scottw

12 ms·

61.
by scottw 16y ago
And how's that for serendipity: the original was posted exactly two years ago to the day.
62.
by scottw 16y ago
That's the one—thanks for digging that up.
63.
by scottw 16y ago
I've spent most of my adult life in failed startups in some form or another. Some were funded, most were bootstrapped. Probably 6-8 man-years if I subtract my dances with full-time employment (I'm doing contract work now and working on anot
64.
by scottw 16y ago
You can get the same MiFi 2200 device from Virgin Mobile (my local BestBuy carries them) which uses Sprint's 3G network for $40/month unlimited bandwidth and no contract. I bought one last month for a road trip and love it.
65.
by scottw 16y ago
That's the feeling I'm getting from everyone I talk to: trying to shoehorn Agile into a process is not agile.
66.
Ask HN: Why do I hate software planning tools?
5 points by scottw 16y ago|3 comments
67.
by scottw 16y ago
The odds of nobody understanding probability is near-zero...
68.
by scottw 16y ago
Additionally, because it's a self-test, participants largely see themselves as they want to be seen. INT*s value intelligence and self-reliance—seems like the HN crowd to a T.
69.
by scottw 16y ago
There should be a bear holding the shark: http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Bear_holding_a_Shark
70.
by scottw 16y ago
For the same reason we still use text to communicate: iconography is insufficiently rich to express the degree of complexity required to abstract, describe, and solve hard problems.
71.
by scottw 16y ago
I'll second Evernote. It's the best place for dumping anything: links, notes, photos, etc.
72.
'The Shallows': This Is Your Brain Online(npr.org)
3 points by scottw 16y ago|0 comments
73.
by scottw 16y ago
I'm not talking about writing the "clever code" that nobody understands (including the coder 6 months afterward)—that's a symptom of the hubris-laden self-proclaimed intelligent programmer the original author is confused about. A genuinely
74.
by scottw 16y ago
Agreed—I've known too many of the former, who undo years of quality work in a single, well-meaning but unintelligent rewrite. I think the author is confusing the Real Thing with the hubris-laden, self-proclaimed intelligent programmer. Prog
75.
by scottw 16y ago
I'll endorse everything oldgregg said here PLUS one critical factor: be competent. You shouldn't expect to jump into the pool with the big dogs unless you can swim. Good talk is one thing, but if you can't back it up with genuine competency
76.
by scottw 17y ago
Agreed. We've used the "let them cry it out with increasing times between consoling visits" for all 4 of our kids and they hardly have any of the symptoms the author claims. This is the kind of science I love: figuring out what's right fo
77.
by scottw 17y ago
I backup entire disks using a towers of hanoi algorithm with (wait for it...) good old dump(8) to a second local hard drive. This method keeps 7 full days of backups (using an incremental diff, so it's fairly space efficient). I've used thi
78.
by scottw 17y ago
Thank you; I noticed that but it must not have stuck. Fwiw, the national student loan default rate for 2007 was only 6.7% ( http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DCS/default.html and http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/defaultmanagement/2007state
79.
by scottw 17y ago
Sorry for being dense, but how are student loans bad/worse than any other debt? My wife and I had maybe $15k worth of student loans. We paid them off in 7 or 8 years (the interest rates were ridiculously low, iirc) and got the monkey off ou
80.
by scottw 17y ago
I was thinking to myself, "Only single people twitter their whereabouts?" I've got plenty of people left in the house when I leave. I don't think leaving the house is as great a risk as some might think.
81.
In 2009 Main Street got the shaft(marketplace.publicradio.org)
1 points by scottw 17y ago|0 comments
82.
by scottw 17y ago
You might want to consider that your brain has limits: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/12/willpower.php I don't want to say "you can't do it" but I remember from my school days hitting the wall and there was nothing I could do about i
83.
by scottw 17y ago
And fwiw, Ticket to Ride Europe is better designed than Ticket to Ride America, if you have a choice between the two.
84.
by scottw 17y ago
For many this will be their first real-world test of their MBA skills: how do we market and sell something that provides little value to the customer?
85.
by scottw 17y ago
Agreed—it also seems to unwittingly highlight the perils of judging someone by the aggregate data of their profession, rather than the individual's merits.
86.
by scottw 17y ago
It was also discovered on Saturday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979559 and again yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=978074
87.
by scottw 17y ago
I'll say "sort of." If I'm a good manager, I'll take you for who you are and evaluate you individually. I know a handful of awesome coders over 50 who are awesome primarily because they a) work really hard, b) learn new stuff all the time
88.
by scottw 17y ago
If this were a few more years recent, I'd hope the author would revise section 2.5 to be "The virtues of UTF-8", as nearly all modern text editors handle UTF-8 well.
89.
Why we have skeptics(scott.wiersdorf.org)
19 points by scottw 17y ago|3 comments
90.
Utah firm says new storage discs have high longevity(deseretnews.com)
1 points by scottw 17y ago|0 comments

More ›