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by gacba 16y ago
Site shows a blank page right now. There's another pitfall of dirty code...
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by gacba 16y ago
The filtering might be a bit off on that data set...Sephora is a beauty retail outlet, which hardly qualifies as a bar or restaurant and its the #1 place for women in NYC.
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by gacba 16y ago
It's unfortunate that this kind of logic isn't emphasized more in mathematics or science in a pure form. I'm pretty sure in high school I had one semester of this kind of logic associated with geometry. That was it until I hit discrete st
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RandInt: For all your application random number needs...(randint.com)
14 points by gacba 16y ago|17 comments
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by gacba 16y ago
Success in the Enterprise is dictated by throughput and repeatability, not in coolness of the solution. It's unfortunate, but the nature of the beast. They want their batch reports run on time, every night, and come out 100% accurate. Tha
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by gacba 16y ago
If you are a passionate programmer that wants to work with new tools, sexy frameworks, and other passionate developers... ...you should NOT be working in the Enterprise. Unfortunately, the nature of the Enterprise will kill much of that b
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by gacba 16y ago
My favorite quote about Zynga, relevant to this discussion, is that "their motto is the exact opposite of Google's 'Do No Evil'". That's what makes me gloomy. They're like the spoiled love child of EA and Microsoft. They have no scruples
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by gacba 16y ago
Wow...that felt like the love child of Frogger and Tetris. Fun to watch, but not exactly a good use of time.
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by gacba 16y ago
Agreed. There's a difference between "ugly hack" and "blatantly unprofessional", and the OP makes it sound like the two are equal. In actuality, they are not and in fact, many times people mistake the former as a personal affront for the
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by gacba 16y ago
It takes a bit of understanding and experience to appreciate these features and to use them effectively. That would be the reason why most expert JEE folks aren't getting Maven. It's not a short or easy learning curve. even on a good day
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by gacba 16y ago
There has always been a dichotomy between those who understand the science, what it tries to explain, the limits on those explanations, and those who simply latch on to the terminology out of convenience. What the Bleep Do We Know? was a
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by gacba 16y ago
Great list of failures. Perfect for mass pre-post--mortem analysis or at the very least, a collection of warnings to avoid for future startups...Thanks for putting that together!
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by gacba 16y ago
Some more specifics about Delaware: http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/top-5-reasons-to-inco... Most important among them for (larger) corporations: judges decide cases, not juries, making less of a "wildcard" for litigation.
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by gacba 16y ago
Glad I'm not on the only one who wasted time on this without immediately "getting it". Sounds like the message needs to be clarified a bit. Or maybe this isn't that compelling of a business case? I doubt I would pay $5 a month for this.
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by gacba 16y ago
Had a negative experience with MS recently. They were very interested in licensing some code for use in bing and we did a number of presentations to the top of the hierarchy which was extremely time consuming. In the end there was radio si
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by gacba 16y ago
I'd really like to know this since none of the startups I've been involved with have had positive outcomes (buy out, IPO, merger etc). If you're part of the 10-20% employee ownership, assuming that you have an "average" stake, what percenta
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by gacba 16y ago
"This technological terror you've constructed pales in comparison to the power of the Force"
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Language Flamewars and the Blub Paradox(lessonsoffailure.com)
2 points by gacba 16y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 16y ago
As it turns out, this is a silly Bingo card because either everyone will lose or everyone will win at the same time, assuming that everyone pays attention more or less equally. What you needed to do was take those terms (and maybe some more
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by gacba 16y ago
Reminds me of an old Russian saying from the post-revolution Lenin days: "Two steps forward, one step backward" (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_steps_forward_one_step_back )
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by gacba 16y ago
From the video, in case you're a TL;DR kind of person... Reasons why something is broken (not a transcript, my interpretation in parts, FWIW) Not my job - Instead of addressing the problem, this is a poor band-aid by someone who is lazy. S
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"This is Broken" (Seth Godin)(ted.com)
2 points by gacba 16y ago|1 comments
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by gacba 16y ago
For the recipes, the sarcasm, or the intellectual banter?
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by gacba 16y ago
You my friend, have some serious fig issues and have created the most compelling case I have ever heard for NOT planting a fig tree, ever.
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by gacba 16y ago
Don't just guess, setup a sales site for your product (a test one) and do some A/B testing on pricing. Find out what the maximum threshold is for people on the product. Use an AdWords campaign (with a $100 budget) to drive traffic to it).
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by gacba 16y ago
WTF? The NYT says this just a few days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/business/economy/07jobs.ht... and now this article says the opposite? Can't have it both ways.
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by gacba 16y ago
You could learn a lot of what you just mentioned for nothing at the Khan Academy ( http://www.khanacademy.org/ ). If it's the overall value proposition you want to compare, college blows on a cost per unit of knowledge acquired for someone
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by gacba 16y ago
Nice gig if you can get it. Not everyone is so lucky, unfortunately.
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by gacba 16y ago
Unfortunately, many programmers take the opposite tactic: They shove optimizations in apriori of any testing or data, just because "they know it's faster", or "you should never do X". The result is often convoluted code. The Pareto Princ
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by gacba 16y ago
My favorite quote in that article: I found an interesting culture full of contradictions and struggling to combine its past with its future and desperately wanted to learn about them. Don saw an SUV and thought he knew some shit. True, co

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