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Why must all web apps have kewl spelling nowadays? How long before it's fashionable to put back the "E"?


Try and buy the domain with the "e" and see how much it sets you back. The e is not coming back until the domain name system changes such that .com is not assumed, so maybe with the new domain extensions, or just as likely, never.


markov?


Honest to god hockey stick growth

Can someone explain this?



This might be pedantic, but many people also incorrectly say "hockey stick" when they mean exponential growth. Hockey stick growth would be more like a sudden change between two very different rates of linear growth, which would be equally traumatic for your start up in the short term but probably more manageable in the long term.


Hi, I saw this post you made discussing a dissertation that had online dating stats. Could you by chance email me some information about how I could find this dissertation?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176699


Great definition of enterprise software:

With "enterprise" software, you can often get away with a clunky program, because the people who are using it have all been trained on what to do. If doing X makes the application crash, that's okay—they can just be taught not to do X any more.


At first glance i thought this was about VIM magic...

http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/pattern.html#/magic


I would rather be outside, away from my computer, participating in the community that's around me. nothing beats human contact.


yup, big changes: create a company blog, mimic your competitors.


can someone explain this one to me... i just don't get it.

"A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot"


My interpretation: a perfectly logical argument may convince you to take actions that harm yourself or others, if all you value is intellect (robot builders, please take note).

"Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator, and this must be the heart."


It's about Marxists. Think Pol Pot studying at the Sorbonne.


Difficult without context. It could be a joke about academic jealousy.

EDIT: Forget that, I agree with the Marxist comment.


A related issue to syntax is consistent naming, especially in the core API of a language. Java for example has _relatively_ consistent naming for methods, whereas i find the core Ruby methods to be all over the place...


exercise is a great source of energy and i've found it also decreases appetite. I didn't feel the benefits until after a few weeks of a regular exercise schedule; during the initial ramp up the changes in energy and appetite were inverted.


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