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by dlevine 17y ago
Quote of the day: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE YOU ARE BETTER
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Probably either Ruby (Rails) or Python (Django). Although there are still a lot of people using PHP.
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Interesting how AMD kills Intel on Performance/Price, but Intel's raw performance is much higher. Still, the highest-end Phenoms are pretty quick and still a reasonably good value.
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Rails and JQuery. It's amazing how quickly I can build rich, interactive applications. I can do with two or three lines of code what would require 20 just a few years ago. Also, GIT. Best source control hands down.
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What Matters Now (Seth Godin et al)(scribd.com)
1 points by dlevine 17y ago|0 comments
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congrats
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Congrats
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Textmate and Eclipse. I use vi for quick editing. I also use Virtualbox for running virtual Linux and Windows (for testing)
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I worked for Google for a few years, and did a lot of phone screens. Most of the people who I interviewed probably felt the same way as this lady. The process may seem brutal, but it is impossible to invite everyone in for an on-site interv
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by dlevine 17y ago
In the short term, not much. In the long-term, disruptive technology. Something will come along and do to Google what it has done to Microsoft. Eventually, the game will change, and the existing players won't be able to compete.
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That's crazy. I read all of them when I was ten. I pretty much memorized the Ninja Gaiden book because I read it like 12 times (no idea why).
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Programming competitions are essentially a means for nerds to measure their dicks. Nothing wrong with that. Many competitions deal with idealized, stylized problems that aren't an accurate representation of reality. That's ok. I don't think
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Maybe the iPhone could be easier to use, but it's much easier than a lot of the phones out there. I have heard a bunch of people in their 50s and 60s complain about the Blackberry Storm, and how difficult it is to use when compared to the i
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by dlevine 17y ago
No one will ever read my thesis because I wrote it to fulfill a bunch of requirements set up by my program and my advisors. I didn't actually write it for the average person to read - it probably isn't even all that readable by most standar
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I think that the reason for this is that businesses are very reluctant to adopt revolutionary technologies. They are much more comfortable with technologies that offer a small and defined improvement over what they are using (eg. typewriter
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I think the problem is that product manufacturers try to make everyone happy with a single product. They gradually expand the product's definition in an attempt to get more and more people to use it. The problem is that one of the reasons w
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congrats on launching
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I just finished my MBA, and decided to start a company out of business school. I can honestly say that I've learned more about starting a company in the past 3 months than I did in the two years before that. The only way to learn entreprene
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I used to be completely in my own world. I would never talk to people who I didn't know. Then a while back, I decided to change that. I get into conversations all the time with random people I meet on the street. It's interesting how friend
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To set the record straight, virtually all laptop panels are 6-bit.
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It's interesting how responsive Apple is to customer feedback. A lot of times, customers complain about Apple's new product leaving out some feature, and then the next revision magically incorporates that feature (a good example would be Fi
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My super-bright LED flashlight runs on 1 AA and puts out as much light as my halogen bike light from a few years ago (which has a huge rechargeable battery pack). This sounds like an engineering problem that will be solved (or at least miti
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by dlevine 17y ago
I feel like CPUs and GPUS are converging anyways. They are both going multicore, and GPUs are becoming better suited to general-purpose processing. Sure GPUs have lots of simple dedicated cores, while CPUs have fewer more complex cores, but
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How to Listen to Your Customers(blog.instantq.com)
4 points by dlevine 17y ago|1 comments
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So what happened? You say what you did right and wrong, but you don't talk much about the history of your company. Without some more details, it's hard to put that into context. 5 months in seems fairly soon to throw in the towel. Did you l
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by dlevine 17y ago
Amazon supposedly has an amazing experiments system. Someone can launch an experimental feature, and if it succeeds, it gradually becomes the default. Having your users vote is definitely the best way to make decisions. Lately, when my cofo
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by dlevine 17y ago
I use my mac for everything. Our application is hosted off of ubuntu servers, and it's pretty seamless to switch between the two. My business partner runs ubuntu on his laptop - he has to boot windows to do photoshop, but that's pretty much
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by dlevine 17y ago
VistaPrint's actual business model involves selling your contact information. They give you free business cards in exchange for adding your information to lists they sell. The cost to the user is much greater than $5 in shipping.
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I think that the "threshold" is really a red herring. Having followed the site for a few weeks at this point, I would suspect that pretty much every deal "tips". The actual effects of having a threshold are twofold: 1) First of all, it enco
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by dlevine 17y ago
I think that for the Kindle to become something more than a high-end toy, Amazon is going to have to drop the price to about $99. Then they would sell millions.

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