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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Meh. The word "Target" doesn't really carry any signal about what that company actually does. Ask yourself, in Target's infancy, did the name hurt or help them? I'd guess it had very little to do with their eventual
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I think pg has written about this a couple times. Checking... Yep. In order from oldest to most recent: http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html http://paulgraham.com/revolution.html http://paulgraham.co
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I just started a new job and have hopped into the first codebase I'll need to work with that I didn't write from scratch myself. I've just been pining for a way to browse through this code as easily as documents in a web brow
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I just wanted to thank you for writing about the doldrums, and about continuing slowly through them anyway. THAT piece of advice seems so universally applicable, and I don't personally don't run across it so much in places like HN
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Which is really just a more specific form of "Does my landing page actually tell newcomers what's actually going on here?"
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
The point of the article isn't where to lay blame for the security breach. It's to point out the hypocrisy of people who scream "Invasion of privacy" in every online conversation about the NSA, but somehow still feel jus
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I'm not sure if it's a good Hungarian text, but the one I got the most out of was called "Learn Hungarian"[1]. It's out of print but you may be able to find a used copy on Amazon. To be fair, by the time I got my ha
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I learned Hungarian as a Mormon missionary, and by far this agglutination (I'd never seen that term before) is my favorite part of the language. It's like being given a set of word legos and told "go nuts!" And it alway
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How to make more money in stocks(dilbert.com)
3 points by saturdayplace 12y ago|0 comments
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I think it's a useful bit of feedback.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Why would one prefer a Deleware LLC over one in their home state?
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I just went through a process like this as a candidate. I was emailed a problem description and told, "Please send us the code that solves this problem. Do so at your leisure, and please don't spend more than x hours on it."
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
A minimum viable feature, nice. Interesting way to test out whether a new feature is needed or not. Then you pave the cow paths. I love this idea.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
You can read about tptacek's company's process here: http://matasano.com/careers/ . It really does seem like a good way to learn whether a candidate will be able to perform the job.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
The gym misspelled your name and your bank told them off? I'd love for some amount of the infamous Japanese formality to become more commonplace here...
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Those last two sentences might be worth appending to the guideline </2¢>
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I have no experience, but here's my reasoning: At the moment you don't have a lot of traffic, so you likely don't have a lot of users, and you don't really know if you have something they'll pay for. You don'
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
The difference, if anyone's still playing along, is what action the device takes. An IDS (detection system) is a monitoring and alerting device; traffic still gets through. An IPS (prevention system) drops the flagged traffic.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
My point is that the timing doesn't matter as much as you probably think it does.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
The single announcement you make isn't statistically likely to make a difference in your product's success. You're better off just getting something out the door and iterating based on actual user feedback. "The best tim
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Instead of posting a comment like this, it's generally better just to upvote the comment you're agreeing with. The mods are trying to optimize the signal:noise, and there's not much signal in a two-character comment.
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Fixing Income Inequality(dilbert.com)
1 points by saturdayplace 12y ago|0 comments
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
The downvotes are unwarranted, but my guess is: it seems like you're claiming that no one in your cohort watches sports based on your anectdata. A claim which is likely out of touch with reality. I upvoted to hopefully even out your
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Would you mind talking about your reasons for switching from ExtJS to Backbone?
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
The offensive tagline (and the site's author acknowledges its offensive nature) seems like a mistake. Why alienate 50% of your audience with the first thing they're going to read? Edit: The author has changed the tagline, but
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The Human Face of Big Data(humanfaceofbigdata.com)
1 points by saturdayplace 12y ago|0 comments
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese proverb. "Don't end the week with nothing" - Patio11 https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/arch
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
This mindset baffles me. You're entitled to Game of Thrones, and are justified in pirating it because you don't agree with the terms under which it's made available?
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I agree with the thrust of your comment, but it would have been more civil without the first sentence.
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by saturdayplace 13y ago
I wish the title of this article was more inline with its thesis, which is found further down: > modern web design has much more in common with product and industrial design than it has with print or graphic design. His examples of indus

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