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by jmathes 15y ago
TDD does work, and I use it in practice. I know a whole company full of people who all use it in practice, and it works. I have a guess about why HN likes to upvote opinion pieces that hate on TDD. TDD initially feels like it takes discipli
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by jmathes 15y ago
Wordpress > Error I do not have permission to preview drafts. (you need to remove the "?preview=true&preview_id=2087&preview_nonce=28b979c61b" from the link)
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by jmathes 15y ago
I went off cable a year ago. The only thing I miss is ads for upcoming movies. Weird, right? Everything else I want I can get online, but I had come to depend on ads to tell me when a good movie was coming.
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by jmathes 15y ago
Browserstack is great, but it's still catching up to Sauce Scout (disclaimer: I work at Sauce Labs). It needs better support for testing firewalled or localhost sites, and it needs security (it re-uses VMs) Awesome work, guys! I know first
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by jmathes 15y ago
The cover says "How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Companies". That means: - There exist at least two entrepreneurs today - At least two of them use continuous innovation - At least two of tho
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by jmathes 15y ago
The style of writing you use is different from mine. I make declarative statements about facts when talking about my point of view, and suggestions and conditional statements about yours. You use suggestions and conditional statements about
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by jmathes 15y ago
"I find no attraction to reductionism of any kind. It's always seemed to me a truncated worldview, artificial and strained, ignoring the real content of our deepest intuitions of meaning, beauty, love and justice." Every piece of technology
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by jmathes 15y ago
Most. Startups. Fail. If your startup operates on the assumption that your vision is flawless, you're not causing your vision to be less uncertain by refusing to notice the risk. You're shooting the messenger. You've conflated trying to mea
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by jmathes 15y ago
farkas! If you read this: you can solve all the real problems I have with JIRA by making all but the most commonly-used pieces of its UI be harder to find. You can find out which pieces to hide with user testing.
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by jmathes 15y ago
I strongly dislike Jira. Everything about it is unwieldy. It's like a car with a top speed of 30mph, with a lever for each and every moving part of the car. Too many pieces of it are customizable, and all of the things which can be customiz
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by jmathes 15y ago
Misleading title. Power demand from US homes is rising. The rate at which it's rising is falling, and projected to continue falling.
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by jmathes 15y ago
Thanks to HN's URL shortener, with a little help from copy-paste, my mac is now singing the page source of github's 404 page
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by jmathes 15y ago
I met him and his team at SHDH48 on Microsoft campus in mountain view last year. It's not trolling. In fact, they invited a bunch of core 4chan users to be early canvas users. He's just moving on to another project, this time with a team of
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by jmathes 15y ago
You can get more free VM time from EC2
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by jmathes 15y ago
The system was never very unstable. The error rates are all low. The point is that it's now much more stable. The reason I didn't sort error rates by month was to preserve statistical significance. If we try to only look at error rates from
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by jmathes 15y ago
Firefox never beat chrome, and I like both of them the same amount. When I first did the data dive, I thought Safari was worse than IE, which I thought made a much better blog post. That would have been way more surprising. It was after du
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by jmathes 15y ago
Earlier versions of Safari on Windows seem to work fine
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The Surprising Worst Browser(saucelabs.com)
72 points by jmathes 15y ago|30 comments
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Super easy A/B testing(saucelabs.com)
3 points by jmathes 15y ago|0 comments
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by jmathes 15y ago
Seems almost tautological. Everything we observe changes our brains
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by jmathes 15y ago
> I have no clue what Eric looks like Here you go: http://www.google.com/search?q=eric+ries&tbm=isch
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by jmathes 15y ago
Ah, well, I had you confused with another Daved W then. As to whether the book is a good buy for insiders, I say it is. My introduction to startups was when Eric hired me at IMVU, so I was 'brought up' the Lean way before it was cool (ha!)
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by jmathes 15y ago
Hey, David, didn't you work with Eric at there.com? Were any of the lean practices in their infancy yet?
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We've been watching you (and we have graphs)(saucelabs.com)
10 points by jmathes 15y ago|0 comments
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by jmathes 15y ago
Ockham's Razor has two interpretations. One says that if you have several theories that might explain what you're observing, the simpler one is probably right. It doesn't matter whether this is true; it saves time by letting you fail faster
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by jmathes 16y ago
You're also ignoring WinNT, which became Win2k, which became WinXP. The real story is more complicated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
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by jmathes 16y ago
A startup is made of two kinds of people: hackers and businessmen. Often it's got people who are both. This post is about going around meeting the businessmen. It misses out on the hackers. They're not hard to find! At least visit Hacke
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by jmathes 16y ago
You sound like a crackpot. You don't sound like you understand physics. You also sound cranky. If you want to have a discussion, you should stop using grandiose language.
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by jmathes 16y ago
You said: it certainly violates Occam's Razor. Your "initial state" has no explanation. You in fact vehemently object to any attempts at an explanation, deriding them as "undefined." This is faith in its purest form. Occam's Razor says to
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by jmathes 16y ago
"Shu's idea is that time and space are not independent entities but can be converted back and forth between each other." This is not a new idea. This was in my high school physics textbook in 1998, and it was an old textbook.

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