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by tyler 18y ago
Who is 280 North? I think you're missing the point the author is attempting to make. 37Signals is a well-founded company which has several applications, each generating revenue. It's also well-known. The points which the author purports
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by tyler 18y ago
This would be a much more interesting question if you were to give specific examples of how specific YC startups are "spineless", and perhaps how they could be less "spineless". Without that, I'd simple respond: "They're not."
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by tyler 18y ago
If you keep scrolling there are some more non-pure-math algorithms. Including: pathfinding, heaps, and some threading stuff. I like the reverse chronological order... It's like being transported back in time, and watching the history of CS
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by tyler 18y ago
I was on the team that built http://bootleggers.r08.railsrumble.com Think of it as election.twitter.com... except you make your own channels. And you can follow or fork other people's channels, and blah blah. Oh and it's not just Twitter
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by tyler 18y ago
Except not really. You hire an employee with the intentions that they'll be worth more to the company than the money the money they cost it. It could be more accurately stated as... Cutting out a _worthless_ employee with $100k in salary
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by tyler 18y ago
As someone who left Pennsylvania: Dead on.
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by tyler 18y ago
Hack.
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by tyler 18y ago
It's all just an abstraction. You could sub in any of the other layers of abstraction in place of "terminal" and it would make just as much (and little) sense.
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by tyler 18y ago
It's also built into Rails.
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by tyler 18y ago
QBasic. I got a BASIC programming book from the library when I was 11... despite not knowingly having anything to program BASIC in. Poking around in my MSDOS system files I saw this mysterious program "qbasic". Holy crap! It was there al
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by tyler 18y ago
In a free market, the idea of a particular profession being "overpaid" is just silly. People are paid exactly as much as they are worth to their employer... If there was someone better who would do the job for less, they would be replaced.
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by tyler 18y ago
I've used both to a limited degree. The only thing I can say is that RSpec felt more "natural". I suppose it's up to you whether feeling natural is compelling or not.
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by tyler 18y ago
Sadly, the Davis Square McIntyre & Moore closed recently.
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by tyler 18y ago
I'm willing to bet that most people here aren't familiar with Sheetz considering it is primarily a Pennsylvania thing. Sheetz is famous in the area for having really decent food, orderable through little kiosks at every store. They pretty
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by tyler 18y ago
He mentioned drinks on the rocks, which would indicate alcohol. It was probably just confirming their age.
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by tyler 19y ago
I'm not sure I agree that we're not talking about relational data. I mean... each record is -related- to others in a parent-child sort of way. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by relational?
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by tyler 19y ago
I question the premise that a fast moving market is negative for startups. In fact, its precisely these things that makes it possible for startups to compete with big players. A quickly changing market will just make it easier for small c
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by tyler 19y ago
Theres a rather good explanation of MapReduce in the book "Beautiful Code". (Its just a rather good book, period.)
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by tyler 19y ago
Well... Meaningful communication between members of families prone to domestic violence, certainly could be helpful.
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by tyler 19y ago
I was a pretty skeptical regarding the Air. But, just today I went down to the CambridgeSide Apple Store and played with one of them. Its really quite nifty. The weight and thickness are really astounding. The numbers don't really mean
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by tyler 19y ago
"...and has already categorized them using Bayesian filtering."
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by tyler 19y ago
I've been doing a couple side projects in Io over the last few months. It really is a beautiful language. Honestly, it reminds me of what would be the love child of Lisp and Ecmascript. What really struck me was when I realized that I cou
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by tyler 19y ago
Yep. Thats correct. Although, at the last point I looked into it, there were some firewall-related problems with using Flash for that purpose. I don't remember the details though...
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by tyler 19y ago
This is an argument that has been going on since the first web apps started to emerge. The general argument is this: "You can't implement feature x in a browser". Initially the list of features that could not be implemented was quite long
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by tyler 19y ago
In the past 24 hours we've had... rain, thunderstorm, sleet, hail, and snow. "Unbearably shitty" is an understatement at times...
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by tyler 19y ago
I had a very similar experience. My wife hits the sack at 11-ish, and I'm up until 3 or 4 working on side projects. It has worked out very well for us. I asked her to read "Hackers and Painters" while we were dating. She did and said tha
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by tyler 19y ago
Hm. I'm really more of a Lisp person than an OCaml person. I just find the language interesting. And specifically, I was responding to the comment "studios moving away from C/C++". Which, of itself, has nothing to do with Lisp. Regardles
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by tyler 19y ago
I'd like to see a move toward OCaml, with regards to that. All the (albeit amateur) game developers I know cling to their C or C++ because of performance concerns. I tend to think these performance concerns are overstated. However, if the
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by tyler 19y ago
California's coastline. The views while driving across western states. The buildings in old Boston. Country roads in Pennsylvania. Oh, you meant it in a socio political sense. Well, in that case...
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by tyler 19y ago
Ah, I've got this one figured out. I'm going to use it to implement another dialect of CL... in which I will implement a dialect of Scheme... in which I will reimplement Arc. I'd like to see how many iterations of this one could go throug

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