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Overcoming the Fear of Failure(goal-setting-guide.com)
1 points by johnm 18y ago|1 comments
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Guide to Web Hosting Part 2 -- Uptime(thiswebhost.com)
2 points by johnm 18y ago|0 comments
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Interview with Donald Knuth(informit.com)
77 points by johnm 18y ago|24 comments
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Remote Lisp Hacking(lispy-shrek.blogspot.com)
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Finding your lost youth through XQuery(weiqigao.com)
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Vengeance is Ours -- Jared Diamond(newyorker.com)
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by johnm 18y ago
If you're actually building Mac-specific applications then XCode should be in the loop since it can help a lot with the Mac-specific shme. If you're developing web applications or anything portable then use whatever you like. You can find
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by johnm 18y ago
Since it's annoying to dig around to find it... :-) "Continuous Posted-Price Auction for Internet Domain Names Feb 27, 2008 at 4:22 am from Mountain View, CA Problem: Internet domain names have a squatting problem. Buying and keeping a doma
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A bazillion versions of 99 Bottles of Beer(99-bottles-of-beer.net)
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by johnm 18y ago
Part of it's expectation setting by the core group of users. Part of it is the same as in "Average Down" hiring. I.e., as a community grows out of the early adopters, the cluefulness/etc. of the average user will drop. A given community can
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The Psychology of Human Misjudgement(vinvesting.com)
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Time management tips(getmoredone.com)
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by johnm 18y ago
Here's some nice performance news for it: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2008-April/007...
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Darcs 2 Released(thread.gmane.org)
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by johnm 18y ago
(A) Make it really obvious how to contact you via email. (B) Answer the emails... Quickly, positively, and gratefully. (C) Create a FAQ and make that easy to find. (D) Update the FAQ as you answer emails. (E) Update your site based on the f
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by johnm 18y ago
I totally agree. The thing that I'd add is that the OP should first get feedback on the app from everybody they know to get them through that first round or two of cruft and get some user-directed focus.
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by johnm 18y ago
There are two kinds of companies: The first defines themselves in terms of their (perceived) competition. A great example of this has been Sun. McNealy spouted out incessantly against Microsoft even though Sun's actual primary competitors w
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Can codebases gracefully age?(48klocs.blogspot.com)
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by johnm 18y ago
Gee, thanks. :-) Have you thought about their responsibility for the tremendous amount of time and energy that people lose because they've had to use MS software? For example, how many billions of dollars of time are lost/wasted because
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by johnm 18y ago
Who's up for an HN dinner afterwards?
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Startup Camp SF 2008 (May 4-5, 2008)(startupcamp.org)
2 points by johnm 18y ago|1 comments
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Lockout: The Self-imposed Computer-aided Work Enforcer(thomer.com)
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Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi (Free Book)(cs.brown.edu)
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by johnm 18y ago
Totally not worth the time (unless you're going to switch careers or something like that). As so many people noted yesterday, you can get all of the useful information from books and blogs and self-help groups. Also, anything that it's no
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by johnm 18y ago
Indeed! Startup School keeps getting better every year. Jessica, PG, and crew -- thanks!
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by johnm 18y ago
Indeed! I was "interviewing" with the head developer at a media startup who thought he knew his stuff and after handing him his hat on a number of things, he tried one last "zinger" question on O(). Turns out that neither he nor the head o
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by johnm 18y ago
For an example of an organization that fits both the "excellent, first-rate" and "inspiring approval, reverence, or affection" definitions and has integrity... craigslist They live their marketing. Ala what PG was talking about in his talk
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by johnm 18y ago
Ah, I should have been more explicit. Whether their marketing works on us "elitists" or not is irrelevant -- it works for the vast majority of people who actually pony up money for their products and services. That's admirable in the "exce
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by johnm 18y ago
At the risk of my HN karma... Microsoft. Think about it... For decades they have been able to create and leverage their monopolistic position in such a way as to get people to continue paying large margins for almost uniformly mediocre offe
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by johnm 18y ago
Indeed, a lot of the services touted as RESTful are less RESTful and more RPCish. REST has certainly become a fad term that's used to hype that anti-SOAP juggernaut and that's led to a lot of confusion since so many of the folks doing the y

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