mangodrunk

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by mangodrunk 19y ago
What are you guys talking about? Can you list more than 10 sites in the past few months that were that informative. Yes, startup news is important, but we can't have submissions like "how to start your company" every day, because they tend
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
The only thing that made the management at Xeroc PARC, Bell Labs, etc. good, was that they let smart people do what they wanted and stayed out of the way.
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
You can't "guess" any better than flipping a coin when it comes to funding research. They laughed at Bill Gates when he said he wanted control of the software. I think there is room for improvement (which there is for everything) in the fun
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
I agree with you and didn't intend to say that we're smarter. I was just saying that it is easier to outsource simple programming problems than the required investment for tough problems. The pool of programmers that can take a specificatio
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
DC is for enterprise Java programmers and only big government contractors. I think the general job market in DC is ranked #1 though.
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
>news interesting to hackers generally. Obviously hackers have found this interesting, but I agree it is on the border of being irrelevant. I think it is useful to use PG's rule of thumb that if it's covered on TV news then it's off t
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
>churn out meaningless solutions to irrelevant problems. That can be said of most of the advancements in math, science, and computer science. At a time, there was no need for zero, calendars, calculus, square root of negative one, etc
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
The Giver is a good choice. I would also say that it is better written than Atlas Shrugged as well. All the characters are one-dimensional characters and Rand keeps beating us over the head with her ideas and doesn't allow us to make ou
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
I'm curious to know why you think Atlas Shrugged is "the most important work of modern fiction". Rand's ideas weren't original and if someone needed to read her book to emulate Hank Rearden they will never be like Hank. At the time that
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by mangodrunk 19y ago
I'm new but is it part of the system to not allow new users the ability to down-vote? I like the idea of actually using the karma instead of just having karma for karma's sake.