koolmoe

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by koolmoe 19y ago
35 + PhD in chemical engineering
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by koolmoe 19y ago
>Using Lisp to read and write a configuration file means you don't need to worry about lexing and parsing either. That was the point I was trying to make, apparently unsuccessfully. >If you don't use Lisp, or if you don't use S-expr
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by koolmoe 19y ago
From the article: "But Lisp is directly executable, so you could simply make the tag names functions that automatically transform themselves." I don't think we're talking about taking raw strings and doing evals. You control the function im
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by koolmoe 19y ago
>What're your predictions? How can one make any predictions without knowing the teams?
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Nicely done. What's with the SQL, though? Doesn't NetBeans support migrations?
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I think he missed the biggest differentiator between C++ and Lisp - it's fun to program in Lisp!
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I agree with this. I also think that the REPL of Lisp, Ruby's irb, and Python's IDLE are very valuable for the new programmer. I knew a few languages when I hit graduate school, but I ended up doing most of my "programming" in Matlab beca
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Upvoted for this mathematician's-gauntlet-throwing snippet near the end: "I sent an e-mail on 21 October 1999 and again on 2 December 1999 to my department's most comprehensive e-mail alias, which includes faculty, staff, and graduate stude
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Putting together comments from Matt's blog and the Demo day article from Fred Wilson (?), I think they must be the ones doing fantasy sports betting. Also fits with Matt's background.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
"I prefer clearly separating my work life and my fun life instead of living for my job" That's likely because your job is not fun. If you were more invested in it (e.g., it fulfilled your dreams), you might feel differently. Thinking tha
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I like to think of programming like building a house of cards. A great card house builder would necessarily have ot take care building the foundation of his card house. In fact, he may require more time early on than an inferior builder.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
"At 100 million visitors, $25M translates to $4 a month per user in ad funds. $4, per user, per month, sustained for 24 months." Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are trying to say, you're off by an order of magnitude: $25M/100M = $0.25
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by koolmoe 19y ago
"The article mistakes more ideas for better ideas." Most often, the immediate goal of brainstorming is to come up with as many ideas as possible. Leaders of brainstorming sessions often start by encouraging wild ideas and discouraging the
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I don't think the problem with single founders is about generating ideas. It's about not having someone to pick you up when you're discouraged, multiply your enthusiasm, and turn you back around when you've fallen in love with a bad idea.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Maybe the point is that you tend to overlook the total cost because of the small cost per event and because you are conditioned to accept the cost as a necessary evil. IDK, but I do know that managers love those kinds of justifications.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
While I agree with your point, it's not the point of the blog entry: "...if it doesn't work when you've got one, it's extremely unlikely to work when you have dozens." Also, there is no mention of the difficulty of gaining users, merely tha
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by koolmoe 19y ago
When a site begins as one incarnation with a small user base and later transforms into something else when the user base has grown, it suggests that critical mass is necessary to make the transformation happen. If HotOrNot started out try
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by koolmoe 19y ago
A small base of contributors to a wiki may be OK for a very specific domain, but as the subject area broadens, you will certainly need more contributors or you risk having very superficial contributions on some of the subjects. Anyway, if y
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by koolmoe 19y ago
There are many counterexamples to Godin's point, such as wikis. Wikis are useless with few contributors but extremely useful with many. A secondary advantage (mentioned in pg's essays) is that you can more effectively take a "constant beta
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I remember that. I also remember buying my first PC around that time - probably in 1992 or 1993. It included an OEM copy of MS Encarta, which seemed like a pretty useful app at the time...
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I would think that the average user in the target market for this app knows a little something about filesystems.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
None of these "assets" that are supposedly lost after 30 are a function of age. Yes, there is likely a correlation. However, even if there is a trend to be observed, the information is only useful to someone trying to select from a group o
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Winer is not using the example of Jobs to refute the idea that younger people are good at startups. In fact, he acknowledges that younger people often have the willingness to accept risk and enthusiasm that their older counterparts may not
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I think the lack of a physical keyboard will have minimal impact on the success or failure of the iPhone. Consider that millions of users adapted to the clunky text message interfaces of their cell phones. They aren't going to balk at a vi