twak

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by twak 18y ago
yes, it's a generalisation. yes, oxbridgians put both legs into a trouser. however the system does build up palpable differences in ability between a general oxford student and someone just as smart who ends up somewhere else. But the bulk
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by twak 18y ago
you just made my day by posting that link - how did you find that post? (was a late night rant commenting on office politics). Very nice to see :) but maybe typical of hn's fall from grace from "how to be the best" to "how to compete with t
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by twak 18y ago
yes. but it makes health insurance a non-issue for companies. we don't compete over it & we're not scared of loosing it with our jobs. the American system forces the individual to be responsible for their health (smoker? that'll cost) a
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by twak 18y ago
We don't use unit testing because 1) it kills agility. We're small, new & rewrite our software base every year. Complete code coverage slows us down by a factor of two and doesn't give that time back (so far) in reduced dev time. 2) we
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by twak 18y ago
<shameless blog plug> "So is it fair that the GPL doesn't give back to the proving ground of new ideas, the commercial world?" http://moviestorm.blogspot.com/2008/01/gpl-vs-startups.html
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by twak 19y ago
all these ideas are a little experimental. how can we try them out without nuking this community?
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by twak 19y ago
use a pagerank-like karma assignment (high karma people give more karma). it's better than having a slashdotesque editor. (and the only thing our grahamist overlords would have to do is to kill someone's karma if they go off topic)
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by twak 19y ago
Code reviews should be much more to with medium to big ideas, not small details. Small details should be trivial to a good hacker. so: "You've got that wired in backwards", "Tim built one of those over here", "When we implement foo, that'll
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by twak 19y ago
You're not wrong. The real cost of things isn't so related to your bank balance, it's more relative to your current needs.
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GPL vs startups(moviestorm.blogspot.com)
1 points by twak 19y ago|1 comments
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by twak 19y ago
http://amazon.decenturl.com/samson-audio-c01u-condenser is the kind of thing you'll be wanting
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how to make feature requests (some video)(moviestorm.blogspot.com)
1 points by twak 19y ago|0 comments
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by twak 19y ago
is there an interactive-computer-help system going already? Punters pay per minute of help. They are matched with a nerd somewhere who can view their screen, offer advice (voip) or help using a remote desktop.
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by twak 19y ago
Bundled startup companies. Offer a Limited company with matching domain name and web-2.0-ey logo/trademark on the holding page. Your customers will get an instant web presence they can start coding into. Perhaps having an operational online
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by twak 19y ago
i often wonder why there isn't a "articles i've clicked on" section on the front page of so i can vote when i return
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by twak 19y ago
f) The article is something that belongs on hn & i like it
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by twak 19y ago
here's one: user generated content is hot. games are fun. turn a game into content creation or content creation into a game.