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by digisth 14y ago
We're Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers: http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessma...
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by digisth 14y ago
To add to this (and as patio11 has said several times in his articles) OKCupid does this with regularity, and has provided a people with great deal of entertainment and information value, and have been covered many times in the press. They'
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by digisth 14y ago
I agree with most of this well-written post. However, I think this deserves consideration: some percentage of those posters are not, will not, and do not want to be developers. They may be the accountant who is the designated "IT guy" in th
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Bargain Seekers Broaden Manhattan’s Silicon Alley(nytimes.com)
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by digisth 14y ago
I have no particular opinion on the "what's right for beginners" part of the article. Regarding the rest, I'd add that these constructs serve as idioms in a general sense, as well as serving as social mores as described in the post. I would
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New York Chases Silicon Valley With Roosevelt Island Site(bloomberg.com)
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by digisth 14y ago
Fun thread. My first computer mischief experience was in "Computer Class" in first grade. The computers were running DOS 3.0 (IIRC) and the class was for teaching computer basics, which mainly consisted of "Introduction to programming" usin
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by digisth 14y ago
Great comments in this thread so far. Let me summarize a few and add some of my own: 1) Some people do not want estimates. They want unrealistic promises for purposes that have less to do with the project, and more to do with making themsel
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by digisth 14y ago
That's a really informative post, tptacek. Thanks. How do you feel that Chicago rates on "serendipity creation" (which I meant to ask in the OP, and seems like we could classify it separately from regular "networking")? Does it feel like a
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by digisth 14y ago
That was a very interesting post. Thank you.
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Ask HN: What is the software startup environment in your city like?
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by digisth 14y ago
A good manager will get you what you need (computers, the right chair, a good desk, etc.) An engineer (or admin, etc.) who has everything required is a powerful thing. A good manager will act as an umbrella and abstraction layer protecting
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by digisth 14y ago
Agree completely. The hyperlocals seem like they'll be cost-covering only operations run by what amount to dedicated, self-motivated volunteers. Big wads of cash do not seem to be in their futures anytime soon.
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by digisth 14y ago
Local news seems more and more that it's being served by ad-supported local/hyper local blogs and blog aggregators. What used to be the province of ultra thin printed dailies (when I was a kid, many neighborhoods seemed to have one in Brook
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by digisth 14y ago
Some notes of guidance from a recent recode and redesign (which included making the site responsive / mobile web friendly) of a site with a medium-sized code base. YMMV. 1) Test multiple versions as you go. If you're targeting, let's say, t
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by digisth 14y ago
I look forward to the day we can play AR games (with server-side enhancements) with either something like Google Glasses or (hopefully) Google Eye Contacts. Once we're hands free and have overlays and server support, it opens up whole new a
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by digisth 14y ago
I think some of the issues around this come down to the way we conceive of these networks (well, and semantics.) They're all called Social Networks, but that should phrase be construed very broadly. If people are using Facebook to keep in t
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by digisth 14y ago
I would ask yourself a few (perhaps obvious) questions: 1) Can you differentiate yourself easily? Better looking site, smoother UI, and better performance are potentially low-hanging fruit. Better customer service (if it applies) can also h
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by digisth 14y ago
An unstated principle embedded in the post, sometimes made elsewhere (particularly in econ and political circles): change happens at the margins.
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by digisth 15y ago
This seems like a new sense of the phrase, which has appeared intermittently in the more bearish end of the financial reporting and opinion spectrum. It used to be a synonym of "mark to make-believe", which was one of the popular "methods"
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by digisth 15y ago
What's really interesting to me personally is how porn continues to stay ahead of, or at least at/near the front of, the pack technology/performance-wise. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s I co-ran the technology department at a very l
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by digisth 15y ago
Another thing we could do instead is index the copyright length to life expectancy. It was 14 years in 1790 (average expectancy was 35.5), which means it should be around 28 years today. It was meant to give creators a time-limited monopoly
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by digisth 15y ago
Clever, and very well done.
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Ask HN: Non-designer/developer UI/UX testing resources?
1 points by digisth 15y ago|0 comments
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by digisth 15y ago
This goes along well with the Web Economy BS Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html There's real potential for organic synergy and interdisciplinary cross-pollination here.
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by digisth 15y ago
Very good article. I think we should also consider the /reasons/ many consciously avoid "known/well understood" schleps. They have to do with the motivations for undertaking the work involved with a startup (or anything else, but startups f
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by digisth 15y ago
Thanks for the responses. So far, I'm amused (or maybe amazed) by a few things: 1) No real review site for this purpose (startup idea!) 2) The number of searches that turn up /job listings/ instead of development firms. Many different varia
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Ask HN: Your favorite NYC-area custom software development shops?
1 points by digisth 15y ago|3 comments
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by digisth 15y ago
Here's another idea: drop the corporate tax rate to 0% and raise income, high-end property (let's say houses that cost 2x the median in a particular area), and high-end consumption taxes (a "yacht tax".) Another handy related idea would be
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by digisth 16y ago
We might be, but are bubbles always bad? Lots of money gets thrown around. More people get jobs. Ideas are everywhere. People get experience starting and running companies. Interpersonal and business networks are built. Lots of bad ideas ar

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