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by pgroves 15y ago
I am blown away by the number of people on HN and elsewhere who are posting about "how they must be doing it" and then calling it unimpressive or a technical dead end. Reading the blog post, I now know how Notch would approach building such
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by pgroves 15y ago
But did your supervisor ever ship a product that did it?
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by pgroves 15y ago
Something that really bothers me about the startup V.C. ecosystem is that I never read things like this from founders. There are lots of blog posts of horror stories about investors, usually from the point of view of other investors' (or pe
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by pgroves 15y ago
From the article: (Of course there are other Google-wide policies (e.g. egregious spamming, illegal activity, etc) that do apply to all Google products, and violations of these policies could in fact lead to a Google-wide suspension.) So
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by pgroves 15y ago
"Socially skilled" is similar to "good at picking up girls," so I guess I would agree because that's close to a tautology. I'm just saying that when a girl figures out you work 12 hours a day and live off of $25K a year, much of which comes
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by pgroves 15y ago
While I agree with the part about being a boring date and working too much to be interesting, he totally left out the part about being unattractive due to being completely broke.
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by pgroves 15y ago
Google says the algorithms have taught it valuable lessons...(start-ups located far from the venture capitalist’s office are more likely to be successful, probably because the firm has to go out of its way to finance the start-up.) Disagr
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by pgroves 15y ago
For any new technology (here, the example is social media), there is a natural evolution from closed to open standards. Early on, lots of proprietary code is modified as quickly as possible to see what works well in practice. Some companies
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by pgroves 15y ago
I want interoperability of social networks, not portability. Being able to share info across social media services would change the way social networks are used in a significant way for every user, every day. Portability is a backup plan yo
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by pgroves 15y ago
I'm a full time OCaml dev these days and I run into OCaml's 'lack of lightweight anonymous recursive functions' maybe three times a year. It costs 3 lines of code to declare the function (called loop() or whatever) and then call it. I've ne
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by pgroves 15y ago
The market wasn't there but I disagree that that means he should have started with little or no product. I forget who said it, but the best advice I've heard from a V.C. is that one of the biggest mistakes they see is founders going overboa
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by pgroves 15y ago
The Appleseed Project also has had the idea of Aspects/Circles for a while now. They call them...<dramatic pause>...'Circles.'
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by pgroves 15y ago
In a free market, the needs/wants of the consumer eventually overrides the desires of the producers. Sometimes it takes a long time, but it always happens eventually. Walmart is an excellent case study in why it's great to be a consumer in
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by pgroves 15y ago
I really think this is a great niche. I do some contract work (when not working on my startup :)) and I can remember creating my first proposal from scratch and being somewhat overwhelmed. Not because anything in particular was all that dif
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by pgroves 15y ago
I think this is a very worthwhile problem to solve. However... I don't think the basic premise of the interface is very helpful. Having to dial in an exact configuration to get any information is very cumbersome, and requires the user to sc
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by pgroves 15y ago
I appreciate how fast you moved through the content. The audio seems pleasantly paced but the visuals move too super fast. Especially the section where you're 'simply filling out a profile.' It was losing me and i can pretty well guess what
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by pgroves 15y ago
It's difficult, but you really need to move your parents to where you can get a good enough job to support and care for them. If your main concern is money, being willing to move anywhere is quite attractive to many employers (e.g. they nee
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New Ocaml Cheat Sheets from OcamlPro(ocamlpro.com)
28 points by pgroves 15y ago|1 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
Allowing datasets of arbitrary size is going to make things tough. My first thought is to keep the data as .csv files on Amazon S3 or some other persistent storage network. Getting a database tuned is tough even when you know what data you
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by pgroves 15y ago
"Your Highness, the people have no bread" Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake" "Mr Millionare, small businesses are struggling to make ends meet despite 80hr work weeks." DHH: "Let them relax by flying their private planes"
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by pgroves 15y ago
Is it a consumer or business app?
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by pgroves 15y ago
I love this word "foundational" you've introduced. My point is that entry level employees are typically just doing what they're told to by someone considered an expert. This low level work in any field provides context for what is important
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by pgroves 15y ago
University isn't worthless, merely wasted on the young. The most obvious example (to old people) is teaching history to 18 year olds who haven't experienced anything. I didn't really understand how the Vietnam War was possible until I saw
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by pgroves 15y ago
You could try to somehow monetize your data that describes who is paying for what services. Even if it's just blog posts with general graphs (like OkCupid) it could at least help your brand. For instance, ADP's employment statistics are as
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by pgroves 15y ago
I'll throw in my favorite under-rated characteristic of good programmers: the ability to throw away code you've worked hard on. Sometimes code that is well written, tested, and documented just isn't needed anymore or doesn't fit with new ch
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by pgroves 15y ago
I would add that as soon as anything in programming is well understood or becomes measureable, it is almost immediately automated as either a supporting tool or software library. The humans are necessarily just doing the stuff that hasn't b
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by pgroves 15y ago
I have not released the product I am building. I have been supporting myself doing contract work. My bad experience came when I was the first employee (not founder) at a VC backed startup. I was originally a developer but was promoted to be
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by pgroves 15y ago
I started my own company to get away from the do-anything-for-a-sale attitude of corporate america. I do not admire or respect AirBnb for this behavior. I don't care that it worked. I don't care if it was legal or not, it was dishonest. I k
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by pgroves 15y ago
What jumps out at me is that the community curves all peak in the months following May 2009, which is when the stock market bottomed. The community was least happy when the economy was at it's "darkest before the dawn" moment. In other word
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Elderly Japanese Volunteering at Fukushima(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments

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