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by ritchiea 12y ago
Is Facebook today that unlike those enterprise companies? How much freedom do designers have to experiment?
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by ritchiea 12y ago
When you say naively formed, what does that mean exactly? A lot of your post was dedicated to correcting DHH's TDD history. I appreciate the hard work and attention to detail but I don't actually think when the idea of ultra-fast
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by ritchiea 13y ago
My guess is that walking around a city or a forest is more helpful to creativity because of the gradual change in environment. And there is a lot of evidence environment has significant effects on thinking and behavior. Other studies have f
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by ritchiea 13y ago
He also insulted the nyc.rb list afterwards. And if that's not bad enough he had previously called another dev a "fag" in an exchange about recruiting: http://seldo.tumblr.com/post/10140794798/tech-r
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Not only did this guy, who works out of NYC post a tasteless ad, he insulted the ruby email list afterwards. And sent personal threats to myself and at least one other dev. And if that's not bad enough he had previously called another
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Tech Recruiter Posts Sexist Ad for Ruby Dev(medium.com)
10 points by ritchiea 13y ago|4 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
As a verb waffle has the same meaning in American English but the images of waffles on their landing page make it clear they are going for the food. For me at least it's easy to not jump back and forth between meanings of waffle once I
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I agree the landing page is confusing though I believe it's called waffle.io because kanban cards create a grid pattern & waffles also have a grid pattern.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well put until you got to Spiegel. He made something a lot of people value, and I have been impressed with his public comments. That said the comparison to college admissions is incredibly apt.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
There's not much job security elsewhere either
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A Complete Guide to Raising Seed Capital(slideshare.net)
3 points by ritchiea 13y ago|1 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Even with pot being illegal a lot of my friends started smoking in their early teens. You can't solve that with regulation (and I'm not a hacker libertarian, I think some issues should be addressed with regulation).
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Thinking about this another way, if the company shoots up in value immediately even 10% of your equity grant could mean a significant payout if the company is following the rest of Sam's advice by offering above market percentages and
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I tend to downvote when someone is mean spirited, overly pedantic or takes the discussion off topic in an unproductive manner. Or if it appears that the commenter has not read and considered the comments/article that preceded his/
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Question for you or Python users in general: Why web.py over flask or django?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Reading those pieces and taking the advice seriously are entirely different things. For instance I knew two non-technical founders with a company who were outsourcing their app and had no users and were shocked they didn't get an inter
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by ritchiea 13y ago
The YC partners have written extensively on what they are looking for in startups and what impresses them. As have many of the companies that have been accepted. pg has even participated in the comments here on those sorts of articles and b
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Let's be clear here. He's not saying "do this, it's in your benefit." That would be cause for skepticism because Mark is a VC in competition with other VCs. What he's saying here is that some firms engage in a
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well put. Also the advice he's offering doesn't even seem to be that self serving. The takeaway is be wary about getting to a point in a VC-deal where you have no leverage and the other party may still change the terms. That'
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I don't think I said anything like that. All I said is there is a culture that embraces the sort of risky investment that VCs make & that hedge funds are comparable investments. Let's take a reasonable definition of a bubble:
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Isn't the crazy thing that it can go on? There's enough money at the top of the economy that the rich can keep investing in startups as an asset class and not really feel the losses even though they seem huge to those of us who ge
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by ritchiea 13y ago
You're missing the point that every pretty much every organization has people hanging on because they need the money, this is incentive to get some of those people to move on, not to eliminate the possibility of employees ever hanging
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by ritchiea 13y ago
This is genius. Many people feel stuck in jobs they don't like for financial reasons. They're surely not as productive as they could be if they were happier. Providing even a small bit of assistance to help them out the door helps
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I would also love to hear what your product is and how you're succeeding.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Actually if you read the entire article it addresses the fact that while UPS finds most left turns inefficient there are some instances where their routing software recommends a left turn.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Sounds like your friend with multiple doctorates has put himself in situations where he has time to not use libraries, rather than the necessity of shipping everything asap.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Writing. Seeing art. Running. Biking. Photography. Chess.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I have grown a lot in the last few months by consulting library code & documentation first when I hit a road block & only turning to Google/Stackoverflow if I hit a weird error message I don't understand or shit really hit
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by ritchiea 13y ago
That's not my intention at all. I'm not saying anyone is good or bad. In fact I specifically say stop & frisk is a violation of the rights of those who are stopped. You seem to be assuming because I say it's a class issue
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Correct, it may be unconstitutional but I believe the case is still in court and for now it is still policy in NYC. Since it is current NYC city policy and has not yet been definitively ruled unconstitutional I think it's fair to call

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