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by alex_c 16y ago
People will always push boundaries.
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by alex_c 16y ago
For what it's worth, I often see this problem in Canada - it's not always the offenders you list, but third-party widgets do significantly slow down page loads relatively often.
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by alex_c 16y ago
No, I believe that in an early-stage tech startup, each founder should be able to wear more than one hat, and be willing to do tasks they don't enjoy when necessary. The business founder should have some technical knowledge, and the tech f
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by alex_c 16y ago
I don't want to sound harsh, but that's at least in part because talk is cheap - everyone enjoys talking and brainstorming, but at some point you have to put your head down, get your hands dirty, and get through that last 10% of work that i
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by alex_c 16y ago
Not exactly - if we're going to have a counter-example, we should have a valid one (e.g. a privately owned company, since it's self-evident that every public company does have its sale price). Maybe Facebook a few years back?
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by alex_c 16y ago
I think this is exactly the point he is missing. I find it annoying/distracting, and disabled it after a couple of days... but I don't think it's a feature aimed at people who run their own technology blog. Picture people who hunt and peck
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by alex_c 16y ago
Interesting distinction, since the relationship between co-founders is often compared to marriage.
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'One app for all' effort launches(bbc.co.uk)
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by alex_c 16y ago
Went to school with Todd - he was one of those people who always seemed to have the energy and the dedication to be involved in every extracurricular activity out there, while getting top grades in arguably Canada's most challenging enginee
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by alex_c 16y ago
These days?
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by alex_c 16y ago
But Facebook can/does already do all that on existing mobile platforms. Developers are usually more than happy to use tools provided by Facebook in exchange for getting easy social features and access to FB's social graph. Widespread use
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by alex_c 16y ago
>PS: >Feel free to try to get it running on your machines and use it, but we give no guarantees. We know there are security holes and bugs, and your data is not yet fully exportable. If you do find something, be sure to log it in ou
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by alex_c 16y ago
Thanks - I'll give that a shot. I've been slowly teaching myself a bit of Japanese for the past few months, but I'm still very much a beginner.
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by alex_c 16y ago
Out of curiosity (and apologies to the op for steering off-topic), how did you find your language partner?
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by alex_c 16y ago
I think that's a very valuable point to make, though. None of this stuff is obvious to someone who doesn't live and breathe technology and who wants to use the web to grow a bricks-and-mortar business.
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by alex_c 16y ago
Amusingly, I'm looking around the room, and the most obvious examples of rounded rectangles are my MacBook, my iPad, and my iPhone.
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by alex_c 16y ago
(You still have to buy your own equipment.) If a society has regressed as much as the one depicted in the article, it's not inconceivable that the necessary equipment would be made illegal (or at least require a license).
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by alex_c 16y ago
Just thinking out loud here - a judge might not want to burden the innocent party with a lengthy and expensive trial.
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by alex_c 16y ago
http://www.zazzle.ca/2010_toronto_earthquake_tshirt-23500711... From earthquake to t-shirt in an hour and a half. What a world we live in. (not my shirt)
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by alex_c 16y ago
Hardware DRM. Yummy.
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by alex_c 16y ago
It was a strange one here in Toronto - chair was swaying side to side, pretty strongly but slowly. Used to much sharper quakes.
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by alex_c 16y ago
>The best thing I can say about Rowe is that he ranks up there with Malcolm Gladwell in his ability to throw around a bunch of unrelated contentions and anecdotes and pretend to tie them all together with a facile and unsubstantiated th
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by alex_c 16y ago
I'm not too familiar with Posterous, are all links nofollowed? Can't you post arbitrary HTML to your own blog?
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by alex_c 16y ago
I suspect blackhat SEOs would be all over it.
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by alex_c 16y ago
Actually, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a hosting company to store some data for free. Not in the sense that I'm entitled to it as a customer, but in the sense that it might be in their best interests: if the data is deleted,
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by alex_c 16y ago
Just sent SliceHost an email, got an answer within minutes: Hi Alex, Unfortunately, we don't have any word on future pricing at the moment, but we are aware of Linode's recent price drops. Thanks, -- Tim - Slicehost Support
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by alex_c 16y ago
I'm Toronto-based. While I was working on my first startup, I received many more job offers than when I was salary-based. A large part of this is, of course, that when you're working on a start-up you do a lot more networking, by necessit
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by alex_c 16y ago
>Seriously, if you take a screenshot of that app and go around showing it to your friends, do you think their first impression is going to be, oh, it's a picture frame with widgets? Actually, yes, especially if they're less tech-savvy (
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by alex_c 16y ago
I just don't see it. If I sat down today to make an app like this, and read the sentence you quoted, it wouldn't even cross my mind that I might get in trouble. What is the existing metaphor for "picture frame that shows the time, weather
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by alex_c 16y ago
>When you make your picture frame app look like a desktop. Can you actually point me to anything in the existing developer agreements or interface guidelines that disallows this? I just looked, and I haven't been able to find anything

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