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by softbuilder 12y ago
I think you're right, 22pF. Definitely wasn't anything SMT, this was 1984 or so.
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Radio Shack was always two stores in my memory. There was the legit geeky side with electronic parts, and there's the Realistic/Tandy side hawking so-so also-ran consumer electronics. The perspective always seemed to be that parts
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by softbuilder 12y ago
http://underscorejs.org/ For those not already familiar with it, Underscore is a wonderful functional programming library that lets you code in a functional style while insulating you from many of Javascript's quirks.
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by softbuilder 12y ago
It's not entirely either/or. They have a website and an official app, so advertising is always going to be on the table. You make money by charging companies for access to the platform. Charge for access, charge for users, charge
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Sandy comes to mind, and is actually a better example. (Although Google seems to have forgotten it existed.) For clarity, I see Twitter as having this amazing potential as a message bus for both people, apps, and services. And I feel that p
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by softbuilder 12y ago
See Chirpify[1], who has since pivoted. I don't know if that pivot was because of the idea or because Twitter decided it made more sense to be an ad wall than a platform. I really, truly do not understand Twitter's thinking. I&#x2
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Exactly what out of this story helped us? The intrigue is interesting, but it doesn't live up to the hype of the headline. This event happened in 1967? Even if they found some amazing advantage in the Soviet hardware, would it have bee
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Clearly it's _The Road Ahead_.
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by softbuilder 12y ago
I lived for a few years in a particularly widow-prone area and had many black widows in the house and garage. I eventually realized that the daddy-long-legs variant in my house seemed to compete handily with them. So I stopped cleaning webs
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Thankfully the Black Widow is one of the dumbest spiders I've every encountered. Amazingly easy to kill if you can be calm about it. (I feel like I should be knocking on wood now.) I don't know how many varieties there are though,
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by softbuilder 12y ago
I have heard of Ted Nelson and Xanadu over the years. But I really don't understand what I'm looking at. Could someone compare and contrast with a more contemporary effort such as Federated Wiki?
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by softbuilder 12y ago
"The more we’ve let our engineers be involved in the fundamental business model, strategy and direction of our business, the more successful we’ve been." I wish more non-technical leaders understood this. It's not that engine
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by softbuilder 12y ago
I've thought along similar lines, but with a slightly different intent: to refactor existing sets of law. I started off thinking about trying to improve & streamline the law, but eventually realized there might actually be a market
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Ordinarily I'd vote this down for snark not contributing to the conversation, but I actually do this the underlying thought here is worthy and contributes to the conversation. There is a core aspect of hacking/making/doing th
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Two thoughts on this: 1. Any time you're in business for yourself and you don't have a buffer, you're basically out of business. (I keep re-learning this one.) 2. Using a site like this turns you into a commodity. It's s
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by softbuilder 12y ago
Congrats to Bob! He's been working on this forever, in public.
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by softbuilder 12y ago
This is basically a Mr. Coffee.
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by softbuilder 12y ago
I rewrite code to explore and understand it. This actually started as a bad habit - "Oh, I can't believe this person did X, I'm going to change that to Y". Do that enough and you quickly figure out exactly why they did
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by softbuilder 12y ago
For project work? Yes. Dear god, yes. Always get something up front.
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by softbuilder 12y ago
I was curious, because I do agree that some of the flavor of job ads has changed, although I'd say more in the last few years. This was the second ad I opened on the SF CL: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sof/
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by softbuilder 12y ago
This doesn't just happen in large companies. I've experienced this kind of useless gatekeeping with 50-100 person "startups". I'm sometimes asked about tech hiring and I keep telling people that technical teams need
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by softbuilder 12y ago
This starts to get into "what is idiomatic python?" which changes as the language evolves. For example, before Python had an official ternary form, this was a common idiom: account.status = ["paid", "unpaid&qu
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by softbuilder 12y ago
One of the solutions in the comments I found quite pythonic and concise. Somehow people have it in their heads that "Pythonic" means long-winded. And yes, you have to read the code and think for a second to understand it, but that
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by softbuilder 12y ago
I'm currently reading "The Dream Machine"[1] and coincidentally at the point where BASIC is being invented. What I found interesting is how closely linked LISP and BASIC are in motivation and the spirit of the era. Not to men
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by softbuilder 13y ago
I read it more as aspirational.
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by softbuilder 13y ago
It's not a franchise in between. The terminology makes it more confusing than it should be. The dealers buy franchise rights (right to sell that product) from the manufacturers, becoming "franchisees" - franchise owners. So m
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by softbuilder 13y ago
I've seen this idea played out to its logical conclusion with a site a few years back. What happened was essentially what you see on local news websites: A small, bitchy community was created and provided no value to anyone. I'm s
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by softbuilder 13y ago
We've all had a laugh but I hope whoever found this is helping them correct the problem.
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by softbuilder 13y ago
It's an interesting concept. Good luck!
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by softbuilder 13y ago
I skimmed (busy day, sorry). Is this a web front end for Cucumber stories?

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