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by viscanti 15y ago
Private offices can solve the headache of a bad co-tenant, but have their own headaches as well. The obvious one is that it's more expensive. A less obvious one is that you loose the access to outside people. If you're working near someo
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by viscanti 15y ago
"Feature Supported" isn't well defined here. jQuery Mobile's persistant footers are anything but persistant on iOS. That's a big feature for most UIs, and something Sencha Touch got right a long time ago. That poor support for viewport ma
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by viscanti 15y ago
Geographical area is a stronger predictor of suicide than age or ethnicity, but statistically the numbers are really low (less than 15 suicides per 100,000 people). With the societal emphasis on psychological wellbeing (we're pumping kids
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by viscanti 15y ago
This article hints at, but could do a better job of explaining why humans aren't currently capable of evolving, and why we as a species haven't been able to for thousands of years. Society acts as a buffer, disintermediating genetic advant
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by viscanti 15y ago
I think a lot of it depends on the problem space. Are you solving a problem that uses a B2B or B2C solution (or a hybrid)? B2C problems are likely easier to find early adopters, if the problem is of any significance. You likely already h
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by viscanti 15y ago
There's a lot of things that could happen before there are any meaningful results from that. Even if it's initially a smash hit (however that might be defined), they'd want to see how it does over a longer time span. A year would be the m
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by viscanti 15y ago
It's not stretched analogies. The only thing it borrows from Lean Manufacturing is the idea of small batch sizes. It doesn't make the case that startups are like manufacturing. You don't HAVE to read the book, but you're making a faulty
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by viscanti 15y ago
You obviously haven't read the book. I hesitated to read it because I thought it would be superficial and lack specifics and actual insights. I expected something on the level of Gary Vaynerchuk, that would focus on "hustle" and buzz-word
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by viscanti 15y ago
The vast majority of (web) startups leverage open source technology. Most use both an open source database as well as programming language(s). Beyond that, many use an open source framework on top of their language of choice. Building aro
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by viscanti 15y ago
A better title would have been "Computer consultant will say anything to stay relevant and drum up business".
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by viscanti 15y ago
Her point 2 claims she studied 100 hours a week to keep those grades, and averaged 3 to 5 hours of sleep a night. She probably hit diminishing returns well before the 100 hours, and would probably have benefited from doing other things and
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by viscanti 15y ago
I'd like an API for places that have bad customer service. Ideally, there would be an automated boxing glove set on the customer service representative's desk, that I could tap into in the case of bad customer service, and I could bop them
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by viscanti 15y ago
These types of posts come up every so often, and I don't really understand why. Sure, the main point is valid (for some people). I just don't understand the vitriol behind the Author's post. So what if someone thinks TDD is the bees-knee
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by viscanti 15y ago
Some of the new autoshare features are a bit silly, but you can easily opt out of those. The facebook profile has always had ALL of the same info as the Timeline, it was just presented differently, and required someone to click a button se
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by viscanti 15y ago
The author could have done a better job of explaining this, if he would have said "Einsteinian Space" rather than "space" in that section. That's fairly easy to infer from the context, but it could have been explained better. Einstein view
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by viscanti 15y ago
It could be a step towards seeing what someone is seeing. It's not really mind reading. It's not reading "thoughts", it's reading neural response to visual stimuli. It's cool, but it would just be easier to turn around and look at what t
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by viscanti 15y ago
Premature scaling and optimization are the top killers of startups. A better title might be "well established companies rarely die from moving too fast". Those companies have a larger safety net and can afford to take more risks, because
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by viscanti 15y ago
I agree. I think the strategy of the studios is doomed to fail, but I think Netflix and consumers will end up paying the price (through more expensive services, and less content). They absolutely hate that someone else is building a profi
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by viscanti 15y ago
Eric Ries might say that all startups are experiments, but when he does so, he's quoting Steve Blank. It's probably nit-picking, but it seems silly to attribute that line of thought to Ries (as much as I respect him as an authority on Lean
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by viscanti 15y ago
It seems like the direction of streaming media is now moving to a studio based model. Each studio would like to create their own streaming service for their content, and reap all the benefits from that. We're seeing that affect Hulu's val
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by viscanti 15y ago
It really depends on the person. I find I'm not able to absorb more than 1-3 hours of new stuff each day. It's also a lot easier for me to commit 1-3 hours every day. There's an idea that you need to learn a lot up front, and then you're
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by viscanti 15y ago
It really depends what you want to do as a programmer. Different programming languages do better or worse jobs of making the general concepts of computer science digestible. My advice for someone just starting off, who wants to be "well r
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by viscanti 15y ago
Windows' biggest asset is their software library, and it's turning out to be a giant anchor preventing them from innovating like they need to. If they could find an elegant solution that leveraged their legacy software library into a usefu
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by viscanti 15y ago
There's a certain fetishization of the Launch that's been happening lately. What should be one (small) step in an iterative process, has become (for many), their startup's raison d'etre. It's something that needs to happen, and it's certa
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by viscanti 15y ago
Is there anything stopping you from doing both? Can you work a "normal" job during the day, and code at night? What's your business background (that makes you a "business guy")? I found that when I was just learning to code, I wasn't able
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by viscanti 15y ago
I didn't down vote, so I can't answer to that. The parts I found useful from "everything else" I listed above. LocalStorage is the big one (IMO). You get access to a built in, cross session data store natively. The canvas element has so
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by viscanti 15y ago
The markup changes don't give any performance advantages, they just help to standardize things. They aren't essential to HTML5 being useful. LocalStorage is one of the big advantages. Canvas has some interesting uses, although still need
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by viscanti 15y ago
There are certainly resources out there to learn Erlang. I found it difficult to find those resources, it's possible that was due to user error (me). There wasn't anything immediately obvious that was the "best" way to get started, especi
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by viscanti 15y ago
The biggest problem for me, with Erlang, is that there just aren't a lot of great sources for documentation. There are even less (obvious) resources for learning the language from scratch. This new chapter helps a lot with both.
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by viscanti 15y ago
I've always found this an unacceptable part of their library. It's not impossible, and not even especially difficult (it's just some viewport adjustments). Sencha Touch got this right a long time ago. Fixed toolbars should be fixed, the

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