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by skewart 11y ago
I’m a developer at a startup in San Francisco. I’d be willing to bet a large sum of money that the _vast_ majority of developers are so-called ‘dark matter developers’. Contributing to open source projects, writing helpful blog posts, and p
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The case for letting children vote(vox.com)
2 points by skewart 11y ago|1 comments
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by skewart 11y ago
Those are both hypothetical that are very far from typical ways that people use apps on their phones. An app might upload the image to a remote server. A website might parse it locally through JS - maybe disabling your connection, submitti
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by skewart 11y ago
How exactly is using a random app any safer than using a random website? Or, what other benefit could it have? Both an app and a website are somebody else's code running on your local machine and (often) communicating with a remote s
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Ask HN: How do you find clients as an engineering contractor?
2 points by skewart 11y ago|0 comments
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by skewart 11y ago
Up until maybe 30 years ago it made perfect sense to "just get a degree." College degrees were rare enough that they were a differentiator. The people pushing to get any old degree were just following the logic of the world they g
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by skewart 11y ago
"I remember being told to go to college and to get a 'good' degree (this was well before STEM was a common term) meaning something not liberal arts and preferably something math heavy..." I'm curious when the meanin
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Why Doesn’t the U.S. Have China’s Quirkier Smartphones?(m.fastcompany.com)
3 points by skewart 11y ago|2 comments
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by skewart 11y ago
NDC sounds awesome, and so do simplified fare rules. Are there any seriously misaligned incentives that would prevent it from happening, or is it more just general bureaucratic slowness?
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by skewart 11y ago
So this is a REPL web app with a text messaging-esque UI? I'm guessing the messaging UI is designed to make learning to code more approachable. Text messaging is a more familiar interface to most people than a command prompt is. When I
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by skewart 11y ago
Nice write up. I'm curious, have you found any advantage to using Slack for this kind of logging as opposed to, say, HipChat or any other messaging app?
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The web is awesome(blog.lmorchard.com)
3 points by skewart 11y ago|1 comments
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by skewart 11y ago
It's not quite accurate to equate 'democratized management' with 'no management'. Anarchized management might be a better term for the kind of wild west bossless system at Valve. (I mean anarchy as an organizationa
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by skewart 11y ago
> I would argue that the old forms of work and the corporate form we know today is due for some refactoring. I completely agree. It does seem that startups sometimes go out and raise money simply because it's the expected thing to d
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by skewart 11y ago
The idea of structuring a software-focused company as a co-op is really interesting. One thing that I wonder about is recruiting. Is it an advantage or disadvantage to be a co-op when it comes to sourcing and hiring people? Do co-ops attrac
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by skewart 11y ago
I'm pretty sure these tell-all blog posts about running a startup are a key part of their marketing strategy. Their product is largely targeted at startups (or, at least it was, maybe they're expanding). I suspect there are more
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by skewart 11y ago
Schools especially are a major use case. In particular middle school and high school students who have smartphone but no data plans - or highly restricted data plans - have flocked to mesh network messaging platforms. Witness the success of
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by skewart 11y ago
The paper is looking at these types of consumers in aggregate, effectively at the proportion of a product's sales that come from each group. These "harbinger" consumers are only harbingers if, collectively, they make up a di