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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
Something's sketchy. Wouldn't the TechCrunch lawyer have referred to a contract covering their partnership arrangement? The letter by the lawyer is pure scare tactics. It does not point to any specific violation of a written contract anywhe
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I'm not a lawyer but is it not possible that if a lawsuit proceeds, TechCrunch's own inaccurate, often speculative, bordering on drama queen news posts could work against them? A lawyer could paint TechCrunch as the kind of entity that blow
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Interesting stuff. Where would Canada be if we accounted for things the way the U.S. does? Would we be at half our present debt level?
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I generally agree but I think it's really a shame because Microsoft has a great debugger and I love IntelliSense (the damn thing even works with javascript). When working with Windows projects, I generally put up with the bloat because of t
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
You're going to be down-voted to oblivion as my comment was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=938814 . Google of 2009 has become the Microsoft of 1999. They can release anything and people will love them for it without skepticism.
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I swear, someone at Google could fart and somebody would write a press release about it.
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Am I missing something? How does "55% faster" translate into a 2x speed-up?
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I was once at a Microsoft conference when a speaker didn't show. We waited 15 minutes when finally a sweaty, scruffy dude comes running into the room panting all apologetic-like. Apparently he had been in his boxers relaxing in his hotel ro
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They said in the FAQ that they "felt" LLVM was "too large" and "too slow". I would have liked to see this statement backed up with data.
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Yes this does strike me as being odd. I have source code for a video game demo that Apple made and provided to developers if you asked them nicely for it. There were two sessions out of a 5 session long day (I believe) dedicated specificall
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I might check this out if they had a category for bass guitars.
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Actually one of my pet peeves is that websites continually update their copyright notices. I've always felt that's not how copyright should work. If you update a website, the copyright should take effect when the content, say an article, wa
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
An interesting thing is that Jeff Bezos is the only investor in 37 Signals according to that article. Amazon.com was the poster boy for "Don't worry about spending money now, we'll be profitable one day" mentality. That said, most other dot
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You need to withdraw your product/service from consideration by this customer. In other words, refuse to sell to them. Come up with any reason. This guy sounds like your typical corrupt politician or organized criminal. They typically do yo
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I've come to similar conclusions. Salary discrepancy is another related phenomenon. My observations are completely based on anecdotal evidence, but having had to interview people for jobs, I'm also now of the opinion that women are paid les
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
The fact that you're willing to get under people's skin is an asset. Many of the problems we face in the tech community are due to a predominately male culture that lacks the assertiveness to resolve problems in their own favour. We write b
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I've done some work for a Federal government agency a few years back and a provincial government within the past year. eHealth was exceptional not because of the cost but because nothing got done. Here's where posting anonymously is benefic
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
Depends on the project. A lot of website RFPs can be done in a crunch session of 1 to 2 days. I've had to bid on systems that interacted with assembly lines and ones that involved dealing with the government and getting security clearances.
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Most consultancy firms that don't respond to RFPs eventually die. Of those firms that survive, they could be viewed as a collective of successful freelancers. There typically is not enough revenue to grow the company beyond the founding con
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One big feature is thatAero is supported in Windows Vista and Windows 7 now.
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Things are different outside Canada, specifically in the U.S.. I've found in the U.S. that there are vastly inconsistent definitions for the different programs. In Canada you tend to have Computer Engineers who study in a real engineering p
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I was hoping Joel would send around a URL for feedback. I didn't stick around to see if that ended up happening. The problem wasn't that the talks were horrible in and of themselves. But it appears that he totally underestimated some of the
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
Yes! I first used delegates in Obj-C/Cocoa. When I then learned .NET delegates, my first thought was "Ewww!"
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Just a little factoid, because I think a lot of readers here might be too young to know the significance of the title of this rant. When Windows 95 was released, Apple took out ads in major newspapers worldwide with the text C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
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Before everyone gets too excited over this, admittedly very cool technical achievement, how will this affect the look and feel of apps making use of it? Games always tend to use completely custom UIs, so this will be a neat tool at the disp
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
In theory and on average, a million hits per day will come down to 11 hits per second. What you're more likely to see in practice though is huge peaks and troughs in load. The average might be 11 hits per second. But the peak load could be
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The kind of person that is involved in a startup is typically smart enough to be able to hide the symptoms of depression. These are people who are used to achieving great things and so hiding vulnerabilities is something they get very good
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While this is a particularly nasty situation, absolutely off-the-wall meltdown behaviour like this is actually pretty common in startups when things start going bad. Anyone remember the meltdown between the partners in the documentary Start
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Much more succinctly put than I could have put it, but spot on! The problem I'm seeing is a greater number of pilots that think they're flying Harrier jump jets when they're really piloting Cessnas :)
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
Sure. I suppose what motivated me to write the original post in this thread is that I'm beginning to see a lot of people jump into startups with a great amount of wishful thinking and a complete misconception of what they are getting into

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