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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Yes, don't you just hate it when people make a living creating software? </sarcasm>
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
I work with three different law firms in the Netherlands and one in Michigan (each with their own specialisms) and my experiences are completely the opposite of the 10 points you describe in your post. Our company is a bootstrapped software
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Awesome, thanks. Are you putting this in the public domain, or are you licensing it under any particular license agreement? I couldn't find anything about a license or copyright on your project's github page.
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Funny, Schmidt is using the same reasoning people commonly use to defend the patriot act (and, for that matter, other government-instilled impediments on privacy and freedom of speech).
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
If your starting point is: Amazon exists and has a huge amount of customers, and a bunch of Kindles have been sold, sure the distribution cost is low. But that's not Bezos' starting point, is it?
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
I agree, I remember seeing some old RoR screencasts a couple years back, thinking: That editor is awesome. That's what made buy a copy of TextMate. (I still haven't ever used RoR tho)
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Jacob Kaplan-Moss recently wrote a series of really good articles about writing good documentation, I highly recommend reading them if you're about to embark on making technical docs: http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/ He su
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Great: "Designed in order to meet every user's needs". They might as well have said "Not designed"
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Other possible interpretations of the data: - People who have the patience to court a jury with a business plan, perfecting their pitch, etc. at such an early stage – while they could be working on their product – don't make the best entrep
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Judging all of European politics by what's happening in the UK right now is like judging American cuisine by one meal served at McDonalds (which admittedly, a lot of Europeans tend to do). Nice counter-example: Finland just made broadband i
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Drop me a line anytime :) — my first name at madebysofa dot com
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Aha! Nintendo and Apple are competitors.. http://bit.ly/4oXDX2
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
I make Mac apps for a living and have, over a few years built up nice relationships with Apple. In spite of only being a small, not US-based, company (11 people now, but only 5 when we won our first Apple Design Award), it was never hard f
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
I can't wait, especially for the pig-like flying robot I'm sure we'll all see in 2015 as well.. There is no impending robotic revolution, there is a gradual shift in what kind of work people do as there has been since the dawn of the indust
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
It's not only about caring more, but also about which filters are offered. Since "near this city" is filter 1 and price range is nr. 2, people are going to pick their city to shorten their options from several hundreds to a couple dozen to
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
I get the feeling from the article that there's something very wrong with this particular startup, or at least the founder in question. "No turning back" sounds like a poor excuse to keep dragging a startup along, trading 25% and a boatload
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Can one ever truly master software development? I certainly hope I never stop feeling like there's a lot more to learn. Once you start feeling that way, the challenges and the pleasure in overcoming them will most certainly end, which doesn
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Following your logic, if you're in the business of selling pencil sharpeners, relying on the existence of one or more third parties selling pencils, who in turn rely on a market of people who want to use pencils, is also not a 'real' busine
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
I agree with you in broad lines but would like to raise one nuance that I find essential to the ongoing debate. Many now popular constructs in contemporary language have come forth from – at their time – seemingly illogical mutations. By b
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
It is, thankfully
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Amazon's Kindle iPhone app has a very neat implementation of this. Wehenver the screen adjusts its rotation, a little round lock button fades in, sticks around for a while, and fades out again. If you touch it, the screen is now locked in t
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
Finally an answer to: "Who will think of the children?"
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by dirkstoop 17y ago
We released one of our products as a public beta in June last year, because we felt it would be useful to people, but not quite good enough yet – by our own standards – to charge people for. This worked out great, within a very short timesp
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by dirkstoop 18y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about the expensive suits and roomy offices. When we were first bootstrapping (no investors, angels or the like, just some money scraped together) the first thing we spent money on was (expensive) legal advice, mos