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by mdemare 19y ago
Also, it would be fun if karma were actually good for something.
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by mdemare 19y ago
They'll say ideas are a dime a dozen but their time is charged at $500/hour.
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by mdemare 19y ago
One of my favorite anecdotes about people who think they're too old too learn is about a 100 year old woman who was asked if she had any regrets. She said she wished she'd starting taking violin lessons when she was sixty, since then she wo
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by mdemare 19y ago
It was fantastic for finding rare music. Lots of music that I can't find nowadays anywhere - paid or otherwise. And I loved being able to control my home client from work through a web interface.
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by mdemare 19y ago
What I meant was that it takes a certain skill to translate a business problem into something a computer can understand. You need to think extremely logical, rigorous. You have to consider everything that may go wrong. That takes natural ap
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by mdemare 19y ago
What a terrible article. We "hunch over keyboards, pecking out individual lines of code in esoteric programming languages"? What a cliche! Also, some of us use Ruby or Python. And we don't talk to users? When there's so much research on int
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by mdemare 19y ago
fluff!
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by mdemare 19y ago
The sequel might be Lemmings in Escher's universe. uh-oh.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Eight hours and three minutes (since november 07). vs. 22 hours on news.yc and 313 on textmate.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Exactly. I mean, who cares about what Netflix' headquarters look like? Or what university his daughter goes to? Sometimes it feel like these journalists are just filling in a template.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Haven't, would like it (I'm using git too) but it wasn't a showstopper.
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by mdemare 19y ago
I'm using fogbugz, like it a lot!
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by mdemare 19y ago
It's actually kinda cool, going around the web, reading articles on my favorite blogs, and for once, leaving a tip . It makes me feel good.
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by mdemare 19y ago
What interests me is the cause of freeconomics. People easily pay lots of money on all kinds of stuff, but are extremely hesitant to buy anything on the web. My gmail account is worth at least hundreds of dollars to me, but I pay nothing fo
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by mdemare 19y ago
As performance increases we'll to have worry about it less and we'll get the luxury of choosing more powerful abstractions. This makes us more productive (e.g. garbage collection - static typing too is partly compiler optimization). Regardl
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by mdemare 19y ago
RIP Microsoft: 2007 http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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by mdemare 19y ago
For those who think the above is pretty tame and have been using it for years, we've got a series on our blog where we introduce and discuss a new method every day. http://blog.rubyenrails.nl/articles/category/daily_method Here we create
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by mdemare 19y ago
Wasn't k the only language that solved the sudoku problem in under 100 characters?
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by mdemare 19y ago
Philip Greenspun had a great article about this as well: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
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by mdemare 19y ago
I think I'm weird too, because I love the idea. But please tell me you only use this for work. I don't have Excel, so I'll start writing a Ruby DSL to implement this right away. *mdemare eyes himself warily*
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by mdemare 19y ago
Good point. My problem is that I find it hard to delegate (or am too stingy to spend money on services). So I've wasted endless hours on fiddling with CSS. Since I'm a very good programmer but a very bad designer, that was probably not effi
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by mdemare 19y ago
Thanks for this fascinating article! But my problem is not one of motivation, but one of knowledge. i.e.: I have no idea what the most efficient use of my time is. I just do what I feel like doing, not (necessarily) what gives the best R.O.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Oh, I'm focusing on that, but there's just me, so no outsourcing or delegating, and stuff like web-design, marketing and billing needs to be done too.
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by mdemare 19y ago
But any on my list could be a full time job. And yet I must choose. But how? Are there rules of thumb? How do other start-ups prioritize?
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Ask YC: How To Prioritize
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by mdemare 19y ago
Is it legal to tip candidates? I thought there was a $2000 maximum donation per person per candidate, and only U.S. citizens could donate.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Here's the data: countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_ (nominal) us states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_ (nominal) It doesn't seem extremely inaccurate. I'd compare California with I
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by mdemare 19y ago
This is indeed big news. He's been in charge for almost half a century. Now what? Will his brother manage to keep control? Considering his age everybody must be plotting to take over the reins. Slow reforms or another revolution? The Econom
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by mdemare 19y ago
I mostly agree with you. But I don't think it's a geek thing per se. Just look at the comments on political blogs. It's the same thing there. It's the anonymity. Combined with a 95% male audience. If each reddit commenter had to sign with h
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by mdemare 19y ago
Very naive. Don't they know that Paul Graham has patented all fixed point combinators, not just the Y Combinator?

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