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by dgreensp 14y ago
I'm still working on this problem myself, but we can get some answers from the assumptions in the question: 1. Don't link perfection and pride so strongly. Find ways to be proud of other things about your work besides "perfection." Many o
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by dgreensp 14y ago
The spin here is out of control. Google's "agenda" is to help a royalty-free video format exist, full stop. If you use H.264 on your website, you technically owe royalties to the MPEG-LA. Google doesn't think it should have to pay royalti
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Other primates had been tested, but they had been tested on human faces -- based on the assumption that ours are the easiest to tell apart. ::face-palm::
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Well, to put this in the context of the original article, it was actually talking about executive-level positions. To grab some numbers from a random blog post ( http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much.htm... ), a VP Produ
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by dgreensp 14y ago
To clarify, I meant $200k including the current value of the stock options that vest in a year. I'm also writing with engineers in mind rather than executives, and based on Bay Area salaries.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
It goes without saying that you won't get personally rich from any contract or investment without running the numbers . However, many employees consider it pretty enriching to work in a start-up environment for $200k+/year of salary and st
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Google saw Facebook as a potential identity platform and de facto backend for the entire web. It might have been paranoid in its assumptions of just how much of Google's lunch Facebook could have eaten -- but the move into social was very
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I disagree. I worked at Google for a year in 2010, around the time of the first reorgs around social. They were decimating teams like Calendar, Sites, and other products with millions of users that were stagnating, as far as they were con
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Nobody here is "introducing" the ternary operator or && for "and," they are standard punctuation in the world of programming. I agree that, in general, it misses the point of readability to say "just learn the terms first," but in
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by dgreensp 14y ago
You seem to be introducing a new point rather than agreeing or disagreeing with me or the article. Actually, I think you are agreeing with me. Contrary to the article, large amounts of money are at the complete disposal of individuals, co
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I was prepared to be moved to some novel point of view on the nature of money, but the article doesn't ring true. We do get to choose how to spend our money, and rich Americans who accrue millions or billions of dollars of personal wealth
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by dgreensp 14y ago
This is incredible -- a huge demonstration of what Kickstarter can do, and an eye-opener about how movies are made or not made. Imagine, the writer, cast, and crew all ready and eager to make the movie, missing only a $2-10 million check.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Yes, and we also have XML, the Academically Correct and proven-in-the-field way to represent all entities. I get the "URLs are nouns" metaphor, but I don't think it needs any additional promotion or particularly favors HTTP over whatever el
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by dgreensp 14y ago
> It is all very stirring, of course; but I confess that if I were playing cards I would rather have some decent little book which told me the rules of the game. Beyond the rules of the game it is all a question either of talent or dis
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Ah, the heart of this is why "success" (full stop) should mean financial success. An insidious association in our culture. Office Space is a profound movie, btw.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
He can rightly say that there are few "magic bullets" in life (that are articulated clearly in self-help books of 1915, at the very least), but I think he reveals that he doesn't consider making money; success in business; or managing onese
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Yes, he basically dismisses self-improvement and wisdom pertaining to the self as inherently mystical, and he also lacks a model where entrepreneurship and/or getting rich is moral and challenging in a way that requires strengths and virtue
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by dgreensp 14y ago
That's the coolest web app demo video I've seen, possibly ever! Looking forward to trying it. I actually visualize tasks as bubbles or blobs in my head, so this should be interesting.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
That's right, this is the simplest way to show it.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Ha. I'm not sure I get the metaphor, unless you are talking about trying to get acquired based on your user graph, or applying "greater fool" theory.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Thank you for saying it better than I could have. Alarm bells should go off when someone with a million users is talking about spending money to get more and not about converting existing users into customers. Free users are not customer
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I find that any amount of random pixel noise just makes my screen look dirty. Unfortunately, most of the patterns have pixel noise. It kills compression too if you use large tiles.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Because car rental companies exist to provide a service to the people who walk into them, so we walk in expecting to be served, providing we can pay. It's a simple transaction; they get money, you get use of a car. Everyone is happy. If
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by dgreensp 14y ago
This distinction btw means that constantly trying to explain or internally verbalize the workings of one's mind is not mindfulness, which is more about becoming aware of what surfaces and then letting it go. I've read articles that imply t
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Tolle's insight is that the rationalizing mind, which is basically a box that generates logical, verbal explanations (for internal and external phenomena that are not inherently logical), should not be allowed to direct our attention .
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Not a single sympathizer with the OP? Kindle books have truly terrible formatting and editing in general. Some are riddled with what look like OCR errors; in others, blockquotes and italicized regions start and end in the wrong places. Im
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by dgreensp 14y ago
It's an idiom for `.*` when you want `.` to mean any character, including newlines. `.` never matches a newline in JS regexes.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Very cool visualizer!
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JavaScript allows all the same numeric literals in its syntax, it just imposes additional semantics on them.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I'm so tired of this stern, condescending tone towards depressives. But it's not just arrogant, it's disempowering, a remnant of the days when eccentrics were locked up and given shock treatment. I know at least two people who are managing

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