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by jjm 15y ago
I found the pulse very annoying.
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by jjm 15y ago
Why would the 'I' in ROI not be (in some respect) the effort required to teach hacker-ness?
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by jjm 15y ago
I agree and that is why I tried to frame my sentence above "Learning and executing customer feedback skills is as important as coding". I am a firm believer that It can be learned. In fact I think many VCs look for entrepreneurs that are wi
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by jjm 15y ago
We can go back and forth with this. Will you agree to come back to HN in 10 years (assuming HN will be around), and we shall gauge whether Detroit's growth is explosive or slow? Enough to reverse the population and poverty statistic trends?
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by jjm 15y ago
I can't seem to find myself in agreeance with what the author has written. It might be in the way it was written (author could have been pressed for time and compressed what he wanted to say). How many years have we validated the effectiven
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by jjm 15y ago
Well being a billionaire means you knew how to make money from a market yesterday. It doesn't really mean they know how tomorrow. Odds will be better as you have resources to try but everything is a gamble. Knowing the odds help. And so wit
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by jjm 15y ago
About the houses, I didn't cite correctly. There is a missing bullet. [5] http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/08/detroit-mayor-dave-bing-of...
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by jjm 15y ago
I know all about that city, and let me tell you I seriously doubt it is anything close to the opportunity that exists elsewhere. Just because 'some' money is coming in doesn't mean it will come out of the slump that _IS_ Detroit. Between sc
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by jjm 15y ago
This is awesome! It will be nice to see what kind of debug tools we can come up with.
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by jjm 15y ago
I'd like to add that a huge issue I saw in big Corp were when people/teams used FOSS and _didn't_ look at the source. Just like the phrase rtfm, there should be rtfs.
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by jjm 15y ago
This is why most companies need a 'talk to an engineer' instead of a sales person for those who want the details. From my understanding a few soft/hard tech companies do this with engineer rotations as you could learn a lot from talking to
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by jjm 15y ago
I would rather have seen "Async programming or Node.JS is hard to 'get right'" than a "Step backward" - which I don't see it being at all.
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by jjm 15y ago
They went from 'Twitter clone'[1], to adding formspring/Q&A features[2], to focusing on purely Q&A[3]. This looks like a good case to break down and see what went 'wrong'. [1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/02/entrepreneur-
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Sprouter shutting down(thenextweb.com)
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by jjm 15y ago
When your _this_ low on staff, no amount of scheduling is going to make Johnny 80/hrs a week work any better for the next two years...
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by jjm 15y ago
Extremely shitty planning. Your 4 devs working 20 hour days for months? Hire more devs! Can't find devs to work shitty hours? Pay more!
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by jjm 15y ago
Good stuff dude! I'm going to use this for my app's documentation.
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by jjm 15y ago
If Google doesn't hit you up, dude I would surely look at some startups. In fact, I believe Fresh Plum is looking for some really good people!
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by jjm 15y ago
Thats exactly what some do. Some work on protocols, backend efficiency, general coding, internal applications, and then spend their 20% on something 'really interesting'.
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by jjm 15y ago
Very true.
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by jjm 15y ago
There has been talk for sometime that they're MySql issues are crippling progress and development due to complexity of management and upkeep. http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse...
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by jjm 15y ago
Well your first round of 36 is your early adopter group which you survey, and prioritize problems/solutions. You then iterate your product with what you just learned. The feedback loop. Infact, Ries and Ash say you could do it with just 5 p
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by jjm 15y ago
I believe there is hate because a lot of 'over engineering' was done in most projects. This then necessitated the need for more complicated (and `sometimes` useless) new Java techniques. This most likely comes from seeing Java (or x,y,z) as
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by jjm 15y ago
I once thought like this however things changed once I realized at least a few interesting insights (read: NOT rules!). And this is strictly my opinion, which the OP has asked for. * Not only must change absolutely come from the top, but so
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by jjm 15y ago
RWW wrote: "...I doubt other companies will want to or be able to catch up to Wolfram in the sophistication of the tools they offer..." If anyone would like to join up and create an alternative I'm game. Lets do this. My full info is in my
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by jjm 15y ago
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789062
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by jjm 15y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful reply! One (of the many i'm sure) problems here you defined are: "...who would love to have a way to embed interactive graphs and tables into your papers to make them more understandable for the reader..." The s
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by jjm 15y ago
I'm really not for anything that can't readily be done in HTML5+CSS3+JS atm. Especially If i need to make people _download_ a 'player'. What is this, 1999 all over again (some might say yes ha). I can see big corp. getting excited over this
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by jjm 15y ago
This site is missing a LOT of info no? I'd like a little bit more info before I download a file... Must i download just to read docs? Are there even docs bundled?
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by jjm 15y ago
Sigh, why do people always do a versus comparison with tools...? Backbone like Knockout are tools. You choose the one that fits the job. It's like comparing a hammer to a mallet. "Oh but the hammer is cast, and is sooo durable! Versatility

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