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by volaski 11y ago
If a company itself is "hip", it doesn't need to worry about "looking hip" to developers. If I was starting a company, I would focus on the productivity NOW rather than worrying about how hip it will make me look in
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by volaski 11y ago
Apparently they did. They went from jQuery to coffeescript to Angular to React, according to the post.
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by volaski 11y ago
"a significant part about what attracts us to a language is the quality of people who use it." <= where did this theory even come from? I learned to program because I wanted to build stuff. I couldn't care less about &quot
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by volaski 11y ago
They have time to re-write front-end four times from jQuery to Coffeescript to Angular to React, but think backend needs to be "future-proof"ed for 3 years?
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by volaski 11y ago
haha holy shit i had no idea. Anyway, i can't eat any of them, it just feels too cruel. I know i know it's weird coming from an otherwise meat eater, but that's exactly my point, it's totally fine to feel certain way but
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by volaski 11y ago
Apple tree can "feel" pain when apple falls off too. I am not a vegan (pretty far from it) but I still can't bring myself to eat mussel or scallops because I feel bad and cruel for eating the whole thing. Yeah so that guy can
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by volaski 11y ago
This guy just wants to eat some meat and trying so hard to rationalize himself (or herself). I wonder if he will eat lizard's tail after it gets cut off. Hey it grows back like an apple tree, and the tail itself is not sentient.
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by volaski 11y ago
I heard their iphone preorders start at midnight, probably related.
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by volaski 11y ago
How is something as common as "positive thinking" unique to American? I don't understand how you picked up that idea. It's like saying "being courteous to elders" is uniquely Chinese.
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by volaski 11y ago
You sound like some bitter guy who's tinkered around with some self help stuff and gave up after a bit. Or maybe you haven't even tried. For one Bill Gates who worked hard to become who he is, there are tons of other people who we
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by volaski 11y ago
What does "America" have anything to do with this? You could complain all day long about how bad of a situation you are in, or you could do something about it, and that's a fact.
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by volaski 11y ago
You are yourself and you can do whatever you want. The stats are just stats. Just because no one has seen a black swan before, does not mean black swan doesn't exist. It is foolish to think that it is impossible to achieve something an
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by volaski 11y ago
Fear of failure itself is OK. Using lack of wealth as an excuse is not. While one guy who has access to the Internet and have enough time to post on hacker news is complaining about how he's screwed because he's not born into a &q
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by volaski 11y ago
This guy calls himself "wage slave", which means he's not some homeless bum and can sustain himself. He is also on hacker news commenting on stuff, so he does have time. Also I never said fear of failure was bad. I just point
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by volaski 11y ago
The reason you say stuff like this is because deep inside you are afraid of failure. Or maybe you are just lazy. It's one or the other.
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by volaski 11y ago
Not really, if Seth Godin started doing this tomorrow on his blog, I will lose all the respect I had for him. He knows that and that's probably why he doesn't do it. And that's why I lost respect for those who do--because it&
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by volaski 11y ago
No one said these app download guys are awesome. My point was that these newsletter guys deserve much more criticism. A lot of them are pretty famous bloggers, and they know they're being an asshole but do it. The thing is no one criti
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by volaski 11y ago
I'm more annoyed with these sites than the app install sites. "Install our app" is annoying but still trying their best to send us where we will have better have better experience (at least that's what they think). These
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by volaski 11y ago
If the goal was to get more developers, I would just go with say.. Rails (or node, or even Java!) and pgsql. Why use all these hipster technologies? But who says it's because of the technology stack you're using? Maybe people are
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by volaski 11y ago
What you mentioned are all bad ideas only because they have no soul (You're just saying them for the sake of making your point) If someone could tell me with conviction why sending 1 email a day is meaningful for certain reasons and wh
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by volaski 11y ago
I actually think Color was a great idea compared to thousands of "Uber for X" ideas launching everyday nowadays. At least they tried to do something novel. In my book Color was a good idea executed badly. That said, idea is someth
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by volaski 11y ago
"Ideas are cheap" is a misleading expression. The full expression is "Ideas are cheap without execution". But same goes for "Execution is cheap without a good idea". I'm annoyed at people preaching this ex
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by volaski 11y ago
Go read the book "Everything store" and come back. You're not the first one who's been saying stuff like this about him. While reading the book I was amazed how the entire history of the company is full of doubters sayin
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by volaski 11y ago
Read the context, friend. The original comment this guy replied to was pointing out that people may have different traits because of their exposed environment even though they had same origins. Are we all same people since we are all homo s
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by volaski 11y ago
It sounds ridiculous to hear someone claim originality for an idea as generic AND faddish as text based assistant. If you seriously didn't know of apps like these existed before you launched (text based assistants with a human name), j
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by volaski 11y ago
According to your definition of "same people", all English speaking caucasians are the same people, genetically and linguistically.
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by volaski 11y ago
I agree with general sentiment but I don't think you should just cut down on someone as bad CEO. It is an extremely difficult task to revive a company that has lost its charm. Also most judgment on whether someone is a "Good CEO&q
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by volaski 11y ago
Thanks for the answer. I just want to ask one more question. Don't you think StackOverflow is already too large to disappear suddenly like those startups you mentioned, and smart enough to NOT go the way of ExpertsExchange? (I think th
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by volaski 11y ago
Before StackOverflow existed sites like ExpertExchange. They are irrelevant now despite the fact that they had tons of content whereas StackOverflow started with 0. People ask questions and answer on StackOverflow not because that's wh
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by volaski 11y ago
As a thought experiment, do you think if StackOverflow changed their license tomorrow (hypothetically because of the spam problem) but assured all its users that they will never mess with them, all users will leave simply because of the lic

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