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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Agreed. I think this is a circumstantial point. I suggest that if you have a much more intimate understanding of your customers - AND - enough self-awareness to be objective in determining what they need vs. what is nice-to-have ... then yo
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It's a really great list. I've worked closely with M&A for Fortune 50 in a previous job: Here are some dark, somewhat cynical rules: 14) Get the CEO of a big company to Angel in your company, hype you up, and use cash from his
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Just because someone studied biology at standford - or even computer science at Stanford - does not necessarily make one a good dev., that said, smart kids who get into such programs are likely higher in potential. Moreover, good devs usual
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"their boss (who by definition is further removed from the facts)" While I agree that poor leadership is common, I strongly beg to differ with the reasoning that leadership is removed from the facts. Friend - 'Engineering&#x2
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Palantir is just a secretive CGI: mediocre devs doing outsourced work. There is no product. Just a brand.
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I agree with your points - but in the article we're talking about Linux for the desktop - which is inherently about design. I think it's maybe better to think of the kernel as something like a 'chipset' in terms of it&#x
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Most the people just use commit and push." And there it is: 'Git' has some amazing things, but 90% of time time, you want to do simple things. Git makes doing the simple, common things hard - and makes doing sophisticat
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I use git daily, and I'm comfortable and familiar with it. Git commands are poorly designed. My friend, I suggest you are part of the problem: smart people who grasp arcane things as a badge of honour and lord it over others in a demea
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" and then kick them out once we've trained them. " University is not 'tranining'. A STEM degree doesn't really prepare you for much. At a startup, you have developers, product, product marketing, marketing, fi
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Linus has a serious problem understanding what products are, and what usability means. The commands for git are an example of that -> they don't make sense. They are very poorly designed and counterintuitive. Linus I think has this
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touché
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This is true. Pun intended!
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I wish an empty string was not false. In 'object' terms, an empty string is still a string! It's something. I guess if you think about it from a memory perspective, it's 'nothing'. But since JS is not actually
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Those non equations are perfectly reasonable. One array or object does not equal another, different one. There are definitely gains - I strongly suggest following the 'moral' of the story. At least the === paradigm is fairly consi
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Kitten -> meet laser pointer Nerd -> meet article
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Not to sound to Imperalist, but Palestine is not recognized by the powers that matter - namely North America, West Europe, Japan, Aussie etc. - i.e. the free and democratic world with power. I want Arabs in Palestine to have a state - but n
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Chrome in incogneto mode generally does not write to disk. It's in memory only cache as far as Im aware. And of course, apps in the browser definintely cannot access the disk.
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They obviously got the number from nowhere. Their marketing seems to be targeted towards informercial/low information people. Not the HN crowd who demand 'authenticity' ... 'authenticity' in quotes :)
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'journalists' ? It's a blog ...
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It's a tricky thing ... But 'Palestine' is not an internationally recognized place, it should be 'West Bank' and 'Gaza'. That said Google Maps does show 'Israel' as encompassing both those areas,
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Canada?
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"It astounds me how much people forget in such a short time." I have not 'forgotten' anything. I watched every moment of the Libya episode. I suggest that it is your posture which is 'forgetting'. A) Libya and
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"Education curriculum, fairness, equality, social justice, civic duty, personal accountability -- all of these things are similarly as present in Islam as they are anywhere else." My friend, no, they are not, and there is not a si
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"Like most of modern history: America's fault most recently, but Europe's fault originally." America and Europe are stabilizing and largely benevolent forces in the world, and they were even this when they were coloniali
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"Can you come up with an alternative explanation?" Open a history book.
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Preventing women from driving, from being in public without family members, from touching others, from having other see their face etc. etc. is 100% part of the 'intellectual deficit' imposed by Arabic flavours of Islam. Islam is
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Didn't finish that sentence: 'of course invading Iraq was a huge mistake' ...
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Ha ha ha ... ha ... The 'Arab World' was never together. Ever. All of the 'Anti-American Imperialism' kids here should remember that the bulk of the 'Arab World' is 'Arab By The Sword'. Arabic is spok
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"We spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a large metal can flying at an altitude of 400km essentially to do microgravity research;" This is not true. The space program has countless research opportunities, direct and indirect,
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"Think of it as an experiment to confirm or deny the standard model. So far it is confirming it." I understand that very well. But most of the Standard Model was well confirmed. Really what we got was confirmation of Higgs. The &#

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