ojbyrne

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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   I suddenly have this image of a programmer working while seated in one of those carnival dunk tanks. With a clock ticking away....
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   I didn't watch the video, but the first question I had was - wouldn't they have become VCs anyway? Harvard Business School, upper class background (right schools, right clubs, etc), probably a massive rolodex (Larry Summers at the very leas
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   I guess the first part is fair. But I think there will always be misconceptions between what programmers initially think, and reality. I'd actually prefer "simplifications" rather than misconceptions. Every product I've seen starts out pure
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   This is from 2006. Is it even still accurate?
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   Fair enough. The thing about women was actually something I was told happened after I left. Will edit the comment. Edit: sorry I missed the edit window.
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   Two things: First of all, this isn't programmer culture, it's executive culture. MVH got to the position he is in because his world view matchs the world view of executives and VCs in the industry. Second, I'm amazed that people can be crit
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   Matt arrived at digg in 2007 if I recall correctly. At that point the culture was being reshaped into what is described in the article. Also lots of women were hired - young, attractive women. And we all know how that worked out. The reason
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   But if you have enough of each group to fill one "shift" - then you can work seven days a week instead of six.
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   by ojbyrne 15y ago

   That would be a valid excuse. It was not the case.
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    If the $75 billion was revenue rather than worth, sure. Otherwise you're comparing a static number (FB's valuation) to a per year "flow" (GDP).
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    I think I've seen far worse. For example, I saw some code where the variables were a, b, c, d, e, f... z, a1, b1, c1...z1, etc. Never underestimate the willingness of programmers to obfuscate in the name of (supposed) job security.
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Children under 12 no longer have to remove their shoes. It's minor, but it is an example of them giving up a routine security screening practice (or at least modifying to be less intrusive). I think they're going to drop the removing shoes
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Oh please. You could fill a very large book with the stories of people who went to jail because, despite huge amounts of wealth, they did something insiderish for a few dollars more.
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Baltimore's downtown is surprisingly livable and walkable.
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Trying not to start a controversy or hijack this to an unrelated news story - but my first thought when the whole Trayvon Martin thing happened - the thing that alerts Neighborhood Watch types in bedroom communities isn't "walking while bla
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    I'm finding it challenging to find indications of "persistence." He did some coding at night for what sounds like a few months (this is the baseline effort for 99% of the people who live in Silicon Valley). Then he went to a party, where he
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    I don't really want to draw parallels, because I don't know anyone at Instagram, but this really feels like a standard Silicon Valley puff piece to make the newly wealthy insiderish person look like a renaissance man. I'm going to guess tha
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Management Science is a subdiscipline of management. Also known as Operations Research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    The way I parse it is he built something in html5, and showed it at a party.
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    And my point was that this guy is probably doing the exact same thing (that's how the essay started - talking about letting people use his photos), but isn't happy about it.
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Actually Trey Ratcliff licences his images CC non-commercial precisely so he can charge (or refuse permission) for this exact specific case.
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    "Alexa also considers Yahoo as a whole the #4 site (behind Google, Facebook, and Yahoo)" From looking at Alexa, I believe your second "Yahoo" should have been "YouTube."
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    A thought that occurred to me - another metric we use in the real word would be what I'm calling "solidness" or "weight." I.e. if you see a house and a similarly sized tent, the apparent difference we see between the two is weight - we can
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    "Foursquare may revoke your authentication credentials at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, and without liability to you or any other person" Sort of ... if you follow every single one of our rules to the letter
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-are-...
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    I guess the TSA now has to start psychologically screening pilots. Right?(fullcomment.nationalpost.com)

    1 points by ojbyrne 15y ago|0 comments
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    Microsoft raid targets cyber Mafia intel(money.cnn.com)

    4 points by ojbyrne 15y ago|0 comments
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Google is a corporation with tens of thousands of employees. In addition to that, the actions of the corporation are influenced by many outside organizations and individuals (competitors, regulators, customers, the list goes on). Even natur
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    Your comment basically suggests that the only difference between "new media" and "old media" is the editorial stance, which stories to emphasize and which to deemphasize. And "new media" essentially caters to the geek/science niche, while o
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    by ojbyrne 15y ago

    http://nytimes.com has a story on their front page, top middle.