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How the new monopolies are destroying open markets(harpers.org)
8 points by mrchess 15y ago|0 comments
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by mrchess 15y ago
You guys should stream this meetup so us east-coasters can watch too.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Making a short video should be essential for something like this.
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by mrchess 15y ago
In reply to the edit -- would be cool if someone could extend this to ExtJS as well just for the heck of it.
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Market Maturity (a timeless UX lesson from the past)(uie.com)
2 points by mrchess 15y ago|0 comments
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by mrchess 15y ago
Programming Pearls is also an amazing gem you should read as early in your career as possible. If you end up heading into software, also check out The Mythical Man Month. Although dated, the lessons are timeless.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Steal in that context is a powerful word as it blatantly suggests he already accused all customers of being a thief of some sort. Not only that, he is trying to guilt people into buying his product with the follow up sentence, "why would yo
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Understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline. Is there a problem?(wekeroad.com)
1 points by mrchess 15y ago|0 comments
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by mrchess 15y ago
I stopped using Firefox after the 3.x period. I personally believe 3.x series was the best Firefox, and that going forward it has only been downhill. On the consumer level, I think their biggest mistake was giving each release a new major n
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Quora's Technology Examined(bigfastblog.com)
35 points by mrchess 15y ago|2 comments
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by mrchess 15y ago
Might defeat the purpose but you should add top comments as well. Part of the fun of browsing is the added contextual humor :)
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by mrchess 15y ago
Does anyone know why LESS was picked over SASS for Bootstrap?
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by mrchess 15y ago
This reminds me of a US company I worked with that outsourced some of their service layer work to a company with heavy European influence. As a result, API methods also had the spelling of certain words eg. getColour() or getFavourites(). G
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by mrchess 15y ago
dumb question but is there literally a theme called "new theme" or are you just talking about the new default sublimetext theme?
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by mrchess 15y ago
It is ad driven.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Well, now it is straight up "the grass is greener" problem. I'd wipe away the cons list at this point, and just look at the pros, and just pick which pros make you can more envision yourself waking up to every day. Don't worry about corpora
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by mrchess 15y ago
Should make it so that I can get the github repo from the gitego page. EDIT: Just found the link on the graph. Tough find :P
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by mrchess 15y ago
Well, from this post you don't seem to love OPower. My personal thought is that if you join a startup or a small company, you should really love it. To me Microsoft seems like the clear bet. Higher pay, and smarter people. Spend your first
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by mrchess 15y ago
When you first meet a VC, he/she will be trying to assess whether you are looking for a home run, or would be content with an early exit... "how does your company get to make tens of millions a year" they want to know that you are seriousl
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by mrchess 15y ago
Part of the FizzBuzz test is to find out if the candidate is aware of modulo. :). But yeah it is %.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Some ruby code for those non-rubyists: (1..100) do |i| if i * 2 == 8 and i + 1 == 5 puts "foo" elsif i + 3 == 9 puts "bar" else puts i end end Not the solution, but all the syntax you'll need in t
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by mrchess 15y ago
It took me 2.5 months to interview start to finish with a several mil backed startup, and I had to constantly bother them to set up my interviews despite they had a person recruiting full time. Compare this with an top company in the valley
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by mrchess 15y ago
$1 + 20% equity. 20% equity is huge especially considering he will no longer work the project. That is 1/5th of the company.
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by mrchess 15y ago
You could do 1 survey @ 25c and charge them in 4s? I think $1/ea is a bit steep as well.
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by mrchess 15y ago
4 downvotes and no comment to even suggest why my thoughts might be off. This is why I love HN.
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by mrchess 15y ago
IMO 20% is very little steep to keep. Granted you launched the product, got lucky with press, and got some signups, but there is no clear way to make money, which is arguably the most difficult problem to solve. What if the correct business
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by mrchess 15y ago
Is it too late to do any sort of petition since the hearing is today?
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by mrchess 15y ago
Step 5, domain settings, completely killed the flow for me. Thought I'd be able to have a page up and running instantly, but nope, you need to wait for DNS/CNAME to resolve. You should have it subdomain off launchrock itself, ie. myapp.laun
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by mrchess 15y ago
"I have issues with the makeup of the team and the offer." No. If you join a young team, you guys had better be the best of friends or you're just asking for trouble.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Bummer how backbone is free, railscasts was free (and still is mostly free), backbone tutorials are free... where am I going with this I don't know. It is sound from a business perspective, but it goes against the grain of the community.

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