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I love so many things about startups. I love working at them, I love the atmosphere, I love the lack of office politics, I love the feeling that you're working toward a reward, and I love the problem-solving attitude of those who share the ride.
Even when I'm not working in a startup, the startup mentality infects how I approach my work.
This effect is obvious for anyone who navigated before and after the age of personal GPS. When you engage in the decision-making process, you learn. When you rely on something to make choices for you, you don't learn.
This screed is disappointing to me. We tell people to go out and do their own research. We tell people to avoid just buying into group think. We want people to be informed citizens who do research, share their research…
Do people appreciate that denial of the severity of this virus came from all political quarters? Here's one showing the mistakes of left-leaning media I found in 2 seconds:…
why on earth is it a good thing that people are trying to kill off Python2? Because the community is fragmented and that weakens language adoption, productivity, and enjoyment. The 2-3 schism in Python has been a pain…
Well said. These types of blog posts create the sense of a needless dichotomy where you either code 24 hours a day or 5 hours a day and there's no in-between. I really don't have much of a github presence, but then…
Letting everyone know they'll immediately be shown the door if they dare request an increase would create a terrible culture The person to whom you're responding explicitly drew a distinction between discussing a raise…
1. It wasn't lucky that he made a good game that people like, it was hard work. 2. Doing something cool when he saw an opportunity with Hamill was also not luck. It took creativity and initiative. Maybe he didn't do the…
I'm not going to defend psychiatry as hard science, but it is scientifically-based. Theories exist based upon our existing data. Studies are performed. Experiments are performed. Data is analyzed and old theories are…
Some other questions that may be more relevant: * Which model is more likely to prevent someone with mental illness from harming himself or others because of incorrect diagnosis? * Which model is more likely to lead to…
I agree with you, but actually, 57C1566F-1DA9-4AAB-9F88-E31C4B950DD6 is my UUID.
If he were sending a standard printed resume through the mail then you might have a point. This online version is something different and I doubt that anyone looking for talent would disqualify him for having his…
Some of Snowden's claims (and some of Greenwald's) strain credibility Maybe, but he's so far been a much more reliable information source than his opponents. Lacking real efforts of transparency from the NSA, I think…
Redundancy is a key part of unreliable protocol jokes.
I have a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
Meh, you're just contriving extreme circumstances for your analogy so that the software developer is both a super hero and has no blame in being late with deliverables. There are simple methods to combat gross…
So the article tries to describe the hidden complexity of software with a hiking analogy but then it leaves a huge part missing. Let's extend the analogy somewhat... this isn't your first hiking trip. In fact, you've…
only so far as it enriches your life, that is literally the definition of selfishness I'm sure we'd all be better people if instead of helping others, we spent time judging and bashing those who spend time helping…
U.S. government very rarely ignores the Constitution You beat that drum all the time. I don't understand how anyone reasonably informed could ignore the weekly violations of the Constitution by the US Government. The…
Most Muslims aren't belligerent. or against the faith Wrong answer. When "against the faith" includes calling for the death or even censorship of cartoonists in other countries who draw disrespectful pictures of a…
Remember Christianity used to be very hostile to religions in time past (Galileo) I've seen this speculation that this is just a phase that Islam is going through. When Christianity was going through a similar conflict…
The VirtualBox caught my eye... I loved using VirtualBox for a while. It's free. It basically works. It's free. Oh yeah, and it's free. Recently, work sprung for a Parallels license for me. Yikes, I pity my past self…