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by dstorrs 17y ago
From what I understand, some proponents of NoSQL are even more minimalist than that--they are fine with the idea of relations, just not with storing them in a traditional RDBMS (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, etc). The most convincing argum
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by dstorrs 17y ago
A new CS student states his opinion on why Scheme is a poor choice for intro CS. More interesting because of the attitude that comes across clearly: that "working" code is all that matters, not testing, commenting, or other maintainability
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Scheme: Good or Bad for Freshman CS?(reddit.com)
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Actually, I found it pretty believable that this percentage put their email in. I ran something similar...a SurveyMonkey questionnaire about the product, where the last question was "If you'd like to be notified when this launches, put you
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The sheer arbitrariness of many Apple rejections makes it pretty clear what's going on: applications are put into a queue, a group of approval guys pop the queue, review, and either approve or reject. But they aren't given clear standards
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by dstorrs 17y ago
This is good, but I'd also add in algorithms, data structures, and basic complexity.
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by dstorrs 17y ago
There's plenty of good suggestions in here, so I'll just add a small pointer: SmartBoard keyboards from DataDesk Technologies. "Oh, go buy an ergonomic keyboard!" sounds like trivial advice. A few years ago, I had wrist pain--not as bad
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by dstorrs 17y ago
I think it's easier to do viral marketing for products that you give away. But it's a lot easier to make money off of things that you charge for.
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Steve Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://wearcam.org Interesting factoid: he was the one who invented the word "sousveillance".
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Outdated or not, it's an impressive list. You might expand the packaging section to include at least apt-get, and the source control section to include at least svn and preferably git. There's really no reason to still be using CVS at this
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Ok, so "the power of viral loops" basically amounts to: 1) Spend time and effort build your product 2) Give it away for free 3) Embed a tagline into the product so that users are "involuntary salespeople" 4) ??? 5) Profit! There isn't reall
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Good news! For several years now, Gordon Bell at Microsoft has been working on exactly what you describe. AFAIK, it isn't available publicly yet, but there are articles on it. Google for "Gordon Bell" and "lifelogging."
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Interesting article; I suspect that that mapping from "brick/mortar -> sound" to "online -> visual" also holds true.
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by dstorrs 17y ago
We just registered the domain name for our startup (site not yet available). I was, as always, amazed and appalled at how hard it is to find an available domain other than "adlksfjlaksfjls.com". All of the obvious names for our product we
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Ok, this was interesting, but he only dealt with the "they built it" half of the title. I wanted to know more about the "It's Still Working" half. Who is controlling this system now that the Soviet Union is no more? Who is maintaining th
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by dstorrs 17y ago
There must be laptops out there with the feature that they lock closed and require some physical opening token (key, combination, etc). Given a sufficiently strong and tamper-evident locking mechanism, you wouldn't need an external lockbox
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Assume a spherical cow....
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Thanks for posting this. This is something I really need, and the replies to your post were helpful. OOC, why -MTurk? Because you knew about them and were looking for alternatives, or because you don't like them?
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by dstorrs 17y ago
This will sound weird, but I harness hatred. Find a person or organization that you absolutely despise. Preferably a person that you know personally--someone who makes your blood boil just from thinking about them. Then, do the following:
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These tests just annoy the crap out of me. I put up with the first few questions because I wanted to see if they would do something novel. But no, they had all the standard problems of morality tests: 1) False dichotomy. (There are exac
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Thank you for straightening me out, jedc. And thank you for your service.
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Thanks for the upvote. I had actually wondered--is there any way to know who has up- / down-voted a comment? As to the growth issue, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "evolutionary suicide." My first guess would be that this term applie
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So that I know how to improve my comments in the future, why was this downvoted? It's an important thing to know, and I admitted up front that it was second-hand knowledge with some uncertainty about it. Was the issue the second-hand knowl
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http://orgmode.org/ Org-mode in Emacs is brilliant for this. Write things as outlines, shift sub-trees around trivially, fold (hide) and un-fold (reveal) subtrees, embed links within your outline, export to text or HTML when needed.
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Agreed! Most likely that's because "starting" a business is very well defined and essentially the same for everyone, but "finishing" it (successfully) is person-specific. Is a successful finish an IPO, M&A, or turning it into a "built
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I haven't used Amazon myself, but a good friend of mine has done quite a bit with it. When I asked him about it, he said (IIRC) that one thing to be aware of what that you couldn't run a MySQL DB on one of their small instances--you needed
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They aren't using the term "leverage" in the financial sense (investing money that you borrowed). By "leverage", the article author means "ability to control a situation and/or make your dream come true."
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Neil's point is basically "KISS", which is excellent advice. I wish he had also talked about the other half of the statement, though: figuring out what users DO want. In my experience, the tricky part is not keeping it simple, it's knowi
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My experience is that most workplace issue come from, or at least start with, the boss. I sincerely doubt a toxic boss would fire himself just because of anonymous complaints, and good bosses don't need this system.
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I'm also from NYC; my partner and I are starting to look around to see what startup-related meetups / discussion groups / networks / etc there are in the city. Any recommendations for particularly good ones?

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