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by tsally 17y ago
I think the point is that 0% of the community could do it.
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by tsally 17y ago
You're correct, they're most definitely not projects that an investor would invest in. However, if I am going to invest in someone, I want to know they can code . I want to look at programs they wrote while they were in college, or worki
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by tsally 17y ago
The ability to recognize talented programmers and programs is pretty rare. This is why software projects with founders that can write usually succeed, because the responsibility of selling good code usually falls on the programmer (think L
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by tsally 17y ago
Zed seems to have a freaky ability not only to implement high quality code himself, but to find high quality code written by others, absorb it, and then explain it. Strikes me as the qualities that make a successful angel investor.
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by tsally 17y ago
If by it you mean the original thread and/or the parent comment to mine, then yes. Fairly simple to infer the subject on the post from these two pieces of information.
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by tsally 17y ago
Same thought process for me, but I decided not to read. I doubt more than 5% of the community thinks they can reimplement StackOverflow in a weekend.
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by tsally 17y ago
I hear that. At my current job (large defense contractor-- team of 50+ programmers), programmer productivity is measured by lines of code committed per day. There was a day where I actually removed 100 lines of code and rewrote it in 50.
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by tsally 17y ago
Well written code is approchable without constructs like UML. The problem with most 'programmers' is that they don't think they should be doing hard programming each day, every day. Yes, experienced hackers make it look easy, but it took
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by tsally 17y ago
We're certainly on the same page with some of the celebrity stuff. I also agree with you that they are important to the broader hacker community. I'm just convinced that the volume of important events will become overwhelming if trends con
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by tsally 17y ago
I downvoted your comment. It is not well reasoned, or even properly contrary. It's whiny and weak. Please don't do this again. Obviously I don't believe my comment is whiny and weak, but I'll take whiny and weak over condescending and abr
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by tsally 17y ago
Comments aren't even comparable to stories in terms of signal to noise ratio. Also, I'm not happy about the fact that I violated the guidelines, but I felt it necessary.
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by tsally 17y ago
I can count over 100 tools essential to many hackers. The *nix userland alone is certainly several hundred. How about the release notes for all the languages we use? Or perhapes the editors and IDEs? Also, if you want one central locatio
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by tsally 17y ago
Great, 4 of the top spots taken up by Firefox, PHP, Wireshark, and Virtualbox release notes. I know we've had this debate before, but I don't see why anyone wants 15% of their news to be release notes. If I care about these projects (and
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L0pht Website Relaunched(l0pht.com)
20 points by tsally 17y ago|17 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
For the skeptics, consider books that are availible free online but sell well (Practical Common Lisp comes to mind). People are paying for the distribution method, not the content.
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by tsally 17y ago
See a previous discussion on this issue here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591717 I personally agree with you, but I think we are the mintority.
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by tsally 17y ago
Hrm. So on the one hand, your personal beliefs prevent you from using a computer that is completely controled and locked down, but because everyone else is doing it for phones, it's ok then? I'm not criticizing Jeff for buying an iPhone,
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by tsally 17y ago
Not sure if this is legit or not, but the possibility that it could be true is why I have all my social networking completely open. Eliminating the illusion of privacy forces people to act accordingly.
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Suggestion: Nominate For Color
1 points by tsally 17y ago|1 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm attempting to bootstrap something right now, and here's what I've done so far. Note that I'm on summer break from University. I'm working a job to try and fund myself. 5:30AM Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, make coffee 6:30AM Catch th
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by tsally 17y ago
Get yourself into Georgia Tech, which has an excellent (read: world class) CS department. If you don't have residency in Georgia, get it before you apply. You need a job, a drivers licenses, and a residence for X amount of time. Check th
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by tsally 17y ago
Exactly. Why not just say that ego tends to prohibit good programmers? Bringing gender into it is hardly necessary, and it actually detracts from the important point about ego.
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by tsally 17y ago
You're right, maybe I am being a bit too serious, and looking back I should have noticed the humor. Thanks for the grounding. :-) 1.) Agreed. 2.) I agree with the first part. I'm not sure I agree that there is a negative effect for most p
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by tsally 17y ago
I appreciate you taking the time to write out a detailed response, but you should give me the same respect I have shown you. Avoid comments about naivety and instead focus on the actual content at hand. Exhibit the maturity that your writ
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by tsally 17y ago
I figured as much. :-) Just a thought I had the other day. I imagine it's difficult, if not impossible, to prove a relation between any numerical metric on this site and start up success.
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by tsally 17y ago
Almost half of your citations come from one source, and they're all essentially opinion articles. I'm willing to take your assertions on good faith, but honestly you've hardly given me any serious proof. Your view is exactly the type of v
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm not sure what specific experience you have with college, but your generalized view about it is both horrible prejudiced and misinformed. You've presented (at best) five data points about why college is bad. I can give you millions of
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Things I Think PG Monitors, But Probably Doesn't
4 points by tsally 17y ago|2 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
Bah, Tech Crunch did something I'm actually proud of.
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by tsally 17y ago
That's an excellent point, and very true. College is a very fluid and malleable experience. I think it's my belief that people (including myself initially) often overestimate the responsibly of the school, or ignore their own responsibili

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