jaggederest

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1. 3001.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   I think someone is confusing correlation and causation...
2. 3002.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   Hey, that's my idea! I'm going to make a mint! Step 1: get lots of people jobs Step 2: ... Step 3: Profit!
3. 3003.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   Well, adblock. But no, I have enough problems distracting myself from work, without blocking sites. It comes down to the fact that, when I'm 'in the zone' I don't bother to read websites, and when I'm not, there's nothing that's going to ta
4. 3004.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   Ask someone you do trust to recommend someone to... Build a chain of trust to someone with technical knowledge, and use them to assess possible technical people.
5. 3005.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   Try just asking. Present yourself in a reasonable light, have coffee with one of the people in charge, and just mention that you feel you're getting something of a raw deal on equity. If they're decent, they'll fix it, and if not, you don'
6. 3006.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   I learned ruby functionally in about a month, and fluently (eg thinking in ruby idiom) took about three months of half-time work in it. I wouldn't say I'm a guru yet, though, just comfortable. Haskell is still kicking my ass after six weeks
7. 3007.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   Presumably one would be smart enough to pull the ripcord as soon as possible. Don't wait for that 50m valuation, get out at 5m and take home a modest house instead of a yacht and a summer home in the Hamptons.
8. 3008.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   For that matter, use something small and fun like 2prong.com to pump out fake accounts. Digg yourself 30 times or so and you'll be headed up
9. 3009.▲
   by jaggederest 20y ago

   Planning is 80% of the hard part in programming.
10. 3010.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    Upgrayedd, two Ds for a Double Dose of intrusive marketing?
11. 3011.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    Dropped you an email, not too far away. It all depends on what kind of impression you make on people, and what kind of idea it is.
12. 3012.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    What bothers me is that people think their ideas are so goddamn important that they need to be stealthy. Hell, the fact that you're doing it is usually reason enough not to start (N+1 companies vs N companies)
13. 3013.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    God I hope so. I just missed the last one, totally disappointing.
14. 3014.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    Well, mostly just that PHP has been extended far beyond the simple templating language it was designed as. My language of choice (ruby or haskell, take your pick) was designed for more general tasks, and so is simpler to write the more gene
15. 3015.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    Dollar signs? No, but seriously, everything depends on compensation. Everything else is simply an apology. The more you pay me, the less of my life I have to waste working for other people.
16. 3016.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    (because-function-names-are-so-long-and-detailed 'post)
17. 3017.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    Trying to get HAppS to work. http://www.happs.org/ Of course, I'm about ten lines of code in, so I probably don't count.
18. 3018.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    Even more interesting, happs ( http://happs.org) combines a number of things: a prevayler-style in memory persistence layer, twisted-style event-driven programming, and SEDA-style non-blocking IO. It's built in haskell, which really is a b
19. 3019.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    I think what he's referring to is not so much 'small nasty' vs 'big hard' but rather the work to reward ratio. If you solve P = NP, your work and reward are high. If you solve 'My website is having performance issues' the work may be hard,
20. 3020.▲
    by jaggederest 20y ago

    I have rather the opposite problem. I'm like a machine when I get a decent idea (wrt implementing it etc), but I can't seem to find one that makes other people care about it.