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by sbt 13y ago
Ok, but then my follow up question would be: why put him in front of congress to testify in the first place? Did congress not understand that he was legally required to lie to them?
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by sbt 13y ago
As a foreigner, this is probably the most astounding. After all the commotion in the 90s with Bill Clinton lying about the Monica Lewinsky affair, the double standard is striking. From the outside it seems as if Clapper is simply above the
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by sbt 13y ago
This is probably true for software development, but less true for entrepreneurship. Once you pass 30, other factors start kicking in for the latter, particularly for women.
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by sbt 13y ago
> Welcome to the free market While I consider myself a proponent of the free market, I think my work as a programmer blinds me to how much rent seeking underlies other high earning professions in the US. Doctors, lawyers, financiers, acc
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by sbt 13y ago
If I ran a venture firm, I would approach founders like a scout looks for talent for the NBA. People who start basketball in college and try for the NBA are clearly at a disadvantage. If a scout reported this correlation to Sports Center, i
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by sbt 13y ago
I hope PG doesn't get too frightened by the press from this and stops being his usual honest plainspoken self. We need more people like him trying to portray an accurate map of the territory, rather than being afraid of how quotes may
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by sbt 13y ago
Oh I would totally do that if it didn't void the warranty. Employer pays for the phone. In retrospect, an iPhone may have been less annoying. I felt so blessed running Linux on my Thinkpad while all the other civilians got their Window
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by sbt 13y ago
This. I regret buying a Samsung S4 because it is loaded with so much crap. First, Google preloads their crap onto it, then Samsung preloads their crap ontop of that. THEN, AT&T decides that it should also provide you with messaging apps
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by sbt 13y ago
Moving off Google is not as hard as I thought it would be. I expect to only be using maps and Zagat in the near future, but this will be anonymous, the rest has been replaced. 1. Finally got my Google+ deleted. The reason I even had one to
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by sbt 13y ago
Intel compiler/tools perhaps. But generally speaking, as a developer I am mostly interested in buying support contracts on OSS.
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Twitter's IPO Is More Proof That Tech Is In A Massive Bubble(forbes.com)
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by sbt 13y ago
True. He probably doesn't tax to Sweden and thus doesn't show up on the list.
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by sbt 13y ago
Oh man I am getting old :)
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by sbt 13y ago
Yes, I think you need both pull and push, the ratio depending on the situation at hand. A senior sysadmin once told me that he asked all incoming recruits about what this proportion generally should be. The answer: 1/6 (16.6%) push and
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by sbt 13y ago
I think you can think of these tools on a spectrum from pull-based to push-based. I say spectrum, because many of them are in reality hybrid. Tools running agents are naturally pull-based, where as with push you don't necessarily need
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by sbt 13y ago
I would like to sign up for this service, but I am unwilling to until it shows me examples of what emails I will receive.
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by sbt 14y ago
I agree that it's important to retain the dynamism of LISP, but if types could be made optional, it could be useful. In my view, the expressive power of LISP is the same thing that hinders it for use in teams (unless the team is small and s
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by sbt 14y ago
Brilliant! This would be the dating site of my choice had I needed one. Great job guys!
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by sbt 14y ago
Kudos to Sysoev and Nginx. Whenever I write C code I find myself looking at nginx for inspiration, always keeping the source code open to see if and how they solved similar problems. It is simply one of the best pieces of software I have re
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by sbt 14y ago
It's shit like this that makes me cautious about Facebook for anything these days. An online newspaper I read have pictures of people who have 'like'd their paper on the front page. I notified a few of my friends about this and they were ho
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by sbt 14y ago
>I'm reading all this and I still have no idea what Edge is or why I should care. Neither do the people who wrote it, I can assure you :)
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by sbt 14y ago
Great idea in general. I know a lot of people who would love this.
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by sbt 14y ago
Great stuff. Since these are controversial opinions, I somewhat agree/disagree. - Computer science should only be offered as a minor. Good point, assuming that you don't consider theory an end in it self. I consider theory mind opening, eve
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by sbt 14y ago
I was nailed by MongoDB. It's a great database for prototyping, but all projects that go anywhere run into its limitations: scale, durability, intimate relationship with OS, ease of administration. MongoDB is right for some projects, but in
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by sbt 14y ago
As a programmer, I'm already too embarrassed at this point to call myself a hacker. If our marketing team starts calling themselves growth hackers, I think the once honorable label will have been irrevocably soiled. If you haven't worked at
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by sbt 15y ago
I don't expect the batch to contain all frighteningly ambitious ideas, but it would be fun if at least one was. I'm sure YC would be receptive to such a plan if the founders were smart.
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by sbt 15y ago
Is there a way to filter out certain links, e.g. based on domain name?
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by sbt 15y ago
I hate to be high brow here, but I'm just waiting for O'Reilly to release Brain Surgery for Hackers. Some things are just better learned the hard way, sitting down and getting a more thorough introduction.
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by sbt 15y ago
The regional distribution is definitely something that needs to die fast. I live outside the US, where TV networks buy American tv-series and broadcasts them a year after they are released in the US. No one I know under 30 actually waits fo
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by sbt 15y ago
While I would like to see Hollywood get competition, I suspect real changes in this industry will eventually come from industry insiders. The success of Spotify is essentially one big lobbying campaign. In the meantime, I would like to see

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