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by xiaoma 10y ago
Wow. He cites himself 9 times and cites himself citing himself at the end.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Twitter is anything but a community. It's a platform with a multitude of communities and individuals, many with conflicting goals.
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The title was editorialized. The word "every" was added to the title of the article.
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Java, and to a lesser degree Scala, would be an eye-brow raising choice for a startup. That's why I didn't bring them up. However, it's worth pointing out 1) PHP and Node both tend to get significantly better performance than
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Your comment consisted largely of talking about and linking to your kickstarter. There was no way in which that was necessary to share your understanding or views about the topic.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I really don't like reading people's advertisements in HN comments, but according to my reading of the site guidelines, there are no prohibitions against spam or other aggressive marketing within comments :/
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I wish he'd said what service he used to delete all those tweets and to auto-delete his new ones after a certain amount of time has passed.
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I would choose Rails if my biggest concern were time to market and server costs weren't a huge concern. For any kind of site where you're selling a service or product and for the vast majority of freemium models, Rails is great. Y
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Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’(quantamagazine.org)
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Of course not. It's just that a lot of the biggest software companies—Google, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat and to an extent, LinkedIn—are advertising companies
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> "If you're a good engineer, there are better and far more interesting and impactful companies to work at than an app whose primary purpose is to call a ride." It's no Space X, but giving people a cheaper, more reli
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Teens aren't millennial. They're gen z.
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It's possible that pretty much any so-called "gig-economy" platform is inexorably pressed towards first wooing, then commoditizing and finally squeezing its workers.
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What is it about formalized schooling specifically, that you believe makes it uniquely capable in teaching people what they don't know? When I was 18 I spent dozens of hours pouring through a university course catalogue, looking at the
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> Having dozens of game CDs from that era doesn't mean you'll have anything that can read & run them (or will in the near future). For the past decade or so, DosBox has been a pretty much flawless option for emulation fro
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Some of them were. Pretty much all my shareware titles were on CD-Rs because that's how my friends and I shared them.
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I have dozens of game CDs from that era and they're still playable.
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I love what Stripe has done / is doing with Atlas. I can barely even explain what a pain it is just to open a US bank account with a foreign address. If they can succeed on a broader level, it will democratize online commerce like Word
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Try Google: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=uk%20forced%20to...
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The UK has has their citizens to unlock devices and provide encryption keys upon demand for years, it's not limited to airports and they're not allowed to tell anyone it happened.
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On your site, you bill yourself as a "Product Designer—UI/UX Designer—Developer—Entrepreneur". Who exactly would that appeal to? In most cases, startups hire to get specific things done they can't do themselves. It'
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Oh right, and I forgot Marc Andreesen. This was from The Hard Thing About Hard Things : To: Marc Andreessen Cc: Mike Homer From: Ben Horowitz Subject : Launch I guess we’re not going to wait until the 5th to launch the
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by xiaoma 10y ago
And yet all ran cultures where jerks thrived in engineering (or sales in Oracle's case).
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It was directed inward, too. "That's the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard," was a common phrase at MS in the 90s.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Elison and Jeff Bezos each nurtured that sort of person (and were themselves that sort of person). They utterly steamrolled the kinder and gentler companies in their respective markets. Sometimes reality and wh
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "He could crank out 10 times as much work as any of us could in one day." If this is true, it sounds like the best option would have been firing the rest of the team and looking for another like him.
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No. Would you pay me $5 per unsolicited recruiting email/message you send?
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> "It's the cultural proficiency that gets you." Yes. This one of many reasons doing extensive reading of easy texts, children's stories and then later consuming TV and radio is so important. So many learners tend t
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How is that common sense? Both are open source and Google is happy to lure iOS devs, presumably.
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A better example than Ghost Busters might be the Battlestar Galactica reboot which shocked many fans of the original series by changing one of the main characters, Starbuck, from a man to a woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

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