elliotec

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by elliotec 11y ago
I would think that is against their purpose of making money.
812.
by elliotec 11y ago
That's actually much less than I would've expected.
813.
by elliotec 11y ago
What the hell are you talking about? I've never seen anything remotely near your point other than this comment.
814.
by elliotec 11y ago
It doesn't seem to be as simple for cross platform support, I have had to use different settings for Linux and OSX
815.
by elliotec 11y ago
I totally agree with you. "The Zone" is arguably the ideal state for productivity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) ), so why cut it short?
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by elliotec 11y ago
Seriously. Sam Altman has an interesting view of the world, which goes exactly as far as the boundaries of the SV bubble (bubble as in insularity as well as market inflation). He seems to be increasingly against anyone not exactly like him.
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by elliotec 11y ago
Sinatra would be the Express equivalent for Ruby, and is very powerful and useful and illustrates these points. There is a lot more configuration with these types of things, but the tradeoff is the overhead that isn't bloating your stu
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by elliotec 11y ago
I absolutely agree with this actually. Rails is a bit of a unicorn I think in that respect. You can create wildly amazing things without knowing much actual ruby at all, which is beautiful.
819.
by elliotec 11y ago
I think there are solid cases where frameworks make a lot of sense. They provide very helpful layers of abstraction on often used patterns, like Rails CRUD apps, in which you can just use the command line to generate fantastically useful pa
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by elliotec 11y ago
Look, if given a chance, I'd shake his hand. But that doesn't mean I hold him to high regard or agree with his views, standards, or ideals. I respect some of the things he's done, but I also disrespect other things he's
821.
by elliotec 11y ago
I'm not sure people really ever respected him, or JavaScript for that matter, but sort of just recognized it can pay to pay attention to one of the most popular languages and the man who invented it.
822.
by elliotec 11y ago
Thats a funny point.
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by elliotec 11y ago
Uber == Nazi Germany
824.
by elliotec 11y ago
This is very specifically the case in Silicon Valley, the insular center of the world, and not the case elsewhere. Most companies I've interviewed at couldn't care less about where I went to school as long as I could build their s
825.
by elliotec 11y ago
Thank you! This is great and doesn't do anything I don't care about!
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by elliotec 11y ago
Most talked about city in the world? What?
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by elliotec 11y ago
Quite, yeah. But if the author's goal was maximum readability, they might have considered doing away with the abbreviations.
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by elliotec 11y ago
My favorite part is the pictures.
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by elliotec 11y ago
Teams in general should always be made up of specialists. Thats the point of teams, to have collaboration between people that know specifics of certain things. Teams of generalists will just be a bunch of people that are ok at a bunch of di
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by elliotec 11y ago
It was the author's example, and also her point. Your parent comment points out how easy that was to infer, and assuming your parent's commenter is a 'normal person,' the author (and maybe you too) would have a difficult
831.
by elliotec 11y ago
I really think this author's post was very selfish, as evidenced by its, well, selfish content (and resorting to begging), and it's fine for us to agree to disagree on that matter. But do you really think she was directing this to
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by elliotec 11y ago
Soft sciences like psychology are usually based only on theories that suggest things, and don't really adequately (at least to hard scientific standards) provide support aside from studies which rarely, if ever, have proofs. I could ha
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by elliotec 11y ago
This is insightful and informative, thanks. I am relatively new to startups, but at 25 years old, most of my peers seem to be in the category I've described and seem to think that is clearly the best way, if not the only way, to start
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by elliotec 11y ago
Agreed, most companies are this way in general. But that's why I'm surprised to see such hype around the alternative.
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by elliotec 11y ago
This sentiment reminds me of DHH's talk at startup school ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY ) in which he explains that the best way to create a business is to make money, but not just make money, make it on
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by elliotec 11y ago
How is "just being better than the rest" not a good enough answer? Better marketing, better features, better marketing, better marketing (!!!). Better than the rest, but what more do you need to be better at than convincing more
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by elliotec 11y ago
> people don't always do things for their own benefit This may be a new concept for you, but "The theory of psychological egoism suggests that no act of sharing, helping or sacrificing can be described as truly altruistic, as t
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by elliotec 11y ago
Yep she did, mentions it in an edit at the end.
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by elliotec 11y ago
What a horrible idea. How could this person think that this would benefit them in any way? She got fired, and secured herself a spot in endless unemployment. In San Francisco, no less, where her mounting debt prevents her from buying grocer
840.
by elliotec 11y ago
But have you ever had to reimplement merge sort from scratch in any real-world scenario? Of course it's good to understand, but actually doing extra work again seems pointless to me.

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