mhartl

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1. 1981.▲
   by mhartl 19y ago

   I don't find "walls of text" at all forbidding, as long as the line width isn't too long. I also find Joel's argument on this point a bit dubious: When was the last time you noticed a popular magazine or newspaper with entire pages of tex
2. 1982.▲
   by mhartl 19y ago

   I think the title is a bit misleading: the essay argues that documentation is more important than code. Comments are only part of that. The prototypical one-line comment immediately before a line of code is often superfluous---a sign o
3. 1983.▲
   by mhartl 19y ago

   Add a password reminder, and also password confirmation during registration. I mistyped one of my standard passwords when registering, and as a result I was locked out of YC News until I noticed that the password was stored in the Firefox o
4. 1984.▲
   by mhartl 20y ago

   I knew it sounded familiar. N.B. Regarding the Lisp vs. C issue: the original author, Ron Garret (formerly Erann Gat) is a well-known Lisper. He used Lisp at JPL for many years before political forces rendered its continued use there unt
5. 1985.▲
   by mhartl 20y ago

   I love "Economics in One Lesson"---I've even bought extra copies just to give to friends and relatives---but I'm not sure it helps you all that much as an entrepreneur; understanding the Broken Window fallacy doesn't help you make things pe