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A = F/m, So Keep Your Foot on the Gas(shoptalkapp.com)
96 points by mrshoe 17y ago|18 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I programmed exclusively in Java while getting my BS in CS, and I have programmed nearly exclusively in PHP since. How does this person have the audacity to criticize Python? And why are we all reading it? In a language whose core mantra
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I see this as being useful if you already have these two things: 1) A large PHP codebase and 2) A CPU-bound app with scaling issues If you're starting a new app, I don't see why you would choose PHP. And I think most web apps are database-b
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Ugh. The keyboard and popover menus in those pictures look like direct rips of Apple's tablet ( http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-fac... ). That Google would "show off" these concepts is a bit embarrassing, and tellin
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Google spends a lot of time tweaking their front page when they really should be working on their results page, which has stayed the same for about a decade now. Actually they spend a ton of time tweaking the results page, and there have
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The new and simple method was to use automatic saving and persistent data – but with iWork on the iPad as a serious content creation platform, this isn’t an option anymore. Why not? Can we not think outside the box even when we've been
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm proud to be a Lazy Python Programmer... but not lazy enough to skip "What's New in Python 2.5": def factorial(x): return x * factorial(x-1) if x > 1 else 1
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Rather than re-implement this it might be better to use an existing library. In Python, I've used pylevenshtein: http://code.google.com/p/pylevenshtein/ However, I've found the Jaro-Winkler distance to be more useful than the Levenshtein.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
And unless they're in a no-huddle offense, there is usually very close to 30 seconds between the tackle at the end of one play and the snap of the ball at the start of the next. So, if you enable the 30 second skip button on your TiVo, you
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I fail to see the irony here. Apple is not trying to stifle innovation and control absolutely everything we do with their devices. As he points out in the article, Apple is the biggest driving force behind open web standards and their imple
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The dog analogy is a bit off. Programmers are not like dogs. We can remember mistakes we made a year ago and still learn from them. You want a short feedback cycle, not because it's the only way your programmers will learn anything, but bec
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I would point to the current HTML5 video element debacle: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun... Patents are playing a large role in ensuring that what could be a wonderful thing for the web will almost certainly
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by mrshoe 17y ago
From Peter Farago, Flurry's VP of Marketing, in the blog comments: This is a fair question. We feel confident that we are looking at the tablet device for two main reasons, that I can share with you. Also note that, as a company, we have e
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I bet the 10.3% of internet users in Latin America represent a bigger business opportunity than the 14.6% in North America, due to the difference in market saturation.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I lived in Russia for two years. When I first moved there (I was 19) I went through the painful experience of being immersed in a foreign language. For a couple of months I couldn't express myself clearly, if at all. I couldn't put more tha
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by mrshoe 17y ago
When you say "server based searching" I assume you mean things like Google's web search. It's fast because they dedicate tens of thousands of machines to storing the index and executing the queries. They can do that because their millions o
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Any idea how he acquired that twitter account and for how much?
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Death to Filesystems(shoptalkapp.com)
33 points by mrshoe 17y ago|16 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Since he never answers the most burning question ("how much equity should I expect?"), I'll throw out some numbers based on my experience: If you're being hired as a C-level executive, you might expect up to 2% - 3%. If you're being hired a
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Every once in a long while I need to collaborate on some sort of document with my coworkers, but the vast majority of the time I just want chat. As you point out, Wave's UI is horrible for chat. That's why we're building http://shoptalkapp
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by mrshoe 17y ago
What will it take to switch. Why does he need anyone to switch? This competitor has just launched their product. That means they have very few users and almost no brand recognition. 99.9% of the world will have no idea who launched first
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Don't miss George Orwell's take on this subject: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The character limit is not the bottleneck. Twitter-like services aren't good at conversation because of the latency . Everyone here has experienced chat/IM. The reason you can have an actual conversation there is that it's rapid-fire. That
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by mrshoe 17y ago
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection I see two big features here: 1) Recognizable URLs, and 2) analytics. Do all HTTP requests need to go through bit.ly to achieve these features? Nope. http://ny
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I guess this poor commenter can take the downvotes as a "no" answer to his question?
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by mrshoe 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972346
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, here's a mind bender for you: we should be grateful to that asshole. The insurance company is paying his salary because it costs them less than would the care that he manages to deny. If he didn't exist, the i
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Google Zeitgeist 2009(google.com)
1 points by mrshoe 17y ago|0 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
This interview is from a couple years ago, but the article gives no indication of that aside from this note at the very bottom in italics: This article was originally published on the User Interface Resource Center (UIRC). For more info, p
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I would hope that engineering positions at financial companies require an interview process similar to that of Google's (although in practice my hunch is that they're not as strenuous, like you said), but my comment and the article aren't r

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