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by thorax 17y ago
Brilliant article and spot-on. The hardest jobs in software (IMHO) will be the engineering leads that have to be an interface between management and their engineering team. They are also asked to "make" at high quality but can't escape the
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by thorax 17y ago
Yeah, as I mentioned before, this was the interesting thing about the new Office: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702707
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by thorax 17y ago
This is exactly what I feel, too, so I deleted my early comment because you summarize it so well. It feels like memory "diff" sizes more than anything else. As you get older fewer things change versus what you've experienced before, so fewe
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by thorax 17y ago
This reminds me a bit of Grooveshark-- let me give it a try and compare, though.
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by thorax 17y ago
Just reading the title of this post made me swoon a little bit. My friends and I make all sorts of games like this and this is exactly the sort of site I need to kill all my productivity. Looks awesome, I'm going to look deeper now.
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Firefox Add-ons Contributions Pilot (allowing money contributions)(blog.mozilla.com)
1 points by thorax 17y ago|0 comments
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by thorax 17y ago
I apologize and thank them for trying it out. I tell them how to delete their account (or delete it for them if it's not easy). I tell them we just got started and ask: " Question : How can we improve the site such that you'd recommend it t
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by thorax 17y ago
Maybe... "You should join my 4,615 followers on Twitter _here_."
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by thorax 17y ago
I desperately want to see benchmark comparisons with psyco. There are some applications where psyco does a great job and the second this beats that my excitement level will go through the roof. As it stands, I'm already very excited about t
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by thorax 17y ago
> It took me exactly 90 seconds to get the request to him Depending on how you code it's likely to take you more than 90 seconds to: Fire up the editor, switch into mental design mode, create the initial script structure, write the sc
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by thorax 17y ago
From what I read, it sounds like they use mostly JS (as it works in Firefox and Safari). I did see mention that perhaps a few corner case features use Silverlight (which I expected to be 100% of the features), but it remains to be seen how
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by thorax 17y ago
Not so sure this warrants the negative comments. I mean, I'd rather see them go this route than not go this route. There's some indirect implications of this that I like, too-- By Microsoft's account, Office web is probably the largest java
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by thorax 17y ago
More families than you think spend $0/yr on liquor.
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by thorax 17y ago
So severance pay is something akin to that advanced notice?
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by thorax 17y ago
I use: Windows/Windows/Windows/Windows/OSX side-by-side, shared keyboard through Synergy (w/ synergy server as a Vista+Vaio). With 4 perpetual ssh connections to different flavors of Linuxy servers (CentOS/CentOS/Fedora/SuSE). With 2 perpet
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by thorax 17y ago
I did. I still recall running up $400 for a monthly bill from chatting with random people around the U.S. I seem to recall it was $0.08/min at some point beyond your allotted time. I downloaded a national BBS list from there eventually, stu
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by thorax 17y ago
> Empirically incorrect. A lot of them have raised quite a bit of money before TC50. You can't say that statement is incorrect (and be right) as the devil's advocate said "may not have had the drive". The argument wasn't that TC50 compa
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by thorax 17y ago
> And, of course, the big gaping hole in that argument is that if you can effectively raise money to participate in DEMO, then you don't need DEMO's help with raising money. That sounds a bit like a reflexive argument to my comment. Con
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by thorax 17y ago
Well, to play devil's advocate: Attendees looking to invest in new companies probably like DEMO because the presenters are convinced enough they have a great product that they'll come up with the funds to go there. They're showing both a so
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by thorax 17y ago
Mind sharing your script? That sounds handy!
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by thorax 17y ago
And I enjoyed reading it. I think it serves as a great reminder to all those who think it's quick to clone stuff. It might not be hard work sometimes for some sites. But it surely isn't trivial and surely isn't cheap (especially time-wise
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by thorax 17y ago
I thought their new stats page was really cool: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/
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by thorax 17y ago
Keep money per answer out of this. It's amazing what happens when you keep a site like SO working on social norms and avoiding market norms. To understand how powerful this difference can be, this book is an eye-opener (outlined here): htt
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by thorax 17y ago
I thought the slideshow was different from what I expected and my eyes immediately went to it when it loaded. But it didn't strike me as bad, just keep in mind that because of the load time, it may be pulling people's eyes there instead of
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by thorax 17y ago
I'm the author-- I feel it's common enough to say "close tags" when you mean closing or ending a markup element. I'm surprised to see such a literal nitpick upvoted so much, but I can't disagree that you're correct technically. I'm just try
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by thorax 17y ago
Note that Google almost never employs any technique on the main search site unless it positively affects their statistics. So the fact that these elements aren't closed probably improves (by a measurable percentage) user engagement/succes
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Google homepage doesn't close html tags, on purpose(blog.bug.gd)
52 points by thorax 17y ago|39 comments
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by thorax 17y ago
If it's the book I remember, I believe WPF is in Chapter 9.
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by thorax 17y ago
> which would give me enough personal income and business income to last until around January 2010 First off, 2k a month could be considered frugal depending on area of the world they're living, etc, even for a single person (especially
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by thorax 17y ago
I'd love to know, too. Unfortunately, I strongly suspect it wouldn't be in the company's best interest to associate it with a post about possibly "giving up". Business customers already perceive the product as a risk (or the OP said) and un

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