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by pfarrell 9y ago
The spelling in old written text, makes me think of the way the Canterbury Tales is comprehensible, but at the same time feels like I'm reading something foreign. Also love how, even 300 years ago, people couldn't avoid leaving am
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by pfarrell 9y ago
I like this idea of the bottom right quadrant being where you want to hire. I've been advocating the same notion in my startup. We want to build a team where people grow into top talent, not try to hire them in. This also lines up with
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by pfarrell 9y ago
TIL. I don't subscribe to the typical Silicon Valley youth cult, but it is incredible to think of what some individuals can acheive at such a young age. Paul McCartney writing "Yesterday" at 21 alway sticks in my mind. Welle
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by pfarrell 9y ago
Was it Steve Blank's "The Secret History of Silicon Valley"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
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by pfarrell 9y ago
Exactly [1,2,3,4,5].select{|x| x%2 == 0} If I were interviewing a a Ruby dev, anything other than Array#select indicates lack of experience.
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by pfarrell 9y ago
I'm sure I'm the 1,000,000th person to say this, but that's a dalek v1 if I ever saw one. I don't have any issues with a company having a security camera to monitor and respond to loitering or criminal activity but this
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by pfarrell 9y ago
Well said.
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by pfarrell 9y ago
Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it. - Thomas Carlyle
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by pfarrell 9y ago
Google Wave comes to mind. Great tech, but marketed to the wrong group (developers) and didn't solve any problems I had at the time.
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by pfarrell 9y ago
Search "google dutch auction ipo"
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by pfarrell 10y ago
Welcome to Hacker News. Take your humor elsewhere.
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Thank you Roger for a well written post. It captured my sentiments in an analogy about complexity and chaos and value. I've been a reader of HN for a long time. I am not am industry thought leader. I'm one of the nameless horde of
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I used to sit in with a folk band comprised of some guys who'd been in the music business since the sixties. I once told my mentor that it seemed to me that general talent and musicianship seemed to be higher in artists in the 1960s an
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by pfarrell 13y ago
>Learning is simply better when you have to write things down. Definitely true for me. As an undergraduate, I found the following method to be most successful. I attended every class, transcribed the lecture in my own words as it was tau
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Michaelochurch, always enjoy your take on things. Maybe I'm being too simplistic. I think the VCs want to mentor young founders because the younger they are, the more chances they get to found/fail before life starts calling to t
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I think Bill Murray deserved an oscar for "Big Ern" in Kingpin. Maybe it was the timing of when I saw it, but some of the improv pieces he did with Harrelson cut deeper and redefined where comedy could go. The Wes Anderson stuff t
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by pfarrell 13y ago
For n large enough, this visual based solution would not suffice. Light based communication is the fastest on the universe but not instantaneous. Imagine there exists a line of soldiers, 96 million miles long,... -Or- Imagine there exist n
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by pfarrell 13y ago
1 terabyte is definitely small data. There's only one company consistently doing big data and that's, of course, the goog. I like the dynamic definition that big data is only what is not easily handled by existing tools. The tools
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by pfarrell 13y ago
American bureaucracy doesn't have the ability to deliver state level websites/applications. It will take several iterations for such a huge federal website with so many competing interests to take shape. /naive but hopeful
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by pfarrell 13y ago
"Though we spent hours debating the pros and cons of naming Osama bin Laden, it ultimately became easy to dismiss him," said managing editor Jim Kelly. "He is not a larger-than-life figure with broad historical sweep ... he i
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I agree that reinventing solutions to problems is definitely in the domain of the hacker. When learning a new skill, however, you should understand what the common approach is before re-discovering the work of others. The article is about
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by pfarrell 13y ago
What useragent string did your browsing generate?
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by pfarrell 13y ago
You definitely pay for gmail. Paraphrasing Heinlein, you pay for it other than with money.
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by pfarrell 13y ago
the 12th fibonacci number is 144. Assume some of the sheep didn't make it through a winter or that one of the dogs attacked some of them and had to be put down. So, 125 sheep left from a potential of 144 after 12 years of shepherding
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Mention of the database, no matter the popularity, are signals of its use and the activity of it's community. I guess it depends if you consider the definition of popularity as whether it's liked, or whether it's deployed an
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by pfarrell 13y ago
A P2P CDN without Amazon (or any corporation or government) able to control it? It may not be technically revolutionary, but stopping the concentration of power could reduce the threat of the Internet becoming the tool of fascism. That woul
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by pfarrell 13y ago
And Ken Thompson? http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Some of the most brilliant people I've worked with are satisfied by the work, without needing lots of self-promotion. "The Story of Mel" is both inspiring and humbling. A "real programmer" http://www.pbm.
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I think a possible HN title for this should have been, "Hoosier tried to Hack Math." I spent most of my life in Indiana and we used to mock this situation in math class. Nice to see more of the details on what happened. Reminds me
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Well a little ddg-ing and I got my answer. Looks like notifo is no longer.

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