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by efsavage 16y ago
I'd guess that there are strongly diminishing returns on putting out albums frequently. And who said anything about good? By Borges' logic, the hibernate mapping file I just wrote took me "my whole career" to write.
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by efsavage 16y ago
The system is obviously flawed, but the example is not very convincing. $85k a year to do what you love, for alot less hours than a regular job (it doesn't take 2000 hours to make a record), whether the record is a dud or not? That seems
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by efsavage 16y ago
I thought I did, indirectly. My answer is that there is no prevailing "hype". This is a community of startup enthusiasts, so it should be fairly obvious that everything discussed here, and on the articles and blogs linked from here, will
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by efsavage 16y ago
This is a bit like going to a Christian forum and asking "What's the big deal with Jesus anyways?", or an accounting forum and saying "What's the big deal with debits and credits anyways?". You're only seeing "hype" because you're looking
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by efsavage 16y ago
"I noticed that the developer wasn’t working on a Sunday" There are many obvious reasons why this company failed, and I'm surprised that YC gave them any money, but that statement jumped out as a huge red flag of "bad founder". If you thin
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by efsavage 16y ago
Does anything?
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by efsavage 16y ago
Agile/Scrum/whatever consultant engagements should be measured in hours, not days or weeks. Do a workshop on TDD or optimizing your standups, but if a team is being so badly mismanaged that full-time babysitting is neeeded, they need to re
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by efsavage 16y ago
It's common here because it's important. This article was not reporting on a study with facts, they are proffering advice that they do not follow. I don't care why they didn't follow it, if you had time to make pretty graphics you have ti
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by efsavage 16y ago
Synopsis: Kurzweil is underestimating the brain. Myers is underestimating technology.
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by efsavage 16y ago
I hate to sound all macho, but you have two options in your case: If you're new to the workforce, and think your underpaid, get a new job, or shut up.
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by efsavage 16y ago
I prefer to self-serve because most of the time the human interaction is adding little value. Go to Best Buy or the Apple Store and ask a basic question, you'll probably get a stumped look or a wrong answer and a pathetic attempt to sell yo
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by efsavage 16y ago
Excellent lesson to other startups: When two or more products do what you need, choose the one you can more easily hire help for. (not that there aren't a fair number of postgres experts, but there's no question there are far more competen
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by efsavage 16y ago
This is key. The number of encounters with women where my technical aptitude was an uninteresting quirk outnumbers those where it was a conversation point by probably 100:1 if not more. With men, that ratio is far lower. I think this whol
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by efsavage 16y ago
But your buildout "now ended up requiring Haskell (GHC, Pandoc), Java, Python 2, Python 3, lxml, pyquery and YUI Compressor for my site to build!" I don't think I'd call something that was built in 3 languages, one with two versions, as min
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by efsavage 16y ago
"Most small startups (by which I mean fewer than 20 people) don’t have enough work..." What? WTH kind of startup is short on stuff to do? If you have 2 general-purpose devs, they're going to be 100% busy. if you have 1 front-end and 1 ba
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by efsavage 16y ago
I like it, it's clever, but I was disappointed that the headline was misleading in the interest of being catchy. "How I made my website a one-hit-wonder (intentionally)" might have done the same thing without me thinking "oh, he just strip
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by efsavage 16y ago
You think that someone who would hold gaming against a candidate really cares how much time you played? When someone does a background check or even just googles you, they aren't looking for reasons to hire you, they're looking for reason
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by efsavage 16y ago
TLDR: Don't solve for problems that don't exist.
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by efsavage 16y ago
Gladwell is a fantastic storyteller. Unfortunately, this isn't obvious to many people, who seem to think he's a scientist or a journalist, despite no claims on his part for these qualifications or assertions that his work stands up to the r
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by efsavage 16y ago
Because it's running in canvas? In other words, it's running within abstraction layer upon abstraction layer, with various other abstraction layers involved to help make sense of the fact that there are too many abstraction layers. The ami
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by efsavage 16y ago
You should be _prepared_ to leave immediately when you give notice, but wow, giving no notice is up near the top of the list in terms of dick moves. The exception to this is if you're being grossly mistreated (as in harassed or demeaned or
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by efsavage 16y ago
We need senior/architect Java people. StyleFeeder / Time, Inc. Cambridge, MA http://www.stylefeeder.com jobs@stylefeeder.com
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by efsavage 17y ago
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK;js... http://www.libming.org/ http://www.swftools.org/
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by efsavage 17y ago
How many of Microsoft's OSes have specifically forbidden that you install another web browser?
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by efsavage 17y ago
Flash is closed, Apple is open. Huh? I can build a flash app entirely for free, legally, with zero restrictions, forever, on the tools I used to write it, or where I can deploy it to. Adobe has bent over backwards to make players (also fr
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by efsavage 17y ago
And what's to stop Apple from changing things up again? The most insidious problem with these walled gardens/lock-in environments is that you don't know what's coming next. I got out of MSFT development when I saw that they basically said
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by efsavage 17y ago
This worked well when I didn't have a job, a girlfriend, pets, etc.
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by efsavage 17y ago
Twitter is a bad place for conversations, that's kind of the point/charm of it. You fire and forget. You don't expect (or want) a response. It took off because it played to the ego of popular bloggers, then to the ego of corporations and
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by efsavage 17y ago
This is what happens when you don't let Java people write your blog software. (since we're overgeneralizing)
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by efsavage 17y ago
1. Java was cool. 2. Then Java was cool and useful. 3. Then Java was just useful. Lamenting the fact that #3 has happened is what's irrelevant because most languages never even make it to #2.

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