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by dougws 15y ago
I still don't get it. Why not have a big city as a test market? It seems like the more potential customers there are, the more likely it is to catch on. EDIT: Serious question, by the way. I assume from the exchange above that there is an a
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by dougws 16y ago
My advisor (I'm a senior in college now) does pretty much everything in C. I've written a compiler, large parts of a couple distributed systems, and various Linux kernel hacks. C certainly isn't my favorite language, but I like it a lot. We
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by dougws 16y ago
I think fear of big players is sort of orthogonal to the thoroughly debunked "ideas are everything" notion. Even if you are the first mover in a given market, you might afraid that Google could release a competing product tomorrow and eat y
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by dougws 16y ago
Okay, there are some gigantic generalizations being made here, both in this post and others. I'm currently a senior at a liberal arts school, majoring in CS. Of the 10 or so CS majors in my class, I'd say half are also "hackers" in that the
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by dougws 16y ago
I like the implication that companies with bad UI are likely to have bloodthirsty sociopaths as CEOs.
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by dougws 16y ago
What does "you struggle to find mention of anything before 1998" mean? Google an event which occurred before 1998 and you'll find plenty of information and analysis, much of which I wouldn't call trivial.
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by dougws 16y ago
It sounds like the info it sends is all publicly available--and not from some sketchy stalker service but from LinkedIn, twitter, etc. In other words, it's not sending anyone anything they couldn't find out themselves in a few minutes.
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by dougws 16y ago
I don't think they're claiming that this problem is specific to "tech"; sexism pretty much pervades our society. And yes, sexism is different and worse than just generic dickery because of the way it exacerbates existing societal problems.
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by dougws 16y ago
Read the Tau Manifesto (linked int he article). He covers that and shows why Tau is easier to use there, too. Dude was a physics prof at Caltech; I think calculus is sort of important to him, too.
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by dougws 16y ago
One of the first programs I ever wrote did basically this--took an expansion of pi and made midi files out of it. It took a scale parameter, so you could give it a minor or major key (or any of the modes). I found it interesting to listen t
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by dougws 16y ago
They've been doing this less formally for a while. Last semester I sent them an email and within a day or so had a free private repository for a school project. It's both a great service and a smart financial move; the type of person who is
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by dougws 16y ago
That isn't really true. If Microsoft somehow ceased to exist, business would switch away from Windows and products written exclusively for that platform would be toast. The difference is really that for internet/cloud platforms, temporary
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by dougws 16y ago
That's probably the reason he gives specific examples of ways to shake things up. None of these are likely to result in fines, jail time or death.
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by dougws 16y ago
I'm a dyed-in-the wool emacs user (and have played with vim quite a bit) but there's really no comparison between the "completion" vim and emacs offer and that provided by IDEs like VS and Eclipse. They do quite a bit of static analysis and