MuddyMo

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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Overall everything worked well. However, I did find the navigation in the "Results" page a bit counter-intuitive: I entered "beer" as the seek term and was taken to the "Results" page and I clicked on the first entry in the results--"Beers
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
ROFL! Can't wait to see the one for an "iPod brick"
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Been trying to access for the last fifteen minutes with no luck.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Dude, check your link.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
It hosts tumbleblogs for free. What is a tumbleblog? At http://www.tumblr.com/faqs they say: "If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks [or] slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Looks great. Any plans to provide a history of successful contracts for a specific area, to give potential users an idea of what the going market price is?
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Spot on. It would seem Tools are critical to a software factory, Languages to software innovators. Noting the the reference to Lazlo: http://www.openlaszlo.org/ "OpenLaszlo is "write once, run everywhere." An OpenLaszlo application devel
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Willie Nelson might sing it thus, "Mothers, don't let your boys grow up to be a Mycologist studying the genetic basis of host response to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis"
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Your right, for brevity's sake, I sacrificed clarity. Perhaps "programmers of software driven by large enterprise marketing departments"
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
In light of this story, perhaps I should amend my quote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72655
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
"You can't shit a feature."
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Joel is a rarity: brilliant, successful programmer, entrepreneur and writer. But when writing about how to develop successful software, it tends to be things that would resonate with frustrated enterprise software programmers, like he used
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Except for prosper.com, most of the micro loan links in the article appear to be for third-world entrepreneurs.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
On behalf of the people who depend on Carlson's software, let's hope he writes code better than he writes informal essays. Here's the somewhat clever first graf: (Everything after that is a mish-mash) "Jesus reflected on his situation and
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
It was inevitable, I suppose. Channeling Carl Sagan: "Just think of the billions and billions of enemies..."
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Excellent examples of C annoyances.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
There's no denying that timing, momentum and markets can sometimes conspire to propel less than optimum products to an undeserved position of dominance. The C language just might be an example of that. However, I think the author's most mos
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
I concur
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Last sentence of the article: "all D users agree that by downloading and using D, or reading the D specs, they will explicitly identify any claims to intellectual property rights with a copyright or patent notice in any posted or emailed fe
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
I like this observation: "In other words, JCPenney just lowered the price from $39,990, and Yahoo is just running a little behind?"
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
I wonder why this post isn't getting any love?
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Thinking about the problem is a different skill than writing code and is usually best done someplace where the keyboard for your development computer is not within reach.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
In the classic struggle between being relevant now vs.being original, the laws of motion and momentum tend to favor being relevant. That is why we hold original thinkers in such high regard, but usually only after we know it is safe to do
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
This is interesting. One of the recent YC benefactors could be the one who proves that Marc Canter's vision is the real future of social networking.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Are we seeing a glimpse of what the NYT will be at decades end? And what will we call this decade? The turn of the century, I guess.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
"it would be like the operator breaking into the conversation, telling each talker in the voice of the other: "Sorry, I have to hang up. Good bye." Comcast has the right to manage its network, but this obfuscation of the source of the block
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Entertaining post esp. for those stuck on the corporate track. The guy pissed off DHH and lived to tell about it!
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
Tracy Kidder's book is what got me into computers! Love the part where they can't figure out why the motherboard isn't working and the project leader, and old grizzled veteran, just grabbed the board without warning and shook the hell out o
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
zaidf, you are wise, my friend. To have compassion for such a person is unique and uncommon. I join you in hoping life does get better for that person, because it must be so very sad to be in trapped in such a life.
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by MuddyMo 19y ago
byteCoder, I wholeheartedly second that motion! Similar to my sentiments about another recent ill-advised Hacker News post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=68257

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