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by jamieb 13y ago
I've witnessed first-hand three start-ups slowed or stopped by "ninja" developers using the start-up as an excuse to try some cool new technology that will look good on a resume. In two of them, they were paid the going rate.
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by jamieb 13y ago
FTA: "Kathryn Olmsted, a historian at the University of California, Davis, says that conspiracy theories wouldn’t exist in a world in which real conspiracies don’t exist. And those conspiracies — Watergate or the Iran-contra Affair — o
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by jamieb 13y ago
"... I can’t really complain about the hours of entertainment I’ve gotten in exchange." "Yet I still can’t help but cringe as I run into all the ways the game is intentionally crippled to get you to pay up, and the way its Pavlovian trigger
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by jamieb 13y ago
I understand completely. "And all that is fantastically interesting, but completely beside the point. I just fell into the classic programmer trap of exploring and learning about (what I find) fantastically interesting things that will addr
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by jamieb 13y ago
Given all the "look how they let flickr languish" responses to the tumblr acquisition, I can't help but feel this was artfully timed. Well played yahoo. Well played.
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by jamieb 13y ago
Says wikipedia: The Onion AV Club interview calls the game "a sort of Apples To Apples for the crass and jaded." i.e. perfect for parents =)
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by jamieb 13y ago
If start-up time is an issue for you then you aren't using eclipse as an IDE. Eclipse and now IntelliJ is my primary development environment. IntelliJ is basically running on my machine all the time. IntelliJ may have an advantage of eclips
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by jamieb 13y ago
"If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product." would seem to explain the complaints made here.
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by jamieb 13y ago
It appears this is the page in question: http://imgur.com/KSsinEq
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by jamieb 13y ago
What, so OnionMan77 not so good then? http://www.theonion.com/articles/onion-twitter-password-chan...
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by jamieb 13y ago
Melatonin works for me. Unless you have DSPS, I cannot tell you how amazing it is for the alarm to go off at 7:30, once, and to be able to get out of bed. It has changed my life. I take my girls to school. I check email before 8. At the wee
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by jamieb 13y ago
"Convincing users to upgrade was a daunting task that left an impact on product decisions." Yeah, like having to make useful features that customers would actually want to pay for. Fuck capitalism, eh? Just pay your taxes and we'll give you
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by jamieb 13y ago
Its not what they stole that worries me. Its what they modified and left behind.
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by jamieb 13y ago
About 10 years ago I had pretty much this exact conversation with RMS over email. As a video game developer, I made box software that I needed people to buy in order for me to get paid. I put it to him that without keeping our code and asse
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by jamieb 13y ago
"They only difference here is that the internet has rendered the head smacking part obsolete for IP, so people can skip straight to taking the stuff." No. The internet has rendered the "taking your stuff" part obsolete. When you "take my st
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by jamieb 13y ago
"I'm willing to trust that Gradle (Groovy), Leiningen (Clojure), and SBT (Scala), are all also superior to Maven while integrating well with Maven's dependency system." Except that they don't. They can consume it, but they can't produce it.
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by jamieb 13y ago
I'm using Spring 3.1, Jetty, various OWASP, guava. I am in the code of Spring and Jetty on a daily basis, and OWASP when I first used it. I learned guava by writing unit tests to verify my assumptions - assumptions I learned from the docume
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by jamieb 13y ago
I'm using Spring 3.1, Jetty, various OWASP, guava. I am in the code of Spring and Jetty on a daily basis, and OWASP when I first used it. I learned guava by writing unit tests to verify my assumptions - assumptions I learned from the docume
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by jamieb 13y ago
"that you have to take everything in the Constitution at equal value, or else you're a hypocrite" That's not the authors point. The authors point is that you have to take the Constitutions statements as having equal legal force. You are qui
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by jamieb 13y ago
Totally. Take the complaint about the mobile app. They built a mobile app that nobody wanted, and then blamed Lean! "Nevertheless as devout Lean Startup followers, we kept building, measuring, and learning. Hidden inside our minimum viable
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by jamieb 13y ago
"For me the important spark was that my mother was forward-thinking enough to see the C64 as a useful educational purchase" Same here, but mom and dad got me a BBC Micro. Stayed with Acorn and got an Acorn A310 when I was 18. Wrote a game i
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by jamieb 13y ago
The games industry is populated by young, inexperienced people and that has two effects: 1. A belief that any obstacle can be overcome, any deadline met 2. One tool in the toolbox: I can personally make this happen by writing enough clever
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by jamieb 14y ago
Ace?
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by jamieb 14y ago
No, but what you are looking for is an indication of future risk. By offering a full refund, Instacart demonstrated a strong commitment to making sure it never happens again by demonstrating that they would incur serious financial penalties
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Used GroupTalent in the last three years? Has your client? Then they owe money.
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by jamieb 14y ago
In fact this doesn't solve the problem of investors who wait and see. If they wait a week, and things look good, they can come back and say "we have this legally binding email that says we're in". Startup comes back and says "well we didn't
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by jamieb 14y ago
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/01/13-year-old-phenom-katie-f... vs http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57562397-504083/georg...
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by jamieb 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 PG: "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for b
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by jamieb 14y ago
+1 for remembering Las Vegas (and Seattle) go first.
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by jamieb 14y ago
And then I plug it into my 24" monitor and put the laptop on a stand. Bzzzt. Mind fuck. Motor cortex confused. "fluid" operations when the laptop was on my lap suddenly difficult, even painful with my deltoid injury. The keyboard is under m

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