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by ritchiea 12y ago
Well it depends on what pg wants doesn't it? If his priority with his writing is to continue leveraging the YC brand then he should certainly write under his own name. And there are dozens of other reasons to write under his own name s
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Planet Money 588: The Technology Tango, 3 stories about pivots(npr.org)
1 points by ritchiea 12y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
It seems like there was a short period of time when Uber & Lyft cars in NYC were just anyone with a car and the app but over the last few months that seems to have ended. I can't remember the last time I wasn't in a very nice,
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Funny how Ornette Coleman is the subject of the interview but all of the discussion here is about Derrida.
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by ritchiea 12y ago
If you bill by the day how do you manage expectations of how much of that day goes to client work? Particularly if the work is onsite? I would like to stop billing by the hour but I fear if I bill by the day I'll get "well my days
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by ritchiea 12y ago
It is also possible that by emphasizing negative news they have built an audience that is seeking negative news and it may be an entirely different audience who wants to read the positive stuff. Spend one day on positive news, they lose the
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The Worst Product Ever Made (from a 1M+ Kickstarter)(youtube.com)
4 points by ritchiea 12y ago|0 comments
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Google Blocks Downloads of Glasswire Network Monitoring Tool(blog.glasswire.com)
10 points by ritchiea 12y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Really? The cost of real estate in Bushwick has gone through the roof over the last 10 yeas and particularly in the last 5. When I moved to Bushwick 6 years ago my the rent for my 3 bedroom apartment was 1800, there were other options in th
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Is it oversimplified for a short article? Maybe if it were an a longer or academic piece I would agree with you. But the focus of the article is how individuals deal with bias against social groups they belong to moreso than which groups ar
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by ritchiea 12y ago
I understand why you may be serious when you say this, but the authors are hand waving when they talk about white privilege because it's long winded and tangential to the experience of the individuals profiled to explain that Asian and
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by ritchiea 12y ago
This 100%, but also OP says due to the nature of the timeline of the project he cannot review all of the commits, this leads me to ask: what are your developers' timelines for delivering work like? Equally important, what do they feel
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by ritchiea 12y ago
I'm curious what kind of help you're looking for. I actually find it a bit odd when I hear over and over that others "offering help" is a strength of SV. Mostly because you really need to do two things, 1) make a product
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by ritchiea 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or New York City/Brooklyn I am a Javascript & Ruby on Rails developer. I have been doing web development for over six years, starting with Wordpress & HTML+CSS and moving three years ago to mostly (but not
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Did you attend a liberal arts college? Because regurgitating the professor isn't at all what happened at the one I attended. Every student was required to do independent research. As for whether learning critical thinking in the libera
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by ritchiea 12y ago
I was not suggesting that liberal arts degrees are worthless, I have one. It's been extremely valuable. What I mean is: part of liberal arts education, especially at the most liberal artsy institutions (University of Chicago, Swarthmor
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by ritchiea 12y ago
That's funny because I don't think my computer science classes taught me much about programming (other than learning about deterministic finite automatons) or thinking and the best preparation I had for real world programming came
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by ritchiea 12y ago
This is absurd. The idea that a university should teach you to think rather than teach you job skills isn't a new idea, it's the core principle of a traditional liberal arts education. Visit virtually any liberal arts college in t
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The Football Genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald(online.wsj.com)
15 points by ritchiea 12y ago|1 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Ok but what about when companies like Uber break the law and it's celebrated? Or when the law gets changed to protect existing companies from competition like Tesla's competitors have been successfully lobbying for?
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Is this news? There have been studies for years showing Oxytocin (and also Vasopressin) is an important neurotransmitter in feelings of affection. I imagine the degree of the effect could be interesting, but I suspect this was voted up beca
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Published October 2006, a little over 2 years after Facebook was founded and there are zero mentions of Facebook here.
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by ritchiea 12y ago
My guess is most people go with the first search result for weather + zip code which is usually weather.com.
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by ritchiea 12y ago
She's not talking to some faceless group or venting in a vacuum, she's on a website that is a community of programmers. The plumbers have every right to think I'm an effete nerd, but if someone tells me my misogynist behavior
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by ritchiea 12y ago
That's a pretty rude and condescending response. Feeling excluded from a particular culture is very different from expecting a task or learning a skill to be easy. Imagine trying to learn a new skill and finding that your peers & s
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Oh my god it is exactly like that. As though pushing spreadsheets at Goldman has anything to do with building a software product. But they know that, they just want you to know they worked at Goldman. Because Goldman. I once worked under a
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by ritchiea 12y ago
We need more of this. I played baseball and basketball and yes, I also played chess. I'm not an introvert (although I do love alone time). This narrow idea of what traits a good programmer has is the fault of Eric Raymond who when desc
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How Rebounds Work(grantland.com)
69 points by ritchiea 12y ago|12 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
They have an excellent 404 page, see here: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/foobar/
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by ritchiea 12y ago
What does managing careers of subordinates mean? Sorry to ask a basic question but most of my experience is at startups that barely have structure to the team. What specifically should managers be doing to support their team members's

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