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by ehurrell 12y ago
This is interesting, especially in the context of this interview Andreesen did in Stanford Graduate Business School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYYsXzt1VDc where he talks about consuming news and how current news is ri
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I think it's obvious that a startup's culture is heavily influenced by its founders, I think the more subtle point is that a culture is more affected by the things they do than the things they say, though if they say one thing and
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I hadn't encountered this, being across the Atlantic, but the behaviour is not uncommon. I once knew a man who in his younger days was really interested in puppetry, an got into a art-college-type puppet-making and puppetry course in t
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I think especially with management tools like Trello robustness is a huge factor, everyone seems to have their own series of cobbled together processes that kind of work for them, but with the feeling that maybe if they could digitise $PROD
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Completely agree with leiningen, it's not an opinionated choice, just what I've seen with maven seems a huge hassle. In terms of editors I've hit this a bit, attempting to follow tutorials or the like is frequently met with &
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Sounds reasonable, I look forward to seeing the full details in August to get the full picture, but those assumptions seem fair.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I just signed up to Pinboard and got your app to help use it on iOS. Initial impressions are good, I like it a lot, but if I could make one feature request I would love to have another way to add bookmarks. If there was a big plus button I
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Redesigning without feedback is so painful to experience, can completely understand.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I was considering writing something about this but wasn't sure if there was an audience. Startups are a gung-ho never-say-die world where quitting is very much frowned upon but the reality can be tough. You can face a lot of forgivable
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by ehurrell 12y ago
There can be a lot of dangerous signs around money, and your mileage may vary on when it's okay or not. Prior to leaving I was OK, if wary, with 'Em so X can't make rent this month, is it OK if we take 500 euro from your sala
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Absolutely true, and so often missed. While it may be true that a good programmer can learn any language the cost of this is time, and nowhere is the phrase 'time is money' more true than in a startup.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I second this, food and light are both important parts of the process. Have used something similar to this to prevent jetlag on both legs of multiple transatlantic/panasiatic flights (though it has to be said travelling west-to-east i
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Speed was really a killer for me too, it became slow very easily. It also began erroring out of update-checks and package installs, making it feel quite worthy of the beta tag. Look forward to seeing where it is now!
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by ehurrell 12y ago
As a fellow Irishman I agree, it could work very well with tourists too, a drinking tour of Dublin where you have to solve the leprechaun's riddles markets itself!
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Hardship in itself is crap. Hardship that leads somewhere might kinda be good in retrospect, maybe. The startup world seems intent on getting people to buy into the idea that all hardship is that sort of hardship.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
> Reading this, it confirmed an important lesson that I learned in a completely different setting (grad school). It's much, much better to do an impossible project with an excellent mentor and fantastic coworkers, than an easy proje
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I had thought Statwing set up the remote stuff and then automated a lot of tasks in-browser, but it doesn't seem to give the easy access this does. This is a lot more attractive!
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Great post, good luck with the product! I recently did almost the exact opposite of this, quit work with a startup. While I learned a lot of what you mention in your post (being a self-starter is a huge asset) at the time continuing work th
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Oh brilliant, I'd be interested to hear how this compares with Statwing, which seems to be going for the same market. Definitely a useful service.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Excellent resource, I remember wrestling with learning celery and how to do some simple things, loved finding Flower to monitor things. I will say though Celery is probably overkill for a lot of tasks people think to use it for, in my case
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I'd love to see, as I say there seems to be a lot of work to show exactly how Apple is twisting things compared to others, I'd love to see if that was because Apple is a lot worse for that or if people just don't examine thei
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I totally agree with this, I like seeing these posts and being aware of the ways in which Apple is twisting the truth to serve their marketing; it's interesting to see the process behind the presentation, but there seems to be a dispro
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by ehurrell 12y ago
It's a definite flaw, encountered in so many places with varying degrees of danger, obviously some people are going to try and maximise their results by abusing it. When I think about credibility though it quickly appears to be a bit o
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by ehurrell 12y ago
As someone who has earned a PhD I think the key thing is these programs are set up to train _researchers_, not specifically academic ones. As you say non-academic jobs in STEM are easy enough to find, and industrial research is alive and we
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by ehurrell 12y ago
That does seem like it has a lot of potential to tackle this, though it would probably make game development less attractive (the illusion of a steady job is better than 'well in 9 months you'll be looking for work'). Game de
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by ehurrell 12y ago
This seems really interesting and has a lot of potential if Apple allows the iPython notebook approach (which would make sense given the likes of Editorial having Python etc), but the info is sparse and all links off the homepage result in
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I'd second this, I remember something that really struck a chord with me was Eric Ries saying, in a LeanConf Interview session that a founder does whatever is needed for a company to survive first and foremost, and the technical aspect
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by ehurrell 12y ago
One of the hardest things is seeing this happen, because there can be a lot of pride and hubris associated with doing good PR, biz dev etc. A lot of the time this comment, which is true and I can't emphasis it enough, will hit a wall o
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I can understand your point, but I think the biggest differentiating factor when it comes to AI is that for maybe the last 20-30 years the biggest cultural touchpoint for the term 'AI' was the concept of 'it going nuts and ta
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Rationally yes, it's probably easy to argue that point, but his point, as a huge believer in AI applications, was that emotionally the 'killer robot cars' sentiment would break a fragile trust, as against the implicit common

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