jamesmcn

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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I don't find the world's best athletes inspiring, precisely because they often benefit from quirks of their physiology that I don't share or training that dates back to their single-digit years, or both. I do find athletes in technical spor
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I have a different perspective. There is opportunity all over the place. User experience is crap most of the time, security poor, solutions to real customer problems weak. The skill we need to develop is the ability to identify when a probl
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Awesome explanation. Stats books clearly need more venn diagrams.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
> Edit: I should add that no chemical is good for everyone, not even caffeine. Obviously false. It is hard to live without chemicals like oxygen and water (though too much of either can be toxic).
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
This seems like a consequence of the rise of cloud computing. My experience is probably biased by the fact that I've been working in the Seattle area for most of the last decade. I've worked with and hired excellent engineers with Linux bac
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I like reading too, but I think I've managed to ingest close to my lifetime limit of business books. The good ones are rare. The bad ones can be replaced just as effectively by a few short blog entries.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Can't you just submit a manuscript to CreateSpace and get it live tomorrow?
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Speaking as a developer, I think I can see the analogy between dev and marketing. But from a learning perspective, software development has a big advantage. You can build everything from a hello world app to your own toy OS without being ne
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Good use of unit tests. But I think I'm going to have nightmares now.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
No it doesn't. But the article in question isn't about whether Java is better than C++. It notes that Java and Javascript environments are getting better, so you have to work harder to optimize your C++ to the point where it is faster. Whic
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Nassim Taleb makes a good argument in Fooled By Randomness that the best way to maximize the expected value of your net worth is to go into dentistry. But this isn't Dentist News... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Cool idea, but I see some problems: * Car dealers make a lot of money on servicing their customers' cars. They don't have much incentive to make DIY easy, and may work actively to sabotage a project like this. Unless you build relationships
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IT hardware doesn't seem to have a good track record in recent history. Elevation threw a lot of money at Palm, Palm delivered an excellent OS and phone (and finally tablet), and yet they weren't able to achieve the market traction they des
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Why do you prefer a hardware startup to a new hardware project within a large company?