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by jvrossb 14y ago
Rules don't exist to for their own sake, they are an imperfect way of formalizing what would otherwise have to left to common sense. But sometimes, common sense obviously trumps the rules. Incidentally, I suspect most bureaucracies emerge f
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by jvrossb 14y ago
Exactly what I came back to this page to post after playing around with it a little.
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Is there something special about Roman times that left us with enough data to build these models or are other eras next?
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If you score a job in the Bay Area (or anywhere else with a decent tech scene), they should be able to pay you enough to relocate. I would not limit your job search to what's locally available. Also try bidding on jobs on Freelance sites to
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by jvrossb 14y ago
Congrats! Mind sharing what kind of apps you made?
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I'm ashamed to admit in my youth I created a fake Wikipedia page in a couple hours (between 3 and 5AM) that lasted for months before a friend of mine accidentally exposed it as fake by being silly in the talk section. It was flagged as dub
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by jvrossb 14y ago
Don't think so. Your hypothetical app saves all of my photos, but I suspect people spend far more time browsing other peoples' photos. Those I don't get by being the first to migrate to a Facebook competitor. That's where the powerful lock-
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I'd be willing to bet that the average Facebook engineer isn't going to be stellar at putting those millions of dollars towards extra personal happiness. They will buy material possessions, not necessarily life experiences. If you take a co
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The CTO is non-technical? How does that work?
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New Scientist's weekly issues are a real pleasure to read. Worth checking them out IMO, awesome that they put their old issues up for free.
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According to howmanyofme.com there are 9 Bobby Nulls in the U.S.
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As a long-time fan of bandes dessinés (Franco-Belgian graphic novel format) this is extremely exciting. This might be the future of the digital form of the medium. I'm pumped.
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by jvrossb 15y ago
I hear there's this other guy who tried to start a social network... Zuckersomething... was pretty young too. I think things worked out pretty alright for him. They'll be fine :) If anything, they are best positioned to appreciated exactly
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by jvrossb 15y ago
Avid gamer and have been for years. One counter-example doesn't invalidate an entire concept, and I'd say that while Starcraft would be unplayable with a smartphone, I think interesting and useful control schemes might be doable on a tablet
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by jvrossb 15y ago
It comes down to this: if you think that economics is a zero-sum game, then yes, it is unjust. First world consumption comes at the expense of the poor elsewhere, the rich are leeches sucking money from the rest of the economy, and 35 hour
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by jvrossb 15y ago
If you copied the articles, yes. If you copied the design using none of their assets or code, no. Copying it definitely is, stealing it definitely isn't (at least not in the legal sense, the moral sense is debatable.) You should have confid
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by jvrossb 15y ago
Not really disagreeing with your preferences, just with the blanket statement that smartphones make/will make terrible game controllers.
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People said that about keyboards, and many can type fine on a smartphone after a little practice. For a certain type of game, smartphones might be superior from the get-go (racing games, real time strategy games) compared to a standard XBox
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This has been my experience as well. Grew up speaking English and French, am 100% bilingual, could not tell you which I think in. I think thoughts occur at a level of abstraction one step above language. When I started learning Chinese I al
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by jvrossb 15y ago
I don't think American culture is as uniform as you're implying it is. I'm from the bay area in california and Santorum's positions seem very foreign to me, but everyone in my circles around here at least thinks they "get" Santorum - it is
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IIRC most SV VCs also have offices in India, China, and/or Israel.
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by jvrossb 15y ago
Daniel - I have something you might be interested in. Shoot me an e-mail, jvrossb at gmail.
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You should check your e-mail... I e-mailed you a few hours ago with no reply. Would love to help out if you'll take me up on it :)
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Go for it.
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Awesome idea for E.U. citizens (I'm a French national, I'd be down) but there's the obvious visa issue for everyone else.
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by jvrossb 15y ago
Have done this before, am still doing it now :) E-mail is on my profile, shoot me an e-mail and I can tell you how we did it - only 1 data point, but hopefully will be helpful.
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Viable? Who knows. Hilarious? Yes! Now let us click through to peoples' profiles to view all their posts and it'll be awesome!
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I think it's hilarious and I'm proud to link it to FB :)
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Don't laugh. He's right. With the right setting (no fancy costumes, no fancy sets, no tough-to-reach locations), the right setup (digital HD camera and ~$2000 computer to edit and render SFX if any), and unknown actors you can make a film t