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by jon_dahl 18y ago
You're entirely right, of course. But I don't think Camping designed to be used for normal applications. Camping is Camping partly because its unusual and hacky. It's a little more like an experiment than a business solution.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
I'm pretty sure the article was just trying to compare HAML to a small part of Seaside. ("Seaside packs a lot of ideas into one framework. One innovation [ed. not The primary innovation]: you don't write HTML.") I think the real point w
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
I have a pair, and they _do_ work. Just not 100%. More like 70-80%, and certain kinds of noise are filtered out better than others. So they might not be a panacea for the OP's noise problem, but they help more than regular headphones.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Interestingly, 2-4 people per office on a small team == an open office plan. Everyone says that Peopleware advocates private offices (e.g. 1 per person), but their main problem seems to be with cube farms.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Me too. But if anything is worth having a login, it's nytimes.com. Login once and you won't be prompted to login again.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
I've spent way too much time thinking about this question over the years for my small teams. My conclusion is that neither is perfect, but the best options are: -- Open work space for 3-6 people, IF everyone is working on the same project,
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
We use Fogbugz too and like it (though Pivotal Tracker is calling our names...). In my anecdotal experience, many of the people who think it's ugly and unusable got this impression from earlier versions. It's improved a bit over the last fe
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
I'm involved with a business that does quite a lot of work in Russia and neighboring countries (or did until credit markets collapsed there this fall). What I've learned is that Russia fundamentally misunderstands the US, and the US fundame
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Overall a great article, but I had a few issues too: 1. I worry about giving away some things for free. If you give away research time for free, or you chase a dead end and decide not to bill it, do you set a precedent that those things wil
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Innovation won't stop. It will just have a different name and perhaps some different principals. That's exactly my hope.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Wow, big news. I'm mixed on this. One of the strengths of Rails was that it was the dominant Ruby web programming framework. This meant that virtually the entire community was behind Rails when it came to web app development - unlike some
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Check out Ook! as well: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html Hello world: Ook. Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook! Ook? Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. O
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
That's a strange response. I'm saying that what he said was inappropriate, not that he shouldn't have the right to say it.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Personally, I get a lot less done per hour in the 35-50 hour/week range than I do in the 1-35 hour range. But I've also found that this is mostly true when I'm working on the same project for 50 hours/week. Give me 35 hours of primary work,
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
There is a local boutique firm that does that where I live (New Counsel - http://newcounsel.com ), and I think it's worked well for them. As an entrepreneur, I really appreciate working with good lawyers who understand small startups.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Terrible. The only thing worse than alienating a female developer by saying she's hot is coming along and criticizing her appearance.
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Ask YC: Anyone used Hubspot?
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
I'd also add that, in my experience, web app development Python and Ruby can (a) get interesting, and (b) provide a good segue into other development. Most Rails and Django developers that I know make well over $30/hour (3-4 times that, typ
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
NP - it caused me to fix a bug.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Fixed. Our blogging software doesn't like that we use SSL. :)
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Omnigraffle!
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Definitely interesting. So far, I've used Lisp more as a teaching tool (e.g. SICP, Little Schemer) than a production language. Not that it isn't production worthy, but I hear such mixed things about every dialect that I've yet to commit to
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Another bit of advice: if you don't need your money for 20 years, you shouldn't lose sleep over short-term drops in the market. And if you are investing for the long run, you can afford to lose 50% of your portfolio today.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Agreed. With some exceptions, startups are more like marathons than sprints. Investors often look for an exit in ~5 years, while too many founders think that they'll be out, as a success or failure, in 18 months.
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
I just wrote 5 lines of text right now in like 2 minutes. Doesn't seem like much of a comparison. Sure, I could write hundreds of lines of code in a few hours (or thousands of lines of text) if my goal was to produce volume. But if my goa
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Not meaningless. But potentially unhelpful or even misleading.
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Good point. Title changed. s/Conf/Ruby conf
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
An easy solution is to have uneven ownership. If you're quitting your day job to work full-time on something, and I'm drawing a salary and working 20 hours/week on a side project, I'll expect you to be a minority partner. Vest everyone's sh
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
You're not dreaming. I remember that it was an article about how to allocate your portfolio according to the risk inherent in the various investment options. It appeared here on hacker news, and yes, it put the lie to a lot of Taleb's clai
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by jon_dahl 18y ago
Taleb isn't saying that this event can't be explained ("simple debt implosion"), or that no one predicted it. He's saying that the markets as a whole didn't take into account what ended up happening. This crisis is built upon the fact that

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