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by joelmichael 16y ago
A couple of years ago, I also embarked on a mad project to create a web framework in C. I wrote a scandalous and regrettable blog post about it which got on Hacker News and I have since taken down. You can find what remains of the unfinishe
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by joelmichael 16y ago
How much additional development will Unity get because Ubuntu has put its massive weight behind it?
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Why would I want to be interrupted? That sounds annoying. I check Twitter and Facebook when I want to see updates. They aren't being "pushed" to me.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Starts out by talking about what a partier he is, then how he met a girl at a party, then how South by Southwest is like spring break, then how Foursquare is the new Twitter, and then I stopped reading.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Even amongst those available on the job market, the "top 1%" is highly subjective based on an employer's interpretation of employee virtues.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
If you were moving in a "completely horizontal" direction, wouldn't you not be moving through time at all, but only through space? That means you could move infinitely fast, not with a strict limit.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
I would probably pay a bit more than 1.5% to stay in San Francisco. That amount isn't worth it to give up on your metropolitan lifestyle and appeal to employees.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Until September. And who would you have him give power to? There is no democratically selected replacement. Which is why he is waiting for an election, in which he will not be a contender, to give power. People will have time to vet and deb
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by joelmichael 16y ago
OK, I am back at my computer. My source is the following website, specifically the second link listed: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/dnllist.asp If you open that up, scroll down to the United States, go to the Manufacturing row, and s
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by joelmichael 16y ago
I am skeptical of this article because I just looked up this data a month or so ago -- opened the UN's Excel document and everything -- and found that China had recently surpassed the US in manufacturing output. Unfortunately I am limited t
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by joelmichael 16y ago
I am guilty of the "Fuck you" one. The offered terms insulted me so much I no longer wanted to do business with the person. Had I taken this article's advice, I would have stayed calm and moved toward some highly unsatisfying "middle ground
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Nice work, your good site design is a big part of why it works. Maybe you can turn this into a brand that makes more ironic t-shirts about overblown current events?
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Even this seems like oversimplifying it, because it removes all of the hedging he did prior to dropping the bomb. Removed from the context, it comes off as bitter.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
HTML5 as a buzzword means "not Flash".
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by joelmichael 16y ago
The author suggests that Ayn Rand would have had no response to the question of "who cleans up the snow storm?", as if the idea of events affecting the collective simply never occurred to her. What the author claims to be a gap in her philo
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by joelmichael 16y ago
He excluded first and second generation immigrants from the European set in his comparison.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
You got downvoted because people disagreed with you, not because you didn't elegantly state a perfectly valid perspective.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
I find the assert_equal and so on much more readable than the "English" style. What does "should" mean? It's not as intuitive as assert.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Twitter is more "public" than Facebook, and so serves a different purpose. Teenagers become adults.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
This looks like a PHP version of the Ruby "ensure". http://web.njit.edu/all_topics/Prog_Lang_Docs/html/ruby/synt...
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by joelmichael 16y ago
There is no single book which adequately describes my thinking. Rather, I would encourage him to read more in general, whatever he was curious about. Only through understanding a wide variety of classics and perspectives does one become edu
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by joelmichael 16y ago
By all means, have a nervous breakdown. Argue your case with passion even though you know it is futile, just so you can say you tried. Engage in the necessary structural destruction of your life required to transcend into the next chapter;
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by joelmichael 16y ago
I completely and profoundly disagree. Why do you think many great philosophers, intellectuals, and achievers have struggled with depression? Because they made bad decisions? There are plenty of idiots dispensing awful advice while wearing a
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by joelmichael 16y ago
I'm glad to see a philosophically educated article on entrepreneurialism. The opening quote is great as well.
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I love when new updates are available, it makes me feel productive! But really, rolling release in production use is a little scary. It greatly increases the odds of something potentially going wrong in a routine update. I wouldn't mind mor
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by joelmichael 16y ago
Testing doesn't get security updates in a timely manner and is discouraged for production use.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
I have spent way too much time in ironic internet communities and "lol" is still popular. Tone is mainly an issue of character development. The cool people will understand when you are being ironic based on knowing who you are. This is only
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by joelmichael 16y ago
The argument that "HN is not Reddit" is one that should be taken seriously. Yes, there are some political links on HN unrelated to the tech industry or entrepreneurialism that have been interesting and fostered good discussion. The question
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I agree with Warren. The government handled the crisis very well, with the possible exception of allowing Lehman Brothers to fail. It's pretty remarkable, really, and it's unfortunate populist cynicism opposed the saving of the economy.
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by joelmichael 16y ago
You are right on in this comparison. The limitation may be brutal, but it is simple and effective. Path is an "inner circle", and people should think of 50 as a high number they are unlikely to ever reach.

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