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by haploid 16y ago
Whoosh
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by haploid 16y ago
I disagree. I think the reason you see those kind of posts is that those kind of applications are low-hanging fruit. The development of Yet Another File-Sharing App or Social Media Service can be accomplished by anyone with a "Learn Rails
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by haploid 16y ago
Employees who love their own product are a cancer that must be treated. Complacency with a product necessarily leads to a dangerous inability to find ways to improve upon it. I do speak from long experience, here. This isn't a crazy idea
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by haploid 16y ago
This is all well and good, until the day when you decide to learn something on your own from a book, and encounter concepts defined in epsilon-delta form that make zero sense to a mind trained on intuiting concepts from graphs. Visualizatio
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by haploid 16y ago
We Internet geeks are being profiled as "cool" in the mainstream press, girls are more interested in us than Wall St. people or lawyers ... What happened to the days when I got made fun of for being on a computer all day? What? I have nev
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by haploid 16y ago
I'm really astounded by some of the comments here, almost as if I was browsing the TechCrunch echo chamber. This is certainly not bad advice. The ratio of "we just got funded" to "we actually developed a valuable product" stories I see i
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by haploid 16y ago
Sounds like a great idea. Error #1: Using whitespace as scoping syntax. Status: WONTFIX
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by haploid 16y ago
Absolutely. The effect rapidly turns to disaster after a certain BAC, though. My personal Ballmer's Peak is more like an inverse sigmoid curve.
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by haploid 16y ago
Well, the answer is obviously "yes". I'm not sure what kind of elaboration you're looking for, here. To be fair, though, we're a few too many years in to really be called a startup any longer.
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by haploid 16y ago
Sure. Freenode and EFNet tend to have significant concentrations of talented developers and developer/managers. I think many people would be surprised at the caliber of people who idle( usually as ops )on the various programming-related IR
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by haploid 16y ago
Easy. Using the Standard Q2 2011 Bubble Valuation Form: Start with $500k. Application Factors: If it has anything to do with "social", multiply by 5. If it's written in a functional language, multiply by 2. If it ends with -ify or has a .l
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by haploid 16y ago
IRC
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by haploid 16y ago
Just so I'm clear on your comment regarding your CS peers; you came into contact with people who were socially underdeveloped due to lack of social experiences, and as a result you chose to deny them social experiences. Yeah, it was totally
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by haploid 16y ago
This is how I read it. The author clearly doesn't find anything enjoyable or redeeming about the career path he has chosen. Instead of switching careers to something more amenable to his personality, he chooses instead to bitch about thos
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by haploid 16y ago
This is a common misconception. IDEA was once "only Java", but it is rapidly becoming a generalized platform, as well. Writing Ruby with IDEA is an absolute delight, for instance,
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by haploid 16y ago
I can't even fathom how Eclipse somehow outstrips IDEA, particularly by such a large margin. IDEA destroys Eclipse in terms of usability, looks, features, speed, etc. Is the premium developers put on "but it's open source!" really that com
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by haploid 16y ago
None that I can recall. The closest we ever get to this behavior is some light chiding.
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by haploid 16y ago
Not that this will prevent baseless, ad-hominem, assumptive comments from being posted and voted up on this site, but... I've been with a lovely woman, who enjoys being treated like a human being instead of a deity, for over four years.
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by haploid 16y ago
What is it about hacker culture that places women on a pedestal and encourages fawning, obsequious devotion and sacrifice to them? Relationships should not be about master/slave dynamics, yet geeks seem to relish this dynamic more than I'v
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by haploid 16y ago
"The greater question is not why there aren't more founders, but why there arent more minority/female students in academia" http://www.prb.org/Articles/2007/CrossoverinFemaleMaleColleg... http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2009/section1/ind
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by haploid 16y ago
Is this the North Korean people's chance to do the hump?
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by haploid 16y ago
No, it doesn't seem reasonable at all. Athletic activity causes actual physical microdamage that takes rest time, nutrition, and hormones to repair. The elevated secretion of human growth hormone during REM sleep is a significant reason wh
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by haploid 16y ago
I am in absolute agreement with this. I find that if I sleep more than 6 hours a night, I am actually more tired the following day. Normally, I get 5 hours per night and I rarely experience low levels of functioning or excessive fatigue.
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by haploid 16y ago
Well, the convenience sure does sound nice, but the rates are staggeringly high: V/MC Non-Qualified: 2.89% + $.30 Cybersource+WFB clocks in at roughly half that for V/MC( although Amex rates are around that level ), with per-transaction at
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by haploid 16y ago
Poor analogy. I already excepted physical disability in my comment. Physical conditions, or cognitive events such as stroke, that make you unable to work are NOT analogous to losing motivation or getting bored.
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by haploid 16y ago
You are probably being downvoted because your comment is 94% spam, and because "loosing" is not a word that makes any sense in the context of your post.
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by haploid 16y ago
How is it possible for you to become "incapable" of working? Aside from debilitating injury, of course. If the only thing standing in your way is attitude and motivation, it's fairly trivial to get over it, sack up, and get back to work.
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by haploid 16y ago
"I spent about a month ... not reading TechCrunch" Wait, and this was a bad thing?
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by haploid 16y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but... "He says it's like riding a bike. When you start falling on one side, your natural instinct is to turn in the other direction." No it isn't. Not at all. My natural instinct is to steer in the direction of the fa
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by haploid 16y ago
This is likely due to the fact that American men average a few inches taller than American women. Biology and statistical sampling plus a little bit of confirmation bias.

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