justindz

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by justindz 18y ago
HN is about startups/entrepreneurship. I could see a few angles. If the auto giants are chopped up and doled out, the individual product lines could be of interest. The auto giants have massive supply chains--these may touch the HN commu
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by justindz 18y ago
I've heard this criticism frequently of late. Very few Facebook widgets are going to improve the human condition (Scrabulous aside, of course). I wonder if the problem is related to such businesses requiring more emphasis on physical prod
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by justindz 18y ago
This reminded me of the "subprime explained" comic as a novel way of getting the complexity across: http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?revision=_latest&fs=t...
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by justindz 18y ago
Although, the nature of this model seems to leave room for a bunch of different people to do it in different areas/markets. That's kind of neat. If it worked really well, I could see some kind of talent agency trying to organize the effor
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by justindz 18y ago
Focusing on income and controlling burn rate sounds like a generally sound approach in any economy. I wouldn't have bothered with the article, except I enjoyed the section about how 37Signals is doing so far in the slow down.
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by justindz 18y ago
Cheap tequila can also make women look like a million bucks.
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by justindz 18y ago
I used a lot of visualized search engine technologies being pitched by different research groups or startups in my last job. They were all pretty (well, okay, they were 50 footers) but they all had the same problem: horribly inefficient a
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by justindz 18y ago
Maybe we should take the "states as laboratories for democracy" concept to an extreme. Designate some state--I offer you my home state of West Virginia--and isolate it from the current system. Then try the craziest stuff we can think of a
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by justindz 18y ago
One idea I heard on C-SPAN this morning was to chop them up and take the bailout money to instead build something like 12 hardcore engineering outfits to build cars of the future, then get startup people to pitch for an opportunity to run t
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by justindz 18y ago
Your summary didn't match with what I read in the NYTimes article. The point seemed to be that people have advantages in certain endeavors that are not attributable to their skill or talent. Bill Gates is a offered as a case of someone wh
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by justindz 18y ago
When I started getting in to coding and started focusing on refactoring, it amused me how close that was to the process of writing poetry (at least the way I was taught). Write it all out. Then cut some, add less, cut some more, move some
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by justindz 18y ago
Right on. I think the article would have been a lot better if that link was explicitly stated. For those of use outside the industry. Thanks!
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by justindz 18y ago
I just had a funny daydream of me installing the Vista upgrade on to an XP laptop, getting it all set up and finally to the desktop, then panicking and hitting Ctrl+Z frantically and repeatedly.
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by justindz 18y ago
I do as well on my Vista work laptop. I sometimes have to do IE or FF specific things, and I use FF at home on Ubuntu, but for Windows I just use Chrome. I don't need a lot of plugins at work, the omni-tab page substitutes well for bookma
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by justindz 18y ago
I didn't think it was FUD, but the article did confuse me so maybe it was just poorly written (or I suck). Here's what I read: Title: Warming of blackouts if wind, sun added to grid [note: I think this was supposed to be "warning"] Opener:
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by justindz 18y ago
Where could I find a list of terrible tyrants that came to power in a representative democratic system? That ought to be interesting. Or are you saying that all systems with parties are abominable because of parties, regardless of the deta
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by justindz 18y ago
Every generation thinks the next generation is lazy, shiftless, immoral and will destroy the world. It's been happening for a while. The worrying, not the destroying.
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by justindz 18y ago
Yeah, I sort of feel like this is safest at a relatively simple scale where the efficiency gains also stand to be the smallest. Although I heart Ruby, personally, I'd be more interested to see someone nail the deep javascript stack with qu
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by justindz 18y ago
Considering that both candidates were on twitter and both made updates, but Obama just made way more, do you think that was entirely a function of money? I don't know anyone who thought they were getting actual candidate tweets, but people
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by justindz 18y ago
I remember my wife describing the morning of the 4th when she brought up Facebook and her feed was this giant mass of get-out-the-vote status updates from people who donated their status to Obama. I also remember getting far more tweets fr
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by justindz 18y ago
I have worked on a Ruby MUD. I think this is probably a good suggestion, along with bk's suggestion to get the hang of balancing and populating a game first. Thanks.
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by justindz 18y ago
My wife's a portable furnace and I'm cold-blooded. Incidentally, she also grabs the comforter at night, hooks it under her torso and rolls up in a burrito. I have purchased a second comforter.
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by justindz 18y ago
Amen on #2. Since brevity isn't just aesthetics, this has always been a problem for me. The last thing I built in C# was the last thing I built in C# because it became hard/annoying to maintain and debug, even with VS.
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by justindz 18y ago
Anyone have similar advice for an ultra-nerd like me who has always wanted to make RPGs and only RPGs (the games, not the weapon)? I have always assumed the skill set would be a little different.
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by justindz 18y ago
Update: my driver was supported, upgraded, all was quite smooth. Bonus: couchdb package in 8.10.
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by justindz 18y ago
My first thought is that encouraging people to make their own highly inexpensive plastic objects and to spread the ability to their neighbors could lead to a significant increase in disposable plastic usage. In general, plastic doesn't rea
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by justindz 18y ago
I appear to be on the list of people for whom the upgrade will remove 3d acceleration. I'm going to have to wait. Does anyone know if this is purely an issue with kernel and drivers that should get resolved soon or if this is a strategic
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by justindz 18y ago
I have a lifetime bid for a fraternity (I didn't join, probably won't) as a result of a legitimate receptionist test. I was hanging out waiting for a friend and some senior member started cursing at his laptop. He had apparently lost an e
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by justindz 18y ago
The author is suggesting that some getters and setters--particularly the ones that introduce a public method to replace a property against a private variable without introducing any actual value-added logic or protection--are counter-produc
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by justindz 18y ago
I've always thought that ASP.NET was an attempt to get MFC programmers building web applications while avoiding re-training them on how to build web applications.

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