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by aschobel 18y ago
Fascinating video from the Newshouur with Jim Lehrer: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/bailoutta... We do need some kind of government intervention, but the current form stinks.
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Startup Scalability Strategies: How Important Is Being Scalable?(startonomics.com)
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by aschobel 18y ago
I would also throw in K&R, Effective Java, and Concrete Math. Not a bad list otherwise.
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by aschobel 18y ago
Why not do convertible debt and not worry about your valuation? http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/financing/startupfinancing...
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by aschobel 18y ago
If you are a startup you can probably get Microsoft's software for free. Talk to one of their technology evangelists, they love seeing cutting edge companies building their business on MS. Anand Iyer, http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/ , can po
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by aschobel 18y ago
If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python? Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P
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by aschobel 18y ago
Doing the same search for San Francisco gives us very different results. Jobs with Java in the title (1,529) http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3Ajava&l=san+francisc... Jobs with C++ in the title (476) http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=ti
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by aschobel 18y ago
It also depends on what kind of hard problems you are tackling. YouTube solved the video codec Gordian knot, Google did the same with relevant search. Not easy problems, but they have huge benefits.
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by aschobel 18y ago
"13. Give up on hard problems - there is nothing wrong with being lazy. There is an abundance of easy problems that need to be solved. The really hard problems are probably better left to your competitors. Solve a bunch of simple things. Mo
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by aschobel 18y ago
According to a Reuters September 23rd is when the first Android device comes out for T-Mobile. http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/10/t-mobile-to-offer-android...
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by aschobel 18y ago
You have to know how to navigate away from the many rocky shores littered with shit. I was embarassed to call myself a Java developer after going to J1 this year, so sad. That being said, there are some amazing libraries out there. Google G
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by aschobel 18y ago
No. Where are the plethora of libraries for Erlang that Java enjoy? Java is great because you can stand of shoulders of people releasing brilliant libraries. Who cares about Availability, Performance, Scalability ... if you can't ship?
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by aschobel 18y ago
Some clever ideas in there which shouldn't be too hard to port to iPhone. 1. Port ADC winning entries to iPhone 2. ???? (sell on AppStore) 3. Profit! The share your whiteboard app looks especially cool. http://code.google.com/android/adc_g
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by aschobel 18y ago
Personal: TWiT subscription. FLOSS weekly is awesome, http://twit.tv/FLOSS Business: Pingdom. Easy peasy way to make sure your site is up. Amazon S3.
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Excellent, two blocks from the 33. See you there
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by aschobel 18y ago
I'm game
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by aschobel 18y ago
Bingo, Apple is pretty darn strict on how you can layout your controls. You don't have much flexibility with stuff like UINavigationItem
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by aschobel 18y ago
I wish there were some Android devices in the wild. Google Android was so much easier to write to than the iPhone. I love the type safety Java gives you compared to Obj-C. Stepping through gdb trying to figure out why something threw an NSE
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by aschobel 18y ago
* USRobotics 16.8K HST connect sound, damn that was fast. Oh, and ATS11=40&W rox * Kings Quest 4 install, 10 mb seemed insane at the time * Google Guice, dependency injection rocks * Writing my first program in TP7 * Win 3.0 DOS Box, mu
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by aschobel 18y ago
Not launching soon enough and waiting until the product was "perfect".
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by aschobel 18y ago
No mention of Provigil or Concerta? :P
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by aschobel 18y ago
Struts 2: Kickass framework that gets out of your way with almost no XML. This is more WebWork than Struts 1. http://struts.apache.org/2.x/ Guice: Dependency injection goodness. http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ Google Collections
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by aschobel 18y ago
Congrats guys! Well done!
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by aschobel 18y ago
Indeed, also some pretty big news is that GPL is now covered in their Open Specification Promise. http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/archive/2008/07/25/announcing-s... "Q: I am a developer/distributor/user of software that is licensed under the
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by aschobel 18y ago
The back/forward buttons don't work with pagination on Safari 3.1.2 Interesting, you don't see too many folks on ASP.NET What made you choose that platform? curl -I http://www.startuply.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17
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IPhone 2.0 Firmware download(appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net)
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by aschobel 18y ago
Crazy Bob http://twitter.com/crazybob was talking about cuckoo hashing yesterday. Maybe that inspired somebody to post the story? shrug
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by aschobel 18y ago
Oops, you are right. For some reason I thought using the If-None-Match header was the "right" way of doing this, it just adds flexibility to how you cache stuff. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags "If you're not taki
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by aschobel 18y ago
edit Nevermind, nothing to see here edit In the video they say that they used many of Steve Souders' techniques to speed up the deliver of the files since most web servers aren't properly optimized out of the box Looks like Google misse
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by aschobel 18y ago
It's legit, the Official Google Blog links to it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-treasure-hunt-... It would be have been easy to setup a phishing site since anybody in the beta can host something on appspot.com

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