TimJYoung

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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Is there any chance that the engineers can get some "sweat equity" in the company ? It really does align the interests of the engineers with the outcome of the company, and can be a positive if it helps you get through this exist
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
My advice: don't pre-sell anything unless a) it's simply to get a public beta in the hands of customers that want/need to use it right away, and b) even then, have a practical and do-able timeline in place for finishing any d
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yeah, I want to know that, also. My understanding is that anything explicitly backed by the government (Fannie Mae) was your standard 30-year mortgage with the normal requirements. The interest-only loans, variable-rate loans, etc. were
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Sorry, that should be 4 DML statements...
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I forgot to mention: you can also do cool stuff like link query objects together so that when you navigate in a parent query, the parameterized child query object is re-executed with the new parent query column values. This way you avoid N
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
If they can be developers, they can learn SQL. Apart from DDL statements, it's literally 3 DML statements, of which most of the clauses operate exactly the same way across all 3 statements.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
"Would love to see an example..." Delphi has always had a default non-ORM dataset layer (there are ORMs for it), and it works like this for queries: 1) There's a base TDataSet class (Object Pascal uses "T" to deno
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
That's a fascinating article. I must admit that I've never really thought about the "shorting real estate" angle when discussing real estate bubbles, and it's a very interesting insight into why we keep getting the
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing and came to post something similar: haven't we already come to the conclusion that throwing more bodies at a knowledge problem does not allow the problem to be solved any faster ?
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I agree completely, but it also depends upon whether renting an item costs you a lot more over the life of the item (which is often dependent upon how well someone takes care of the item). For example, I think most people would agree tha
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Milton Friedman was a big proponent of the negative income tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/negative-income-ta... It has some v
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Thank you for saying this. We conduct business in a similar way, as do (I suspect) most other very small software companies. It's one of the things that irks me the most when developers rail about proprietary software and use MS/
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
This is sort of what I was inquiring about in my other post on this topic. Very nice work on the content in those links, thank you. Are we forever resigned to serial monopolies when it comes to certain aspects of the internet ? Or, would
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I've been trying to reconcile the libertarian perspective on this topic with my more-liberal leanings, and I've got to say that I'm perplexed. Can any libertarians here share their thoughts on the role of government in produc
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I agree with you 100%. However, I also think that libraries are one way that you can compensate for a lack of a formal education, and as pointed out here, they often serve as a physical refuge from the world that is important for learnin
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
As someone that obviously is a proponent of free markets, you should also be aware of the fact that granting a monopoly to a 3rd party to offer government services isn't exactly a recipe for lower costs. Put another way: when's th
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
If you're going to have copyright and intellectual property, then you need libraries, period. You can't charge money for such goods and completely cut off access to those that can't afford them. You need a balance between
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I think you may be on to something here. For smaller companies like us that are in niche markets, the source code being available isn't a big deal because the level of piracy is fairly low (and you don't get support). For larger
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yeah, I keep remarking that I think that a proper AOT C# or Java is a game-changer, but I'm not sure if these languages will ever be able to shed the baggage of the very large frameworks that developed around them. But, I will also be
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I've always thought that this is the key to bridging the gap between proprietary and OSS, and it's what we do with our software. In our case, the source code does cost extra, but that's because we're selling developer
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Re: the term "Object Pascal". When I say "Object Pascal", I'm referring to the Delphi version that was released in 1995-96, not the older versions. It was still going strong into the early 2000s, but starting to e
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I keep reading articles like this on HN, and coming to the same conclusions as yourself over and over: why isn't Object Pascal more popular ? It solves many issues that have presented themselves over the last decade or so in various,
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I think something else is missing here, though. HP had great products, so I don't think that you can necessarily do the "HP Way" in a company where the products that the company makes (or their services) are not seen as va
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I'm referring to the Windows system APIs, which do not require any sort of special treatment for any executable that is linked against them. This includes everything that is included with Windows, from networking to file handling to c
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You can typically deploy a Windows binary to targets that use much older versions of Windows, and you cannot say the same for Linux distributions. There is significant backward-compatibility with Windows binaries, and it is intentional. I
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You can write Object Pascal code like that - you just ignore the "object" part and write it like traditional imperative code with functions/procedures, records (structs), manual memory management, etc. https://www.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
What exact property of private office space prevents fostering a team culture ? At some point, people need to stop discussing and get something done, and that requires quiet, un-interrupted, work time.
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Yes, but that goes both ways: choosing a popular language can be just as fatal as choosing an unpopular language. If you're a "body shop", then choosing an unpopular language could be fatal, whereas if you're building a
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
If you really want to keep getting things done today , especially on Windows, and not just learn something new, then stick with Delphi/Lazarus for now. Every year I keep looking to see if a language will become available that will be
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Case in point: Cuphead.

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