MikeMacMan

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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
Nice work. One thing that confused me: I register for an account and sign in, but when I try to comment on a beer, it asks me to login through Disqus or Facebook or OpenID, etc. Having 2 different authentication schemes in the same site is
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
+1 for the rating advice. Make the beer ratings 0 to 10.
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
I would find that big open space very distracting. I'm all for letting employees walk away from a hard problem and play some Wii Bowling to clear their head and decompress. I like that kind of environment and culture. However, for those per
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
I can't upvote this simple advice enough. You need to unplug and find productive ways (read: not involving drinking, eating crap) to de-stress. The gym works for me, as does going for a long walk. Good luck.
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
My takeaway: "StackExchange did something I didn't like, so I'll write a blog post about why it will fail for (get this!) the exact same reason why it did the think that I didn't like. What are the chances?!?!"
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
Yes, choosing .NET was based on his skills, but also the fact that I'll be focusing on product design and development of the front-end. That work is mostly platform independent. I have another startup project that I'm building in Grails, a
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
I have no idea. I don't know where 'goat time' could come from or why there would be a dragon reference. I've seen a lot of bad translations, but this one is so bizarre that I kind of doubt its authenticity.
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
My buddy and I are starting a web project (a Q&A site for translations) and have chosen ASP.NET MVC. It doesn't abstract away the innards of the web like WebForms did. It has no more magic than RoR. Why are we using .NET instead of some
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
For anyone interesting in learning more about the scale of river-paving and publicly-funded construction projects that Japan undertook in the 80s and 90s, then take a look at Alex Kerr's excellent book, Dogs and Demons .
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
"Up to 1000 servers per week" could simply mean that, there was this one week where they added 1000 servers. I'm pretty sure it's spin. We don't know what they're adding on average each week.
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
Good point. There are founders that have valuable inside knowledge of their industry (domain expertise, etc) who can be more reasonably sure of their success in some B2B venture than a YCombinator project that wants to be the next Twitter.
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
I think the temp and contract work has increased because the contracting and temp staffing industry has exploded in Japan in the last 15 years. There's also more fluidity in the labor market now, meaning that people can more easily move fro
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried states in this interview that the law is designed to eliminate 'illegal hotels', where real estate companies or building owners rent out many units in a building. He says that they have never gone after people
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
You need to remember that people go through ups and downs in their lives. Some years, months, weeks are more productive and successful than others. Some people have all their success early and then struggle later in life. Others are late bl
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
Agreed. This reads like the ranting of some fossil that clamors for the 'good ol' days' when everyone used to be married to their job. This is apparently one of the best places to work in the country, according to ComputerWorld: http://www
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
Rod, there's more to Humanities than circle-jerks. There's reach-arounds, tea-bagging...all kinds of stuff.
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by MikeMacMan 16y ago
I don't understand all the down votes. This article, for instance, links from the Joel On Software home page. There's no reason to post it here.
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
Oy, if I had a yen for every time a westerner made some off-base criticism that belied their understanding of Japanese language, Japanese culture, and Japanese psychology...
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
As opposed to the other countries in your list, in which you are clearly well-versed :)
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
There are cultural differences in our country, to be sure, but I would hesitate to compare a red state to Russia. Journalists are assassinated in Russia. There is institutionalized corruption in many of these other countries. And don't be s
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
I personally would find it hard to get motivated to build a product for money alone. At the very least, I need to be passionate about the problem that my software is solving, and ideally I want to like, respect, and identify with my custome
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
Maybe Monty Brewster can hitch a motor to it and float it up to the Middle East, where he'll make millions off the ice cubes!
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
By 'still read', you imply that i read his stuff on a regular basis. I don't read his stuff at all anymore, but who can't resist a title like that? :)
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
Drinking...
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
Does John Gruber have any demonstrable evidence to back up his opinions? No, they're rank speculation. They are, at best, educated guesses. I tire of this kind of blogging. I'm not saying that Mr. Gruber isn't informed, or intelligent, or p
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
But I just bought a John Deere riding mower!
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
Thanks for writing this. I am in the same position, working full-time in a semi-demanding job, with a wife, son, big lawn to mow, etc. I've been working nights and weekends for over a year and am 2 months away from launching. My schedule lo
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
Nice use of Balsamiq Markups in the diagrams, by the way.
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
My "lowly DSL line" in Japan, 6 years ago, was 40Mbps.
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by MikeMacMan 17y ago
"Longer run, with a few million businesses and a few billion consumers on the Web, rumor has it there are some interesting opportunities to be had.” I really don't like this guy.

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