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by theoj 16y ago
Does green convert better than red? Performable seems to like red over green. http://blog.performable.com/631526233/
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by theoj 16y ago
I say the site is a good thing because just like HN it strives to aggregate high quality tech posts that you might otherwise miss -- it just does this for Spanish language posts, which is currently outside the scope of HN. As a bonus for th
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by theoj 16y ago
They can safely keep on hacking as long as they don't screw up in a major way. If the lives of regular folks are affected by their hacking, public opinion will turn around pretty quickly.
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by theoj 16y ago
The idea is that developers should have a quiet, distraction-free space to do their coding. With open spaces and cubicles you hear other people's conversations and you cannot reach the deep focused attention that you need to produce good, b
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by theoj 16y ago
Another great way to learn Linux is to setup a VPS. Last year I setup a VPS from scratch with no previous experience (Ubuntu, PHP, Ruby on Rails, DNS, email server, iptables and more) using just web tutorials. It was a slow process (it took
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by theoj 16y ago
Then perhaps these kinds of decisions should not be taken by machines.
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Disabling his account is either a display of creepy dictatorial power or an indication of incompetence and lack of common sense.
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by theoj 16y ago
Wage parity is a pipe dream. Each country has different social, political and educational systems that lead to uneven economic progress. You will wait a long time to get back to improving humanity.
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by theoj 16y ago
The truth of the matter is that everything that can be outsourced will be outsourced. The idea that "brain work" would remain in the US was just a rationalization to enable the first wave of outsourcing to get underway. In the 1980's the dr
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by theoj 16y ago
The article is clearly marked as an op-ed piece. Obviously the person who wrote it has an opinion and a call to action, else he/she would not have written the article. Edit: Downvotes? Really?
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by theoj 16y ago
Link without registration: <removed> Edit: Apparently you need to go through Google for this to work. See comment below.
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by theoj 16y ago
Yes, you can "try" an idea in a weekend, but it's only going to be a rough sketch, not a polished experience. You still need a team and months/years of effort to bring it up to the next level so it can get the billion dollar valuation. How
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by theoj 16y ago
All the analysts were saying similar things in 2000... the field is misunderstood, there are great transformative forces at play, you needed to subscribe to our new theories about how things work to understand everything, etc., etc. These v
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That seems like a lot of options to explore at once, and could be quite expensive from an R&D and product development standpoint, while at the same time failing to capitalize on large returns to scale. Rather than a 4-pronged strategy I
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by theoj 16y ago
I'd say justice is more than legal punishment, it is punishment appropriate to the crime. If you steal from me and then I shoot and kill you, that's revenge but it's probably not justice.
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The original Salon article is much better in its analysis: http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/news/...
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Can you provide some examples of more lucrative segments?
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by theoj 16y ago
Number of lines is used as a proxy for complexity, especially among those who are less familiar with how the programming sausage is made (management, non-IT folks, etc.). To non-technical folks, it sounds pretty impressive that you can do a
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by theoj 16y ago
From Linus' post: "And you're just full of bullshit." You can be "abrupt and to the point" without personal attacks. Linus personally attacked him, without knowing all the facts.
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Not my impression. I think they didn't want to publish his name, so they opted for "The Russian" instead because the guy's "Russian-ness" is what stood out most in their mind after the interaction.
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In the context of what NYC is trying to do, it might be interesting to read PG's thoughts on how to create a Silicon Valley: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html The two main ingredients he identifies in his essay are rich people
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Even if it turns out that the new parsing algorithm doesn't shine in all situations, I think it is nevertheless a welcome development. Compiler and interpreter makers can use this algorithm for those grammars and languages where it actuall
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This reminded me of this summer's blockbuster movie Inception. Much like this article, it examined how ideas are planted in our minds and what effects those ideas have once they take over the mind and become impossible to eradicate.
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I wanted to say the same thing as soon as I saw the article. You can look at religions as memes or viruses that propagate from person to person.
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I think the article could have benefited from having Ben's observations grafted onto more structured models of individual preference such as Myers Briggs Typology and the Merrill-Reid Four Quadrant Model, rather than having him create his o