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Ask HN: How unique does a company name need to be?
5 points by gprisament 17y ago|1 comments
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by gprisament 17y ago
Quick! Someone write a Marriage Problem Solver that can take this spreadsheet as input!
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by gprisament 17y ago
"Object-oriented languages, Liskov said, tend to conflate the concrete representation of a type with the interface used to access it." This is why I prefer C to C++. An opaque data type in C has a clean separation of the interface from the
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by gprisament 17y ago
Keith & Sam (the founders) are top-notch talent doing great things. However, take "6x as many checkins" with a little salt... the game's scoring system encourages you to checkin repeatedly to a single location to quickly get points. T
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by gprisament 17y ago
Here's a B&M retail idea I thought of recently: "Green Home" a sustainable/organic/green alternative to Home Depot & Lowes. I think the Whole Foods approach could be applied to the lumbar yard: give DIY homeowners a feel-good alter
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by gprisament 17y ago
There was a segment about this on NPR's "This American Life" sometime back. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=128...
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Kodak Sues Apple & RIM For Patent Infringement(dpreview.com)
1 points by gprisament 17y ago|0 comments
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by gprisament 17y ago
Could also be titled: "Effects of Homeownership on Savings".
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by gprisament 17y ago
The movie Idiocracy explains it all.
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by gprisament 17y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I'd consider removing the "500 kLOC" line. Makes me suspect your code is verbose rather than elegant.
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by gprisament 17y ago
I've found that the best compromise is to use verbose "n00b-style" commenting in header files (or wherever your interfaces are defined), and sparse commenting in the implementation. Interfaces are like contracts, so you want to make sure e
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by gprisament 17y ago
I haven't actually played it, but "blueberry garden" looks pretty sweet from the trailer and won top prize at the independent games festival. http://eriksvedang.com/blueberrygarden/
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by gprisament 17y ago
I'm a huge proponent of C programming, but I have to say this article is not very compelling. Object-oriented programming is just as important in C as it is in C++, it's just the syntax is different. I think my high regard for C comes from
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by gprisament 17y ago
Sometimes it helps to look at examples of bad resumes. Some real gems here: http://resumedoctor.com/WorstResumes.asp .
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by gprisament 17y ago
Also, does anyone else think that this accredited investor stuff is BS? Why is it darn-near-impossible to invest in private companies unless you have $1mil?
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by gprisament 17y ago
This got me thinking: it'd be nice if there were something like sharespost for startups at the seed stage. For instance, a site where you can post your pitch and sell equity in your startup to raise initial capital. With low enough valuat
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by gprisament 17y ago
Any good examples of this paradox from your lives?
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The Abilene Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by gprisament 17y ago|2 comments
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by gprisament 17y ago
Does anyone else think that Twitter-based comment sections are just plain broken: 158,616,176 reasons why Google Chrome OS won’t fail @SiliconANGLE. http://bit.ly/7TDjDp 158,616,176 reasons why Google Chrome OS won’t fail @SiliconANGLE.
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by gprisament 17y ago
The big appeal of C for me is that it's portable (as long as you know to avoid the non-portable parts, anyway). Sorry, but I won't be using any language extension that will only compile on mac. And anyway, function pointers aren't that ha
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by gprisament 17y ago
Chrome OS will presumably include Google Native Client support so that native code can run (with some limitations) (long but good video on Google Native Client: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgng4C18nNk ). I'd much rather have an OS with