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Leadership lessons from principal of a New Orleans charter school(nola.com)
1 points by sutro 17y ago|0 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
"Startup" by Jerry Kaplan. http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Silicon-Adventure-Jerry-Kaplan...
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Parkour(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sutro 17y ago|0 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
Reminds me of another deeply troubled project out of the Dallas-area FPS community circa 1999: John Romero and ION Storm's development of "Daikatana," as described by this excellent Dallas Observer article: http://www.dallasobserver.com/19
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by sutro 17y ago
Put on several pots of coffee. Apparently this "arc" hot mess melts down into Y2K-style Armageddon the moment any integer gets incremented above 999,999. So we're going to have to port this site over to Cobol on Cogs before that can happen.
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by sutro 17y ago
I prefer this gem: "I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870457620457452...
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by sutro 17y ago
"PG-13" was given consideration until focus group testing found the name to be lacking in street cred.
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by sutro 17y ago
PG, you should try to integrate some hip-hop into your next presentation. But you'll need a better rap name. How about PG-Money?
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by sutro 17y ago
This is a fascinating subject. I recommend the novel "Oracle Night" by Paul Auster for its treatment of this topic. At the core of "Oracle Night" is a short passage from Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," reproduced in full here: htt
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Visual Thesaurus(visualthesaurus.com)
2 points by sutro 17y ago|1 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
The author has knowingly traded off technical style points for practical ones, a tradeoff I applaud. So often the opposite choice is made, resulting in beautiful little laboratory experiments that have little relevance in the real world.
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by sutro 17y ago
This is a very good, very pragmatic idea.
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by sutro 17y ago
Read this: http://norvig.com/21-days.html . If you start now you'll be good to go in 2019.
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by sutro 17y ago
Upvoted for your username.
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Small Worlds(rathergood.com)
1 points by sutro 17y ago|0 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
"I can smell programmers." Scoble would be useful in tech interviews. Like a drug-sniffing dog you could just sic him onto prospective programming candidates and have him bark twice if he smelled the pungent musk of programming talent.
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by sutro 17y ago
Dear Every Blogger Whose Post Title Starts with the Word "Dear": Find a new linkbait gimmick. This one's played out.
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by sutro 17y ago
I had a feeling that we've all been missing out on something here on HN. Now we know what that something is: ideas.
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Windows 7 Replaces Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) with a Boot Cycle Of Death (BCOD)(atimes.com)
1 points by sutro 17y ago|0 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
Great idea, well-implemented. Ignore the naysayers.
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by sutro 17y ago
I just got an email from a Hotmail user too. The tagline was: Hotmail: P.S. I love you. Get free email at hotmail.com. Hotmail: I tell you I love you and your response is to move me to your spam folder? That really hurts. Hotmai
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by sutro 17y ago
Thanks!
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by sutro 17y ago
AminiStaff -- thumbs up or thumbs down? Can you share what you're paying on health/dental per employee? Thanks for the info.
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Red Hat Asks Supreme Court to Review Software Patents(press.redhat.com)
90 points by sutro 17y ago|21 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
This post reminds me of the seminal "EA Spouse" post ( http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html ). Together the two posts bookend the pitfalls of both startup and big company high tech employment.
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JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps(jwz.livejournal.com)
176 points by sutro 17y ago|90 comments
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The Troubled History of the Denver Airport Baggage Handling System [pdf](cs.mdx.ac.uk)
1 points by sutro 17y ago|1 comments
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by sutro 17y ago
I have a recommendation for a cool new 3D surround-sound interface that will not require any additional coding. It's called: real life. Try putting down the iphone and laptop and just striking up conversations with people around you. You'll
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by sutro 17y ago
Look at the surrounding website. What is being sold by Object Mentor? Training, consulting, books, advice. Not software.
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by sutro 17y ago
No, Jobs didn't invent digital audio players, nor did anyone else at Apple. But Jobs decided to pursue it as a business. The story -- apocryphal or no -- is that Jobs named Apple Computer after the Beatles' label, Apple Records. He has alwa

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