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by jwecker 15y ago
Considering that I've worked with dozens and have known hundreds of serious computer professionals and have yet to meet a single one that supports software patents (including many who have them!), and I suspect that I may never meet such a
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by jwecker 15y ago
Keep in mind also that Orson has written several books for writers and does a ton of workshops etc. For sci-fi he's a pretty prolific (and good imo) writing teacher. In his response he was specifically targeting literary concepts that he te
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by jwecker 15y ago
s/G8 agenda/Nicolas Sarkozy/
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by jwecker 15y ago
Not disagreeing with your overall point, but being married to a Google executive is hardly loosely linked or a huge difference from an investment. A company employing your spouse may have far more direct influence on their standard-of-livin
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by jwecker 15y ago
WRT selling you on centralized VCS after you've switched to and enjoy DVCS: That was my immediate reaction, but I realized that there is a third thing. In a way, a git-like DVCS in most workflows still retains some of its 'centralized' stat
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by jwecker 15y ago
"The lack of a 'rebase' function is considered a feature of Fossil, not a bug." It's not as if rebase is commonly used. It's there for those rare instances when you, say, remove a file that it turns out you don't have the copyright for and
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by jwecker 15y ago
While the two variables may be orthogonal for an individual, in aggregate they tend to be the same thing. To illustrate starting with the most stark case- try to imagine a comment that 0% of HN readers agree with but that 100% feel is a val
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by jwecker 15y ago
They obviously have a deficient (missing) counter-notice mechanism. I'm not willing to perjure myself, but I would love to see what happens when several dozen politicians get have their pages mysteriously taken down. Actually, not really, n
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by jwecker 16y ago
Wow, excellent. That's a ton of processing squeezed down to something very fast and light. I'm excited to see what kind of signal processing can come out of this.
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Gestures for writing emails. Gmail Motion beta(google.com)
2 points by jwecker 16y ago|0 comments
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by jwecker 16y ago
Using a 4k minimum was just one of the possible implementation strategies. It looks like there are several ways to get it much, much lower.
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ASCII/Unicode Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited(ronaldduncan.wordpress.com)
6 points by jwecker 16y ago|1 comments
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by jwecker 16y ago
Similarly, in my experience great code solves a problem that would seem very difficult in a way that seems very obvious but usually only in retrospect, or as we're reading the code. A corollary would be code that reveals some truth about th
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by jwecker 16y ago
... "for business applications". (and according to a low sample rate). No insights to glean here, in my opinion.
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by jwecker 16y ago
Pedantic-police: The $1-million little pile there has 10 bundles of $10,000 - that's not 1 million. (or are my eyes deceiving me?) Don't have the patience to figure out if that error is propagated to the rest...
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by jwecker 16y ago
The word waffling was too negative, and you're right. I apologize and I'll definitely keep watching. Erlang and Ruby are my two favorite languages as well, so if you do pull it off at some point, you'll have my support (:
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by jwecker 16y ago
I too have been following Reia since he started it up and... well, I'm consistently disappointed. I'm putting this out there publicly because it's come up with co-workers. In the end, he's waffled with so many language design decisions th
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by jwecker 16y ago
I can almost guarantee it's simply a split test using a cookie, as that's the standard way to experiment (using Google Website Optimizer and others). It's a common bracketing experiment. Edit: To be clear, if it's flash cookies it could pe
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by jwecker 16y ago
I have to agree with some of the other posters that the expectations you're butting up against are very likely complicating things drastically. "It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." ~Annie Gottlier The expectation to p
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by jwecker 16y ago
Just posted a comment to it (: Email may have fallen into a black hole or something. Good luck!
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by jwecker 16y ago
Hey Keyframe- so, interestingly, one big difference between JTV and some of the others is we don't have a big producer-outreach department, which would normally respond to questions like these- so sorry we missed it! You may have already in
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by jwecker 16y ago
sorry, small nitpick with your methodology- try these as more realistic comparisons (still not exactly apples to apples): http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22justin+tv%22%2C+ustream%2C... http://www.google.com/trends?q=justin.tv%2C+ustream
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by jwecker 16y ago
Ustream is often higher in unique views (but not always, and not currently), but Justin.tv has people stay on site almost twice as long, and has almost half the bounce rate. It certainly pumps far more video in and out (at one point at lea
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by jwecker 16y ago
Ignore the age. In 10 more years you'll be 10 years older no matter what. You could be a world-class programmer and product designer at that point. Or you could be wishing you had started 10 years earlier. I seriously doubt you'll have
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by jwecker 16y ago
What's the mechanism that would allow a company to attract highly qualified late-comers via equity- even in the 23rd hour in order to help make the exit happen- without upsetting the fairness? (not saying this is a flaw- just would rather
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by jwecker 16y ago
I highly recommend talking to Isaac and the team over at recurly.com (you can guess his email address (: ) Even if you don't end up using them you'll get some very valuable intel.
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by jwecker 16y ago
I remember how surprised I was when a painter friend of mine pointed out that shadows on snow were blue, not gray.
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by jwecker 16y ago
Interesting, but more telling to me is the fact that Microsoft is rarely brought up in Silicon Valley (yes, I'm sure it is some places and I know they have a campus in the valley). That is, rarely brought up in terms of innovation. I don'
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by jwecker 16y ago
Some great answers already here, but I'd just add this: They don't know they want the product- np. Are they aware of the problem that it solves? Can you make them acutely aware of the problem? (In terms of lost time, cost, etc.) And then,
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by jwecker 16y ago
Brilliant. When I opened Rotten Tomatoes I saw a picture of myself, because the site is using the Facebook personalization API... Very eerie actually- not that I'm against the technology- but just noticing it for the first time on this pa

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