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by 10ren 16y ago
You can counter-offer. I offered a domain-squatter half what they asked, and they sold to me immediately... leaving me thinking that I could have offered much less. Maybe choose a different name. "Project name" is probably hard to google fo
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Year On Earth [video](youtube.com)
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Didn't Bezos start with a team? I think we need to distinguish between "one-founder" and "one-man" startups. Speaking as a one-man startup, I think the problem is worse than skills-sets, and worse than the costs of switching between tasks;
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by 10ren 16y ago
I don't think Newton would have attributed his success entirely to his DNA: If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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I realize you're speaking generally rather than addressing the comment you're replying to, but I did say "the idea of God".
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I didn't mean it to be with long-term intent, but similar to the adoption of a technology: groups that use it prosper, and others join them, or copy them, or are out-traded, outnumbered or conquered by them. There might not be any conscious
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oblig. Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Fred Brooks, p. 184 The Mythical Man-Month 2nd ed. It's in
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by 10ren 16y ago
If it's presented as "We're building this product - tell us what you want it for" it would tend to select the people who are really keen. That's the kind you want to start with - but you're right, it is a subset, probably a very small one
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Someone who hires programmers told me that university vs. self-educated were pretty indistinguishable, except for algorithmic problems - which over came up very rarely. Fred Brooks claimed that education and training for programmers was ext
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Languages ride platforms: Objective-C(tiobe.com)
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oh I see; I should have side "aside/tangent:". I was trying to validate one of the assumptions for my startup ("Java will remain in wide-spread use"), not argue within the discussion. I believe it will, but with so much negativity about jav
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What's a new project in Java? Last time this came up, the only examples given were five years old (note: "new" meaning newly launched, not just those that are active). Not bashing Java; this is a genuine question.
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I've been doing customer development this week, and one benefit to thinking in terms of separate economic buyers and end users is that it helps you to consider their relevant issues separately: usability and usefulness. Because I use my o
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> needlessly left the door open for business method patents to issue in the future, and I am concerned that it will lead to more unnecessary litigation. He's against business method patents.
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> Schemas allow the data to persist in a typed manner across lots of new versions of the application as it's developed, they serve as documentation, and prevent a lot of bugs. So, schemaless vs. schemaful is similar to static typed vs.
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Re: the speed test video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGu4h1vP3qM I count it as 7, 14, 28 seconds for 4, 3GS, 3G - seems like x2 per generation to me.
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http://1wt.eu/articles/guruplug-slow-heater/ The heat seems to be a design issue - he mentions the bus being only 16 bits wide. I'd hate to think ARM chips don't scale up after all... Here's performance numbers from a "SheevaPlug". Seems
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by 10ren 16y ago
One VMware per app would be the easiest way to fix this. Just put the whole mess in a box and forget about it. If MS is worried about people using this for servers, it's easy to add limitations at a higher level.
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> 1.2 GHz Sheeva (ARM) OK, this is more powerful than my eee PC (900MHz Celera) - assuming clock speeds have some legitimacy across cpu architectures. Not much storage, but you can plug in a 4GB flash drive for $12.50 from the supermark
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by 10ren 16y ago
when overwhelmed, reduce your frame/perspective so you can focus on one thing at a time.
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I've been working on product development and "customer development" recently, and this has emphasized for me the differences they have in perspective. The first (engineering) is about features : how to implement something, what it needs, w
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Also psychologically. He seems clinical and dry, but after a while I get the sense that he is utterly in love.
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No one's mentioned the revolutionary perspective of this story: learning a JVM language in its own right, without regard to the JVM, nor Java, its libraries nor infrastructure. Most JVM projects do have regard to Java, because: the develope
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Question: has anyone managed to do this? (eg. do hedge funds do this, or do they combine algorithms with their own ideas and quasi-insider knowledge, plus massive amounts of timely data - inaccessible to an individual). My old supervisor
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Search engines would have statistics on market share of public web servers .
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I think there's another age-effect for new technology, that young people will learn that, rather than enhance their skills in an existing technology. A test: if this is true, then fields with faster-moving technology (eg. silicon, software,
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think Windows Server has a large market share in medium size businesses. Note: they didn't specify "web" server. They didn't specify much. Who knows, maybe they count google as one server? Also, I sometimes think the experiences of us her
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Interesting point: What was the first microcomputer software company? Microsoft. But both these were third-generation copies: And who were we imitating when we did Microsoft Word? When we did Excel?
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The UI looks slick. Removing duplicated concepts and thus getting stuff for free is cool (like completing editors). Specifying cross-references in the grammar, so they can be used (eg) by the editor to complete (eg) method names, is also ve
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btw: scribd works really well now.

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