JeffJenkins

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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   Yes, but the question the essay is setting out to answer is: what happens when the VCs recover? I think one of the last points I need to buy into the essay is that it isn't just the starting up costs which have gone down. The commoditizati
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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   The startup I work for just hit profitability and we're basically giving up on funding. The offers that we were getting weren't good enough. We'll grow slower, but we won't get dilution unless it's really worth it. What I'm curious about
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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   I'm using Opera's built in client. It doesn't have many bells and whistles, but I rarely download torrents and it's already there.
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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   Yes, and I have no idea. We should see in 3-5 years whether that statement is true or not. I'd guess not, although I'm not sure to what degree.
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   Self in the Argument List: Redundant is not Explicit(artima.com)

   3 points by JeffJenkins 18y ago|0 comments
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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   A significant portion of my purchase decision was that OmniFocus was releasing a portable version of their program. The trouble with browser-based iPhone apps -- around here, anyway -- is that you can't use them on the subway. The GMail cl
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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   You can also ask your employer for an explicit exemption for whatever you're working on. I've had all of my side projects cleared before doing serious work on them (although that did kill one project, since it was too close to something my
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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   I've been following this for weeks in The Economist. They recommended that the Fed do this, but I honestly didn't think it would happen. Here are a couple recent articles if ou haven't been following: Recent background article: http://www
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   by JeffJenkins 18y ago

   Information Rules is an excellent book going into details of how markets work in information economies where the marginal cost of a product is near-zero. It covers segmentation, lock-in, network effects, etc. ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/08
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    by JeffJenkins 18y ago

    I've thought about using the index like that before, but the problem you run into is if you decide you need to go back to, or even just look at, some change several adds ago the data is gone. The index feels like I've just copied some text
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    by JeffJenkins 18y ago

    I'm on OSX and I use VoodooPad + email. Voodoopad is a really good program for creating "wiki-like" notes. It can also embed, links to files, rich text copied directly from safari, etc. For online viewing you can either use the built in
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    by JeffJenkins 19y ago

    There's an open source project attempting to recreate GWT in python: http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas/
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    by JeffJenkins 19y ago

    I worked at Nuance Communications for about a year doing voice application development. I'm not familiar with Sphynx, but I did talk to a number of people at the company about it (this was 2004-2005). From what I gathered it would be prett