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by dy 15y ago
When it comes to sex, you have to separate out human seduction versus animal seduction because of culture. Ideas pass down human generations through culture rather than through instinct. Future generations of humans will still be able to
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by dy 15y ago
You're not following Lean Climate Control practices.
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by dy 15y ago
Maybe all the rumors about curved glass weren't for the iPhone 5 but for the new building windows :)
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by dy 15y ago
Just as there are A-grade startups and the B-startups, there are now A-grade incubators and a growing list of B-ones. Founders thinking that he value of participation in New Incubator X will be similar to participating in YCombinator are
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by dy 15y ago
I'm predicting a bubble in fisherman analogies.
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by dy 15y ago
I saw this at Google IO (vaadin.com). I know it's in Java but it's a solid set of templates/controls/widgets that seems great for admin interfaces.
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by dy 15y ago
This article is linkbait and stretches a metaphor way beyond its breaking point. Also, I think the author confuses various parts of the software field (process/methodology vs engineering/development vs craft/artistry).
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by dy 15y ago
How do you get access to this type of data?
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by dy 15y ago
Just had a failure last week on my OWC drive. Replacing it wasn't too bad (had to wait a week) but made me realize that with so much stuff in the cloud, the failure of laptop drives doesn't really bug me or slow me down.
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by dy 15y ago
Wow - for many years I've dreamed of either building or finding Blocktrix online. Thanks for making my dreams come true :)
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by dy 15y ago
RIM cares about it's customers - the carriers and their retail stores. I'm starting to get perturbed by how much control we relinquish from the consumer - Apple didn't force anyone to wait in line, people did it cause they wanted the device
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by dy 15y ago
It was horrible and ruined a great childhood memory for me. Recommend against seeing it if you're a fan - and if you're not - avoid with indifference.
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by dy 15y ago
Agreed (I mentioned that it was worth it and I enjoy getting well-formatted eBooks as compared to instapapering everything). My main point was that e-publishing seems like a tough business since the trend of information pricing seems to be
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by dy 15y ago
You can't make this work unless you control the distribution channel (like Youtube). These guys have no shot in hell unless they get someone like Apple to sign on (which is a non-starter).
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by dy 15y ago
Agreed - I have no desire to piss off pg considering the value his ideas have provided to me over the years. I considered keeping the collection private because of the copyright issue but one of his essays mentions that they're looking for
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by dy 15y ago
Awesome - exactly the information I was looking for, will set it up later tonight and post both a new ePub and the source.
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by dy 15y ago
icco Added a mobi version (Thanks!) and I put in an updated version that had a few bugs. There are definitely spacing issues etc but you can pretty easily understand the original meaning. Here's the main loop of code that extracts the tex
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by dy 15y ago
Yes, you should Save Link As or something similar.
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by dy 15y ago
I was reading the Startup Bible in PDF that I had on my iPhone and decided that such great writing deserved better presentation. There are some formatting gotcha's, I put this together rather quickly so it uses some libraries that aren't to
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Entrepreneur Manual: Paul Graham's Essays in ePub Format(github.com)
57 points by dy 15y ago|19 comments
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by dy 15y ago
Yes, this is truly inspirational (and a kick in the pants for me as well). Would love to see your progress in another six months.
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by dy 16y ago
I really think Americans have to either step up to the plate when it comes to doing business with China or just STFU about all the issues we see over there. We complain about human rights violations, lack of freedoms etc but then continue
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by dy 16y ago
Another project in a similar vein is project metrics. Various times as I'm reviewing a library to include in my code, I'd like to compare various ones and see where the momentum is, how easy the code is to understand, how much work is bein
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by dy 16y ago
Let's start a "superhero" meme for Engineering hiring. We all know superheroes would crush ninjas and rockstars without lifting a finger :) But more seriously, I did always find the part of the Superhero origin story where they're also a b
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Engineering Superheroes - greatest of all time?(blog.makezine.com)
3 points by dy 16y ago|1 comments
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by dy 16y ago
That's a cool idea of crowdsourcing peak times. You sign up to get texts when people are willing to pay for rides above a certain threshold and then just drive your car out to pick them up. I'd use it (and possibly do it, although hard to
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by dy 16y ago
As a New Yorker, I'd have to agree. There already seems to be a glut of taxis for most times of the day (in addition to the higher-end sedans that very few people use).
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by dy 16y ago
Any ideas on how you would run this operation at scale?
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by dy 16y ago
Curious how the summarization works - are you using something open-source or customized?
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by dy 16y ago
Some interesting insights into the culture of Japan (and corporations both Japanese and American). Is there a way we could help that would be more amenable to the Japanese culture and way of handling things? Saving face is an important asp

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