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by lbrandy 18y ago
College is more than just a networking opportunity. College exposes you to the vast world of ideas that you didn't know existed. It's a well established fact that the more incompetent someone is, the more confident they are in their own com
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Wow. Just wow. The purpose of college isn't vocational training. It never was. My college education is not, was not, and never will be "a piece of paper". That's just plain ignorance. The kind of ignorance that just might get cured by someo
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by lbrandy 18y ago
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22blac... Heh.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I'm pretty amazed that after an apparent agreement someone would decide that you and him both getting 20% wasn't enough and he needed 24% at your expense. That's a pretty ridiculous move for someone to make, in my view. It goes well beyond
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Well, I just "applied" my blog but I'll repeat the part of that email that matters the most: I'm a big believer in the concept. Job boards are, by far, the best way to monetize professional traffic to a particular niche blog. (Well, the sec
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by lbrandy 18y ago
At every airport I've ever been they are smart enough to call the next zone before the previous zone's line is half way done. And even when the line dwindles, the next zone people are all huddled around and ready to get on.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Well, here's exactly what I install on a fresh Ubuntu desktop machine (it's my script, copy/pasted). sudo apt-get install subversion git imagemagick oprofile ssh manpages-dev g++ gcc libtool autoconf automake emacs vim compizconfig-settings
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I remember seeing this earlier and my thoughts are still the same. This license scares me. It tries to close a "loophole" in the GPL that I never considered a loophole. Consequently, we have a brand new license that I don't want to learn be
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by lbrandy 18y ago
That was a good read. He says: "We want to charge the maximum amount that our customers are willing to pay." At the risk of being pedantic, the more precisely correct answer is to charge each customer how much that customer is willing to pa
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Ok I'll bite. By the very fact that you'd take it, it means it has some value to you. Of course you are going to take something for free that you believe has non-zero value. If you are taking something for free that has value to you, you ar
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Sure it's an exaggeration. The uncanny valley is a visceral biological reaction in parts of our brains that have spent millions of years become very finely tuned to identifying human beings. We have no such location for user interface. That
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by lbrandy 18y ago
> and this feature alone makes me inclined to try out GitHub. Yes, do it. GitHub is -perfect- for small projects that might otherwise die on your hard-drive. Because it's so easy to fork and there's no "ownership", you can stop maintain
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Except sometimes when you go to the doctor for that sore throat he notices you have throat cancer. The Wal-Mart tech tells you it's negative for strep and sends you home with some Tylenol Flu medicine.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
His statistics are double bad because he confused correlation and causality. He just assumes that people are motivated by their bosses and good bosses equals good motivation. I find that assumption extremely suspect. My suspicion is most of
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Do you see the way this guy is selling you an unpaid internship and honestly making you consider going for it? He's a genius marketer. And he also fooled me for a second. But... you cannot turn an unpaid internship into an MBA through the s
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by lbrandy 18y ago
That is actually an easier version of the same question. The anchor version contains all of the same issues plus an extra curveball. If the iceberg had a giant boulder resting on top, you'd have the exact same question.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I am interested to hear about how often you've actually tried to beat a c compiler with hand optimized assembly code. In my experience, this statement is only said by people who have never tried. For example, numerical calculations that are
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by lbrandy 18y ago
As a fellow blogger, I'm sympathetic for the bait&switch of clever headlining but... seriously. Saying someone "rebuilt twitter" when you meant only twitter's client-side? That's like saying you re-engineered the space shuttle with a co
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I couldn't agree more. Don't social news sites sort of depend on them being "up" in the background "working out" what is interesting? Won't bringing it down for 3 peak hours just reduce the churn of good material? I tend to check hacker new
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I feel like I'm supposed to believe this a good thing. I am struggling though. I'd prefer a reformed WoW player.
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Go-To-Market Plans (Gone Awry)(lbrandy.com)
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I almost created the exact same thing when I started my blog. It was a source-controlled (SVN, though) Textile powered static blogging engine. Comments were the reason I ended up looking into wordpress and movable type. I thought heavily ab
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by lbrandy 18y ago
The audio is at the bottom. The video is like an intro :)
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by lbrandy 18y ago
An interesting dichotomy occurs when he mentions "optimizing" for digg versus how to optimize for hacker news. Ed (edw519, I presume) says.. no.. just... be yourself. Be sincere. Don't try to game the system. For a super-high traffic site l
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by lbrandy 18y ago
This would only be true in scalable professions like software. It's interesting he uses a chef as an example because I think its an example that proves his point incorrect. You will still be an extremely profitable restaurant if you have a
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Because if you use 9, instead of 10, it makes it sound like your choices are so well researched and vetted that you'd never sacrifice your integrity just to make it a "top 10".
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Wow this license terrifies me. It seems to me to be entirely unclear on the most important point. When does "internal use" go from allowed to unallowed? The write-up dodges this point completely and the license itself seems to imply that "d
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Author here. You almost have it completely right. The features are not stored in a tree. They are an ARRAY of trees. So we hold face1 and face2 constant, load up the tree for feature 1, descend it, record the value. Then we load up the tree
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Considering I launched my blog about 90 days ago... and I have no idea if you'd deem it a success (i've had about 40k uniques in that time -- a runaway success by my standards), my approach was somewhat similar to this. I did install analyt
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by lbrandy 18y ago
> Coming up with a way to keep a linux configuration on my laptop so when I do a fresh-install of Fedora 10 next month, I don't have to re-create all of my custom configurations from scratch (again) Maybe you meant something substantial

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