start writing your winning speech before learning to drive!!! Besides, goal creep is a way to
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by d--b 14y ago
Programming is an engineering discipline. Engineering has some things of crafts and is influenced by a culture. It is the same in any kind of engineering, there are fashions in bio-chemisty as there are fashions in how you build a bridge or
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by d--b 14y ago
I bet someone will post an article called "If you can't read more than one paragraph to be interested in a project, you've got a problem"
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by d--b 14y ago
Increasing productivity is the main point of Information Technology. Of course, everything you can do with a computer, you could do with file cabinets and multiplication tables, but the only goal of information technology is to increasing t
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by d--b 14y ago
I am very astonished by the comments I read here. That internet is way cheaper and faster in Europe and Japan than it is in the US is a fact, period. And it is not because the governments pay for it. It is because the market competition wor
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by d--b 14y ago
It's the abstraction that's difficult to get in the first place. In Basic, a variable represents at the same time the data and its memory address, the two concepts are not separated. When you introduce pointers, you split that concept in tw
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by d--b 14y ago
it is pretty clear in google's message: jpeg and pngs images are already compressed (the last step of the compression is similar to a gzip compression in many ways). Putting a jpeg in a zip file is similar to put a zip file in a gzip file.