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by dschobel 17y ago
I first learned about this book from Yegge's blog (back when he was still at amazon) where he wrote: "We've been studying the available research, and all roads lead to the same set of conclusions, one of which is that Functional Programming
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by dschobel 17y ago
Right, but they also have to incentivize people to work on the non-sexy infrastructure pieces. I don't see how "work on whatever you want" can get the maintenance jobs done when everyone would rather be writing new code than maintaining old
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's certainly a counter-intuitive and pervasive phenomenon but maybe the fact that so few social platforms "make it" should keep us from drawing any real causal conclusion beyond the fact that technical competence is neither necessary nor
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by dschobel 17y ago
isn't http://www.directededge.com/ already doing "AAS"?
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's debatable, you can make a strong case for John von Neumann as well.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Which is balanced by all of the cool projects in the apache incubator: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/ http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ (and that's just the stuff out of FB)
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by dschobel 17y ago
Don't forget to homebrew install hub for a really nice git wrapper for github. http://github.com/defunkt/hub
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by dschobel 17y ago
Do you think Google would fake an acquisition though? It's hard to imagine for a company of that stature and those means.
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by dschobel 17y ago
There's no mention of any future for the ideas, even vague NDA-friendly ones. That's the issue.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Congrats to the team but... How can you say: "[Thanks to] Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh [who] endured my slide deck on our multi-step plan for global email domination, and pointed out that instead I should build something small, simple,
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by dschobel 17y ago
That chart of sunspider performance tests makes me laugh every time. The scale is so skewed by IE7 that IE9 actually looks competitive. They should have just thrown in IE6 numbers to really flatten out any differences.
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by dschobel 17y ago
While that sounds like great advice to trot out every time a small craft crashes, in the absence of data it is functionally worthless.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I knew plenty of kids growing up whose parents traveled separately when the kids were not with them. It's morbid stuff being responsible for other people...
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by dschobel 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOMl68X2Amk I am... speechless.
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by dschobel 17y ago
the video streams are all client to client, all chatroulette handles is the session initiation.
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by dschobel 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125031
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by dschobel 17y ago
Whereas the author's experience was that "[they were being] designed to be investment bankers and management consultants", this Booth professor had designed a lesson around the unpredictability and inadequacy of the standard analytical tech
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by dschobel 17y ago
For a different point of view. Coming from an engineering background, I sat in on an entrepreneurship class at UChicago Booth and I was totally blown away. The angle was completely different. The previous class the students were all given t
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by dschobel 17y ago
So it pays to be a bit of a pain in the ass. Good to know, thanks!
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by dschobel 17y ago
light-weight reminders: http://www.rememberthemilk.com everything above that: 3banana - https://snaptic.com/corp/products/ (but I'm biased as you may infer from my username vs the guy posting about his company above) . full on docs: go
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by dschobel 17y ago
Twitter & FB have incontrovertibly shown that millions of people want to "post crap on [their] phone[s]" when they're out.
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by dschobel 17y ago
You don't think 7 figures is enough of a bonus? Considering the employees are taking zero risk, I'd say it's perfectly fair compensation. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chrome-Team-Gets-Millions-in-...
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by dschobel 17y ago
Couldn't Clojure also do lazy evaluation to get the same optimization?
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by dschobel 17y ago
The post starts so beautifully... and then the JVM shows up.
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by dschobel 17y ago
A track record of producing good products would be my instinctive answer were I a non-technical person. But since I'm a technical person, I'd ask them why manhole covers are round.
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by dschobel 17y ago
How it can already be heralded as a "twitter killer" in the absence of a killer feature is beyond me.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The 10% figure may be a bit of a red-herring as it applies to programmers. If you look at the data [1] , people with college degrees are only at about ~4.5% unemployment. Even if the intersection of the programmer set and college degree set
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by dschobel 17y ago
Well since there's no roll call or concept of membership at ietf a more real problem is companies flooding the room with their employees for critical votes.
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by dschobel 17y ago
IETF are an odd bunch. I went to a meeting a few years back and was warned that there might be a humming for consensus. What is humming for consensus you ask? Well, rather than a show of hands, when deciding on measures and proposals they
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by dschobel 17y ago
How angel investing is fundamentally more pernicious to personal wealth than casinos, credit cards or time-shares I'll never understand. Although you have to admire the tenacity with which our congress tries to legislate common sense....

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