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by marketer 19y ago
That's true, but culture, equity, are not tangible. The hours and the effort are very tangible. Startup employees put in a lot of effort, in some cases as much as the founders, depending on the culture. There are few circimstances where you
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by marketer 19y ago
If you're not a co-founder, it's difficult to rich off of stock options in. It happens once in a while (ebay, paypal, etc.), but not very often. How many employees does it have, and what's a recent valuation? If it has something like more t
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by marketer 19y ago
1) I'm not a big fan of the name, maybe it has subtle meanings that I'm not getting. It just doesn't flow. It sounds like a military term. 2) A lot of space is wasted in this site. The whole left column, which is about 40% of the site, is c
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by marketer 19y ago
I use F# at work. Guess what? My code is basically C#, with a thin F# layer. Ocaml doesn't give you the luxury of the .NET framework, which can be seen as a blessing in disguise, because your code tends to be much more functional. The libra
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by marketer 19y ago
That's cool that you're a committer, I think scala/lift are very promising, and look forward to using them in the future. If everything is working well, maven can be a huge productivity boost. I'm sure the decision to use maven was to make
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by marketer 19y ago
break up with your girlfriend
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by marketer 19y ago
I tried using liftweb for a project once, but was discouraged by the heavy dependency on maven. Also, liftweb is undergoing huge churn, especially in the database modeling.
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by marketer 19y ago
The primary reason Microsoft acquires companies is either to enter a new market, or greatly strengthen its position in a market. For instance, Microsoft acquired bungee to grow it's xbox platform, and more recently FAST, which is to enter t
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by marketer 19y ago
You should drop the user-generated-directory aspect of it. Interface all the good people search engines, and use google as a fallback.
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by marketer 19y ago
I tried both linode and slicehost, and I far prefer slicehost. Their service is absolutely amazing, but more importantly they have hardware virtualization, instead of linode which only offers UML
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by marketer 19y ago
This reminds me of topcoder, but for testing
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by marketer 19y ago
I don't like raster editors for the web (gimp, photoshop), because those images scale up poorly. I prefer a vector graphics, like fireworks (or, from what i understand inkscape). You can stretch those images to the size of infinity, and the
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by marketer 19y ago
One small suggesion: do STRESS tests before submitting your page to Digg/Reddit/TC. On the off-chance that it does make the front page, it will get hammered, and any scalability bugs will instantly bring the site down. It would be unfortuna
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by marketer 19y ago
I have nearly 100% success rate solving my problems by searching Google. And if that fails, I usually end up in some IRC channel. What features will make this site better? Maybe have an incentive system for people who solve problems?
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by marketer 19y ago
This seems like one step backwards from social networks. It's difficult maintaining information about your contacts, which is one of the strongest points of sites like facebook. You might look into developing some of these applications for
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by marketer 19y ago
What kind of DOS patterns are you trying to prevent? People requesting the same image repeatedly, or people requesting random images? Generally, DOS attacks are prevented by making the client do some non-trivial amount of work, like answeri
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by marketer 19y ago
It's not impossible, however, for a small team of people to make profitable games. Take as an example the Desktop Tower Defense game, which was created by one person. It's the web 2.0 aspects that made the game so successful, namely sharing
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by marketer 19y ago
Great article, I love the references to Tomek and Snapdragon. Although classifying Snapdragon a rock star programmer seems belittling, considering all his video game, puzzle, and math achievements.
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by marketer 19y ago
Seems similar to the original intent of rapleaf.com, which is a platform for building reputation. They are actually changing their business model because their product didn't gain any traction. You might want to check that site out, and see
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by marketer 19y ago
What do you mean hash tables are not O(1)? With a good hash function (collision resistant), the amortized cost of lookup is O(1), even if you need to resize the table.
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by marketer 19y ago
There's a wrapper for the news feed which works with the features of google reader: http://harumi.ath.cx/newsyc
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by marketer 19y ago
Kids have a poor grasp of logic and cause/effect, so you can only teach kids what is in their "zone of proximity". For instance, it might be better to teach kids how to manipulate an existing program, like changing the color of a circle tha
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MS releases source code of .NET libraries(weblogs.asp.net)
1 points by marketer 19y ago|0 comments
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by marketer 19y ago
> "When they talk about things that are new, the list is almost laughable, consisting of "Tablet PC versions" I think this author overlooks some of the newer features of vista. there actually have been a lot of kernel improvements, espe
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by marketer 19y ago
I made quite a few assumptions - namely that mortgage banks are huge players in the various mortgage markets, and because Paulson extracted billions of dollars from these markets, the banks lost money as well. And the money that they would
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by marketer 19y ago
All the hard-earned money people pay on mortgage interest rates ultimately goes to people like him.
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by marketer 19y ago
I think this is the best way to go. There's no reason that you should be scraping HTML from sites, when there might be a nice xml feed available. For instance, pricegrabber will only index your site if they have prices in XML.
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by marketer 19y ago
I've been trying to stay away from TC as well. Their stories are well written, but it's a heavily biased source as many of their editors are invested in the companies they promote.
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There is no such thing as a rockstar programmer(codinghorror.com)
1 points by marketer 19y ago|0 comments
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by marketer 19y ago
I think this is a great idea. There is a lot of overhead in build web applications, and hosting is definatly one of them. Although I haven't checked out appjet yet, something that simplifies the process might would be valuable.

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