timruffles

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   by timruffles 16y ago

   Thanks, that's good advice, Mac users (I use Mac) are definitely happier to pay for productivity stuff - OmniFocus etc. I'll add that :)
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   by timruffles 16y ago

   I'd say the rate of worth-while books being published is so low it's best served by a list - and thanks again for that list!
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   Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while?

   29 points by timruffles 16y ago|34 comments
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   by timruffles 16y ago

   Congrats - inverted in PS and my HTC Hero got it! Nexus couldn't though
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   by timruffles 16y ago

   I really like Rails - for all the CRUDish apps of the world there's nothing better: you'll avoid reinventing a lot of boring wheels. Perhaps the reason some HNers are Rails-phobic is that Rails is rightly designed to be precisely the opposi
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   by timruffles 16y ago

   Seems a very valid article, and some of the non-science it debunks is absurd! That said, the line "we could eat meat ... (albeit much less) with a clean conscience" is a little glib, surely most people know that the ethics of killing things
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   by timruffles 16y ago

   The article makes me quite worried for Quora. First it's the same old 'users first, monetize later', a distinct problem from monetization strategy: it's a failed mindset where every day you're not charging people is a day you're not learnin
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   by timruffles 16y ago

   Great starting point even if it's not all the way to Lisp :) Shouldn't be too hard to add the rest - read the SICP on the meta-circular evaluator and translate http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node76.html
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   by timruffles 16y ago

   "these people commited suicide at work " - they live at work, in dormitories.
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    Fascinating. Since it seems from the article that smaller companies are less worker friendly, and people are literally desperate to work for Foxconn, it's hard not to see Gou as a good thing for China & the Chinese. A business epic...
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    'The Idler' has some great stuff ( http://idler.co.uk/ ); apart from that Alaine de Botton is my favourite.
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    Culture and Anarchy, or the others? What's it like reading from a US perspective (I'm UK)?
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    Solid article. This problem is painfully evident in the UK, where we're aiming at 50% university attendance, when we have quality courses available for about 10% of students. The result: 3 more years of high-school quality education - quant
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    I think you have to ask yourself the difficult question: if VCs and angels with lots of money to spend aren't willing to fund it, why would developers etc fund it with their time? If you don't have any cash, you can't have employees :) Find
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    If they're average, not terrible, I'd agree with 37signals - there is no such thing as rockstar people, just rockstar environments. If you're not sure you've built an inspiring, learning environment where everybody feels driven to do their
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    I still can't get anything out of the Tao, finding it totally inscrutable :|
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    1984 has a lot to teach, and you could argue we've not learned them as history is rewritten, thoughts outlawed and truth redefined by our politicians and media. But I'd agree that BNW has more to teach us about today - lots of us are losing
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    Great book. I took from it that life is all FUBAR'd, you'll have to make it work for yourself :)
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    Great game, great lessons to take from it. Being willing to admit you could be wrong, and admitting it when it's proven to you, are two things that should be easy but often aren't. Your ego will trip you up like that.
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, R Pirsig Recently each of Alain de Botton's books (Status Anxiety, Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and Essays on Love) had a valuable lesson to teach. Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' (poem, n
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    I never do enough of paper prototyping, and always regret it. This looks a great technique for communicating a UI, especially a non-standard one, in motion.
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    by timruffles 16y ago

    Great advice. Additionally, for me, the most important thing (from painful experience) is to give candidates a test run to see if they fit in and measure up. Too easy to hire someone because they're likeable, and/or be taken in by past expe