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by far33d 18y ago
Anyone actually going? I'm not normally a fan of these things (and this one is particularly lame) but our startup is in the building...
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by far33d 18y ago
It's more a question of who I block. Sometimes I have IRL friends who sign up for twitter and have no tweets yet. If I see that they also have 10000 people they are following, I don't waste time figuring out if I know them.
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by far33d 18y ago
NO! Follower count is the only way to recognize spam/junk accounts. If someone follows 10k people and has 4 followers... obvious spam account.
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by far33d 18y ago
You could make the case that this is already embedded in the equation - a great employee #4 would add way more value than an equally great employee #35, since they will have more influence over the direction, will write a higher percentage
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by far33d 18y ago
Up is an amazing film. It's funny, endearing, classic, and artistically excellent. The film breaks out of the mold of 3D animated film art direction with stylized characters and it prefers graphic shapes over the hyper-realism so common in
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by far33d 18y ago
The article basically argues that they didn't "cave" - instead they made a rational choice to write contracts that were detrimental to the long-term viability of the company in return for short-term margins and profits. The same could be sa
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by far33d 18y ago
For the 50th time at least, I will reiterate (somewhat ironically) that the worst thing on HN isn't the off-topic stories but the constant meta-conversations about what is and isn't off-topic. Boring.
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by far33d 18y ago
I am so sorry for accidentally voting this up. Silly iPhone. Silly fat fingers.
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Cambridge, MA startup releases music gaming community(blog.wired.com)
1 points by far33d 18y ago|0 comments
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by far33d 18y ago
Why did you have to ruin the last good site on the internet?
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by far33d 18y ago
Techstars is running a program in Boston now. I know a few of the mentors and they are great folks involved.
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by far33d 18y ago
Wow. I've always been a little frustrated by Atwood, but this comment just got him removed from my feed reader.
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by far33d 18y ago
For a text-to-speech system to be as good as the standard audiobook, it would require the software actually understand the material and give each line the correct emotion and cadence it deserves. I find that words spoken at monotone or at a
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by far33d 18y ago
News Flash - people who read slashdot frequently and respond to its online polls work less than people who don't.
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by far33d 18y ago
But - you had a perfect spec. You had a working program you could use as a reference implementation, and despite rewriting everything, you knew exactly what it needed to do. The original implementer presumably did not. In reality, you were
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by far33d 18y ago
Create a game, and people will play it as a game. Put a number next to someone or a color and people will change behavior to change the color/number. Especially hacker/gamer/competitive males, which are clearly represented pretty well here
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by far33d 18y ago
I thought I was the only startup hacker / YC news reader in Winchester! We just moved here and despite the homogeneity, it's a great town that is walkable and has train service.
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by far33d 18y ago
Exactly - I expected more of the frustration to be about the menial work and how people weren't feeling motivated, not how annoyed they were when google skimped on snacks.
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by far33d 18y ago
Isn't techstars in boulder?
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by far33d 18y ago
I was really hoping to hear some insight from these ex-employees about the google culture to see how it compares to my disillusionment with a "cool" big company. Instead, most of the comments (I couldn't get through all of them) were whinin
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by far33d 18y ago
Pixar wouldn't exist without any of the core three (John, Ed, Steve). Without John, Pixar wouldn't have the creative drive and the "story driven" culture that sets it apart from every other studio on the planet. Without Ed, it wouldn't have
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by far33d 18y ago
I run screen in every one of my terminals and it has made me much more efficient. The keystrokes are more natural than tab switching and detaching is great. It's especially nice to label your screens so you can quickly tell the difference b
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by far33d 18y ago
This is one of those articles that makes me think that Wired might be worth a subscription.
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by far33d 18y ago
This is an incredibly scary description of how I went through college and high school. Every time someone did better than me I thought "well, they didn't stay up every night of this week doing drugs" or "if I studied I would have done way b
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by far33d 18y ago
http://far33d.tumblr.com/post/30017717/on-the-polar-express-... I guess I should write more frequently and more in depth.
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by far33d 18y ago
Be very careful about open sourcing a game, especially if it is multi-player. Because people cheat. A lot.
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by far33d 18y ago
I thought this was going to be a plea about how to keep crappy stories off the front page.
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by far33d 18y ago
Drop by and meet some cool people from the Boston/Cambridge startup scene, drink some beer, celebrate (or mourn), maybe find yourself a co-founder or a job..
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Conduit Labs (Cambridge startup) hosting Election Party in Boston(blog.conduitlabs.com)
3 points by far33d 18y ago|1 comments
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by far33d 18y ago
A quote from Bill Gross, bond manager extraordinaire: "That ol’ Laffer Curve has a certain logic to it, but it only makes sense at the upper margin. People did work less at confiscatory tax rates imposed pre-Thatcher/Reagan but once they go

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