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by icky 19y ago
The reply messages take too long to get back...
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I think it was Bitkeeper's solid decentralized workflow that convinced Linus that VC would even be feasible for kernel development; hg and git were written after people realized that they could no longer do without the features that Bitkeep
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Maybe you should write an article titled, "Get it in Writing."
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> Chicken Soup from the Soul Normally it just comes from chicken stock...
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IANAL, but IIRC, once you have over a certain number of shareholders (and it's somewhere in that neighborhood), you are effectively a public company. Which means you get screwed by SarbOx. (And you've already had your "IPO", so there goes
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No, I think you'd have to settle for mining good sources of stupid, especially the sort of stupid likely to start creeping into HN.
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> I wish... The elided part is probably the most interesting. Don't let CagedLionGate turn you into a self-censor, pg.
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by icky 19y ago
You have to triage comments from any source, at least at first (and occasionally thereafter). But the filters learn very fast.
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Stupid comments on HN are likely to be very different in form than stupid comments on Youtube. They are more likely to be written by smart-ish people who are either acting belligerent or trolling. Reddit might be a much better source of hig
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by icky 19y ago
Nerd quiz: without consulting your own dice, which number on the pictured d20 is facing up?
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by icky 19y ago
> Then came Git, and then this. Git and hg were both started in April, 2005, in response to the Bitkeeper fiasco.
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I love their faith in the National Centralized Single-Point-of-Failure Traffic Computer. ;)
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The Harrison Bergeron school of equality? ;-)
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> Then people will be working only to teach, design new things, entertain, as material needs will be superflous. It's frightening to consider that IP laws would probably outlive natural scarcity...
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They were obviously predicting the state of the art at the end of President Gore's 2008. ;-)
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A coworker of mine who's been in the GIS industry for about as long as said industry has existed gave that very same assessment. The real obstacles at this point are social: people will freak out at the thought of robot trucks driving on
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by icky 19y ago
Note also the correlation: startups get to choose their tools, so they usually go with cool "new" languages (yes, I'm aware that Ruby and Python are technically older than Java, and that C# is technically newer than any of the three, but h
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by icky 19y ago
I've found that I really enjoy my job, so my outside projects have started to shift from "this might make me money someday" to "this is really fun to code!" things. It's weird how stability (and yes, coming from consulting and startuppery,
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> The essay does take advantage over the common "naturalistic fallacy", where people imply something as being "good" from its being "natural". The essay avoids that fallacy by making the case that humans, having evolved under certain so
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by icky 19y ago
Indeed, but the mere subjectivity of a statement doesn't deprive it of the possibility of truth or falsehood for any given person or group of people. For example, take the statement "bread is a better food than dung." In my own context, an
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No, it's an excellent way of filtering out bad companies early.
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> So is everyone that got that impression from the essay a Reddit troll? I think he called you out on it because you persisted in reading things into his essay that aren't there, and demanding he defend statements he didn't make. Here's
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> This is such a bogus comparison. Actually, it resonated quite well with my experiences in public school. Though it would make a better essay targeted towards parents, who actually have a say in where their kids go to school.
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> Extra-fancy buckwheat soba is a bit pricier, but insanely delicious. A complex and rich taste all by itself, so you don't have to add much to it. My favorite local ramen shop (Ramen Halu in San Jose, near Saratoga Ave and 280) uses it
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by icky 19y ago
Or to remove the ingredients from the ziploc bag (at least, I hope that's how he does it!)
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Oh, no! I wanted to uninstall "foo bar", not "foo" and "bar"! ;)
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Almost certainly so, considering his tendency towards unthinking obedience... ;)
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No ramen allowed? What about real ramen, starting with chuka soba and making your own broth (this part would take much longer than 10 minutes, but bear with me), adding in your own choice of meats, vegetables, egg, bamboo shoots, negi , et
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> [...] the more general idea, quite consistently expressed, that the startup life is better than the corporate life. By itself, this is neither true nor false [...] Can't one way of living be better than another? If not, how can I tell
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> Oops, didn't read the problem. You wrote the problem. ;)

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