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by edw519 14y ago
As a result, if Tim doesn’t meet with each one of his employees in the next 24 hours, I will have no choice but to fire him and to fire you. Are we clear? You get exactly one chance to threaten me. That was it. I quit. (Honestly, all this
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by edw519 14y ago
you need to write something interesting Please do this and only this. Send the link...to at least 20 people from different locations that you know will upvote or submit it....Now you change the link...and send the frontpage to people w
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by edw519 14y ago
I love posts like this on Hacker News! They remind us all that what is in our heads and our hearts trumps everything else: money, stuff, conditions, and the opinions and actions (or inactions) of others who really don't matter. Like just ab
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by edw519 14y ago
I'm still here. Nice to be not(noticed). Thanks, iamwil. I haven't participated much recently for 2 reasons. 1. I'm super busy with my own work. 2. This phenomenon, which I've cited many times before: Quality of Hacker News Comm
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CMU spinoff's toys teach technology by making it fun(post-gazette.com)
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by edw519 14y ago
Why blame the programmer? Bad estimates, like bad anything, have all kinds of possible causes. The programmer's "estimating weakness" is just one possible (and often unlikely) cause. In general, A. People do stuff. B. Programmers writ
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by edw519 14y ago
11. Ignore all unsolicited advice that doesn't include the words "customer" or "user".
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If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this. If not, then maybe you're working on the wrong thing. Let's stop treating the effect of poor work habits and deal with the cause: find somethin
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Digg dug its own hole; assets sold for $500,000.(content.usatoday.com)
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Airbnb: No place like someone else's home(travel.usatoday.com)
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The problem with stuff like this isn't that there are a lot of details, it's just that: they're details, not issues. There's nothing wrong with details: all the little hacks that work for us that we can share and copy. They're fun and cool
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by edw519 14y ago
The best advice my mentor ever gave me, "When all is said and done, you still have to go with your gut." It's so easy to get caught up in the frenzy of "start-up culture", "easy money", and "herd mentality" that we often have to make an eff
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by edw519 14y ago
What makes the best customer service today is the same thing that made the best customer service 100 years ago. From the script of "Gosford Park": "What gift do you think a good servant has that separates them from the others? It's the gift
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by edw519 14y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but costmetic issues in the enterprise are exactly that: cosmetic. You may think people care about them, but believe me, they don't. Enterprise people need solutions to their problems and answers to their questio
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by edw519 14y ago
I don't know which I feel saddest about: 1. Whether or not this is actually illegal, it is clearly unethical and not in the spirit of good clean business and technology practices we should all be aspire to. 2. That it quickly made it to #1
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Sal Khan's 'Academy' sparks a tech revolution in education(usatoday.com)
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Thank you, OP, for reminding us in the U.S. that Memorial Day wasn't meant for barbeques and sales, but for remembering . R.I.P. Max Marcus, (1923-1944), KIA, Battle of the Bulge. George Weissman, (1925-1945), DOW, Germany. To the uncles I
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The Emperor's New Clothes, Silicon Valley Version(edweissman.com)
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...given just $20,000 by the incubator, and after the four-month program ended, the money was gone... ...after pivoting and focusing solely on letting teachers share lesson plans, Simons said he was able to score $50,000 in seed funding
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Crowdfunding may be kickstarting startups soon(bottomline.msnbc.msn.com)
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Incubator infatuation...We ended up getting attention, but we never had the product ready because…we were too busy trying to get their attention. You raise an interesting issue. Whenever you do something, you should ask, "Am I doing this
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by edw519 14y ago
Thank you for the wonderful post, David. Perfect for us hackers. In our world, but not completely. With a human touch we often gloss over. And with plenty of fresh data. Now here's what to do: Have business cards printed up with 2 links (an
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by edw519 14y ago
I know OP is asking for a blog post, but there is no blog post that inspires me more that either of these 2 short videos: Dick and Rick Hoyt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH943Az_lPQ Derek Redmond, 1992 Olympics: http://www.youtube.com
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Reminds me of this true story of 2 women: Esther1 was the born to a very poor family. Her parents were killed in an accident when she was 8 so she had to drop out of school and raise her 3 younger brothers. She worked hard and never had any
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by edw519 14y ago
Source of my problems: design issues 5% architecture constraints 5% language shortcomings 1% mental blocks 5% personal time management 4% personal energy 5% communication w
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Think about it: something I did reached 10,000 actual living people and had an impact (however small) on their life. That would never have been possible if I didn’t know how to code. (ability to code) != (eyeballs reached) I've written bl
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by edw519 14y ago
Programmer Hierarchy: Level 0: (Many bosses I have had) Level 1: "Hello World" Level 2: Does something Level 3: Updates a data base Level 4: Solves a little problem Level 5: Produces value Level 6: Sidetracks other programme
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by edw519 15y ago
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University cutting computer science dept.? An insider's view(news.cnet.com)
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What might go wrong? (This is a test of imagination, not confidence.) Google might finally unleash GDrive and steal a lot of Dropbox's thunder (especially if this takes place before launch.)... From Dropbox's 2007 YC Application, http://

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