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by emmett 16y ago
There's definitely a similarity between the two principles. That shouldn't be surprising since code is basically a programmer's user interface to the computer.
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by emmett 16y ago
That's definitely not boring, and also awesome. Like I said, sometimes you find a clever hack. But if I saw that code in a code review, it would be a huge red flag for me. I'd want to see a pretty good justification for using it instead of
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Your code should be as boring as possible(broadcast-tower.socialcam.com)
139 points by emmett 16y ago|44 comments
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by emmett 16y ago
Actually it's an opportunity for women who want to get into startups to talk to YC founders - most of whom happen to be men.
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by emmett 16y ago
Google Maps was a successful acquisition/competitor clone. Google Finance is also successful (a clone of Yahoo Finance basically). Those are the only two others I can think of off the top of my head. I don't think Google is particularly bel
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by emmett 16y ago
There are lots of random rules about contracts. For example, terms can be struck for Unconscionability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability - which is pretty arbitrary. The article on EULAs is also interesting: http://en.wikipe
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by emmett 16y ago
"I'm basing this on the movie". Sigh. You know the movie isn't accurate. It's good story, it's not reality. Why would you make any comment on the motives of the players or the justice of the case using the movie as your primary source? Th
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by emmett 16y ago
So basically, anyone hosting their site on EC2 will appear to have a fantastic response time, compared to anyone else. Which makes the test mostly useless for comparison between startups (though it could be interesting/valid data for a si
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by emmett 16y ago
"We cannot escape the fact that we will have to dramatically reduce our energy use." I'm not sure I agree with this statement (though I like your first two paragraphs)...in the end, couldn't we replace most of our fossil fuel usage by just
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by emmett 16y ago
Looks like it's fixed now :-)
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by emmett 16y ago
Bug: I already had a posterous account, and whenever I try to create a new group it just sends me in circles and breaks. :-(
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by emmett 16y ago
No, it's a terrible metaphor. The vitamin business is hugely successful! I did the research once and vitamins and supplements actually outsell pain relievers. [ Edit: supporting research I did, which I've now cited twice in comments on Ha
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by emmett 16y ago
Or more precisely, perhaps, the CIA used the art movement as part of their propaganda war against the Russians.
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Abstract Expressionism was (in part) a covert CIA operation (independent.co.uk)
2 points by emmett 16y ago|1 comments
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by emmett 16y ago
In general I think you've taken a bunch of (mostly true) statements about SF and sorted them into "pro" and "con" in non-sensical way. Many of the things that you found annoying about SF, I find attractive. Full commentary.... YOUR PROS 1.
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by emmett 16y ago
If you're optimizing for SEO, you want unique domains for each one. Google gives a special bonus for searches on .com/.net/.org domains. So if you get bananapeelcompost.com for your new site on that topic, you'll pick up a big SEO boost for
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by emmett 16y ago
Kidnapping and ransom are not fabulously profitable the way that the drug monopoly is. The drug trade is one of the world's largest import/export markets.
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by emmett 16y ago
Ah, but you don't overpay for the failures, because they don't take more of your money. Instead, you invest the same $500,000 and get a smaller percentage of ownership. But in all of the 0x and 1x return cases, it doesn't matter what percen
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by emmett 16y ago
You mean just like Fandango went out of business when Google started offering movie times? Or how wikipedia died after Knol? Or how there aren't any more weather sites now that Google offers weather?
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by emmett 16y ago
For example, it's extremely awkward in SQL to find all the elements in a tree. There are at least 4 hacks I know of to fix this, none totally satisfactory. In a NOSQL context you can just store the entire tree - your implementation becomes
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by emmett 16y ago
This is patently false. My girlfriend owns a Kindle, she buys books at a very good rate (among other media), and she wants to be able to lend her ebooks. Lending books is part of book culture! I don't own a Kindle yet specifically because h
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by emmett 16y ago
This is where we wrote a good deal of the code for Kiko, and where Steve wrote a lot of Reddit. It makes me nostalgic for our 2005 YC batch, and sad to see it go on the market. I hope whoever buys it puts it to good use.
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by emmett 16y ago
Justin and I applied for Kiko Calendar (YC S05) just before the deadline. We only found out about 2 days before that it even existed. I think we convinced the airbnb guys to apply for YC on the day of the deadline.
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by emmett 16y ago
What if other companies discriminate against you for hiring women at very high levels? Or if sexist men within a company react badly to having women promoted above them? Then there really is a gap in worker value, but only due to sexism.
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Justin.tv open sources iPhone push library (Ruby)(broadcast-tower.posterous.com)
69 points by emmett 16y ago|5 comments
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by emmett 16y ago
ActiveRecord has great performance. Mostly because it's a really thin layer over database tables. The only additional overhead is instantiating one object per row returned.
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by emmett 16y ago
The high cost of being a public company under our current laws, perhaps. http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/7075161?f=search
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by emmett 16y ago
It's very convenient to be able to pass a partially built query, including a limit, into a function which adds more conditions. Why would you not want to be able to do that?
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by emmett 16y ago
Hm. Growing up, I spent most of my time on collaborative play (building giant lego structures and creating intricate dioramas with action figures), not competitive play (though I certainly liked competitive games, and still do). I'm not sur
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by emmett 16y ago
The only real answer is "it depends" for the correct way to do testing. You're never going to get out of thinking it through, there's no substitute for human judgement. If you care a lot about the memory profile of your data structure, you

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