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by paulrademacher 13y ago
You'll be downvoted, but that was my reaction as well. This is just like mystartuphas30daystolive. It happens all the time on Reddit. No harm done... usually.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
That's pretty lame, argonaut. OP made an interesting analogy which I haven't seen before. He is setting the stage for further discussion. It's not like he ended his post with "QED."
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
> Swartz may have had a "legitimate political cause" but he sullied it (in my opinion) with illegal activities. Anonymous may also have a legitimate gripe but their actions were illegal and Hammond is now paying the price. That
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I understood his point to be that successful CEOs don't have time to blog about how to kick ass, or lessons learned running a company, or the usual self-promoting topics we see so much of here.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
> If you consider the number of people that want to lose weight, quit smoking, or get better at something, I’m probably wrong about the market size. It’s huge. Everyone wants to improve something (or everything!) about themselves. Most
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
This isn't malware. Malware is defined as software meant to disrupt or compromise your machine. This is fuckyou-ware. Software that serves a reasonable purpose, but does it with utter contempt for the user.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Director James Cameron: "Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I'm going for that." He said this to his then-wife :-)
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Yup this is obviously bullshit. If each LOC generated 16 bytes of native code, the executable would be 7.5GB.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
They hired some very good ones. Jeremy Ashkenas (Backbone, Underscore, Coffeescript) and Sam Clay (NewsBlur, DocumentCloud) were both there.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
What you call "noise" is the compiler catching a type-mismatch bug before it goes out into production.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
> see the parse tree and generated bytecode Make that a feature!
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
The examples compile super fast. How long did it use to take?
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Nope. The top engineers will be drastically more effective than the average developer, in ANY codebase. They take the time to understand it, and change things when necessary. I have seen this in every place I've worked.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Not a myth at all. I have seen this in real life many times. The engineer who finishes a task (correctly!) in 2 days instead of 2 weeks. Who fixes the system along the way. Whose code is readable and maintainable. Who doesn't get
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
His question was: where in the video are the facts?
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
> I have a shelf of unfinished projects and directories full of thousands of lines of unfinished code. You should complete the good projects and release them. Maybe it should be "Make and share."
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I installed a JavaScript but it conflicts with my RealPlayer plugin!
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
It's rude to post their questions online. How is this lost on people??
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I solve the "people think I'm doing email" problem by telling people: "I'm taking notes, not checking email" :-) Especially at interviews, so they know I'm really paying attention.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Lamy Safari + Noodler's ink + a Z24 converter
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
What's all this gunk about "startups aren't for everyone, they're HARD WORK"?? A big-company job is hard work too, if you're a driven person.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
> Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: Sarah Lacy |Link | The lessons are hidden. Between the lines, it’ it’s THE example of how the Valley press thinks. Read it as an observer, don’t take it at face value, but rather try and learn wh
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
These hardware projects emphasize the product look (and by implication the feel) way too much. The Edge here looks super slick, cool to the touch, and pleasantly heavy, with perfectly smooth edges. The same was true of Ouya and its contro
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
What "risk" should a new company incur with the landing page? Slick design won't get you return users, if the meat of the product isn't there.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Congrats on Mattermark making it into the list!
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
Although HN policy is to change the original post title if it is misleading, adding "[satire]" in this case ruins it. Please allow the smart HN community to discover for themselves what this post is trying to say.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
The proper way to appreciate this website is with Van Halen's "Right Now" in the background. Open this link in the background to see for yourself: http://grooveshark.com/s/Right+Now/3XdxpO
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
The real opportunity here is probably in the other direction: companies to feed the U.S. government's insatiable appetite for private data.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
I keep a can of Raid on my desk in case I find a bug in the software.
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by paulrademacher 13y ago
It could be a kind of "dojo" for hackers. You could even host tech talks and recruiting events there.

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