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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I think this is awesome and terrible at the same time. Awesome because I wanted to do it myself, and you knew it was only just a matter of time. Terrible because even though Arrington deserved it, Kathy Sierra didn't. Attacking people becau
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
fuck karma. fuck all of you. nothing personal.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Your title is invalid. Non-techies get Wikipedia. Additionally, your real question does not belong on Hacker News. You're dealing with the problem of how to accomodate the uselessness of mediocre people whom you're obligated to tolerate. Th
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I work from home and it's awesome. It fucks with your sleep schedule but other than that it's great. I do go into the client office a lot more than I thought I would, though. And when I say working from home I mean working from cafes. Worki
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
no, just fire the pointy-hairs. if somebody is uploading word docs to a wiki then they're not qualified to work with you. don't waste your time.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
dammit OK this is the third comment. after this I'm closing the window. however that is a good strong argument. actually, it appears to be a good strong argument. I can't say for sure. it's not totally clear to me as I don't know a damn thi
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Dammit! OK I was re-reading my post because I always check to see if I've written something I can stand by or not. And the answer is kinda, there are some problems with it, but anyway, I was doing that, this was right below it, I saw it. My
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
So I saw this is on here. I'm going to skip reading the comments because I know from experience that some of you are idiots and I'll end up swearing at you. I'll just save time. If you disagree with me, you need to either re-read the post o
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
yeah but anybody who asks what language they should learn is an idiot. the answer is all of them, except the ones from Microsoft. everybody knows that.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I'm doing a presentation today where I say that Arc is a failure and I always feel guilty about that. But the thing is, I think the real reason for the fail is in the book "Art and Fear." If you focus on quality, you end up with inferior qu
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
is it really? have you built anything in seaside?
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
yeah but that's what bothers me. you've got a site founded by the guy who wrote "The Python Paradox" and everybody there thinks it's interesting to discuss PHP. come on! it doesn't matter if it's wrong or not. there is nothing interesting a
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
>>Giles is still angry that his post "Muppets" got downmodded a lot hahaha. dude even after I clicked that I had no idea what you were talking about. however, I had to turn off a Greasemonkey script to even find the comments here. I
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
heh. got me
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
hey Matt so I'm actually writing this while telling you in Campfire that you're right. so there's not much point except that I figured a little "yep" would be useful for the discussion. and as you know I have a very specific solution in min
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
unfortunately it wasn't a test, there was no if. I knew it would work. see the link at the bottom of my post, to the summon monsters post, explaining the inevitable signal/noise decline. the tactic will become more effective as time goes on
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
At 600+ karma, you get infinite bonus mushrooms and infinite ammo. You have to beat the game twice on impossible mode in the military suit and max out all your guns, though, even the stupid one that takes forever to fire and then the zombie
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
srsly. my Spanish teacher a few years ago told me that the word in Spanish is the same in either case: aburrido. the downside is that most English speakers will assume you mean "a burrito." the upside is that it makes a lot of sense to comb
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
what in the hell does this have to do with hacker news? why are you asking programmers for advice on making friends? I think you're missing some key information about programmers here. anyway, if your friends annoy you, spend less time with
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
well you know why that is. A) everybody young seems whiny and entitled to people slightly older, when they first enter the workforce B) generational differences were incredibly important forty years ago and bullshit artists can still build
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
this was a really, really foolish post in my opinion. you want to build your business on how users really act, not rant at them for acting differently than you expected. besides, it just shows how bankrupt passwords are. we use the same mec
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I've used both and find OS X preferable. For me it's really OS X vs. Linux, and I like OS X because you get so much shiny stuff, you can run consumer software on it, and it's not really that much work to make OS X really really hacker-centr
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I explained this in my blog a few posts ago. You write programs to focus on some particular aspect of your programming that you want to make better. I think it should be obvious. You use functional programming idioms - write programs that h
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
"1) some natural talent for X, varies based on the field" No. The trend in the research is that "natural talent" is a MYTH. It does not exist. Agree or disagree, I don't care, but as a summary of my post, your comment is inaccurate.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
this is why these sites are doomed, dude. any site built on this model of news dissemination is doomed. putting out a flag button makes your site vulnerable to the tragedy of the commons. it's in everybody's group interest to only flag spam
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
"They also noted that some fields of expertise (such as the NBA) have built-in physical constraints (ex: height) which must be considered." Mugsy Bogues.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
No I didn't. That post about New York was stupid too, nowhere near this stupid, but still not particularly impressive. I can't go into detail about every random piece of stupidity I encounter. I can't even read every random piece of stupidi
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
"They say I'm a birdbrain. If I am, can I just fly away?" http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Ynw9RT9coU All right let me dress up in a suit and monocle to accomodate the distinguished gentleman. I've gone into great detail as to why sites of thi
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I don't get how the post date's relevant. maybe you're responding to somebody else's comment and you clicked reply on mine by accident? I was saying that the fact that the HN community in aggregate thought that this blog post was worth shar
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
hahahahahaha a business based on SourceSafe.

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