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by johnyzee 18y ago
Actually Paul Graham discussed this point in an interesting way: If geeks are so smart, why don't they just work the social system the way they would hack a computer program? I agree with his conclusion: Geeks care (desperately even) about
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Not looking at the keyboard as you type is important for secretaries who have to copy text off a hard copy. For a programmer I'd say it makes little difference. But hey, don't let that get in the way of smug superiority.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I did two and a half months of that two years ago. Rented a private office and had all day every day to work on my idea. Today I don't even know how those months just disappeared, except that I got nothing substantial done at all. I do reme
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Thanks for the spoiler, guess I won't have to watch UFC 88 after all.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
That's because a GWT app is not a web page. It's an application. In order to create a GUI for it you will need to be able to work with components and events, the same way you construct a desktop application, which was always the domain of p
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by johnyzee 18y ago
That seems to be what they are saying. However, Google does not have a good track record of delivering product for non-technical end users. GMail, their one succesful homegrown, mass-market, non-search product that I can think of, is a mess
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by johnyzee 18y ago
That is a badass presentation. I wouldn't have read 10% of that information had it been delivered as paragraphs of text.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Push-ups give me a headache. I don't know if its the blood rushing to the head or the neck tension, but they are uncomfortable for me for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual excercise. Same thing for pull-ups, sit-ups or whatcha
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I'm no fitness buff but doing push-ups doesn't strike me as the thing for losing weight. Push-ups are also horribly unergonomic - just see how guys in the video are arching their backs. Better to go to the gym and use a machine that isolate
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Yet on the show, Jerry had a Mac.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I see your Carlin and raise you Jerry Seinfeld. In ten years of making probably the funniest TV ever I think he said 'hell' a couple of times and that's about it.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Why should we invoke imagery of feces or corpulation to make a point? The relief people feel today by swearing is because it defies political correctness and hypocritical holiness which are issues most people share right now in our culture.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I think the jury is still out on whether a corrupt elite cannot hijack a democratic system. You got rid of "Bush" in '93 yet here he is again. More to the point, the powers behind the Bushes and probably any other candidate you get to choos
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by johnyzee 18y ago
There is original art everywhere. I liked the boat made from junk. Sounds vaguely symbolic.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I quickly tire of this kind of bargaining, particularly because most sellers' 'friendliness' invariably turns to anything between indifference and hostility as soon as they understand that you are wise to their game and they will not make t
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by johnyzee 18y ago
It has long been known that cats carry a sort of mind-altering parasite (toxoplasmosis). The parasite has been shown to affect behavioral changes in rats, causing them to recklessly seek out areas marked with cat urine (which causes panic i
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I think Joel already wrote the book on this ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html ). For good developers, the only motivation you need is already intrinsic to them, that is the desire to do awesome work and be recognized for
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Apparently management-targeted material has to read like it is written for grade schoolers: "Here's Sandy and Sue. They are great friends! Don't forget the StickyNotes at the end of the lesson!"
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I spent a year after college goofing off, and not in the good way either. When I finally woke up (literally, pretty much) and realized a whole year had passed by I had lost a lot of momentum. Otherwise I would definitely have completed my m
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Right. Too bad the author took every piece of advice from the Guerilla Guide except that one.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Someone wrote an interesting article once about hiring strategy (Joel?). Basically he didn't want to know anything about the interviewee except what job he was considered for, to the extent that if anyone told him any details (like "Harvard
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I can't wait for angry ranting to go out of fashion.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to build into the system some of the same logic that obviously makes it clear to everyone that there is a problem with these votes. A computer might not be able to appreciate the goodness of The Godfa
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Good thing GM bought Saab so they can at least copy some original designs. Compare with: http://www.automoblog.net/2007/05/02/saab-aero-x-concept-pho...
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by johnyzee 18y ago
As another Dane I can say that a lot of the things that Paul laments in his essays do not exist in our schools. Honestly we grimace at the notion of a 'prom queen' or a 'homecoming' celebration of a sports team. I think in part we feel it a
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by johnyzee 18y ago
In all fairness, the US government has had some success in propping up Wall Street.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Hopefully these initiatives will be the 'death by a 1000 cuts' of the RIAA.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I too am doing this now, though it is still too early to evaluate. I deeply agree with 2 - prefer people who ask a lot of questions. In my case for some reason this is always Russians, while the bids I've gotten from Indian companies withou
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Thin skin much? It was a (possibly lame) attempt at self-deprecating humor. I was trying to say that not everyone is cut out for coding, and if you haven't had an interest in it (or that type of thing) before, you probably won't be very goo
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I don't know. At 17 I had been programming for 5-6 years, which is pretty normal for most decent coders I know. In my experience, if someone does not have the mindset for coding (anal retentive, OCD, borderline autistic, you know the type ;

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