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by loumf 14y ago
In the past pg has mentioned adding a feature to the running instance via a connected REPL, not the real source. If it proves its usefulness it goes in the source -- if not, the next restart removes it.
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by loumf 14y ago
Reading this made me a little sad. My remedy was to immediately go give it an honest 5-star rating and real review. I need to go do this for a lot more apps I love.
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by loumf 14y ago
If they did, they would probably do it the way Amazon does with Kindle or Samsung does with Android. A giant tarball you can download from somewhere on their site, but not necessarily easy to just know about (like a link on the homepage).
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by loumf 14y ago
Here's more of the back-story to why they created the ASP->PHP compiler in the first place: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogBugzIII.html
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The Gutenberg Eyebrow(ironicsans.com)
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by loumf 14y ago
It could be for demographic/statistical purposes. They are trying hard to learn about who to invest in -- data is key. Also, do age discrimination laws apply to VC's? Not that it would be right to do it -- but is it illegal?
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by loumf 14y ago
Was there such a time? Reddit co-founders were accepted and told to come up with a new idea http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/christine-lagorio/alexis-... The next morning, on the train back to Virginia, hung over, somewhere in the midd
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by loumf 14y ago
True, but with such a giant pile, it is only saying that they can't invest the part they return (which is a small percentage of their total).
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by loumf 14y ago
I guess I don't have enough Karma to know how much moderation I could get in HN -- thought it was limited to downvoting. In SO, it gets quite thorough and you also get prompted to do some moderation (approve edits, etc).
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by loumf 14y ago
Community moderation based on increasing levels of trust worked well for StackOverflow and appears to be implemented for this as well. It's not unique to SO, but it works really well there and not (IMO) for Slashdot, so perhaps there is so
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by loumf 14y ago
This and other items that Wall St. cares about, but aren't necessarily in the best long-term interest of the comapany. For example, they can now have less of a focus on margin. It's the constant quest for margin that had Dell outsource its
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by loumf 14y ago
Like most entertainment, BBT is a parody, exaggeration, and simplification of real life. I find a lot more relevant humor in it than in any other sit-com I've watched -- to the point where I could anticipate the joke because I had had the e
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by loumf 14y ago
If by "not an investment", you mean that he doesn't believe that it will throw off more net-present value cash than a similar investment in the S&P, then I strongly disagree. He may think that it would not have done that without his inv
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by loumf 14y ago
He's not saying it's bad -- he's saying that the color scheme is reminiscent of the old joke "What's black and white and red all over" ("A newspaper" as in "re[a]d all over") The joke also applies to ebooks if you do well, so could be a ver
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by loumf 14y ago
(in case anyone else was wondering) What's New in Version 2.0 We’ve kept the interface streamlined and minimal while adding lots of new features and refinements: • Bar graph shows completion rates over time • App badge shows remaining numbe
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by loumf 14y ago
It's not ambiguous. On iOS, only Safari can JIT JavaScript. This is because Apple doesn't trust your app enough to let you made code pages. It also doesn't trust the app it makes when you install a web app to your home page (and it's not
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by loumf 14y ago
It's not just the app -- it's location services in every app.
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by loumf 14y ago
you can get rid of the !() if you reverse the ?: #define d printf( main(i){i<101?(i%3?0:d"Fizz"))|(i%5?0:d"Buzz"))?d"\n"):d"%d\n",i),main(i+1):0;}
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by loumf 14y ago
Right, and one of the things he stresses is timing. Opsware was famously founded before a crash and figured out how to survive to the next bubble. http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup...
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by loumf 14y ago
America Online, the largest Internet access service, said today it will acquire Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-218360.html HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agr
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by loumf 14y ago
I hated every attempt at static analysis until I started programming with Xcode. In my usage, Build and Analyze is always right -- that's the difference. Other tools (lint, FXCop) are too noisy. Even warnings in some compilers are an annoy
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by loumf 14y ago
No one can guarantee anything for you. Achieving 3 of the above criteria will not hurt you and are quite easy to achieve. They will also help you in other ways. Worry about being great -- (Steve Martin quote is relevant here: "be so good th
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by loumf 14y ago
You could have conveyed the non-snark by just omitting your parenthetical. Everything before that is totally valid, but the parenthetical invites the kind of reply that doesn't actually move the conversation in the way I think you intended
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by loumf 14y ago
The trick is to cultivate a list of people who are unreasonable and then just ask them. Here's a place to start: http://www.reddit.com/r/buyitforlife
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by loumf 14y ago
He didn't say he threw them away -- I assumed he returned them
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by loumf 14y ago
In Chicago? I doubt it for anyone else, but someone might do it for this opportunity. I'd hope that this is just in line with what 37 signals pays -- they have other benefits.
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by loumf 14y ago
I believe "compatible with GPL" on this page means that it can be included in a GPL distribution, not the other way around.
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by loumf 14y ago
I understood "self-plagiarizing" as it was used in this article to be selling your words to one entity and then selling them to another. It's likely that a highly paid writer would be expected to produce unique pieces, and not to resell the
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by loumf 14y ago
Never shipped a product, only started describing its tech as "tiles" in 2011. The word "tile" is used prominently in the patent.
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by loumf 14y ago
If you are interested in a take on this topic that is based on data, check out Noam Wasserman at BoS 2009 (his talk at BoS 2012 was very similar) http://businessofsoftware.org/2009/05/professor-noam-wasserm... He has been collecting data

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