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Touching story about Wheeler(cosmicvariance.com)
1 points by rguzman 19y ago|0 comments
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by rguzman 19y ago
Are you guys running your own web server? If so why? It would seem to me that apache wouldn't have garbage collection problems.
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by rguzman 19y ago
I think the idea is to have small units instead of one large bureaucratic tree or similar structure. That way each unit can exert the necessary social pressure. Like Hates_ 13 says, semco is pretty large and it grew and continues to run ef
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by rguzman 19y ago
Thank you. I've been meaning to read something by him but haven't put any thought into which book I should start with. I care mostly that it goes into detail about implementing what he preaches and keeps the pontificating to a minimum.
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by rguzman 19y ago
Obviously. But in a software company, specially a startup, if you don't have good people you were doomed before you started. On the other hand, the whole democracy thing and the employees having stake on the company may even take care of or
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by rguzman 19y ago
This is true in some instances, but not generally. I think most advances are made gradually by very experienced people who understand exactly why things are "unsolvable" and what paths may be more fruitful. Secondly, it is doubtful that a s
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by rguzman 19y ago
It seems to me that if a company which manufactures a "solid product" can be run that way it must be possible to run a software company this way. An interview with Semler: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gJkOPxJCN1w
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Is this a good way to run a software company? [13 min vid](youtube.com)
12 points by rguzman 19y ago|10 comments
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by rguzman 19y ago
Could Madrid become the "valley" of Europe? Erepublik and Fon are both based in madrid. I imagine there are others? Does anybody know? http://erepublik.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/12/erepublik-combines-mmog... http://fon.com
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by rguzman 19y ago
Agreed on all accounts. I think most facebook users think of it as essential enough to pay something as high as $2-10 per month to use it or some set of premium services. That's a good $100M at least monthly. Of course, making the transit
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by rguzman 19y ago
Trac is also good. http://trac.edgewall.org/
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by rguzman 19y ago
http://xkcd.com/353/ Now more intelligently. It is very expressive (little code says a lot) and the code is really easy to read. If you already know how to program it takes a few hours to get your feet wet and from there the "batteries i
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by rguzman 19y ago
Thank you, this was informative. I'll believe you about the sources. Who are the two geniuses? I've heard the block of text at a time thing before. In fact, I even think most people who I know that read significantly faster than me do so th
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by rguzman 19y ago
I go back and forth between trying to read between the two styles. It mostly has to do with whether I'm trying to read to "savor the language" or to gather information. I'm definitely not willing to skim through Howl, but if I get the point
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by rguzman 19y ago
I will try this next time I'm reading for leisure. BTW: good luck on your YC application ;)
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by rguzman 19y ago
The reason to find shortcuts is that there is a vast amount of information out there and limited amounts of time you can devote to learn it. I am not trying to do it less carefully, I would like to do it more efficiently. To put in perspec
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by rguzman 19y ago
Unless Israel became a member of the EU the Tel-Aviv startup hub probably does not have too great a benefit for Europe. For a startup hub to affect a country (maybe throw in some quotes for Europe), it seems to me that the following are nec
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by rguzman 19y ago
Yeah, that's why I excluded "technical" materials. You have to read those with pencil&paper and/or a terminal. However, I think there would be some benefit in being able to read things like novels or simple non-fiction quickly.
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Ask YC: Speed reading?
17 points by rguzman 19y ago|39 comments
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by rguzman 19y ago
A more useful piece of data would perhaps be the ratio of entrants to the software industry to the demand for them and a projection of this number to 5,10 and 15 years. For instance, the percentage of freshmen majoring in physics is abysma
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A tale of two geeks(infoproc.blogspot.com)
2 points by rguzman 19y ago|0 comments
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by rguzman 19y ago
No matter what you don't want to hire someone who would take a bad deal. So you should make sure you aren't offering one. So, suckers are ruled out.