programminggeek

Sometimes jQuery is all you need. Sometimes you don't even need that.

Building an app and building a business aren't the same.

Go out and sell the app to people and find out how easy it is.

Ad strategy #1 - make someone an offer and ask them to buy.

If enough people buy, keep running the ad so long as it's profitable. Kill ads that aren't.

There is no ad strategy #2 worth bothering with.

Irrationality rules the world.

I was disappointed that this had nothing to do with any kind of Lego Pizza.

I gave a talk on OOP and what I think Alan Kay was really talking about WRT OOP http://brianknapp.me/message-oriented-programming/

90% of the people on this forum will never start a startup or possibly even work at a startup.

Employers don't want critical thinking, they want compliance and results. They might say they want more soft skills, but what they mean is they want someone to solve their problems and make them look good.

Usually, that means a yes man. This kind of article is delusional naval gazing.

Every time someone uses the "Science Of" it's a trap.

My bad.

Work your ass of building and promoting something useful and charge money for it.

PHP is really great. I'm not sure why so many people hate it so violently. It's useful and runs like 1/4th of the web.

A secret is more valuable. The reason why is a secret.

There will always be technical debt because of Software Gravity(http://brianknapp.me/software-gravity/) and the Katamari Damacy Effect(http://brianknapp.me/katamari-damacy-effect/). Both drive the natural Evolution of Software(http://devblog.procore.com/dev/evolution-of-software-applica...)

Don't get too excited. It's not rails enough for the ruby community to ever seriously use it. I know this from firsthand experience going down the same rabbit hole a few years ago.

That's all well and good, unless you are the one being taken from. Why should someone's effort be rewarded with thievery?

There was only one thing that worked for me to finish my first book. I showed up every day and wrote something. Then I edited the hell out of it (like 8 passes).

The rough draft was 100+ pages. The final version is 64.

There is no shortcut to writing and editing a book. You have to put a lot of time in and just write the damn book.

My book if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0163BAUWC

Great talk, Gary is a cool dude.

How long till someone writes "Javascript: The New LLVM" or even better "Javascript: The New Rust"?

It seems like the tribe that built the site and the tribe that is trying to run it now are not the same thing. The culture of reddit is not civilized, equal, or any of the other HR type directives they are going to try and make.

If the people in charge now tried to start reddit back then, with all the focus on fairness, equality, correctness, and inclusiveness reddit would never exist.

It would be something else. I'm not sure it would be bigger, smaller, better, or worse, but I know it wouldn't be reddit.

You can't have a bunch of "bros" build a popular site and then pretend that they didn't. You can't bring in a bunch of nerds into a community and then kick them out and take it away from them once it's popular and successful.

Actually you can try and do those things, but it won't work because the tribe will reject you and go somewhere else. It happened to slashdot, it happened to digg, it will happen to reddit and Hacker News too.

If you don't understand the tribe, you can't hope to lead them. You don't lead the tribe by pretending it's not what it is.

Reddit's owners and operators seem to be ashamed by their tribe. That is going to be their downfall.

When people hear ambiguous things that make them happy, they often imagine that whoever they deem the hero at the moment agrees with them on everything and would do exactly what they would do, regardless of what the truth might be.

And yet, she made the title the way she did for a reason and not by accident.

It's going to be a lot of work and you're likely to not make any more than the initial advance of $5,000-10,000.

Big Oil killed the dinosaurs.

You don't get to that role without negotiating and if you notice the higher up you get, the more likely you are to negotiate.

Sounds a lot like many homeschooling approaches done well in a non-home environment. Interesting.

Except they totally didn't focus on being profitable until recently. They could have done this a year ago. Seriously.

What I never fully understand is why not focus on being profitable on an ongoing basis instead of a profitable business being an "event". Seems to me the basic purpose of business is to make a profit, not to hire people and "grow"(sans profit).

"X startup cuts 10-15% of staff" seems to be a meme lately.

Here's the most important lesson...

This kind of starving crowd is rare and you should expecting it to be rare. That's why people are willing to pay you millions of dollars if you find one.

If you find a truly hot market, it can be worth billions and most any idiot can make a lot of money in a hot market. If you are good, all the better.

But remember, it's rare and hard to find. Assume that 99.5% of all businesses aren't in that kind of market situation.