badmash69

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by badmash69 16y ago
Its bait and switch-- thats what makes it slimy. With Sun at helm, you never had to wonder if your JVM was intentionally crippled. I stayed with Java because it was write once run everywhere (on the server side). Oracle is making it into
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by badmash69 16y ago
IMHO all law suites over patents in software are slimy. This my opinion as a programmer. If you are indeed a programmer, please feel free to look at this and tell me if you see any of the stuff mentioned in the lawsuit not fairly obvious.
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by badmash69 16y ago
To programmers, Sun seemed earnest about its intentions. Thats why we adopted its Platform. Could anyone name one guy like James Gosling in Oracle ? Didn't thinks so. With Oracle, everything they do with Java seems to be slimy. Suing Goo
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by badmash69 16y ago
May I suggest reading "Fortune at The Bottom of the Pyramid" by C.K. Prahlad " This is an excellent guide for innovation for India and much of developing world. Companies like EKO etc. have taken these lessons and are building upon those
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by badmash69 16y ago
Free is overrated. Pay attention to SLA vs. Cost . The most important deciding factor is going to be your terms of your SLA vs. you price. And finally, your API . AWS wins by providing a simple API that make routine tasks easy to execut
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by badmash69 16y ago
Try answering these questions: Who is 'they' ? How many are "they" ? right now , where are "they"? Do you know even one of the "they"? Ahh, its so much easier to give advise . If it makes you feel any better, I am also trying to find my ve
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by badmash69 16y ago
It depends on the founders' perspectives. Not all large companies are like Google. Any acquiring company would probably lock in the founders for ages. The mind numbing bureaucracy and command-control type of management that is part and par
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by badmash69 16y ago
It would be great if they gave points for tagging answers with the pertinent releases.
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by badmash69 16y ago
This article is short on facts and big on scaremongering hype. Just because script kiddies are purchasing malware toolkits which as some java stuff as a feature does not make JVM plug-in the "most exploited". The last known vulnerability i
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by badmash69 16y ago
The writer of this article either a troll or untalented hack. Lets talk about the article : a) the so called XML tax : Agreed XML is not the best representation of information but it does seem to be particularly suited for build tasks. A
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by badmash69 16y ago
.... but you can' digest it. If gold eating was popular culturally, there would be people mining for gold in sewers. Gold is also used in products .. and there salvage companies that specialize in processing this gold. My point was that wh
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by badmash69 16y ago
If you look at the historical price of Gold, you would notice that it was relatively flat for most of 80s and 90s. The high in 90s was about $350 per oz. The gold prices began to appreciate remarkably in this decade at it is at a high of
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by badmash69 16y ago
Thank you but no !! Let me get this straight : you want to force your views and fads upon my lifestyle and make it a formal policy, all the while increasing my working hours because now I have to take a nap during working hours and I stil
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by badmash69 16y ago
Define your target audience, find a small representative sample whom you know and have them come in to your site and kick the proverbial tires. Don't go about "spreading the news" until your representative sample is happy about your product
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by badmash69 16y ago
I like this . Thanks !!
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by badmash69 16y ago
whats about things like firewall etc. ?
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How many AMAZON EC2s should I start with for a Facebook Application?
7 points by badmash69 16y ago|9 comments
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by badmash69 16y ago
Thanks. The follow up question is , how much traction did you get to close Angel round. How much did you have to ramp up to get to Series A. About me : I am trying to figure out the scope and product-market fit for my idea and trying to
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by badmash69 16y ago
Ethical considerations aside, this seems like a solid management strategy to me. They have the brand to push through large mass of users , who are not so much into gaming as they are into socializing. If I were an investor in Zynga, I would
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So you raised $15k or so from YC. What happened next?
13 points by badmash69 16y ago|3 comments
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by badmash69 16y ago
Forget about it ! You are unlikely to get any traction as you are not even able to explain to this roomful of hackers what you do.