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by dboyd 13y ago
Very good points. The original article seems to group all open office plans into a single category, as if they were all alike. I've worked in two notable different open office plans. One was at around 400 square feet per person. In
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by dboyd 13y ago
> When the state of the art is the Sony Walkman... The author either wasn't around in the 90s, or thinks Apple invented the MP3 player. The first MP3 player appeared 4 years before the iPod. In the U.S., the Diamond Rio was fairly
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by dboyd 13y ago
I agree. For example, I always thought Yahoo had the best sports site out there. Information, easy to find, without distractions. It looks like I'm not alone... https://yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/207810
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The Nudge Debate(nytimes.com)
1 points by dboyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by dboyd 13y ago
> Create a public advocate to argue in front of the secret court... If your 'court' needs a public advocate, then the lack of a public advocate is not the problem. The idea of a "secret court" is contradictory to the
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by dboyd 15y ago
Lately it is has been getting a lot harder. The problem right now is that so many things have moved so far, that there simply isn't a known pattern that will work. Generally speaking, you now need a compiler. If not to install something o
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by dboyd 15y ago
I'm also in San Francisco, and looking to move away from Comcast. Mostly due to cost, than anything (yeah, the idea that Internet costs me more than TV + Internet pisses me off in an irrational way). I must admit, it's tough, their Interne
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by dboyd 15y ago
What is gained in hiring remote has a cost. A significant percentage of human communication is non-verbal[1]. When hiring remote, make sure to put "communication skills" near the top of the requirements, since any hire is going to have to
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by dboyd 15y ago
Related to that... the 'cd' section seems to be missing "cd -" (ATM). $ cd /some/really/long/dir $ pwd /some/really/long/dir $ cd ~ $ pwd ~ $ cd - $ pwd /some/really/long/dir I'm pretty sure "cd" and
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by dboyd 15y ago
> Early on, we decided to focus on selling to engineers. This shows in their documentation. I am working with their API, and everything is very well documented. This also shows in their support. Being able to jump into a Campfire room
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by dboyd 15y ago
Personally I see HN's fate as worse than that of Digg and Reddit. HN's karma rating system reinforces an exclusive community. If someone who 'goes against the grain' tries to add diversity to the HN community, they will never get any karm
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by dboyd 15y ago
It's probably not critical, but is there no way to see this without having to create a facebook account?
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Kill The Euro, Win A Prize(npr.org)
1 points by dboyd 15y ago|0 comments
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What’s Your Economic Outlook? (live interactive view of submissions)(nytimes.com)
1 points by dboyd 15y ago|0 comments
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by dboyd 15y ago
I noticed Google Wallet tap and pay 'receivers' (registers?) at the Peet's Coffee on Howard and 1st St. in San Francisco last week.
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by dboyd 15y ago
True. 'Looking' at otherwise empty space can sometimes yield some incredible results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
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by dboyd 15y ago
I find turning on 'focus-follows-mouse' to be a great asset. Then I just hover over the pane I want.
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by dboyd 15y ago
Growing up on a farm meant I learned very early that you could do a massive amount of work, and earn very little from it :p. The first startup I worked for was in 1993, and it was an amazing experience. While it's been fun watching the Int
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by dboyd 16y ago
> Really it's like watching T.V. except it's the internet. Except we don't work on our TVs. In fact, in web development, I do 'real work' in the same application I 'waste real time' (the browser). Seth Godin had an interesting take on
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by dboyd 16y ago
San Francisco, CA - Ruby/Rails Engineer We are an early-stage, angle-funded startup building the next generation online video marketplace. We have several significant customers using and profiting from our application. Founders have had s
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by dboyd 16y ago
It's not entirely stupid. Although, if you are arguing specifically against the non-regional TLDs, then I would probably agree with you. .gov was a bad idea. .gov.us (or .gov.ca.us) is not. Outside of obviously regional things. amazon.de
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by dboyd 16y ago
The degree I got was in Computational Science, not Computer Science. It was focused more on the principles of computation, rather than the electronic implementation of those principles. A few years after I graduated (in '96), it was renam
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by dboyd 16y ago
Worldwide CDMA coverage: http://www.cdg.org/worldwide/
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Chicago’s Ruby Developer Crisis(nuts.redsquirrel.com)
14 points by dboyd 16y ago|3 comments
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by dboyd 16y ago
And a more contemporary representation of size: one trillion fits into 40 bits. This message, on the other hand, takes up 1200 bits (assuming ascii).
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by dboyd 16y ago
I grew up on a farm. A pig farm. Between getting home from school and eating dinner, I had chores to do, in the pig barns. I usually came back from chores with pig shit all over my hands. If I hadn't had soap to wash my hands before biti
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by dboyd 16y ago
> ...name a better large scale ideology. OK. Civil rights. Have two countries that grant full legal equality to both men and women ever gone to war?
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by dboyd 16y ago
The Pragmatic Programmer: http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer Code Complete: http://cc2e.com/ Introduction to Algorithms (google that one, it's hard to find a good link) Domain Driven Design: http://domaindrivendesi
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by dboyd 16y ago
"It's like maintaining a skyscraper built out of Tinker Toys." Actually, it's like maintaining a skyscraper built from steel, concrete and glass integrated with complex HVAC, plumbing, electrical and elevator systems.
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by dboyd 16y ago
My first car (a 1967 Dodge Monaco) had 'backwards' lug nuts on the left hand side of the car... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lug_nut#History Propane tanks also used to have backwards screwing connections. I believe this was a safety 'fea

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