sbandyopadhyay

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by sbandyopadhyay 14y ago
I don't think you're right that he made up his wife's words to achieve a Socratic dialogue, and then pinned it on his wife. I think she actually did it. The evidence is this comment by Ryan Tomayko, taken from the Wayback link (which appear
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Airbnb's Joe Gebbia: Do Things That Don't Scale(zurb.com)
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by sbandyopadhyay 14y ago
I tried coming up with a proof, but instead I have a new observation I can't explain: FACT: No prime number can end in an even number (because all such numbers are divisible by 2) or in 5 (because all such numbers are divisible by 5). So, a
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by sbandyopadhyay 14y ago
An article titled "The Quiet Ones" was posted by user "wallflower"? That's like a pun. A quiet pun.
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The Shortcut We Took to Build Yipit in Three Days(viniciusvacanti.com)
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Entrepreneurship and optionality don’t mix(informationarbitrage.com)
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by sbandyopadhyay 14y ago
As Ray Kurzweil said, "The only second language you should worry about your kids learning is programming." Yale has a foreign language requirement, but no CS requirement. Liberal arts tries to create leaders, I guess, not tradesmen -- but t
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by sbandyopadhyay 15y ago
To the extent that learning languages takes time (it does) and to the extent that setting up an environment takes times (it does) and to the extent that time is money (it is), I'd say using PHP in lieu of a premium language is exactly like
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by sbandyopadhyay 15y ago
People trade up cars all the time -- when you can afford to, that is.
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by sbandyopadhyay 15y ago
Sometimes, doing things fast opens up opportunities to do things right.
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by sbandyopadhyay 15y ago
False dichotomy. You can do some things quickly in PHP (vs other languages), and some things in life and in programming need to be done quickly. There's a place for doing things fast, and a place for doing things right. You're wrong to assu