jwecker

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   by jwecker 19y ago

   I agree. As the 37 Signals people say- Embrace Your Constraints.
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   Dr. Seuss URL Names(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)

   10 points by jwecker 19y ago|17 comments
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   The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (2005)(ranum.com)

   7 points by jwecker 19y ago|2 comments
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   by jwecker 19y ago

   Great suggestion. I would add (and this is if you want to become a hacker, not a code monkey or script kiddie or whatever else), The Little Schemer, and then something functional- I'd recommend a book that's not even published yet, http:/
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   by jwecker 19y ago

   The clincher for me was years ago when our ISP moved physical locations. They had a bunch of geeks including my friend Joey go over and help move things, especially all of the co-lo servers. Joey told me later that as they loaded the vans
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   by jwecker 19y ago

   A couple of years ago my mom, who is not very computer literate at all, asked me "why can't someone just invent a computer where you type in what program to run instead of hunting for menus and little pictures all the time?" There was a mov
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   brilliant
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   "I tried to call but no one answered..."
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   btw, HOP uses the Bigaloo web server and so isn't quite adequate apparently for a high traffic site (like I assume most here will have). here's an email exchange I had with the author the other day- sorry if the comment's a bit big: I apol
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    "I feel kind of like Spock here, watching people laugh at a joke..." (:
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Good stuff. Not really anything new from the YC philosophy of business, but nice to hear it from someone in the trenches. BTW- welcome back BioGeek!
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    very interesting. This might be the first time Google ended up acquiring someone based on their Google TechTalk. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=engEDU+gapminder
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    cross reference this post/discussion in the "best" section: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=638
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Just about everyone expects DRM to disappear at some point, sooner or later, as a matter of natural order. Everyone except the RIAA and Msft.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    It's interesting- I think most people would rather get the higher salary regardless of cost-of-living or spending power. Some kind of gratification to their self-worth or something.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I assume the reason apps (or actually I think it's the windowing system) do this is because they assume that your grandmother will open an app and then patiently wait for it to appear, and if it accidentally appears behind another applicati
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Very good clouding.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I hope these do well, but when I apply my internal "would I pay for it" measurement (I never click on ads [and try to ignore branding] so ad-based revenue sites don't make the cut) there was only one on that list that I myself would pay for
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    hmm. ambassador to France. Anyway, the last line of the first paragraph is dead on.
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    Popularity Might Not Be Enough(nytimes.com)

    3 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments
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    Gasoline powered shoes and why Silicon Valley works by way of contrast(nytimes.com)

    2 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    "Our software submits your pages to Altavista, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, OpenText, and HotBot." Nice. Those were the days. Does anyone else remember when google was underground? I remember when it seemed just me and a few of
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    yah dude, put .asp or make it look like a java based server. Even .php would probably work nicely that way.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I don't know if you can say Digg is after the "Geek Culture" demographic anymore (as per the chart in the post). It seems to me to be a centralized replacement for the kind of people who would constantly forward emails to everyone in their
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    especially check out the repl on the demos tab. very cool.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I think it works great. Everyone should always be prepared to wear multiple hats of course. It give you all a lot of flexibility when meeting and talking to other people / potential partners & affiliates / investors, etc.
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    A Scheme language for building web 2.0 apps(hop.inria.fr)

    11 points by jwecker 20y ago|1 comments
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I know the feeling. The same feeling I had back when people were still writing java applets. Maybe a normal user doesn't feel it- maybe it's the programmer in us knowing that there's a big layer running between me and the browser...
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    http://www.whatwg.org/
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    re: APIs. dBASE is the classic example of how to utilize this (and how to ruin it later). "Ed Esber, CEO of one-time database giant Ashton-Tate and makers of dBASE, became the target of such enmity from the dBASE development community. Esb