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by grammaton 15y ago
Programmers are janitors. Everyone wants software, but no one really respects the developers. Just like everyone wants a clean building to work in, but no one really respects the janitor.
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by grammaton 15y ago
The problem with that - and I say this as a generalist myself - is that usually you don't know a lot about everything. You think you do, but it turns out you don't. For instance, I've known "a lot" about web development. Now I have a new
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by grammaton 15y ago
> People who play the "It is a truly wise man who knows he is not" card are usually trying to limit you. I've always felt just the opposite. Acknowledging what you don't know can furnish you with the drive to learn it - thus becoming b
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by grammaton 15y ago
"writing code is but a small part of this process" Um...no it's not. And as far as understanding a problem goes, many times you do that by writing code, or don't truly understand it until you do.
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by grammaton 15y ago
I think it comes down to what one considers entrepeneurial. Here at HN, with the crowd heavily skewed as it is towards tech, the adwords seo marketing facebook twitter dashboard mashup is seen as more entrepeneurial than this bike sharing
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by grammaton 15y ago
This could be asked of a number of comments, but sadly, rarely is.
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by grammaton 15y ago
Doing starting strength to get to crossfit seems a bit...backwards...to me.
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by grammaton 15y ago
For what it's worth, I agree with you 100%. That said, you're fighting a losing battle on this one - the majority of HNN readers seem to think that as long as you've written a famous piece of software, it's perfectly reasonable to carry on
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by grammaton 15y ago
Why? Does it contain some sort of resounding rebuttal? Because I read it, and I didn't see one....
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by grammaton 15y ago
This is a bunch of standard issue cornucopian gee-whizery. I can't help but notice that nowhere in this article does he cite so much as one, single, solitary number or statistic to back up any of his claims. Here is essentially how this en
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by grammaton 15y ago
I really hope this was sarcasm. Plutonium is not cheap. Uranium is not cheap. Redundant safety systems are not cheap. Pressure proof concrete vessels are not cheap. Industrial grade power turbines, also not cheap. The list goes on and
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by grammaton 15y ago
It seems like the only real problem with this article - the one causing any contention - is simply that no one really specifies what time frame they mean when they say "pre-launch."
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by grammaton 16y ago
Thank you. I knew there was something interesting to learn from the story as soon as you mentioned it, and here it is. Thank you for sharing.
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by grammaton 16y ago
I was asking someone else a question about their story, and you respond by acting like I've grown a second head for being curious, and giving me a definition of a basic term related to the discussion. So, yes. Yes I am being serious.
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by grammaton 16y ago
Hearing that someone's grandfather was a vet is quite common, yes. And the number is 16 million. That said, most of them are dead now. So these days, for someone like myself - barely thirty - it is, in fact, quite uncommon to run acros
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by grammaton 16y ago
I take it he's thrilled his daughter is dating an American - son of an Allied veteran, no less? Sorry if I'm prying, I'm just fascinated by living history.
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by grammaton 16y ago
Yes, thank you, I know who the Wehrmacht were. I paid attention in history class. More so I'm just surprised when I run across any veteran of WWII. FYI, no you don't run across WWII vets "all the time." Most of them are in their eighties
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by grammaton 16y ago
Yhea, I kind of balked at that as well. I think it would be more accurate to say that Americans just don't use their families as a topic of discussion - to us, family is very important, but it's a private affair. Family is something we on
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by grammaton 16y ago
> If you get off the coasts you can find a whole bunch of Americans No, actually you won't. Most of America's population lives within two hundred miles of it's coastlines. This group of proudly ignorant people is therefore much smalle
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by grammaton 16y ago
> He was in the Wehrmacht Wait, what?
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by grammaton 16y ago
Personally I've always found it annoying when my countrymen are taken to task for being 'ignorant' of another country's culture. As I have to constantly point out to people from other countries - you're aware of so much in American politic
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by grammaton 16y ago
Having actually worked in an incubated start-up, I can say this article is overstating both the pros and cons of working in one.
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by grammaton 16y ago
It seems like the author of the piece points to a frayed connector and says "see! Their products aren't durable!" Jumping to conclusions, in other words. That said I am on my second Macbook, and I do notice they don't seem to take puni
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by grammaton 16y ago
It seems to me like Nuclear is the safest form of energy in the short term - very few people die per gigawatt hour, if you will. But in the long term I'm still not entirely convinced - we've only had nuclear power for a few decades, but th
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by grammaton 16y ago
Tabbed browsing is both a blessing and a curse. I found that I stopped wasting quite so much time surfing when I derived as much satisfaction from having only a few (mostly necessary) tabs open at any one time as I did from, say, cleaning
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by grammaton 16y ago
> We're a small startup Was the article talking about small startups? I've worked for (more than) my share of small startups - most of the "CEO"s of small startups are closer to owner/proprieters than CEOs.
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by grammaton 16y ago
You're right. Think of all those poor slobs making in the mid six figures....
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by grammaton 16y ago
Preaching to the choir here. If you think it's so hard and stressful to lay off an employee, try being the one on the receiving end. If you're so worried about the company's financial prospects while you earn more than anyone else in it,
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by grammaton 16y ago
So if Samsung isn't shipping key loggers, then why did one of their people act as if they were?
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by grammaton 16y ago
> 1.upto 10 do |i| { print i } My answer would be "bombs with syntax error," assuming this isn't something that just looks like Ruby.

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