JoelSutherland

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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
When talking with a friend who wanted to start an on-the-side business I was surprised by how concerned he was with the legalities (and how little with marketing). The value of speed is simplicity. Outside the hacker world, I think there a
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
If you are capable of mocking something up in HTML+CSS, you should be able to know what to avoid in photoshop.
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Two of the ten points on the list address your concern with fonts. 3. Use Crisp antialiasing on your font layers. 4. Use web safe fonts on any parts of the site with live text.
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
A great salon article that explains some of the motivation. I believe this was posted a while back: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/07/24/turks/
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"The consumer market demands higher capacity over safety." My contention is that this is beginning to change. Short of video (and at the risk of being wrong in 5 years) there is nothing to do with a 500GB drive. I think given the trade-off
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Drobo is along the lines of what I am looking for. (I use a D-Link DNS 323) Instead though, I want it to have a SATA interface so the problem would be solved in hardware. Time Capsule fails if the disk fails (and backups aren't stored els
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
I have never understood the concept of a "productivity blog." Assuming a person can be maximally productive each post read would have diminishing returns for the reader. To put it more simply -- how can following a productivity blog make m
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
I keep waiting for a product that solves the failing hard drive problem at the consumer level. For most people I know, the most likely cause of data loss is hardware failure. Are any manufacturers offering a package that contains multiple
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Microsoft is spending all kinds of money on both products and great hackers already. The biggest problem they have is their overall strategy. With the cash they have on hand, I have never understood why they aren't doing more parallel deve
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Ran it here virtualized. It crashed twice right away but has been going great since. It is really fast.
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Extremely polished. My only complaint so far is that I miss the bar at the bottom of the browser that typically displays the active link and download status. I find the little pop-up distracting. If this survives the day without a stabilit
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
But not having to work again is tied directly to consumption along with income. The interesting component of the article was that the average income of somebody with $1 million of net worth was approaching $400,000. This implies a poor sav
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class#Income 10 Million households have $1 million+. There are an estimated 111,162,259 households in the US... This is upper class wealth...just not completely elite levels of wealth. I think t
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Clearly the house painting analogy fails. All analogies do. My point was that the two extremes are fixed-bid and hourly. For the sake of a client, a programmer with some expertise should be able to give a reasonable estimate based on a se
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Generally they are not especially efficient and have a problem with emissions. Because of their odd shape sealing them is much more difficult than a standard engine. By design Mazda rotaries burn a little oil to keep the seals fresh. htt
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Explanation for the patent in a reddit comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xjmq/us_patent...
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Cliff's notes catch: "..in order to monetize the service, it will insert ads into the SMS messages."
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
As always, it depends. On the product end of things a fixed price makes a lot of sense. Squeejee builds custom web applications...billing hourly for that is a no brainer. Much of everything else is a hybrid. I would expect that I could ge
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
As Fred Brooks says, "build one to throw away." Speaking as someone with a CS degree, I can say that the Computer Science is not the hard part of making a good application. Rather, it is the domain knowledge. Build something you and others
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
I really like it. Great work! The main addition I would like to see is an "accept" option in addition to the "ignore" button. When a list of suggestions is given, I would like to be able to select one and see that reflected in the text.
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
So why does a leisurely read about a fad diet belong on Hacker News?
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
As it relates to startups, the first bullet point almost says it all: 1. Do the Next Right Thing We hackers are too easily attracted by glamorous problems instead of the important ones. We'll constantly prematurely optimize or build intere
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Agreed. Beautiful is not the same as Usable. That being said, try to find a specific article on this page: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ A little bit of line height would go a long way. The dense, bright-blue links are nearly impossibl
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by JoelSutherland 18y ago
Ryan runs icontact.com -- I've heard they've been interested in going public for a while. It is interesting to hear what Ryan had to say about the process. Perhaps their biggest competitor, Constant Contact, went public last year.
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Problem #9: If we are sending all of our gas-consuming cars to Latin America how does this solve any environmental problems? Problem #10: This neglects the energy costs of producing a new car. As long as we're being completely hypothetical
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I can second this. Their uptime has been perfect in my experience and they do hourly off-site backups. They are also really cheap.
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I can second this. We use PHP along with a modern framework and love it. Deployment is easy and PHP is so widespread that you can count on a script existing to handle almost any little problem you face. Granted there are times that its in