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by sspencer 18y ago
Same for FF3 / Hardy Heron.
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by sspencer 18y ago
Spot-on. I used to date a girl who went to Brandeis, which aspires to the Ivy League at every opportunity. In fact, by her admission it was the safety school of many who applied to Ivy League schools but were denied entry in the end. The
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by sspencer 18y ago
He co-founded the BEST photo-sharing site, back when people didn't even realize the uses of photo-sharing online. While some of what they did was RPRT, I give them a lot of credit for scrapping the game they were originally working on when
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by sspencer 18y ago
http://www.icahnreport.com/report/about.html
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by sspencer 18y ago
He's a pretty fair writer. I wonder if any of it is ghostwritten? Interesting posts nonetheless. I hope he starts posting rants about Yahoo! soon...
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by sspencer 18y ago
You can't stand people in suits? Why do you even care? Let actions speak rather than clothes. I've known programmers who wore fastidiously cut suits and programmers who wore birks and cutoffs. Both clothing classifications produced fast,
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by sspencer 18y ago
This is also being reported on the front page of Reuters, fyi.
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by sspencer 18y ago
Seconding this; the best dev team portal is a wiki. Preferably MediaWiki, but Trac is all right as well.
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by sspencer 18y ago
This is seriously an excellent idea. My Bank of America online banking just improved by leaps and bounds. Thanks!
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by sspencer 18y ago
"The reason the headline works is because corporate recruiters are famous for screening out exceptional engineers simply because the engineer did not have enough of the right buzzwords in their resume..." Anyone who recruits in this fashion
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by sspencer 19y ago
Worlds are colliding...
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by sspencer 19y ago
I really think that platform limitation is hindering them more than they might think. Everyone I describe the product to says "Cool! Where can I get it on my phone?" and then is immediately disappointed when told what carriers it works o
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by sspencer 19y ago
That movie list is a pretty good snapshot of movies I HAVE watched more than 5 times. I wonder, though, would I be inspired to watch them that much if I didn't have physical media of them lying around? The ease with which I can throw one
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by sspencer 19y ago
Man, I love legos. I (and Douglas Coupland, via Microserfs) think all good programmers were obsessed with them during at least one point in their lives.
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by sspencer 19y ago
If you have a relatively large userbase, I would be hesitant about changing too much too fast. I would set up a poll or discussion thread in your site's news blog to get a feel for how your suggested changes would be received. If they lik
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by sspencer 19y ago
How is this even news? Guy Kawasaki is the most outspoken Apple fan in the world. I just kind of took it for granted that he would buy all kinds of Apple junk. To me, the article even had the opposite of the (probably intended) effect. I
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by sspencer 19y ago
EDIT2: Weebly finally back online: http://myothercar.weebly.com/1/post/2007/11/a-confederacy-of...
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by sspencer 19y ago
I actually thought long and hard the other day about how such a system might be implemented, and came up with a few interesting ideas. Perhaps this encouragement will make me apply! EDIT: I even wrote about it a long time ago, when I stil
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by sspencer 19y ago
Ocaml is rapidly becoming my language of choice. Great guide, and an interesting read.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I actually just assumed the title was talking about mail services, in which case I can see some truth, though it is probably a corollary to the actual facts. I think people who are more technologically-inclined are using Gmail. It offers a
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by sspencer 19y ago
This is dead on. A site has to be extremely innovative and useful for me to sink even the time to register into it. Conversely, even a decently useful-looking site with an overly complex registration process usually gets bypassed as well.
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by sspencer 19y ago
No, that's American slang as well. It just means "speaking purely in jest" or as I think of it "trying not to laugh." At least, that's my understanding of the meaning.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I grew up with TVs on a lot as well. Not the constant background noise that some people grow up with, but a fair amount of TV. Cartoons Saturday morning and after school when I was little, and then sitcoms or whatever my parents were watc
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by sspencer 19y ago
sammyo is asking if the site has been brought down due to heavy traffic. Although if YC is nailing your site, you have serious problems. See "slashdotted" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdotted I thought everyone knew that term
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by sspencer 19y ago
Do most programmers really go through a "MUST COMMENT EVERYTHING" phase? I never did. If anything, I probably commented too LITTLE as opposed to too MUCH. In fact, I rarely comment more than the beginnings of new functions/methods/def*s.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I'd attempt (and succeed, apparently) at creating pervasive and reliable life-extension technology. Either that or some kind of upload technology. Charles Stross' "Vile Offspring," here I come!
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by sspencer 19y ago
That video really highlights the change he went through. I can completely understand how saddened Dick must have been to watch the young genius he admired fall so far. So tragic.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Blackboard is a steaming pile, that's for sure.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Three in three days? http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/in... What are the odds on THAT? Looks less like an accident all the time.
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by sspencer 19y ago
For readers of Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon," this news will bring some paranoid visions dancing into your head. My first thought was "I wonder if someone cut it on purpose?" Seems unlikely, but you have to wonder why they are so reti

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