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by rams 18y ago
"But social intelligence and emotional intelligence and creative ability, to name just three other forms, are not distributed preferentially among the educational elite." I used to wonder about the creativity bit at my previous startup job.
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Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer(blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com)
12 points by rams 18y ago|6 comments
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by rams 18y ago
Roundup - http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
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How to Promote Startups(aaronsw.com)
4 points by rams 18y ago|1 comments
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Don't use mod_python(wiki.python.org)
29 points by rams 18y ago|13 comments
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by rams 18y ago
Sounds like a good topic for an essay.
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by rams 18y ago
oops, I meant browsershots is GPLd, not browsershots.org
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by rams 18y ago
browsershots.org is GPLd and does cross browser testing. Uses Python.
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The Subprime Primer(docs.google.com)
1 points by rams 19y ago|0 comments
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by rams 19y ago
Coimbatore is located in Tamil Nadu where they speak Tamil, definitely not Hindi.
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by rams 19y ago
Thanks bonsaitree, we need a reality check once in a while.
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by rams 19y ago
Havoc Pennington makes a similar point in his essay "Working on Free Software" ( http://ometer.com/hacking.html ): "Eric Raymond's thoughts on this topic are here; his HOWTO describes how to join "hacker culture." The culture isn't really n
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by rams 19y ago
I remember reading in Nobel laureate S.Chandrasekhar's biography,that the Royal Society's records on Ramanujam would be made public.It's long past that date.I wonder what happened.
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Ideas at Google do not burst forth from the Heads of Geniuses(friendfeed.com)
24 points by rams 19y ago|3 comments
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by rams 19y ago
The headline is clearly over the top designed to get a few clicks. You don't get the stability or performance of products that have been around for a while overnight. If trying out new stuff is all you do then this might be the thing for yo
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by rams 19y ago
It's not just Microsoft researchers, even the developers and UI designers can make you cry - there are millions of users who will support me.
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by rams 19y ago
I haven't had a TV set now for two plus years. But you need to really have some effective alternatives, otherwise you end up wasting time on something else.
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by rams 19y ago
Agreed. It's a really sweet piece of work and proves that not very startup's product has to be web-based.;-)
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by rams 19y ago
Damn, I was working till recently for a virtualization startup! You sometimes wonder if Scott Adams hides inside closets or conference rooms to get this kind of insight. Or maybe it was just his tenure at Bell Atlantic or wherever he worked
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by rams 19y ago
"his recommendations at the end seem in tune with some of the ideas behind YC" My thoughts exactly. Sure hope the YC guys become rich enough to fund people beyond a couple of months. Right now their main value seems to be in the connection
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by rams 19y ago
It's probably one of the best posts about VCs. Very few people understand the Ivy leaguish, closed nature of the VC old boys network.
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by rams 19y ago
हिन्दी
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by rams 19y ago
இது தமிழ
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by rams 19y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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Dreaming in Code - Andy Hertzfeld Quotes(cycle-gap.blogspot.com)
11 points by rams 19y ago|8 comments
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by rams 19y ago
"the best way to get bought is to not be for sale." Worth it's weight in gold! The startup I worked for previously was so obsessed with making the right noises and preparing themselves to be acquired that they forgot all about usability, re
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Reddit: "merely a collection of trivia, narrow, shallow, and sensational"(lists.canonical.org)
2 points by rams 19y ago|0 comments
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by rams 19y ago
Webdav is really one of the really ugly design decisions of the Subversion project. WebDAV was initially promoted by Rational - if you closely study WebDAV, it is easy to notice similarities with Clearcase. Looks like it was a political cho
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5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber(andrewchen.typepad.com)
24 points by rams 19y ago|12 comments
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by rams 19y ago
Voting this up for 'The Black Swan' reference. The vicious tone of articles like this makes me wonder - is it because journalists never do/create anything, it's easy for them to comment about people who try out stuff. Thank God, I recognize

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