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by mryall 16y ago
You definitely want to have a proper shareholder agreement and make sure any amateur investors understand the terms of it before going ahead. Some potential problems: investors not understanding what kind of shares they have (probably non-v
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by mryall 16y ago
Flagged: the link is broken.
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by mryall 16y ago
Many companies need to scale up people as they grow because their ratio of human involvement to revenue produced isn't as high as 37signals'. Almost anything other than the specific style of product development that you guys do falls into t
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by mryall 16y ago
The problems started when they forgot this rule for senior management and made the CEO a sales guy instead of an engineer.
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by mryall 16y ago
> access to shared variables leads to race conditions ... Race conditions are a type of programmer error, not an invariable consequence of shared state. You seem to be implying that high concurrency increases the risk of race conditions
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by mryall 16y ago
A guidelines link in the header would be a good idea.
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by mryall 16y ago
It's interesting to argue that you should 16px fonts because that's the browser default size and browser vendors must have had a good reason, then in the next section argue that the default line-height is too small and needs to be increased
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by mryall 16y ago
> Why they didn't go all the way and advocate fusion powered cars is beyond me. Isn't that what the hydrogen is for? <g>
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by mryall 16y ago
Energy can't be created or destroyed, just transformed from one form to another. So nothing is really an energy source. I'd say "energy source" is the vernacular for stored energy, in terms of where humans source their energy for machinery,
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by mryall 16y ago
This would be susceptible to the same problems as Chris mentions in his post: > Companies like TapJoy let you pay to get in the Top 25, and then once you are there you can get “organic” downloads by being on the toplists. If they can ar
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by mryall 16y ago
Good idea. The benefits of user flagging was one of the more interesting points from Matt Haughey's presentation at SXSW a couple of weeks ago. The entire thing is well worth watching actually: http://vimeo.com/21043675
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by mryall 16y ago
A more difficult question is how you solve problems in a gigantic marketplace like the App Store. Better verification of sellers? Verification of review comments? Limiting cross-linking of apps? Tougher review process by Apple? All of these
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by mryall 16y ago
Oh, cool. The linked article about the rotary shutter also has a great animation showing how the camera works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_disc_shutter
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by mryall 16y ago
It's a good reminder that with ubiquity comes an increased focus on security. I'm much more conscious of the security problems with Flash after a lot of recent news about it. However, it isn't necessarily because it's any less secure than o
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by mryall 16y ago
That doesn't seem like it could be true. The film is rolling through the camera, and if the shutter were open continuously, the entire film would be a vertical blur of light. The shutter would open and close once per frame, so the film can
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by mryall 16y ago
I think people will start to see that social networks don't add that much value to their lives, and they'll just stop using them. Maybe they'll meet up with friends for a chat, instead of sitting at home talking to each other online.
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by mryall 16y ago
One of my colleagues has a very strict rule that he does not become friends with current work colleagues on Facebook or any other social network. Seems like a good idea to me, although there is sometimes a blurry line when you work with som
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by mryall 16y ago
Surfacing good links is part of the attraction of HN. Taking away the karma benefit for link sharing would lessen the incentive to share articles that don't actually need any discussion.
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by mryall 16y ago
Ah yes, I had forgotten that resubmission counts as additional votes. I agree - it's not an ideal situation if posts get on the home page purely from automated submissions.
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by mryall 16y ago
Do you mention it in your resume or cover letter? We try to look up information about people (blogs, open source contributions, etc.) before or between interview rounds, but it depends on how much the candidate pushes it and how much time t
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by mryall 16y ago
Jacques, perhaps you could configure your blog so you can choose to submit your own posts automatically to HN when you post them? That might reduce the tendency of people to try to rush and post them first, assuming the majority of posts ar
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, Google supports the sitemaps standard but that doesn't really cater for content as dynamic as Stack Overflow's. The last-updated format is a day rather than a timestamp, for example, making it useless for very-frequently updated conte
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by mryall 16y ago
Well, the necessity of scraping that much content would depend on how often it is being updated. There must be only a few thousand active pages on Stack Overflow on any given day, so executing a million-plus page views per day seems a bit o
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by mryall 16y ago
Wow, that's a great article. Perhaps even more interesting because of Github's growth in the three years since it was written. I wonder if he didn't publish it because he started with the idea of publishing ten lessons. Might have been be
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by mryall 16y ago
I've heard good things about them too. Probably just some broken widget between my desk in Sydney and their servers somewhere in North America. I'm kind of interested in the way many of those large-scale sites have to prioritise availabilit
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by mryall 16y ago
You're quite a bit early. Or perhaps, 559 years too late.
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by mryall 16y ago
The original written by Leonardo da Vinci is here: http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum... The site also took an extremely long time to respond for me, which was kind of amusing given the content when it finally di
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, they need an attachment to pick the ball up and start again. I'm sure they're just dying to get rid of the slow human component of their game so they can play faster.
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by mryall 16y ago
Interesting. Do you use only creative-commons-licensed material or do the terms of Flickr's "copyright" license actually allow this use? It seems to me that embedding an image on another site, even with a copyright notice, would be reproduc
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by mryall 16y ago
I guess it depends on whether Dropbox think they could implement the same storage service cheaper themselves. S3 actually offers a lot . They have at least four nines availability (and I think you can pay for more), a ridiculously high dur

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