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by fleaflicker 14y ago
* why hasn't the state of the art advanced since then? The Fred Brooks essay "No Silver Bullet" is a good place to start: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBulle...
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The Art of Being Still(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by fleaflicker 14y ago|0 comments
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
This same idea was discussed in CS 183, the power law: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21869934240/peter-thiels...
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
This was my reaction too. I was initially inspired by his dedication. But Jiro also illustrates that to reach the top of some crafts your dedication must border on sociopathy.
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
Does anybody have screenshots of what this looks like in the popular email clients? Also, this was previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2628945
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
In his section on Tech Corporations, he classifies Apple as "Diagnosis: no idea." Is there a reason nobody speaks publicly about Apple's engineering culture? We hear a lot about the culture at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. But I'
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Is anybody paying you to work on this full-time?
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Yes but then it's on your terms and schedule, not somebody else's.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
A lot of startups seem to be raising seed rounds in the $1.1M-$1.3M range (a cursory HN search turned up seven in the past few months, links below). What kind of valuations are they getting? Anybody willing to post anonymously (or otherwise
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Then rest of the mailinator blog and his blog ( http://paultyma.blogspot.com/ ) are filed with gems like this. There are a few of entries on multi-threaded synchronous io vs asynch io; he's a big proponent of the former.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
This is very similar to what Google+ does with Closure Templates.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
How are you migrating user data to Next? Or does it use the same underlying schema/data representations?
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CBS Sports Opens Site to App Makers(online.wsj.com)
2 points by fleaflicker 15y ago|1 comments
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
This isn't the first time his comments have been well received on HN. I had the same reaction when I read this a few months ago: http://www.berklee-blogs.com/2011/07/john-mayer-2011-clinic-... Discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Closure stylesheets have one feature that no other framework has--minification. If you view source on a lot of google sites you'll see that style class names are obfuscated. The one caveat is that you need a sophisticated build system to pu
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Gmail and Docs both use Closure Library http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
It's instructive for all programmers (not just Java) because it's a beautifully designed API. It's really difficult to design a good API and Guava didn't get to be like this overnight. It was used internally at google for years then spent y
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Can you shed any light on the deal terms? That search box is a major source of revenue for browsers. Did you undercut the other search engines? I know it's sensitive business information but any information you can provide would be great.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
From the end of the post: We backup our databases nightly and restore them to two different locations. One local to our NY data center for our devs to work against, and one remote in our OR data center.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Does anybody have any technical details on what backend changes were made? Seems like a huge effort to migrate all that data. Really curious what changed and how it changed on the backend side.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Awesome, Ori at fleaflicker, contact me directly.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Built, sold, and just reacquired fleaflicker alone. Have ambitious plans to grow. If you're an NYC hacker and want to build and scale a fantasy sports application to take on ESPN, Yahoo, and the NFL, contact me!
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
This is all excellent advice but a huge chunk of the attention Trello received is a reult of the name "Spolsky" being attached to it. He has a strong personal brand that has been cultivated for a decade.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
aol is not a software company. it is not a tech company either, and hasn't been for a long time. it was an ad-sales company until 2008 and now it is a media company.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
I think it did make a technically interesting point--if your infrastructure is written in a language that nobody in your team has mastered, it might be worth the investment to port it to something else. Erlang is widely regarded as a great
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
He's right about eclipse. After you learn it the productivity boost is tremendous. I'm sure lots of dev environments are like this.
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Is this primarily a talent acquisition?
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Most startups have something like this in their TOS, it's just part of the risk using their product: ALL MATERIALS AND SERVICES ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND... http://adgro
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
Did you consider google protocol buffers? If so, why thrift?
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by fleaflicker 15y ago
How can you judge a class so quickly? I think it's impossible to evaluate a class until 3+ years after YC.

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