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Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format(advancednflstats.com)
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The 2013 Enterprise Guide For Dummies(techcrunch.com)
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Funny, the "new" technological problems I think OP is referring to are rarely things that are that difficult to deal with. But these are the things that continue to keep me up at night year after year: 10. How clever to get with javascr
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Find some customers whose hair is on fire. You'll never be bored again.
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To accomplish something every day, no matter how small. (365 little things * the probability they'll get done) > (a few big things * the probability they'll get done) I did this in 2012 and am still shocked at how much more I accomplish
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Like math? Thank your motivation, not your IQ (msnbc.msn.com)
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The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want by Mike Hernacki There are many inputs that affect success: intelligence, hard work, work ethic, emotional balance, determination, and even luck. I believe that the single most
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The single most important skill I have ever learned is how to take care of myself. When you feel like shit, you won't want to do anything. When you lose your health, you won't be able to do anything. (I've been a professional programmer out
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As a starting point I imagine an open floor plan with plenty of room between desks, and conference rooms for private discussion. I am interested in private offices but I don't think we'd find affordable space to do that. Your starting poi
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"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience." - Albert Einstein I've always thought that "earlier intellectual experience" was a necessary but not su
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When someone says it's about the money, it's never about the money. So in order to prevent the "I have a better offer" discussion, you have to innoculate your people ahead of time. Make them immune to better offers by making them unavailabl
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by edw519 14y ago
What a great read! Thank you, OP, for finding and sharing it. I don't know what I like about it more, that it's from an earlier "simpler" world or that it highlights a problem that's just as important today: learning to tell the difference
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by edw519 14y ago
You're asking the wrong question, my friend. Don't blame the CRUD for all the bullshit that is often associated with it. (Reminder: CRUD stands for Create Retrieve Update Delete, and is the underlying philosophy for the database application
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We’re becoming a bit more Amish(aswenowthink.wordpress.com)
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Thank you, Patrick! I don't know how many times I've read one of your Hacker News comments or blog posts and thought, "Wow, this guy really cuts to the chase." Then I bookmark it but never return. I'm hoping that this is kinda like a "Best
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Patio11 Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies(kalzumeus.com)
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by edw519 14y ago
1. Gangnam Style hitting 1 billion YouTube views. 2. This story hitting #1 on Hacker News. 3. edw519 commenting about it. The world might as well have ended today.
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Funny, had you been more successful (by any definition), most of these comments would still be true. Successful people make many of the same mistakes you're citing here. I hate to paraphrase and respond to your entire post, but it was such
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I've always found it interesting that we techies generally avoid reinventing the wheel in our work but feel compelled to reinvent it in matters of spiritually. We're not the first to experience these thoughts and feelings and certainly won'
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The single biggest problem with working remotely is that you have to be excellent at a lot of things that don't matter when you're on site. And since your energy is a zero sum game, being excellent at these things steals energy from buildin
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by edw519 14y ago
Nice post, OP. Now let me tell you about those times when your suggestions are exactly the opposite of what you should do: Tell me as early as possible Why? So security can show me the door today and I'm unexpectedly without a paycheck
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by edw519 14y ago
Notch, if you're reading this, my deepest sympathy. I understand the devastation of losing a parent; I lost my mother about a year ago. I'm still not "back to normal" and don't know if I ever will be. I used to do art, music, and comedy, an
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by edw519 14y ago
Hacker News is our gym. We're just working out. You bring up an great point about excellence and applicability. I agree. Just remember that each of us is in a different place and many of us are not as far along as others. Better to get feed
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by edw519 14y ago
So do you want to know the real reason I cut those chapters?...I this...I that...I something else...(I could list another 20 of these, but you get the idea.) Lots of good stuff here, but I never found the reason I would most hope for: No
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Don't mean to rain on your parade, OP. Just having a little fun... +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ | | | | | | | No room | | Tear down | | Posters | | for
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No numerics permitted in function names. Theory: It's prettier. Reality: Just try to understand the hierarchical relationship between 247 functions in a 10,000 line Material Requirements Planning module of an ERP system when every function
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by edw519 14y ago
Why was 66 ok and 84 not? Maybe it had less to do with magnitude than direction. I look forward to reading about yc start-ups, but increasingly find myself shaking my head, wondering how some of them will ever amount to sustainable busine
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by edw519 14y ago
I prefer to be global with peers and local with customers. In person, I rarely meet like minded souls with whom I can have intimate technical discussions, but on-line it's easy (thank you Hacker News friends). But with customers, I've never
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Working out and writing software are like beer and chocolate. I love both, but not at the same time .
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Pittsburgh entrepreneurs make Rust Belt centers of high-tech innovation(post-gazette.com)
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