herdrick

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811.
by herdrick 19y ago
The main site is still growing, I think and the Facebook app is really successful. I'm not sure what you mean.
812.
by herdrick 19y ago
(Blogspot) It has all the features I wanted. But it kinda looks like crap.
813.
Is this Google's first dollar spent on advertising themselves?(techcrunch.com)
3 points by herdrick 19y ago|1 comments
814.
by herdrick 19y ago
Among all books since the printing press? Can you be more specific? Actually, I take that back. I do know some great ones that you ought to read no matter what your situation. The Little Schemer http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS
815.
Joel explains how a new monopoly will emerge around AJAX(joelonsoftware.com)
101 points by herdrick 19y ago|82 comments
816.
by herdrick 19y ago
Your timing could be better.
817.
by herdrick 19y ago
You joke, but there could be startups there. None of those features are done perfectly yet. If a startup could do one of those things amazingly well, they'd possibly find a good business in there too. Bookmarks in particular is a rich
818.
by herdrick 19y ago
I've found there's no net benefit to caffeine. A little bit can make me a bit more alert and optimistic, but then I pay for it with interest on the caffeine hangover / comedown. Besides, more than a little bit of it makes me much too rest
819.
by herdrick 19y ago
A twist ending in a comment thread. Nice work, Paul.
820.
by herdrick 19y ago
Holy crap, that is an impressive lineup. Nice work, guys. But then what happened to Khosla Ventures between the initial announcement and now?
821.
by herdrick 19y ago
'Maintainability' is the last refuge of the fussy language.
822.
by herdrick 19y ago
Wow - I use a lisp, but this argument is awful. Saying you can really quickly whip up something that works in Perl is an overwhelming recommendation. That the subsequent code in unmaintainable is a relatively tiny disadvantage. From the
823.
by herdrick 19y ago
YC wants female founders. You should apply.
824.
by herdrick 19y ago
I would use Scheme. It's a good general-purpose language, suitable for about anything. You can whip up prototypes quickly and whatever you write ends up being pretty succinct. Another option would be to just use WikiMedia's code.
825.
by herdrick 19y ago
MySpace did it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775
826.
by herdrick 19y ago
Is San Francisco included in the San Jose metro region? If not, then probably the entire upper half of the peninsula isn't included in the comparison. Looks like it is, though. That's weird.
827.
Paul Buchheit announces new iPhone with 8 megapixel camera(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
14 points by herdrick 19y ago|6 comments
828.
by herdrick 19y ago
I always thought Orville Vogel was the father of the green revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Vogel Must have been regional bias.
829.
by herdrick 19y ago
No.
830.
by herdrick 19y ago
You're going to need good design. It's best if your founding team has some design talent, but if not, you may be able to get by with hired guns. But in that case you'd better have someone else who can evaluate the quality of the hired gun
831.
by herdrick 19y ago
And there are even used ones available on Amazon.
832.
by herdrick 19y ago
Yeah, I've heard that's good. Is the Mini-Kanren thing you build a useful constraint logic programming language to use from within your Scheme programs? Sometimes CLP is exactly what you need; it'd be great to have it at the ready.
833.
by herdrick 19y ago
Holy cow - this could be really good. The content preview is giving me a feeling of wordiness though. Next time I'm in a bookstore I'll thumb through it to see if it's succinct enough.
834.
by herdrick 19y ago
"sustainable growth"... that means 'not too rapid', right?
835.
by herdrick 19y ago
The Little Schemer and its sequel, The Seasoned Schemer. Both have excellent shelf space (or weight) to enlightenment ratios.
836.
by herdrick 19y ago
Selfish interests? He didn't even release it intentionally.
837.
Avoid the curse of plenty, build on the cheap. Worked for "El Mariachi".(blog.businessofsoftware.org)
2 points by herdrick 19y ago|0 comments
838.
Microsoft aquires large web ads company(forbes.com)
1 points by herdrick 19y ago|0 comments
839.
by herdrick 19y ago
I forgot to say above that the sequel, The Seasoned Schemer, is really great, too. It's got some challenging parts though.
840.
by herdrick 19y ago
Looks good, but you shouldn't put equal weight on all the categories. Profiling something slow (a program, a site) means figuring out what's killing you and fixing that . So don't worry about getting an 'A' grade from this thing for chec

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