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by dfranke 19y ago
I'm a fan of the Amarok UX.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think there's a lot of useful criticism of arguments that falls outside this hierarchy. You can attack an argument without ever disagreeing with it, such as by challenging its interestingness or applicability or its relevance to the rest
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by dfranke 19y ago
Awesome news. Up until today I've been skeptical of PG's exuberance about Loopt, but now they've got it made.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Why can't I send them to the past? It seems like a really obvious and useful feature. And isn't it supposed to be spelled timemachinr?
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by dfranke 19y ago
I don't think so. The top 10 stories are ranked in the same order that they would be according to the algorithm in the arc2 source.
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by dfranke 19y ago
It's funny you should put it that way, because just the other day I was describing YC to someone as a "reverse boot camp".
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by dfranke 19y ago
Ideally you'd triage them anyway, but the whole idea we're discussing here is to find sites monolithic enough that you can get away with not doing so.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I had no idea this existed for sale. What an awesome gift it would make.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Sites like Monster are plagued by hordes of pizza-delivery boys who apply for programming jobs because all they have to do is click a button. I think the whole idea behind Snaptalent is that jobs ads only appear to targeted audiences, so t
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by dfranke 19y ago
But with Reddit you have to triage the comments, because there are always some intelligent ones. I think 4chan might be the best choice. I've heard it described as "where smart people go to be stupid", and I think that's reasonably accura
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by dfranke 19y ago
It worked for me. I stopped getting bullied after a couple months of martial arts, even though the closest I ever came during that time to getting into a fight was one incident of locking a guy's arm behind his back and then letting him go
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by dfranke 19y ago
That's a really easy question. I'd forecast zero revenue, do nothing, and make out like a bandit with my perfect forecast.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I'm still holding out hope for autonomous cars within a decade. Technology-wise we're pretty much there. The hard part will be convincing the public and government regulators to accept them.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I swear that if I see this question posted one more time, I'm going to add a library-request-via-hacker-news feature to Reble.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Where's my down arrow? I was hoping for an update on how the Zenters were faring at Google and when we'd get to use something derived from their work. Instead I just got this vitriolic ramble.
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by dfranke 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic-style_diet
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by dfranke 19y ago
My dad has a microwave that I simply cannot figure out how to operate, period. Last time I spent about 10 minutes trying.
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by dfranke 19y ago
> The profitable ones can receive more funding, if needed. Who decides if it's needed?
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by dfranke 19y ago
150 is the maximum, not the optimum. It's just a really big safety margin.
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by dfranke 19y ago
In practice that's how I'd expect/hope it would work. But while ideally the groups should act by consensus, there has to be some means of making a decision if no consensus can be reached. For groups that small, a benevolent dictatorship t
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by dfranke 19y ago
Just based on the summary, it sounds like he has a lot of good ideas and one bad mistake: profit-sharing is socialized. So if the company does well then the employees do well, but individual contributors would have trouble getting reward
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by dfranke 19y ago
If I had to structure an organization of 1,000 people, here's how I'd do it: rather than tiers of management on the order of 1, 10, 100, and 1000, I'd just have two levels. At the top would be a small committee that controls allocation of
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You weren't meant to have a boss(paulgraham.com)
239 points by dfranke 19y ago|298 comments
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by dfranke 19y ago
Docbook.
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by dfranke 19y ago
nostrademons is working on something along these lines, IIRC.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Coda: however, the professor whose class I missed the first 20 minutes of was a lisper, so he got a good laugh out of my excuse.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I second that recommendation, with a preemptive shush to anyone was about to whine that it spends so much time covering parser generators. Those algorithms may be old hat, but they're nonetheless enlightening once you understand why they w
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by dfranke 19y ago
A few years ago, I woke up to my alarm, really groggy, and accidentally hit alarm off when I meant to hit the snooze button. Then I thought to myself, "I think I'll stay in bed for a few more minutes. I'll just remember my current continu
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by dfranke 19y ago
Is this actually a first? I was under the impression that Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) also has some basic geek skills. I might be wrong though.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Time to resurrect M-x spook?

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