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by dmoney 19y ago
Why every 24 months?
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by dmoney 19y ago
Soloing on the guitar. That working for a company isn't the only option.
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by dmoney 19y ago
You may like Dice Wars if you like Risk: http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html
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by dmoney 19y ago
I haven't been a part of a startup, but I'm at a company that's been reorganizing around an agile methodology, paying some lip service to "self-organizing teams." I think one of the problems with doing this is that if this methodology is i
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Bruce Schneier on Dual Use Technologies [video](archive.org)
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by dmoney 19y ago
They're coming from opposite situations: startup vs. established business. I wonder: could a startup succeed (make its founders rich) if it was made up of non-workaholics?
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by dmoney 19y ago
A site I was on a while back used pictures of baboons. From behind.
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by dmoney 19y ago
I've seen some statistics (I forget where) indicating it's now about twice as popular as C++. My (East coast) company recently decided it was a "Java shop."
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The Kano Model of Customer Satisfaction(isixsigma.com)
1 points by dmoney 19y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 19y ago
If this sounds like a good idea, you are already drunk. But if you're drunk enough, it tastes like fruit juice! DON'T DO THIS!!
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by dmoney 19y ago
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and... fights back.
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Has LinkedIn lost its soul to growth?(valleywag.com)
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by dmoney 19y ago
> so what? are you saying the reason poor people stay poor is their fear of starving? I'm saying it probably doesn't help, and I can think of a couple situations where it would hurt. 1. You interview two relatively equally qualified c
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by dmoney 19y ago
He also had nothing to lose. He knew he wasn't going to starve, so he had no reason to fear failure.
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by dmoney 19y ago
An alternative to a normal ban would be to put identified spam accounts into a sandbox mode, where it looks to the account holder like its submissions are working, but everybody else doesn't see them. That way it doesn't start seeing error
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by dmoney 19y ago
http://www.xkcd.com/356/
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by dmoney 19y ago
I stopped watching a lot of TV when I went away to college (didn't have one in the dorm room the first couple years). After I graduated and moved into my own place I never bothered getting cable hooked up, but I still use my TV for DVDs an
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by dmoney 19y ago
This gives new meaning to "hack the planet".
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Yahoo's board rebuffs Microsoft(valleywag.com)
1 points by dmoney 19y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 19y ago
I'll never understand why asians type all in question marks. It must be some kind of unary system.
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by dmoney 19y ago
Are Lisp programs inherently hard to maintain? If macros allow a Lisp program to become its own programming language, does coming on as a new maintainer have a much steeper learning curve than for programs written without macros? What abo
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Old discussion on Viaweb, Lisp, and maintainability(discuss.fogcreek.com)
1 points by dmoney 19y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Drops To $29.50 a Share(alleyinsider.com)
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by dmoney 19y ago
It's probably more useful to think of mapping/packing as skills rather than types of people. But then you can't claim that all those evil packers are oppressing you.
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by dmoney 19y ago
> learning -- creating knowledge -- consists of creating something complex (an idea in your own head) that didn't already exist This reminds me of The Programmer's Stone: http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/ which talks abou
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UnConferences: Take Your PowerPoint And... (businessweek.com)
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by dmoney 19y ago
Didn't mean to downvote this. I click randomly sometimes. Seems that something that doesn't matter shouldn't be legislated. Do patents matter in other industries? If patents drive innovation in some industries, but have no effect on othe
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Programming Considered Harmful(flownet.com)
2 points by dmoney 19y ago|1 comments
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Unfortunately, introverts don't always do so well in captivity. In addition, their habitats in corporate America, known as "offices," are disappearing as walls are torn down in the name of improving communication. I liked this quote: "many
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by dmoney 19y ago
Nervousness can cause accidents just as complacence can.

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