gsharm

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by gsharm 14y ago
Mark has gathered a lot of great people, and they're focused. I wouldn't underestimate them.
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by gsharm 14y ago
How does killing people equate to the military force effectively doing its job?
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by gsharm 14y ago
I remember where in one of Vonnegut's books, he describes life not as some fixed end-result in time to be celebrated or mourned, but a process, something you could visualize as a roughly drawn line taking all sorts of directions through tim
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by gsharm 15y ago
Smart move by Facebook. If Google had bought Instagram instead and integrated with G+, things would have gotten interesting. Wouldn't be surprised if there was a bidding war that pushed the price this high. Reminds me of the recent Firefox
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by gsharm 15y ago
"After all, it is no longer the purpose of programs to instruct our machines; these days, it is the purpose of machines to execute our programs." - Edsger Dijkstra By extension, I think it's more important for us to think about our programs
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by gsharm 15y ago
What are your thoughts on C#?
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by gsharm 15y ago
I'd argue their hardware is still better designed than that of most Android vendors, especially for text input speed and accuracy. Where RIM went wrong was underestimating the importance of software and the surrounding ecosystem. Their App
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by gsharm 15y ago
This reminds me of Paul Graham's recent list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3686840 Except there is no mention of cancer. Is a solution really so much out of reach? I feel like there's an identity issue here to blame, something alon
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by gsharm 15y ago
Yes, but profitable businesses aren't necessarily big successes.
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by gsharm 15y ago
Big successes and sustainable businesses aren't necessarily the same thing. This is an important distinction because a sustainable business is a viable option for many, and "big success" isn't. And the biggest ones are going to leapfrog suc
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Thoughts on Unix vs Windows
13 points by gsharm 15y ago|9 comments
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by gsharm 15y ago
Define acceptable. "friendly business" - as opposed to "unfriendly business"? Explain the difference between personal and "corporate" thoughts. "typical East Coast bullshit." is how Steve Jobs described this sort of drivel. We've entered an
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by gsharm 15y ago
Exactly. That's the real problem.
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by gsharm 15y ago
It was Benjamin Franklin that seemed to have first documented this effect. He had a nice routine going too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickbilton/3779169741/ To think he did this in the 1700s. So far ahead of his time.
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by gsharm 15y ago
Where do you finally persist the data in that case?
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by gsharm 15y ago
Your writing was a much bigger deal than ViaWeb.
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by gsharm 15y ago
Actually, none of us are. And that's what makes this so hard.
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by gsharm 16y ago
Figure out what you're trying to do, convince yourself of why you're doing it and then figure out a way to do it. Consider everything else a distraction.
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by gsharm 16y ago
16:9 displays fit human field of vision better. This isn't a hardware problem, it's a software problem. And there's no such thing as a ThinkPad X51.
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by gsharm 16y ago
Thank you, my experience has been same, and I could have not said this better. I'd like to add that anyone in this position should do exactly what you and I did, and quit. Time is valuable. Leave them to find out the error of their ways by
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by gsharm 16y ago
It must be horrible working with you.
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My new boss at work is trying to get us all to use Agile. How do I stop him?(reddit.com)
3 points by gsharm 17y ago|0 comments
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by gsharm 17y ago
Hi Paul, Any chance of releasing a book or spec alongside Arc at some point? Or are you encouraging people to just play around with it for now? I'm just wondering whether the idea here is to encourage exploration through scarcity, or that t
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by gsharm 18y ago
I prefer Paul's wider take on things, it's what makes his writing so unique, it encompasses almost anything and everything. I've thought many times about quitting programming altogether because it's in some ways such a narrow and suffocatin
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by gsharm 18y ago
Thank you for sharing. I'm similarly somewhat both disappointed and thrilled by the amount of bullshit that gets thrown around, and worse still, accepted through generations. I think it's largely a matter of habit, and the old can't change
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by gsharm 19y ago
commented on jeff atwood's blog in regards to this - i think he misinterpreted the point of your article to some minor extent (and so did I since I read the quotes only at that stage). he seems to have homed in on a few particular points (w