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by johnyzee 17y ago
If he's driving at the same rate as the cars in the inner lane, he shouldn't be in the passing lane.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Give, or sell, shares? I am just wondering if you consider YC involvement so valuable that you would actually hand over shares just to have them on board in a venture.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
I always record calls that include word-of-mouth contracts, from negotiating auto repairs to canceling paid subscriptions. I have never had to use one of these recordings, not even in case of disputes, but I have always felt comfortable tha
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Everything about it is cool, but you still look like a huge dork running on it. (Except, possibly, if you are doing back flips or jumping a car).
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by johnyzee 17y ago
It implements the unmarshalling of incoming AJAX requests on the backend. The application developer takes over from there. There is GWT code running on both the server and the client. That was what I meant in my comment.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
It is both, as it is both a front-end development platform including a full set of widgets and an AJAX implementation that handles all the plumbing of exposing and invoking AJAX services. It doesn't tell you how to implement the back-end ap
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Strange that he would have a heart attack at the age of 50, particularly considering that he cared obsessively about his health and was usually at peak physical performance for his shows. There must be more to this story.
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by johnyzee 17y ago
The Zen alarm clock was popular a while back. It basically wakes you up with a series of gradually more frequent chimes. It's good-looking too: http://www.now-zen.com/cgi-bin/orders/shop.pl?ACTION=ENTER+S... !
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by johnyzee 17y ago
The piece on AutoblogGreen was a somewhat different (and more neutral) account. In case you missed it: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/06/23/autobloggreen-qanda-... I have an impression of Elon Musk as a self-aggrandizing money guy, but
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by johnyzee 17y ago
For a look at what we have done with GWT, check out TeamPostgreSQL ( http://www.teampostgresql.com ). It is a fairly complex web application both in terms of UI and functionality, developed and maintained by essentially one guy, which IMHO
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Just yours (though that could change in the future),
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Idiots rule our countries. Why would online be any different? (Not being snide - wherever you look, politicians seem to unfailingly be raping and making a mockery of the democratic system. I may be slightly more cynical than usual as we dis
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Rightly or wrongly, the impression people get from a a 40+ programmer is that it is odd for him to still be doing this job and subconsciously he comes across as unsuccessful because he hasn't 'moved up the ladder'. I think this is the major
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by johnyzee 17y ago
THE panic in the Manhattan real estate market of the winter of 2009 lifted in the last few weeks, brokers say ... Color me confused - is this a hypothetical piece about the market six months from now?
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Pretty much my experiences too. I had a couple of years burning my candle at both ends and I felt like what you described. Now, if I stay up late I invariably get bad eye inflammation - you can set a clock to it. It has been diagnosed by se
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by johnyzee 17y ago
Game industry job interview: http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20050406l.jpg
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by johnyzee 17y ago
If you look hard enough you can still get the plain, generic pieces. They're just more difficult to find between all the flashy sets and branded stuff. I too prefer the open-ended play that results from the generic pieces so those are the o
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by johnyzee 18y ago
You can also just type 'n' (if, like for me, HN is one of your most frequently visited sites).
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by johnyzee 18y ago
This advice is great for tempering the more unsophisticated "release early, release often". Joel makes similar points eloquently in "Good Software Takes Ten Years": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html
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by johnyzee 18y ago
You are talking about the structural homeless crowd which will exist regardless of the circumstance. They exist here in Denmark, where they could have a nicer home than I currently have if they could be bothered to go ask for it at the soci
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by johnyzee 18y ago
That's what I thought reading that post. Adsense, as an example, is a real and viable business. I could quit my job on my one Adsense site if I had just 3000 visitors per day (assuming CPC held up). The model makes money for me, Google, and
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I smoked extensively for years between the ages of 16-22. To begin with it increased my creativity a lot (thinking outside the box), I came up with a lot of (objectively verified) really genius pencil art. Then, with habitual use, creativit
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by johnyzee 18y ago
The repackaging and reselling of worthless loans, creating money out of thin air, seems pretty immoral to me, and was arguably one of the triggers of the crisis.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Another step towards toy monoculture.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I think, rather than a quota, the right to vote should be earned, for example by a history of quality submissions (determined by either of the algorithms described by PG). This is already partly so with the (more simplistic) karma threshold
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I was referring to the "try again in 30 seconds". When your service is failing, maybe it's not the best time to invite users to pummel it with requests. I think a generic "try again later" would work better.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
"The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. " Not the best error message for a failing service IMHO.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Losing a ton of money right now looking for the next contract (1 month+ now). I can get an employee job in days, but at half the income of independent. Nevertheless, that's what I am interviewing for these days as nothing is appearing down
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by johnyzee 18y ago
> If you've got something to sell or are already selling something, [the nextNY presentation] is a must-attend! A corollary to the article's point is that sales and marketing precludes building product, so that sounds a bit like putting
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Completely agree. Other replies in this thread reveals how non-intuitive this insight is (why not just learn to sell?). The thing is that selling and engineering are two different mindsets - one requires you to be a borderline delusional op

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