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by ianl 16y ago
Using "rockstar" reminds me of awful job advertisements for awful companies.
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by ianl 16y ago
I can't read the comments for this article. It makes my brain hurt. Everything from 9/11 being an inside job to increase the national security net to the concept that the USA exists as a totalitarian empire.
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by ianl 16y ago
oh my, thats amazing I didn't even notice the mistake.
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by ianl 16y ago
If outsourced software in India is well known for being awful, I can't imagine what the quality must be like in the new frontier of cost savings.
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by ianl 16y ago
Its the age old ideas are easy, execution is hard because there are just so many faucets to the process.
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by ianl 16y ago
Awesome story, it reminds me of a Dan Pink talk about the candle stick problem.
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by ianl 16y ago
TechCrunch is awful now :(
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by ianl 16y ago
Honestly, figure out what your interested in and dive in some way. The best way to learn is to be challenged. I know not everyone learns this way, but at least for myself I like to just get way over my head and figure my way out. When I fir
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by ianl 16y ago
The best exercises are to look for ACM Programming Contest Questions. Here are some programming contest questions from 2005 from an Atlantic Canada programming contest http://projects.cs.dal.ca/apics/contest05/
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by ianl 16y ago
Its more general wisdom from his eassys on his website. I find it timeless. I go back and read it every two or three years and enjoy it thoroughly.
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by ianl 16y ago
3%-7% that use the button are most likely power users. It would be unwise to disenfranchise them as they are the ones who normally advocate your software to their friends (regular users).
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by ianl 16y ago
This made my day.
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by ianl 16y ago
The majority of the questions that I looked at where applications of binary search.
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by ianl 16y ago
It could just be a fake name, I know thats hard to fathom and all.
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by ianl 16y ago
This website reminds me of a Nigerian scam, at first, I thought it was due to its 2001 style !
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by ianl 16y ago
Did they ever release any information about how popular App Engine is? I've always wondered how successful it's been and how many startups are willing to lock themselves into the Google Infastructure.
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by ianl 16y ago
I use git, with three levels, dev (active development), stage (current stable version), and production. All three have different branches. Then I have a bash script that configures them accordingly.
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Yea but Yahoo does have some merchant services like Yahoo Stores and such, so this would complement those services.
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by ianl 16y ago
You make a good point, AOL would fit more into Yahoo's perceived strategy as being a content company. Yelp, and Foursquare are great examples of the general lack of strategy or direction to those of us that follow the tech scene closely. Th