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by edw519 15y ago
What a great story. It reminded me of my own father, who's been gone for 8 years now. I still vividly remember the first time we played 20 Questions. I must have been about 8 years old. I figured it out in 5 questions. I was so proud. "That
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by edw519 15y ago
I believe that in order to get really good at any of these roles, you must do the other roles, deeply and often. For example: The more time you spend Debugging shit, the less likely to you are to Architect something that produces shit. The
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by edw519 15y ago
Here's the incident (and litmus test from my cofounder) that permanently changed my workaholic thinking: cofounder: Hey Ed, it's 6:30. Finish up. Let's go next door and get a beer. edw519: No, I have to finish <Task X>. cofounder: D
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No, I think that the subject matter is perfectly appropriate and that OP is either pretty clever or quite experienced to come up with it. In fact, I would even hope to have a such a discussion to know that the prospective employer is ser
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by edw519 15y ago
That strategy pretty much guarantees that you will eliminate both argumentative dicks and A-players. Good luck with that.
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The question is simple: Imagine if you are extended multiple job offers from different companies, and you are trying to decide which one you will accept. Imagine that they way you go about this is that you write down the things that matter
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Young Ernest Hemingway: fragile, neurotic, insecure, & at the peak of his powers(slate.com)
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Germany's unheralded computer inventor(blogs.sites.post-gazette.com)
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I dunno, I think the definition of "good speaker" really depends on the audience. I probably speak for many here as an introverted, deeply introspective outlier. I have seen many great speakers in person (Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Deepak Ch
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Why Elon Musk Wants To Bring People to Mars—and Go There Himself(slate.com)
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how do you deal with threaded conversations and tracking the 1 liner replies to those mails? I only save that last copy in the same .txt file. I email it to myself, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, X-Delete.
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by edw519 15y ago
Yes. I write everything in TextPad first, saving as I go with Control-S to the appropriate directory using the date & time in the file name. I like to work full screen in large letters and I love lime green on black. I have one corpor
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by edw519 15y ago
I use Posterous, Weebly, Hacker News, and twitter, and love them all. I don't pay a nickel to any of them and never will. I hope very much that they all last forever. But I will lose nothing if any or all of them disappear without giving me
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Stanford students, Apple iPad apps just go together(usatoday.com)
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Writing Tips From John Steinbeck(theatlantic.com)
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I have always refused to participate in a language war, but I never said anything about a music war. All these songs do is push me to the medicine cabinet for some Excedrin. My choices: When I'm not quite in the zone and need to get there q
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Bike lets you change gears with your mind — if you concentrate(msnbc.msn.com)
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Older entrepreneurs find new niche in startups(usatoday.com)
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The Danger of Falling in Love with Your Hot-Idea(2b2collaboration.com)
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by edw519 15y ago
Beautiful. Thank you, Paul. You just reminded us that no matter how many ones and zeros we look at, we must never lose sight of what's really important, so...very startup related. My sincere condolences on losing Stephen. I can't imagine wh
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by edw519 15y ago
What are the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) ramifications of employment screening via video? Somehow I suspect that this is a non-trivial concern, just like pictures on resumes, for U.S. compliant HR departments.
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1979: The IBM 370 is unbeatable. 1982: The IBM PC is unbeatable. 1985: SONY is unbeatable. 1988: Microsoft DOS is unbeatable. 1990: Kodak is unbeatable. 1993: Windows is unbeatable. 1994: AOL is unbeatable 1996: Netscape is unbeatable. 1998
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by edw519 15y ago
I love articles like this. It reminds the 99% of us who didn't "hit it big" in our youth that it's never too late. Hopefully someday... "edw519 toiled in obscurity writing software for over 30 years before he hit it big when his proprietary
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If the 2005 instance of sama knew what the 2012 instance of sama knows now, what would he have done differently?
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Thoughts from an Older Programmer... I've been programming for a very long time. Me too. So long that it's incredibly boring to me. Actually, it's more interesting to me than ever. ...I knew about 20 programming languages and could lea
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A new, high-definition iPad from Apple(cnn.com)
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Silicon Valley leaders take up the Dream on behalf of young migrants(latimes.com)
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Youtube restricts "How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners"(youtube.com)
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Imagine interviewing carpenters: Method 1: How many ten penny nails in a pound? Who makes better screwdrivers, Craftsman or Snap-on? Why? What's your favorite toolbox? Why? How can you tell when wood has been treated? Why should
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State agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords(redtape.msnbc.msn.com)
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