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by reuven 10y ago
Israel has a great high-tech sector. I have enjoyed it for more than 20 years, and continue to be a part of it as a consultant. It's amazing to see how many companies are here, big and small. And for engineers, it's shocking to
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Leadpages makes its first deal, adding e-mail automation provider Drip(startribune.com)
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This 'ambiguous cylinders’ illusion is blowing my tiny mind(theverge.com)
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by reuven 10y ago
I have seen variations on this so, so many times over the years. "Why use that generic version, when we can roll our own?" Without a dedicated team, you're then stuck implementing and maintaining something on your own, whil
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Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says(nytimes.com)
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The Challenging New Economics of Journalism(digitalnewsreport.org)
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by reuven 10y ago
Yes, this is my greatest regret and problem with Slack: Someone could have made amazing IRC clients (and servers), and kept it open to the world. It's a shame that a solved problem with open-source tools has been turned into a billion
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by reuven 10y ago
When Slack first came out, and everyone got all excited about it, I was quite skeptical. I've been using Skype (and lots of other IM systems) for years; do I really want or need something new? The answer, for me at least, was yes: Sla
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My Portfolio Company CEO Had a Baby (OMG)(medium.com)
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by reuven 10y ago
I agree that a PhD at a good US institution is full time. But there were people in my program who got off relatively easy: A professor would basically say, "Here's some data I've collected over the years. Do some new analysi
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by reuven 10y ago
You can do a part-time PhD; I'm living proof of it. But that doesn't mean it's easy or recommended. I did it while married with two kids, and a third born in the middle. I effectively worked on it part time, because I was c
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by reuven 10y ago
Absolutely. I use Bitbucket for a variety of small, personal projects. And when I teach Git courses, I use Bitbucket to illustrate (and practice) pull, push, and pull requests (among other things). Sometimes people wonder why I'm n
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Silicon Valley’s newest trend:Realizing its most insane perks aren’t sustainable(qz.com)
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GNL is Not Linux(queue.acm.org)
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by reuven 10y ago
Wow. I took 6.001 as an undergrad at MIT. It changed my view of software forever. Years later, I now spend most of my time training programmers at hi-tech companies in Python. The ideas that I got from 6.001 are pervasive in my training,
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by reuven 11y ago
My wife has an iPhone 4. She's not a technical person; she just wants a phone and some apps. She has no interest in upgrading. Moreover, her iPhone 4 was the first smartphone in our family. Since she got her phone (and stuck with it
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by reuven 11y ago
I keep hearing great things about Stripe. But I live and work outside of the US (in Israel), so I can't use them. I'm also interested in Stripe alternatives, particularly those that can work with companies that aren't based
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Sitting Is Bad for You. So I Stopped. For a Whole Month.(nymag.com)
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by reuven 11y ago
No, the story that I read indicated that the North Koreans brought Western visitors to a department store, to demonstrate how great North Korea's economy was. This Western visitor noticed that after people exited the store, they immedi
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by reuven 11y ago
What's arrogant and condescending about feeling bad for a country in which people don't have enough to eat, where every house needs to have pictures of the country's founder and his son, and in which punishments for even mino
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by reuven 11y ago
I'm always fascinated to read about North Korea. I feel so incredibly bad for the people who live there, who either know how bad things are (and can't do anything about it) or don't know (and thus don't care). In some
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Startup Podcast, Season 3: Almost Famous(gimletmedia.com)
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by reuven 11y ago
The O'Reilly cookbooks are sort of like Stack Overflow: There's a problem, and you get a solution to that problem. Along the way, you might be lucky enough to learn something of how regexps work, and then apply that knowledge to
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Show HN: Practice Makes Regexp, a workbook to master regular expressions(practicemakesregexp.com)
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by reuven 11y ago
I read this article and said, "Yup, that sounds like a lot of startups I've worked with." I should say with , and not for . I've been a freelancer for 20 years, and while I love to help my clients succeed, and I defin
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by reuven 11y ago
I have several reactions to this report. First of all, I think it demonstrates that American university tuition is way too high. So much of that money goes toward things like sports teams, climbing walls, emotional support dogs, and other
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by reuven 11y ago
I sympathize with the author: I'm Jewish, and read the Narnia books when I was a kid. I absolutely loved them, and read them all multiple times -- except for the last one, which I never understood, and which struck me as completely we
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by reuven 11y ago
When I finished my PhD at Northwestern, part of the university's procedure involved going to the ProQuest Web site. ProQuest is a journal and dissertation publishing company. They asked if I wanted my dissertation to be available, fre
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by reuven 11y ago
I'm frustrated that Netflix is cracking down in this way. And yet, I can't say that I'm surprised. They are trying to amass as much content as possible, and doing so means that Netflix has to demonstrate that they're t
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Thoughts on America(medium.com)
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