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Is Cambridge the new hub of Northeast startups?(nabeel.typepad.com)
5 points by herdrick 19y ago|7 comments
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VentureLaw blog(venturelaw.blogspot.com)
1 points by herdrick 19y ago|0 comments
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Functional Javascript, full-fledged and well documented.(osteele.com)
15 points by herdrick 19y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 19y ago
Great. I don't know much about Haskell, but Scheme is a great language for startups. Start your own and apply to YC! What are you using for learning Scheme? I recommend this one: http://herdrick.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-all-books-ough
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by herdrick 19y ago
Your instincts are good - I'd guess that you'd slowly come to despise your job So, what're your languages/tools of choice?
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by herdrick 19y ago
Blame centralized control of the money supply, not the previous boom.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Go to an academic conference. I went to this one: http://www.icfpconference.org/ last year and it was well worth it. Hunt around for a great class at the local CS department and either figure out a way to enroll or just 'drop in' on t
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VC through the ages(venturelaw.blogspot.com)
1 points by herdrick 19y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 19y ago
How old are you?
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by herdrick 19y ago
Great call, Alex. That's one of my favorite books ever. I blogged this here: http://herdrick.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-all-books-ought-to-be.html
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by herdrick 19y ago
I really think OO has been a net loss for the industry and individual programmers. Attaching all functions to data structures, inheritance, hiding fields... these are a net loss. (And about that field hiding aspect of encapsulation - Wh
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by herdrick 19y ago
Great stuff.
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by herdrick 19y ago
She moved to Silicon Valley to start a dance school? And she's getting meetings with VCs? Weird... Is there something about this that I'm not getting? She's got heart...
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by herdrick 19y ago
The Reddits, of course.
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by herdrick 19y ago
I suggest my partner and me. Just give us a little while...
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by herdrick 19y ago
True, but how about some details? A story?
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by herdrick 19y ago
I went back to school. It worked.
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by herdrick 19y ago
It sounds like you're used to editing files in Windows. So your hands are accustomed to standard Windows way of selecting text, cutting, copying and pasting. Emacs does not do things this way, not at all. You can google for "cua.el", a c
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MiniWeb: an entire site in one JSON object(dean.edwards.name)
3 points by herdrick 19y ago|1 comments
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by herdrick 20y ago
It already has. My guess is that the dollar will rise.
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by herdrick 20y ago
The article does have a strong whiff of premature opt. However, using a SQL db in the first place is usually causes extra work to use something unhelpful. Usually it's way less code to just skip it.
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by herdrick 20y ago
Don't sweat these guys. Who can figure out what they're doing?
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by herdrick 20y ago
Doomed. Would the real Steve Jobs would have put that in the Homebrew Computer Club newsletter: "You must have the key tools of today: BASIC, soldering, subtracting chips from designs, Intel 4004, sugar cereal prize whistles, etc..."
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by herdrick 20y ago
info at reatlas.com thanks!
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by herdrick 20y ago
Joel is wrong here. At the least, his goal, "software that works" is way off. "Software that people want" is way more important than how well it works. This is a good example of how Joel is still mostly a big-company kind of guy.
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by herdrick 20y ago
The company name looked familiar, and sure enough: it's the YouOS company. https://www.youos.com/ So have they decided the web desktop thing isn't in demand?
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YC startup launches: Project Wedding(projectwedding.com)
16 points by herdrick 20y ago|13 comments
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by herdrick 20y ago
Actually you're likely to write slower code if you start with C, instead of starting with a high level language and then after finding out what is too slow , writing those parts in C. Except it won't be too slow. Especially if you use o
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by herdrick 20y ago
Only in the sense of finite like there is a finite amount of computation that the universe is capable of: http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/51924 And, "things to put on the internet" isn't that right w
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by herdrick 20y ago
Ah, yes. Oops.

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