ljlolel

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by ljlolel 15y ago
So then sit at the same side of the table...
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by ljlolel 15y ago
You should read the article. Whiteboards are just the first point, and I only denigrate them in the artificial context of interviewing. When I teach, whiteboards are fantastic.
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by ljlolel 15y ago
Exactly. A lot of these replies try to summarize my points into one sentence like "show off your skills." That short phrase is insufficiently descriptive to be useful. I give specific advice for what you can actionably do.
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by ljlolel 15y ago
So sit next to the person while they write...
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Don't write on the whiteboard(jperla.com)
213 points by ljlolel 15y ago|111 comments
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Teach yourself Git in 2 minutes(jperla.com)
3 points by ljlolel 15y ago|0 comments
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Job interview tip #10: interview the interviewer(jperla.com)
9 points by ljlolel 15y ago|1 comments
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by ljlolel 15y ago
I just wrote a post about my even simpler system for using git for people who know SVN/CVS: Teach yourself git in 2 minutes http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/teach-yourself-git-in-2-minu...
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by ljlolel 15y ago
Don't use generalizations, just do the math. $10 million, minus the VC investment, split each among 2 or 3 founders. That ends up being what, $2-3 million in 4 years? I personally know several people who make more than that off of one iPho
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by ljlolel 15y ago
YC's record is a lot closer to 1% than 100% of getting huge homerun hits. By your logic, this implies that in the best possible circumstances (YC), you're not going to get above a few percent chance a priori of a huge success if you work li
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by ljlolel 15y ago
The guys I know personally who are successful, who have become "overnight" successes recently (like box.net, airbnb, dropbox, and so on) have been at it (on the same company, not to mention the priors) for 4+ years beforehand or longer. Wow
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by ljlolel 15y ago
I have a similar story from back in 2008 (Labmeeting.com). Fortunately, I've had good success since then, but I learned the same lessons as you: Don't go all out working 90 hour weeks only to burn out, don't get into debt for your company,
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by ljlolel 15y ago
Oh wow, this is really interesting. For example, this is a monograph about the precautions and ethics in contaminating the moon and planets with our chemicals and bio-life. As we study things like the brittle atmosphere of the moon, we chan
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by ljlolel 15y ago
Yea, my early iterations a few years ago looked more like your library does today. I learned a lot about building good APIs through experimentation.
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by ljlolel 15y ago
Weby Templates: http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/weby-templates-are-easier-fa... Weby Templates are used in production on websites that have garnered over 500,000 uniques a month. They are incredibly easy to work with. They are the "templa
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Princeton students protest banks who co-opt smart talent(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by ljlolel 15y ago|0 comments
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by ljlolel 15y ago
This is a brilliant idea. Screw diaspora, this is a trend toward the first viable open source Facebook killer. Disruptive innovation in a product with not enough features redefining the game.
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by ljlolel 15y ago
You don't have any contact information listed
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by ljlolel 15y ago
He's talking about this patent, by the way, which I know he made: http://www.patents.com/us-5612606.html
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by ljlolel 15y ago
That's pretty short-sighted Mike. First, a 10x battery boost would mean you don't have to recharge the car fully over a week. This is also a boon for battery swapping stations which are bein built in Israel and other places.
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by ljlolel 15y ago
I thought it was a bit too fawning. Isaacson's thesis is exactly the one Jobs wanted to build: that Steve was at the intersection of technology and humanity and succeeded. This theme is ever-present and is included at the end with Steve's
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Your startup is unviral(jperla.com)
4 points by ljlolel 15y ago|0 comments
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How to hack Silicon Valley, meet CEOs, make your own adventure(jperla.com)
14 points by ljlolel 15y ago|1 comments
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by ljlolel 15y ago
The Mythical Man-Month
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by ljlolel 15y ago
Okay, I just released the docs: http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/write-bug-free-javascript-wi...
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How to launch in a month, scale to a million users(jperla.com)
72 points by ljlolel 15y ago|11 comments
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by ljlolel 15y ago
>> It's more just an annoyance of the language. Specifically, anonymous functions are must easier in JavaScript, so it was just easier to write read and write maintainable code. That's pretty specious. You can easily write a functi
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by ljlolel 15y ago
You want to get some SEO traffic and linking going on. After the guy says he's satisfied with an answer, ask him if he wants to make the answer public for others to benefit from. (You can also offer for it to be edited to take out any ext
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by ljlolel 15y ago
we used div-based animations in turntable
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by ljlolel 15y ago
Agreed. Sometimes people stop writing due to a minority of very loud people being rude dismissive shallow whiners. I think Steve Yegge stopped writing for a few years because of these people. Don't stop writing, please.

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