dschobel

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by dschobel 17y ago
Of course, I’ll be tweeting away. Over time, I’m coming to realize what sort of messages I can communicate effectively via Twitter, and what sort I can’t. Twitter works least well for me when I try to cram big arguments down to 140 charact
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by dschobel 17y ago
Except his posts all get a reflexive down-vote to -4. I don't see the point, obviously the discussion here is better for his defending himself. Give the guy some credit for showing up in front of the firing squad and trying to defend himsel
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Firefox may never hit 25 percent market share(arstechnica.com)
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by dschobel 17y ago
And they're not summarily killing the product. What a pleasant surprise.
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by dschobel 17y ago
What do you propose? Photoshop? Balsamiq?
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by dschobel 17y ago
You're either being willfully ignorant or insincere now. Allowing non-boolean values in boolean clauses originated with lisp back in 1960. Furthermore, GvR is on the record as saying that his main influence for python was ABC.
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by dschobel 17y ago
perl:python Hey this is fun! Now you do one again.
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by dschobel 17y ago
How can you possibly substantiate that statement?
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by dschobel 17y ago
The problem with that visual is that it ignores the fact that the same social mechanism that blindly repeats the anti-global warming line today was repeating the pro-global warming line a few months ago. It's not clear whether the author's
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by dschobel 17y ago
The point is to help a startup improve. That's sort of the M.O. around here.
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by dschobel 17y ago
You could post your browser/platform and what you were doing when it blew up so that they might fix it. Just a thought.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I see that Daniel Gilbert is one of the authors of this study, author of http://www.amazon.com/Stumbling-Happiness-Daniel-Gilbert/dp/... . If you have yet to read it and have any interest in the psychology of happiness (and I can't imagin
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by dschobel 17y ago
To compare one of the greatest works of satire with Eric's vitriol belies a fundamental ignorance or insincerity. What Eric wrote is puerile condescending crap. But please, quote me an ironic passage of Shakespeare to reiterate Mr. Naggum's
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by dschobel 17y ago
Robbery is not just another way of making a living, rape is not just another way of satisfying basic human needs, torture is not just another way of interrogation. And XML is not just another way of writing S-exps. There are some things in
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by dschobel 17y ago
No, we just prop up the conference and technical publication markets. A conspiracy of some sort, no doubt.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The article was completely worthless. It's a revelation tantamount to "unethical experts have the ability to abuse their clients' trust".
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Tell HN: Hacker News Chicago meetup Wednesday 2/24 (tomorrow!) at 7pm
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by dschobel 17y ago
In Brazil they've filed Habeas Corpus claims on behalf of chimpanzees. Just last week, animal protection groups filed a motion to have Jimmy released on grounds of Habeas Corpus, arguing that he is being denied his rights to freedom of mov
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by dschobel 17y ago
There's sexism running through all of society. Finding it in a tech company is hardly a feat worth mentioning.
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by dschobel 17y ago
[...] Today non-technical entrepreneurs are just as likely to come up with viable startup concepts as programmers are. Neither the startup system, nor the traditional support system for small, brick-and-mortar businesses reflect this socie
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by dschobel 17y ago
A few weeks ago, Antirez added 2 awesome features that made Redis an excellent candidate... You guys are incredibly brave for deploying and leveraging any feature to your infrastructure which is a few weeks old.
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by dschobel 17y ago
For those who don't know what dragonegg is; it's a rewrite of llvm-gcc as a plugin for gcc 4.5 (which is the first gcc to support plugins) so that you can pass the -fplugin=./dragonegg.so switch to gcc and generate llvm IR.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Sure, but it's predicated on doing good work. If Paul didn't kick ass @ google, no one would have followed his work after he left. If he hadn't built something awesome after he left, they wouldn't have asked for him to come back. Skill is t
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by dschobel 17y ago
That's a reasonable position up to a certain point. Not knowing what housing rates are in their area or what restrictions they have (mobility, special care, schools etc etc) it's impossible to just say "go live someplace cheaper". Equally h
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by dschobel 17y ago
He's playing the game at a whole other level. With his intelligence and connections in SV, I don't think calling it luck does it justice. I'm still waiting for him to start a hedge fund so that non-connected SV-outsiders can get in on his a
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by dschobel 17y ago
What's the backstory? Is there more to it than a domain name change?
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's funny though, poking around the olympics' site you can see they use flash extensively as well for some of the interactive features.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Well the motivations for MS and Adobe are obvious. MS definitely (not sure about Adobe) chooses high profile video intensive sites to "partner with" to show-case their platform. In short, it's business.
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by dschobel 17y ago
If there's any doubt about the deeply ingrained commercial nature of the games, there's this hilarious blog post from uvex: http://www.uvexsports.com/2010/02/blonde-we-like-wins-downhi...
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by dschobel 17y ago
From the post: The moral of this story is never make your users jump through hoops to view your content, try your product, or use your services. I can understand having moral objections to yet another proprietary web technology but I thin

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