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by jlees 16y ago
Presumably because it's not aimed at those people so much as fledgling entrepreneurs in steady jobs afraid to take that risk.
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by jlees 16y ago
Seedcamp (of late, at least) aims at a much more mature company/idea than YC does. Although there are exceptions.
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by jlees 16y ago
I feel the term Open Source in this context refers to open sharing of closed (proprietary rather than copyrighted) information, not specific copyright/patent-free work. Game mechanics may not be copyrightable, but the reasoning behind them/
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Designing Great Experiences: The Gap Between Activities(uie.com)
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by jlees 16y ago
So... Chrome, then.
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by jlees 16y ago
Security. Speed. Control.
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by jlees 16y ago
Having seen the sheer amount of tools listed by HN readers in other threads, and understandably so, I doubt many people here would want to (or be able to) use it for their daily work. Until 280 North take over the world, that is.
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by jlees 16y ago
I always prefer to see these things in context (how well does a naive rule-based classifier do? what's the P/R/F-score i.e. how many Apples are apples and apples are Apples? What about Apple Records?) It's still fun to remember how quick an
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by jlees 16y ago
You make great points for the engineering minded, and the original article was about nerds, so that's all grand. However; when I inwardly cringe at these ideas being rehashed (possibly not the machine learning one), it's when someone non-te
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by jlees 16y ago
Ah wheels, I saw #2 and I thought of you. ;)
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by jlees 16y ago
I can't see how there would be a correlation between answering this question well and being a good Product Manager. What if there's a product planned that specifically aims at piano tuners? Or a feature change that would affect piano tune
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by jlees 16y ago
If you are Product Manager for Google's Adwords, how do you plan to market this? Bad question unless you ascertain the candidate knows enough about Adwords to give a good answer. (Whether a candidate should know enough about your core pro
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by jlees 16y ago
So now it's all Google's fault!
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by jlees 16y ago
Actually, I know it from ML. I was more smiling at it existing in Python, than Python having 'invented' it.
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by jlees 16y ago
This is the reason I stuck with Python for my development and production code. Python scientific programs running on the backend, using all sorts of fancy libraries (NLTK and numpy mostly) and then a Django frontend that plugs right in. I'm
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by jlees 16y ago
It's just down to naming and the fact that TrebuchetMS != Trebuchet MS.
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by jlees 16y ago
Find a game where you can easily edit a save file, map file or high score table and let him poke about in it...
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by jlees 16y ago
I was typing out BASIC programs when I was around 6, got to love growing up with the Spectrum/C64 and the wonderful BBC Micro. I think it worked well; I still remember it being so magical (a since overused word sadly), and a lot of my early
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by jlees 16y ago
I've mostly written technical articles in-place in the Wordpress editor (backing up the raw html manually as even I don't have that much faith in The Cloud). Longer-form, I've only ever used LaTeX, as the sort of articles I write are more e
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by jlees 16y ago
Check out Castronova's "Exodus to the Virtual World" for an entire book based around this concept -- if life in the virtual world is so much more fun than reality, surely we'll see full-on migrations to 100% virtual existence (caveat the
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by jlees 16y ago
Oh, interesting. I like the concept of open source game mechanics!
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by jlees 16y ago
I like it! Clicking on an article was a really pleasant surprise. What drove you to write this?
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by jlees 16y ago
Gamification is simply the application of a ton of learnings (and in some cases, pure intuition) about how humans behave, what drives us, and how to keep us engaged. In terms of "stick badges on it and people will keep using your product",
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by jlees 16y ago
Would be interesting to also add IRC handles as a contact method.
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by jlees 16y ago
Or just allowing a 'view all comments' option that could be easily Ctrl-Fd.
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Founder Labs: A pre-incubator with a superstar cast(trendpreneur.com)
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by jlees 16y ago
What's "YC Week"? Different YC companies every day?
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by jlees 16y ago
Learning to do things the App Engine way frustrated me at first, too, until I realised in a very roundabout way it was - as you say - teaching me how to engineer for scale.
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by jlees 16y ago
Agreed. The collective intelligence book has had good reviews from me and others on HN in the past. It's a good intro text with implementable examples.
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by jlees 16y ago
Agreed, I saw Haskell in the TOC and stopped reading. Still, an interesting project - and about as appropriate for "working" programmers as Larry Paulson's book, so no issues with the title. It'd be easy enough to rewrite most of the exampl

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