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by menloparkbum 17y ago
The Knuth comment was very interesting. I majored in Math and everyone in the math department played some sort of instrument, even if it was the stereotypical "nerdy kid forced to play the violin". Since I left school and been in industry
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I live in SF and constantly joke about how gross and dirty it is. However, I recently went to NYC and I'll have to say that relatively, SF actually is much cleaner than I gave it credit for. It's just that the gross areas in SF are REALLY
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Are you my ex-girlfriend? "You're ugly and stupid!!! I'm not being mean, those are simply the facts!"
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
if modding down my (polite, reasonable) comments Your initial comment said it would be a "cold day in hell" before you used Woobius and that the name was "utterly stupid." That's an interesting interpretation of polite and reasonable.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It says in the article that he refuses to live in subsidized housing.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
survey the MTurk population itself a few people have done this already http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanica... http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
the jokes about having NILFS on your hard drive are going to be so lame there's a node I'd like to fsck!
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
My dad was a physician back when doctors were still crazy workaholics. He worked at least 80 hours a week, easy. He still had time to go to most of my sports games, music events and help me with my homework. I also have 3 siblings. His sche
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I can't think of a 30 year old I know who has no obligations. You haven't spent much time in San Francisco, then...
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
In my experience once you get over a few hundred thousand users and have tweaked your web server/proxy setup and tuned your database, you will still have major slowness and memory issues with your Rails code. I.e. it's usually not the datab
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
this is really cool, but I couldn't help but notice this quote: “Killer apps makes or breaks any platform. With GitHub, I think the Git hub just scored one.” -DHH Um. I know DHH is an important guy, but not only is that quote grammaticall
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
What have people got against enthusiasm, any ways? The ruby and rails fervor never read like genuine enthusiasm. The pro-rails bits were always framed with negative comments about how php and java sucked, or how stupid business people are
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Apple has caught on that phones are the next gaming/entertainment platform. People want to play games on their iPhone, and they will pay for them. Developers want to make games for the iPhone, because they can make games that haven't been p
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Perhaps it's more of a negative selection bias. I know 9 people who have made $5-$10M from software companies they have founded without taking outside investment. Most of the money was made by selling out to a bigger company, although one g
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges, but Justin.tv has way better programmers.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I've never worn a tie to work, nor worked anywhere with any sort of dress code. Living in northern california, the whole concept seems a bit foreign to me. Bankers and doctors don't even wear ties. If you're wearing a suit and tie you're pr
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It is rude, but this happens a lot, especially at smaller startups. The chain of communication is usually a bit chaotic and most people are very busy. Sometimes people get pulled into the interview at the last minute, and so on and so forth
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I was indeed trying to make a distinction between a library and a full application or web site. From an entrepreneurial perspective I think it's important to focus on products rather than libraries. It's far easier to monetize a twitter cli
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Blue jeans, a polo shirt and converse or vans are the only thing I've worn to work or an interview since 1999. I've also interviewed a ton of people and the only time I've noticed what people are wearing are if they were wearing "dress clot
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Turks born in Germany weren't even legal citizens until 2000. "Well integrated" is not accurate. Algerians aren't well integrated into French society, either. Your points are stupid because they are off topic and aren't correct. You're just
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Whatever you do, don't waste time learning Python backwards and forwards before you even start doing anything else. Focus on making stuff. I've seen far too many smart people fail miserably because they had the attitude of "as soon as I bec
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
What you should really do is make a complete system and put it out there for people to use. A web service, an iPhone application, a desktop application, whatever. There are no educational prerequisites which prevent you from doing this. Thi
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
If you're truly out of money, it will soon change from "thank god I didn't get a day job" to "thank god someone gave me a day job."
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I'm obviously a fan of HN and by proxy, YC... but to be a devil's advocate... The people at the HN weekly meeting didn't choose to get together with each other, the rich guys who gave them money chose them and told them to be there. In cont
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Features like the biometric reader and the TV tuner exist because the "inmates are running the asylum." The general phone buying public doesn't care about any of those things. Japanese phones were 10 years ahead of the game 10 years ago. Li
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Actually, it says he spent $600K to develop the software. Gala put more than $600,000 into the project, money earned at the restaurants, before the official launch of the company, Altametrics in Los Alamitos, or the inventory control produ
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It's illegal outside of California. Out of curiosity, why do people need to split lanes in New Hampshire? Is there traffic there? Just kidding, kind of. (from a former New England motorcyclist)
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
This is a myth. The iPhone is much better than any of the weird phones available in Japan.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Motorcycles aren't as helpful for avoiding traffic outside of California. You can't split lanes anywhere else.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
These questions get asked all the time, aside from maybe the last one. And the NDA thing, nobody says that. This is a silly article. Maybe things are different in Miami.

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