dgabriel

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by dgabriel 19y ago
I'm totally with you, but bear in mind that standards documents (especially within small start-up teams) tend to be built slowly over time, and reviewed and modified when necessary. Code reviews are great for establishing and tweaking stan
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by dgabriel 19y ago
They can, for sure, and many of them do (just not all of them). It's a decision based on the cost of legal vs. the income benefit of providing services to the international market. AOL has apparently decided the US is its target market.
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by dgabriel 19y ago
There are also liability issues. This service is offered to US citizens only, possibly because their billing practices don't conform to laws of other nations. Localization of legal issues is costly and time consuming. If you examine th
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Ok, I work in Java all day. I use a smattering of other languages, have developed a number of sites using PHP, and my pet project is in Python. I don't think you know many java programmers, and it's clear you haven't done any real world ja
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Hibernate allows you to do this when necessary. I'm not married to Hibernate, but I do appreciate the speed and flexibility with which you can get an enterprise app up and running. I also know that you MUST write optimized queries on occa
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by dgabriel 19y ago
I found the review for the ZoHo Show app to be completely misleading. I was able to easily do everything the author complained about, but maybe the app has changed in the last 2.5 months.
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by dgabriel 19y ago
No, it had the illustrious name of "Stumpworld," which I think originally had something to do with amputee porn. By the late nineties, they'd moved on to ecommerce like everybody else. No porn.
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Look, I can bring this back around to start-ups! At 21, in the heady late 90s, I was looking for a new web programming job. I interviewed at two places, Monster and this weird little start-up company in a dilapidated house in Allston (neig
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Having had several jobs where stock options were a motivator, I have a little advice to offer: Stock options are not a replacement for a competitive salary, unless the technical people are given substantial ownership. So, for example, 1% o
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by dgabriel 19y ago
I don't think anyone should take this article as a personal affront to their life choices. It's an interesting tangent in the broader field of psychology, just as Freakonomics is interesting the context of the broader field of economics. O
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by dgabriel 19y ago
I honestly don't think there's any way to stop people from "stealing," designs like these. It happens to many designers, and it sucks, but the choices are: - be angry, but flattered, and let it go - sue them for copyright infringement if a
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Absolutely. I'm very involved as an organizer & I still do workshops, etc. I make maybe $500 a year off of the work I do as an artist, which is great, but also clearly demonstrates why programming is the more prosperous carer path. F
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Maybe half of a theater degree? I completely failed out of college, then tried to make a living as an "artist," then accidentally stumbled into a programming job at a start-up. Now I'm a principal software engineer.
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by dgabriel 19y ago
I learn by reading the FAQ, leaping into the deep end with some stupid project, and then repeatedly harassing people who are smarter than I am.
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Indeed. I've also never found journaling "exhilarating."
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Harvard Business School
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Your comment immediately reminded me of Bill Murray's speech in Rushmore - "You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country:
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by dgabriel 19y ago
I suppose, but you can't take a list like this at face value. It's fun, but still meaningless without controlling for various other factors (like percentage of high scores from public vs. private high schools, etc).
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by dgabriel 19y ago
I thought there were only 3, and they were Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. Damn. I've clearly been going about this "programming" thing the wrong way...
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by dgabriel 19y ago
There were far, far better games on the market in 1998 than Doom (Half-Life, anybody?). And that Motorola cell phone is waay pre-1998, as well. At that point, they looked a lot more like this - http://www.motorola.com/mot/image/15/15326_
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Note to self: hard drives are not stone tablets. Back that shit up regularly.
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by dgabriel 19y ago
Continuing the artist analogy, you are a poet if you write something everyone agrees is a poem. It doesn't mean you're automatically the poet laureate of anything , or even a not-terrible poet, but you have written a poem, and you can pro
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by dgabriel 19y ago
According to the site, they use "panel-based information," which is culled from voluntarily shared anonymous user statistics. Maybe the correct assumption here is that the women who visit ycombinator are more likely to share usage statisti
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by dgabriel 19y ago
That seems to be the prevailing wisdom, but in ten years, I have yet to meet a programmer who was 5 to 6 times as productive as I am. Also, I assume I must be average, because I'm certainly not 5 or 6 times as productive as my co-workers.
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by dgabriel 19y ago
You can get a good education at almost any school in almost any language. Like much of your life, it depends entirely on what you put into it. If you only do enough to satisfy the core requirements of the class, and you are not motivated