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by rsbrown 16y ago
I'm a participant in this same program in Memphis, TN (look for my "Show HN" post in the near future). The focus has been on strong mentorship and an intense schedule of customer discovery and product development. I'm proud of my hometown f
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Ron Burk: 3 Strange Definitions of Computer Programming from Edsger Dijkstra(youtube.com)
1 points by rsbrown 16y ago|0 comments
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Brilliant, simple and well executed. No wonder they raised an angel round so quickly. I'm jealous... and maybe a little inspired.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Not originally, it didn't. It appears to have been added as a subsequent edit.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
It's not at all clear from this post that the coder will get any equity for their 3-month stint. Having said all that, this is a pretty cool deal for a young person right out of school with no job prospects. EDIT: Removed my skepticism abou
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by rsbrown 16y ago
"If you hire a programmer who is asking for $500 a month or more, then you will most likely be getting a real top notch developer with tons of experience and who can do ANYTHING with minimal supervision." Dear author, this is a very, very d
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by rsbrown 16y ago
... with your payments system? At any rate, happy to talk: scott (at) marksmenus.com EDIT: Ah, I'm guessing you're thinking for FaceCash? Sounds good -- shoot me an email!
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Just so you know, the reasons why a decent payments solution has not emerged are not technical in nature. For significant change to occur in the payments space, a business model to rival Visa must be developed and led by someone with the po
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by rsbrown 16y ago
As much as I disdain their movement, the Tea Partiers are proving you wrong. It's no coincidence that 75% of this group are 45 years or older. As we all know, the elder demographic votes in large and reliable numbers. This is how they're re
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by rsbrown 16y ago
David Foster Wallace said better than I: "If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and wh
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by rsbrown 16y ago
My guess is that if you'd already heard of WePay before yesterday, you weren't the target audience for this publicity stunt.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
I hope the Mac App Store is not "just like shopping the App Store on iPad", because I've found the organizational approach of the iPad App Store to be very frustrating.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
I really like the looks of your product so far. If you offered the option of financing the purchase for the consumer, that would be a huge value proposition. I imagine the dealerships would not like this, but I urge you to consider it for t
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Talk about sour grapes. Industry standard game design has been terrible for many, many years and it's not Zynga's fault.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
In my opinion, this is another in a long line of companies over the years that have underestimated the importance of the role of technology in their business. Furthermore, even companies that are technology-based will still struggle if they
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Sorry, my question was unclear. Why do traditional chain designs only have the chain on one side? If symmetrical designs are more efficient (as the article claims) why couldn't the same thing be accomplished with a chain/belt design? EDIT:
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Also, there's no explanation of the symmetrical aspect of the design. I'm intrigued by it, but other than vague allusions to its superiority over asymmetrical designs no analysis is given. So, I ask HN: why aren't chain/belt bike designs sy
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Mr. McClure's hyperbole about goon squads aside, his public assertion about the nature of the meeting holds a lot more water for me than the frantic whisperings of anonymous sources.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Relatively harmless as viruses go, so I have to admit to being a bit excited at watching a little bit of internet history unfold. EDIT: mea culpa, you're quite right -- the potential for this is disastrous in terms of CSRF attacks and so on
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by rsbrown 16y ago
I don't support piracy, but this bill definitely makes me uncomfortable. Besides being censorship of free speech, it bothers me when the U.S. government expends so much effort and financial resources to protect corporate assets. Don't get m
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by rsbrown 16y ago
I appreciate it. We'll post a follow-up after we clean up the UI and get a second round of opinions. The team currently consists of tech/business talent -- no designers. And it shows.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Just one quick UI suggestion: Rather than have the user typing onto the end of the URL, make the field something like "name your Brainstorm" and just have the user enter their moniker. Display the resulting URL using js below the field. I w
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by rsbrown 16y ago
If this is your site (wasn't clear from the submission), I have one suggestion: Your slogan "Matching Entrepreneurs and Ideas" is in the page title but not on the page anywhere. I think that line does a good job telling what the site is abo
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by rsbrown 16y ago
For me, it's simply about what makes me happy. I have worked both for startup companies and large corporate entities. While the corporate world does offer some sense of security and reliability (and that is tempting to me sometimes, even no
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I had no idea Knuth was published in Mad Magazine(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rsbrown 16y ago
My only disagreement with Jobs on this issue would be him replying in the first place.
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Good call. I skipped over that, but you're right: it will come in very handy (for example, my local development DB).
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by rsbrown 16y ago
These two new features sound particularly interesting to me: Streaming Replication: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/warm-standby.html#... Hot Standby: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/hot-standby.html
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Totally agree. Many have criticized Google's culture of "try lots of things", but it has clearly worked well for them. Microsoft should be encouraging their young, hungry tech talent to be creating tomorrow's killer apps today. Bureaucracy
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by rsbrown 16y ago
Though the concept of market validation (i.e., go ask prospective customers if they will buy it before you build it) is often a good strategy, this article does illustrate why it's important to be asking the right questions. However, maybe

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