DodgyEggplant

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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   4 words: Port Everything. Sell Apps.
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   Selenium is really great. Easy to use, effective. One pitfall to remember: Any UI change (e.g. renaming a link) requires to update the test. On new sites these changes occur a lot, so try to focus on the main theme that changes less freq.
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   There was one Steve Jobs. If only two people can replace him, it's a little miracle. A master manager, and a master designer. They can continue w/o the ego fights. Like Bill Hewlet and the other guy (JOKING! Please spare my carma). They wil
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   A co-founder is also the minimum social proof. Find at least one person in the world who is willing to bet on you and your startup.
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   Correct. Fixed that. A Billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   How many people would sit in front of Steve Jobs, refuse to a hundreds of millions acquisition offer, just before Apple enters their market. You got to admire Houston. He might reach the moon.
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   He is a bit unfair. Good platforms vendors paved the way for everybody. And they ALWAYS do it THEIR WAY (ask Netscape, Novel and Real). One can argue that Instapaper is actually a missing browser feature. But Apple is pushing the envelope:
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   It does align nicely with Steve Yegge's post: strive to be a platform. Let people build what they need. Don't try to be everything to everybody. Less products, more services. Maybe right, maybe wrong, but Google shows that they CAN DECIDE a
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   by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

   The most important piece: if you did it once, you can do it again. Remember this. Now the details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire You should read your contract with them. As a rule of thumb, if you are in an "innovative" job,
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    RIP. It seems they are into a big project up there.
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    Great story. You show not only great character, but great writing skills too.
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    PLEASE DON'T CONSIDER SUICIDE. PLEASE. The feeling that all doors are closed is ALWAYS misleading. There is always an open door, alas maybe you don't see it today, or tomorrow, but it's there. The one thing you should do is to find ASAP som
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    everything: DB, Web servers etc aprox 600GB RAM
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    Stackexchange, and now Trello, are much more open than Fogbugz. Fogbugz was innovative at it's conception, but now it seems legacy (for the record, I use Fogbugz every day, love it, and probably continue to use it). He faced Atlasian, he to
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    WOW! Now THAT's scalability !!
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    Beautiful product. Who is the designer?
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    by DodgyEggplant 15y ago

    Then open your own startup, and get 99% of the shares for 0% of your previous salary