jraines

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   by jraines 18y ago

   In chronological order in my own life: * Satellite TV * The WWW * PASCAL -- just because it was the first programming lang I learned * Doom * ICQ / Instant messaging * Napster * Cell phones * Broadband * Scheme * GPS Navigation / Google ma
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   by jraines 18y ago

   By Chuck Norris?
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   by jraines 18y ago

   It seems like it would be nice as a norm, but not as a codified system with licenses and such.
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   by jraines 18y ago

   Actually, according to Aweber, it does (at least for email subscriptions, displaying a chiclet with subscriber numbers increases opt-in). It's a form of social proof.
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   by jraines 18y ago

   maybe the 100% rate is true, but not 100% career-ending injuries. Most people quit playing a given sport seriously because they have to choose between that and making money. I swam for 4 years in college and I only know 1 person who had a c
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   by jraines 18y ago

   But it's just as true for all the "mainstream" topics he points to as easy traffic magnets. There are a zillion people trying to make money writing about celebrity gossip, too.
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   by jraines 18y ago

   I'm on Dreamhost shared hosting - they have RoR.
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   by jraines 18y ago

   Next time you're in the bookstore, check out the chapter on conferences in Keith Ferrazzi's Never Eat Alone . It will provide a good counter-perspective. At my own company, we had our founder and a director present at a recent conference,
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   by jraines 18y ago

   You believe you can write it faster or better or more efficiently than any available library Unless you're right.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    How many employees does Berkshire Hathaway have again? Something like 12 at HQ, I think. That would be a lot of tax revenue to disappear.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    He's saying simplicity FOR THE USER is tough to build. I'm sure even more so when they are backed by complex logic that make them magic for the user. Maybe you should work on your own reading comprehension skills before you go insulting ot
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Pretty hard, right? Isn't that his point?
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Thanks. Now I know.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Off-topic but honest question: Why does everyone say "maths" instead of "math" these days? Is it a European thing, an academic thing, or just a meme among hackers? I never once heard it or saw it written like that before Hacker News / pro
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Enron was more about maximizing the share price, not profit. Exagerrating profit was a part of this, but not as much as bamboozling people about the company's future prospects (e.g. Enron Broadband). This is still a problem in our economy.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    I wholeheartedly disagree. I know literary criticism is about as popular as Windows ME here, but reading good examples of it can be as enjoyable as the text itself(1). Of course there's always the question of how much authority the critic
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    by jraines 18y ago

    thank god -- now if they'll only fix their retarded way of friending/following people in Google Reader, i can start eating again.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Details on each? Western Canada is housing construction and oil, right? Calgary?
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    by jraines 18y ago

    This is the best "cheat sheet" for creating consumer web apps since that Joshua Schacter text file from a while back. Nice work.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    I thought it was a pretty civil exchange. All of nickb's points are fair and valid. Just wanted to put in my 2 cents. I guess 'linkbait' is kind of an inflammatory term, especially on a site with karma points, but it ought not to be.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    I don't go to the Register for news, so their linkbait headlines aren't a problem for me until someone submits them here, even if it's unchanged. So I will complain here. Changing a "curiosity" headline to make it clear what the article is
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Exactly -- Nick, you've already won the karma game, no need to linkbait.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Ah, geometry -- the only math I ever had some pride in my ability in.
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    by jraines 18y ago

    "About the charts: All charts in this post are illustrative, not data-driven."
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Good question. I was more talking about just the coding part. I agree if it's the whole 9 yards, it ought to be just one project at a time.
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    Ask YC: What's the greatest number of projects you can work on at once, successfully?

    9 points by jraines 18y ago|20 comments
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Get off my lawn!
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    by jraines 18y ago

    I wrote a script a while back to scrape people's public profiles based on Google searches like this. Two things I would add to the article: 1) You get a lot of false positives, even with very well constructed Google queries. Especially,
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Better: "I started WindyCitizen.com to give people . . ." "When I/we started WindyCitizen.com . . . but now . . ."
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    by jraines 18y ago

    Fair enough. However, it seems obvious that if you're capable of big hits, that's what you should be going for. But if, for example, your only competitive advantage is the acuteness of your awareness that big-footed women have trouble fi