kschrader

15 ms·

91.
by kschrader 18y ago
I was a Rails user for 3 years and I looked at Django seriously before settling on Merb for my current project. I wouldn't say that it's as easy to use or as powerful as Rails, but either way it seems like we should be moving beyond silly
92.
by kschrader 18y ago
The startups that take advantage of this are clearly going to be the cream of the crop.
93.
by kschrader 18y ago
Is that really the standard that they should be shooting for?
94.
Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline(voices.washingtonpost.com)
35 points by kschrader 18y ago|8 comments
95.
by kschrader 18y ago
He claims he was misunderstood. His page on the speech: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/Controversy.html Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mims-Pianka_controversy
96.
by kschrader 18y ago
" Most Americans who describe themselves as atheists, for instance, nonetheless believe that their souls will survive the death of their bodies. " Wait, what? How does that make sense?
97.
by kschrader 18y ago
I know a lot of good developers, and I can't imagine any of them jumping through all of these hoops to work for you (or anyone). When you get this extreme with your process you're filtering out a bunch of great people who won't put up with
98.
by kschrader 18y ago
Why would your code coverage metrics include Hibernate (to speak to the example in the post)? Your code coverage metrics are only going to cover what you've written, not the included jar files. If you don't cover something in there then the
99.
Why Don't You Do Some Work?(shankman.com)
18 points by kschrader 18y ago|7 comments
100.
by kschrader 18y ago
Missed the "Jakob Nielsen" part. Eyes now burning from the extremely poor design of his site.
101.
by kschrader 18y ago
I've done both the "work and start a start-up" and the "quit and start a start-up" thing, and I wouldn't ever do the double work thing again. When you're first starting a tech start-up you need to go through an intensely creative period to
102.
by kschrader 18y ago
Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.
103.
by kschrader 18y ago
I like the fact that you define "Properly lives his life" as spending over 100 million on whores and drugs over the course of it. :-)
104.
by kschrader 18y ago
Wait, a keyboard that can compete? How about a Blackberry, Treo, or anything else with a physical keyboard?
105.
Design by Sketching(simple-talk.com)
4 points by kschrader 18y ago|0 comments
106.
by kschrader 18y ago
This is exactly what they're going to do. I think that we're all dismissing just how seriously game changing this might be. Microsoft has a bunch of really smart people sitting in Research working on this stuff. Just think how cool this wil
107.
by kschrader 18y ago
He's using the accepted psychological definition of a cult. The reference is right there in the post.
108.
by kschrader 18y ago
Come on now, let's not go overboard here and compare YC to the Manhattan Project or Apollo missions. Doing a start-up is hard work, but we're talking about a slightly different scale here.
109.
by kschrader 18y ago
It's true. Sometimes the echo chamber out here can be almost deafening.
110.
by kschrader 18y ago
I'm not going to burn bridges with people when it really wouldn't add anything. The point is valid with or without specific examples.
111.
by kschrader 18y ago
Correct. The problem is that I am still running into people who are making "Youtube with a twist". That boat has sailed.
112.
by kschrader 18y ago
This looks fairly similar to Seaside to me. Of course, you have the advantage/disadvantage (however you want to see it) of using PHP.
113.
by kschrader 18y ago
High switching costs + nothing compelling enough to move to a competitor for.
114.
by kschrader 18y ago
Are we really at the point where the only schools that count as "top-tier" are MIT and Caltech now? I can't believe people here are talking about Berkeley like it's some sort of a fallback option. Look at http://grad-schools.usnews.ranking
115.
by kschrader 18y ago
It seems to me that most of the more compelling apps on these platforms will be heavily server dependent anyway (location data, etc). If that's the case, then presumably a lot of the heavy lifting will be done on the back end and writing mu
116.
Electro-Shock Therapy: How GM is acting like a start-up(theatlantic.com)
3 points by kschrader 18y ago|0 comments
117.
by kschrader 18y ago
There are a ridiculous number of old-school hackers quoted in this story. Really cool stuff.
118.
How the Web Was Won (2008)(vanityfair.com)
4 points by kschrader 18y ago|1 comments
119.
Exposure to New Things, Still Good (More on Maglev)(kurt.karmalab.org)
1 points by kschrader 18y ago|0 comments
120.
by kschrader 18y ago
> Does the image approach mean that Smalltalk is not really suitable for quick and dirty sys admin type scripts that you would use Perl or Ruby for? No, it's not, but that's what we have Ruby for. :-) > would it be technically feasi

More ›