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by pgroves 16y ago
IMO, the reason desktop linux never took off is that you need to draw developers to the platform, and developing desktop linux apps completely sucks. I recently wrote my first large gtk app and was appalled at how painful it was. Gtk has be
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by pgroves 16y ago
It's nice to see someone in the software industry finally realizing how the current trend of "release when you're embarrassed how bad it is" is destroying people's faith in the software industry. Soon any good will accumulated over the year
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My new blog on analytics, pattern exploitation, automated design(designbyrobots.com)
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by pgroves 16y ago
I think you should consider a sales job, even if that's not what you want to do long term. I was given the job of "technical guy on the sales team" at a startup and it was a good experience for a year or so even though I didn't want to make
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by pgroves 16y ago
The habit of cooking your own healthy meals is a fine way to improve your productivity in just an hour or two a day plus saturday mornings at the farmer's market. The problem is the hour or two a day, not the cost. There are a million ways
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by pgroves 16y ago
>Nope. The most effective habit of highly creative people is persistence, the ability to work and work and work while resisting burn-out. But if that persistence is applied to 8 hours a day of meetings and 3 hours of email, it wouldn't
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by pgroves 16y ago
This reflects a larger issue about project management: Do you want more people working a little on the project or a few top performers working at their absolute maximum productivity? If I was them I'd keep running the project in the way tha
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by pgroves 16y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I develop in ruby and ocaml on ubuntu, which both suffer this problem (I assume all languages do). As a user, I have no tolerance for dealing with dependency hell for things like a desktop pdf viewer or rss reader,
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Uh-Oh: Facebook’s Zuckerberg is Time Man of the Year(ritholtz.com)
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