GavinB

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by GavinB 16y ago
When I was a kid one of my teachers asked me if I'd gotten a boo-boo. "No," I told her, "It's an injury." My parents always spoke to me as an adult. I'll leave it to you to judge how well it turned out.
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by GavinB 16y ago
They're already out there. I use this one: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
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by GavinB 16y ago
You're right, it looks like they weren't directly involved. "Nothing" might be an exaggeration, given that they offered the source code free . . . It does seem likely that they owned Etherpad.org at some point. Does anyone know if they dona
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by GavinB 16y ago
Very classy move by both the founders of Appjet and Google.
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by GavinB 16y ago
It's really sad that Aldiko is such a good reader, but has no bookstore that sells current books for it. I'm stuck with Kobo's old Shortcovers app, which even they admit is outdated.
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by GavinB 16y ago
Thanks for the tip on TouchDown. I'm finally free from having to punch in my username and password every few minutes just to get to Outlook Web Access.
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by GavinB 16y ago
This is clearly marked as speculation in both the title and the body of the article. It cites a fact from a totally non-questionable source (Arrington himself says he's moving) and then explores the potential implications, based on tax law
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by GavinB 16y ago
That quote comes in the context of rollovers. Modifying a flash app so that it doesn't require rollovers is an order of magnitude less difficult than rewriting the entire program from scratch. Analogy: "Instead of replacing the car's steeri
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by GavinB 17y ago
Now that content is a pure public good, there are only a few options to support its creation. 1. Draconian legislative enforcement. 2. Public funding 3. Charitable fundraising (100k true fans model) 4. Production by hobbyists 5. Charging fo
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by GavinB 17y ago
One of the cool things about twitter is that you don't need headlines, thumbnails, or previews. A tweet is one complete thought. If you're going to arbitrarily restrict the images to a small size, it doesn't make sense to then use a slightl
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by GavinB 17y ago
tl;dr To get smarter, you should struggle through the whole article and not skip to the tl;dr.
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by GavinB 17y ago
In Gratuitous Space Battles (aka the best-named game ever) you plan out your strategy, hit play, and watch. I haven't actually played it yet, but it seems like a perfect "baking" style game for you. http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspac
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by GavinB 17y ago
Making a bunch of guess about market size and revenue in five years is pretty much a waste of time. That doesn't mean that you don't need to plan. You want to have everyone in agreement about a few key points: What product are we making? Wh
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by GavinB 17y ago
I guess it wouldn't be as much fun if we admitted that this is one good path to take to a good game, but that there are also games that use words to wonderful effect.
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by GavinB 17y ago
Did that actually bear out in which companies went on to be successful? It's an appealing notion, but I question it every time I run across a successful company that can't get it right.
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by GavinB 17y ago
You'd be amazed how similar a new political campaign is to a tech start-up. You're creating an entire organization from scratch. Hiring and training employees on the fly, getting expanded offices, You have to fund-raise, only instead of VC
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by GavinB 17y ago
Is it just me, or did was the annoying sales guy completely right about the technology being possible, able to satisfy the client, and successful in closing a profitable deal for the company? What weird dailywtf parallel universe is this?
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by GavinB 17y ago
As someone who's been the client in this situation a number of times, let me offer two additional tips: 1. Explain or reiterate the goals before you show the design--especially if you're showing it to a larger group in the client company. I
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by GavinB 17y ago
This demonstration just shows once again that taste is far more important than which tool is used.
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by GavinB 17y ago
If you don't feel like living in "the pit," you could just get a full time job that isn't all-consuming. Working an hour or two a night, finishing a first draft of a book only takes a few months. You should then end up spending six months t
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by GavinB 17y ago
I think I'll patent "A method and process for mounting a legal defense against patent lawsuits." And next, "A method and process for preventing patent litigation through acquiring patents and threatening to counter sue." I'll be unstoppable
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by GavinB 17y ago
And I don't mean saved my life in a hand-wavy, metaphysical way, like "Punk rock saved my life" or "Martha Stewart Every Day Living saved my life". This is not your typical vague Tomato Soup for the Soft-Seller's Soul crap—I can name dates
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by GavinB 17y ago
For anyone who's never tried: Building Rube Goldberg machines is insanely hard. The idea is to build a machine that looks as difficult and improbable as possible. Pieces that are destroyed or completely changed during the operation are par
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by GavinB 17y ago
Honestly, this is more about the general attitude than your post. You were pretty reasonable and acknowledged more of what's going on than most others. Sorry I chose to vent on your post.
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by GavinB 17y ago
It bothers me that people seem so angry at flash. It's been the only way to do so many things for more than a decade--and the technology to replace it isn't even really ready yet. It's now more than a decade old. Of course it's going to b
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by GavinB 17y ago
Look at it in the reverse. Dressing appropriately dramatically increases your chance of being hired. Do you really want to hire the kind of person who can't figure out how to avoid this disadvantage?
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by GavinB 17y ago
Rather than view things from a large project view, set achievable daily goals. Then let yourself feel the satisfaction of succeeding at your goal each day. If you get into this habit, then you'll find that a few months later you've actually
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by GavinB 17y ago
Your plugin looks great. Is it released under a specific license? I didn't see any mention of one on the page. ( http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/a-jquery-plugin-for-zo... for anyone who's curious)
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by GavinB 17y ago
That's funny, http://ycombinator.com/ turned into http://5z8.info/great_business_opportuniy_b9m8_make-millions...
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by GavinB 17y ago
When you start writing your own novel, this is exactly what happens. You start to read other novels with a new awareness of what the author is doing in terms of word choice, pacing, and explication. You read with an eye to how you would hav

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