samgro

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by samgro 15y ago
I'm from a different generation than Neal Stephenson. I grew up inspired by my parents' old IBM XT. The Apple II at school. My TI-83 programmable graphing calculator. Not space flight. I continue to be inspired every year by the innovations
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by samgro 15y ago
I worked from coffee shops for 6 months as a solo founder. Being a solo founder was incredibly lonely, and sitting at home made that worse. Going to coffee shops and being surrounded by other people working on their own gigs was energizing.
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by samgro 15y ago
This seems like the economies of scale would be too hard to make it feasible. Google/Apple have tens of thousands of employees commuting to the exact same place. Startups are spread out all over Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc. I'm skeptical
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For the sake of your personal sanity, don't misspell your company(samgrossberg.com)
2 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
I love the facial hair theory. LOL.
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All the cool kids use Ruby 1.9.2(gopollgo.com)
3 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
If you click through my profile, you'll see I'm a dev at GoPollGo. I posted this poll to HN because I enjoy using our product and was genuinely interested in the discussion around programming languages and didn't get many votes from my smal
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by samgro 15y ago
Javascript is on there. You could mention C# in comments and people could upvote if they agree. I had to pick 10 based on my assumptions of what is popular. In retrospect C# might have been more popular than Scala.
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by samgro 15y ago
Yes, but with GoPollGo we can see the poll in real time and by geography - will be interesting to see if people in California have different programming language preferences than people in NYC or France. Disclosure: I work at GoPollGo.
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Poll: What's your favorite programming language?(gopollgo.com)
8 points by samgro 15y ago|8 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
I have a PG question for PG: what problem does this solve? I see 2 problems currently. 1. Microsoft suing Android makers, and other similar examples, where large companies burn billions of dollars of our economy over something pointless. 2.
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by samgro 15y ago
You just need to sign up 3 email addresses from your invite link. Nothing stops you from doing that with 3 of your own addresses.
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Ask HN: LESS or SASS?
1 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
I don't see why development compilation is such a problem. I run sass --watch and forget about it.
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by samgro 15y ago
I'm surprised C++ isn't in the lead. I've had more WTF moments reading C++ than any other language.
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by samgro 15y ago
"I tend to loathe meetings even more than 37signals." Not trying to be the grammar police, but after reading this sentence, I chuckled because I thought the author was expressing his hatred for 37signals :)
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by samgro 15y ago
Oldie but goodie. Point #7, "Leverage Event Delegation", was particularly helpful for me.
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Essential performance best practices for jQuery(artzstudio.com)
20 points by samgro 15y ago|8 comments
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The Problem with Facebook Notifications(samgrossberg.com)
1 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
I guess that makes sense - pictures can have geolocation data. Still could improve the messaging for the permission to explain that. Maybe say "Dropbox wants to access your location and photo library".
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by samgro 15y ago
There is probably close to zero technical cost or risk associated with your social network. I have no idea what stage your concept is at, but from my brief flirtation with building a social networking concept, I would urge you to consider t
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by samgro 15y ago
Very well written job description. I hate the tradition of writing an absurd list of "requirements".
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by samgro 15y ago
Great illustration of one of the many reasons why developing for iOS is easier than Android...no need to deal with buggy hardware driver edge cases.
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by samgro 15y ago
I believe Path is what you are referring to with the emoticons. That was the first feature of Path that I found really innovative - it encourages greater participation because it's faster than commenting, like the "Like" button, but allows
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by samgro 15y ago
It seems we're at an impass.
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by samgro 15y ago
I think it could be interesting for another startup founder in some niche area to find community websites in their niche. Is that the target audience? If so it's a really small niche that's probably not going to pay you a whole lot. Also,
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The Vietnamese Menu as a User Experience(claussconcept.com)
1 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
It would be interesting if app stores worked like retail stores. Developers sell apps to the store at their desired price, and the app store sells it to a customer, usually with an added markup of 30%. If Amazon wants to sell a popular app
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CoffeeScript: crucial like Sass or superfluous like Haml?(samgrossberg.com)
2 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 16y ago
The garage is definitely a step in the right direction. It needs to be better publicized internally. I had heard whispers of it when I was at Microsoft but it was not mainstream.

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