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by MortenK 15y ago
And it isn't fluent.ly either!
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Easy there tiger! None of what you mentioned is dedicated note taking apps, though they of course might be used for the purpose. The "I don't know anyone who use is so it doesn't exist" argument doesn't really hold. The only time I've heard
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by MortenK 15y ago
I very much agree that currently there is no heavy competition to MS Office. However, I think there is an interesting scenario that during the coming years, tablets and laptops might converge, into "convertible laptops" such as the Asus Tra
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Those numbers tell how many people have bought the apps, not how many actually uses it. I have all 3 on my iPad, but apart from some early playing around, I've not used them. On paper, it's a great idea, and they are very nicely made. Howev
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There is actually a huge amount of OneNote users out there. For note taking apps, it usually comes down to Evernote or OneNote.
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Might hold the occasional workshop too.
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Except for the few large ones, subreddits are extremely small, compared to their forum counterparts.
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There is unfortunately also the problem of too many "best practices", that gets popularized, dogmatized and horribly misused.
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Skype outsourced it's development to Estonian developers, which as we know went very well. Though it's a prevalent opinion on HN, outsourcing is not inherently bad for a startup. What matters it the quality and the skills of the people, loc
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McConnel makes a pretty convincing case in "Rapid Development" that long hours by programmers, are counter-productive. After a quite short span of overtime (a week or two), where development speed is increased by a relatively short amount,
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by MortenK 15y ago
Me too. I was really hoping for an app that could take a scan of a handwritten diagram / mockup, and "recognize" the shapes, converting them into objects that could be manipulated (resized, removed, repositioned etc) through the app.
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by MortenK 15y ago
I'd think it might be the line "However, I do not believe you should profit off the content of others.". That's a blanket statement which probably has been misinterpreted as you being against any form of distributor or reseller business mod
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Your nick name is well chosen.
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Indeed. And you could go even further to say hashtables and trees too, are not necessary in most apps.
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Excellent article, and especially good content in the comments on the site.
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Development processes very similar to todays "agile" family, existed back in 1970. "Evolutionary prototyping" for example (a member of the "prototyping" process-family), is one of the precursors for todays agile practices.
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I have read the paper multiple times over the years. The quote "is risky and invites failure" is correct. However, another quote, even on the very same page: "However, I believe the illustrated approach to be fundamentally sound. The
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The term "waterfall" wasn't coined by Royce in his paper. His paper was a set of suggestions to improve what later became generally known as the waterfall process.
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The paper you and "gujk" are referring to, I believe must be Winston Royce's paper. It's wrong to say that the paper is a description of how not to do software development. Rather, it's suggestions for a set of improvements to the process
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Waterfall is actually considered the very best model for software development, when the requirements are known up front in excruciating detail. An average project experience around 25% change in requirements. Hence waterfall is highly uns
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What do you mean Bizspark isn't enough? You get every single piece of development software, operative systems, hell even server software for free. How is that not enough?
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www.jingproject.com can also be used for this purpose. You'll capture a screenshot or video, click on a button and get a url back.
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There has been done large amounts of research on heavy overtime's effect on the productivity of software developers. It doesn't take very much overtime for productivity to absolutely plummet. We're not talking just a small time drop here. R
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Plastic decomposes in "only" 400-500 years. So while we might have a problem with it now, it's all gone in a fraction of a second, when seen in a geological timeframe.
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You should read a bit more of Gladwell's works as well as his background before labeling him as a "relatively dumb medium".
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TDD takes longer. Studies conducted at Microsoft and HP (or possibly IBM), found that development time with TDD was 10-30% longer. That's probably minimum, and in high degree determined by the TDD experience level of the team members. The m
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If your level of service is better than your competition, you should charge more. Price is of course a parameter to compete on, but it is not the most important one. The cheaper competition no doubt have much more work, and many more custom
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Any conferences, industry events, meetups or similar in CA in November?
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I had the same expectation, thought it would be a witty article on some over-zealous law enforcement on small businesses or similar. But shutting down actual lemonade stands run by a few kids? I'm very surprised this is actually real. How s
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A couple of Wiki entries written by programmers, you might enjoy: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BurnOut http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GetaLife http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JustLeave I recently stumbled on them. Especially the second one has some entries

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