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by damon 19y ago
I really wish I liked coffee. I've tried time after time to get hooked on coffee but couldn't manage to stomach it - even loaded with cream and sugar. It smells great, has ample caffeine, can be bought cheap, all the makings of a perfect
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by damon 19y ago
Woa, I just had a year 2000 flashback!
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by damon 19y ago
Matthew 6:24 - You cannot serve both God and Money
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by damon 19y ago
Time to bring back the hand crank!
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by damon 19y ago
The interviewer seemed determined to get his Linux v. Microsoft sound byte. Linus has to be sick of that line of questioning.
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by damon 19y ago
Always make sure "this end up" is pointed away from the body!
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by damon 19y ago
I recommend asp.net to all my competitors!
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by damon 19y ago
I feel back for this guy, he seems really lonely and isolated. Life is too short to live like that, regardless of how much money you make.
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by damon 19y ago
I would argue a language that is eloquent, concise, and for lack of a fancier word, pretty, is important. Language features change how you view and approach a problem. I approach problems much differently in scheme given I have a macro sy
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by damon 19y ago
That depends on the problem you're trying to solve.
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by damon 19y ago
Great advice. What exciting times for the hackers accepted to interview with YC! Best of luck to all. Now listen to Matt and get working on your demo!
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by damon 19y ago
Minneapolis. feel free to contact me damon at damonallison dot com
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by damon 19y ago
need a ruby hacker? :)
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by damon 19y ago
There is growing startup interest in Minneapolis. There is a group of folks (10 or 15 I believe) that are meeting bi-weekly to talk shop. Some have started, others starting. Take a look at the following links. I hope the trend continue
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by damon 19y ago
31 + BS in "Information Systems"
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by damon 19y ago
Stealing == giving artists 10% of sales.
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by damon 19y ago
Excellent - it will pretty much eliminate toggling between reflector and vs.net! This should greatly improve the blog post quality, documentation, books, and community feedback related to .NET. This seems a bit out of character for Micro
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by damon 19y ago
According to Guido, he wants to drop functional programming constructs in Python. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 What's interesting is the reasons he gives: "Why drop lambda? Most Python users are unfamiliar wit
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by damon 19y ago
Breaking News : Sun Microsystems (JAVA) to change stock ticker symbol to RUBY "The Ruby brand and technology have evolved to be among the most pervasive on the internet, yielding extraordinary awareness for Sun and opportunity for the commu
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by damon 19y ago
"There is some satisfaction, however, for a faculty member in encountering a recent graduate who marvels at the light work load they carry in medical school or law school relative to the grueling schedule they had to maintain during their f
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by damon 19y ago
Let's get Don Dodge (Microsoft is dead hater), this person, and we'll all PG hate for flash-in-the-pan attention. My favorite: "Let us not then, Paul, put her (straight-A student) down. She too, just as much as any homegrown entrepreneur,
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by damon 19y ago
Linus is hellbent on not working with "substandard programmers" and chooses his tools accordingly. Bad programmers are really counterproductive and he's damn brilliant for weeding them out so aggressively. In his "I'm a bastard" post to
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by damon 19y ago
I think lectures are expensive. Time is expensive. In order for lectures to be effective, their value has to exceed their cost. You have two options - shorten them or improve their quality. Speaking is an art. The value of a good lect
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by damon 19y ago
i hear you! +1 for -1
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by damon 19y ago
You've got to give the guy credit for trying. His sources are sound - PAIP is difficult, and PG consistently rings true. I'd take him over a mainstream C# drone salivating over Biztalk. I do like his update : "A lisp hacker has rewritten
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by damon 19y ago
I think you can tell how successful product X is by the amount of "X killer" stories you run across with the "rewrite the rules" or "change the industry" type of hype. Google, make your phone. Microsoft, make your zune, your origami. Cre
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by damon 19y ago
What's the idea? How to linkbait headlines?
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by damon 19y ago
Ruby is TM's driving force. I don't hack much ruby, when I do I use inf-ruby.el (based on cmuscheme.el by the way - where would ruby be without lisp and scheme ;). I was assuming TM worked well for ruby, given how ga-ga the ruby crowd is
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by damon 19y ago
This seems really out of sorts for higher education, Harvard in particular. Do their lawyers-in-training need more cases? I must admit, I would by tickets to MPAA v. Harvard. Or maybe by then I'll just watch it on "Harvard TV". Looking
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by damon 19y ago
I honestly tried to drop emacs in favor of TextMate for hacking scheme. It has the buzz, a great philosophy with a really stand up developer hacking it, sexy integration with osx, subversion hooks, nice bundle system, file browser, intuiti

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