Zimahl

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by Zimahl 15y ago
The Beatles (well, their label Apple Records) was in a long running trademark dispute with Apple [Computer] which went back and forth for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer If you ever wondered why it took
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by Zimahl 15y ago
Great pictures. I'm going to guess that the photographer used flour as the snow? Maybe not, it seems almost too white for flour. Most appear to be Star Wars Lego but the third- and second-to-last images almost look like cosplay (almost).
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by Zimahl 15y ago
This rant is just the technological way of saying 'damn kids, get off my lawn!'.
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by Zimahl 15y ago
> I’d say that for someone right out of college, or even pre-college (like Fred), making $100,000 or more a year is not too shabby. Not too shabby? What world are we living in? That's insane money for someone like Fred who is making a
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by Zimahl 15y ago
So your saying that it's like every other software project ever made ;)
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by Zimahl 15y ago
I've done a fair amount of Scrum and have seen it succeed and fail. Scrum works and is great, but like most tools it works only for specific types of jobs. I wouldn't use Scrum in a situation where the final product is somewhat defined and
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by Zimahl 15y ago
Remember, this isn't just about Mojang naming their game 'Scrolls', this is about them doing that AND applying for a trademark on the name 'Scrolls' for video games. If this was just about the name of a game then it wouldn't be much of an i
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by Zimahl 15y ago
As a developer with a slight interest in design, this is great. Definitely bookmarked for future use. I can think of just one suggestion outside of what others have suggested: I'd love it if I could get it as an image instead of CSS. Sin
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by Zimahl 15y ago
I wasn't familiar with what 'Flickr tickets' were so I did a little Google-fu and found this excellent explanation: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distri...
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by Zimahl 15y ago
> Facebook is completely useless FTFY
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by Zimahl 15y ago
The grieving process is very important and when it is subverted by the continued opening of woulds, it can cause problems. There is a great This American Life about this, where a 16 year olds mother dies but left her notes to be given to h
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by Zimahl 15y ago
To be completely honest, I've said for years that women are the single greatest reason for unemployment. When 50 years ago the majority of workers were male and then you almost double the work force, you can try to have enough jobs but tho
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by Zimahl 15y ago
I'm not misunderstanding the argument at all. I work with a bunch of good and great programmers and we don't touch pointers - at all. I would bet that without heading to the internet and re-learning pointers they wouldn't be able to do ev
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by Zimahl 15y ago
"... churning out quite a few CS graduates who are simply not smart enough to work as programmers on anything more sophisticated than Yet Another Java Accounting Application, although they did manage to squeak through the newly-dumbed-down
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by Zimahl 15y ago
The Model T is not a very good car, even considering the time. It's about as simple transmission as you can get, terrible brakes, a gas tank under the front seat (how convenient), would roll over in heartbeat, you'd get soaked when it rain
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by Zimahl 15y ago
A lot of good points here but he might not have seen the flip-side, and that's something that can sour someone on startups real fast. Here are a few that I've run into: A lack of funding and the headaches that come with it like downsizing,
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by Zimahl 15y ago
Worse or better? With only 10k per zip you'd get very close to a 100% unique identifier. I realized after looking at both Portland and Seattle zip codes that they seem to be distributed better than the less dense areas so you do have very
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by Zimahl 15y ago
I didn't at first to show the 1:64, and then I added the year (well 50 of them) to show how I got closer to the 87% with my extremely un-scientific and fuzzy math.
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by Zimahl 15y ago
October 8th is an odd date. Since it's my birthday as well (long before 1990 though) I have taken note that I run across very few with that birthday, let alone early October birthdays. Is it statistically a low-birth month? I'd love to k
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by Zimahl 15y ago
Putting it to a non-scientific test, where I grew up is within the zip code of 98632. From the 2000 census there are 47,202 within that zip code. This is probably a good average city for America - not too big, not too small. Based on the
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by Zimahl 15y ago
At the state school I went to they didn't even want us using push pins to hold up posters.
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by Zimahl 15y ago
The Pearl District in Portland is nice and all but I'll never understand why you would want an office there, especially if you aren't a business that requires a trendy, hip image. A web-based business with no front door is going to pay a T
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by Zimahl 15y ago
Overall not a bad list, if a little too Ruby-focused. But he left out something: * Build Something. Get some hosting and build something that works, who cares if anyone actually uses it. Start simple and add features. This should get yo