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by dminor 16y ago
If you have more money privately invested than money earned, you're probably a startup. If you're searching for a repeatable, scalable business model, you're probably a startup.
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by dminor 16y ago
How about loser pays except in civil rights lawsuits?
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by dminor 16y ago
No, I enjoyed reading it, and most of it was fine. But if the point of his post is to say "I'm sorry" and do damage control, he shoots himself in the foot by whining about people complaining. If 99% of your users are on the free plan, and t
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by dminor 16y ago
This is a complaint, not a business insight: "Those customers that were working on a hobby business, or just something they were not investing in significantly, seemed to have the time to tweet all day long, post multiple negative comments
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by dminor 16y ago
Maybe, but this section and the TechCrunch bitching really have no place in a supposed mea culpa.
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by dminor 16y ago
The Android mailing lists are littered with these same complaints about the market. Google rarely gives any indications of what they are working on, but they are no doubt aware of them.
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by dminor 16y ago
> - equipment (age of equipment, tech levels (not too high - don't forget, you the patient are paying for it). This is also important as digital x-rays use much less radiation and allow for immediate review with the patient. My brother,
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by dminor 16y ago
One reason is performance. If you need your website to be fast, DNS lookup is yet another thing that can be optimized.
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by dminor 16y ago
Haven't used governor - the rules engine is embedded in an ecommerce platform for doing coupons/promotions with its own custom interface for defining the coupons/promos. Then those get translated into drools rules.
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by dminor 16y ago
I've used Drools - works well once you figure out the ins and outs of their DSL, and is actively developed. Haven't used FICO Blaze.
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by dminor 16y ago
Whichever is easiest with your setup. The important thing is to actually write - don't get too caught up in the technical details.
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by dminor 16y ago
And for even more room, wear a skirt: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=24177
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by dminor 16y ago
So, the standard opening moves to the multi-year patent litigation dance.
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by dminor 16y ago
What are the numbers, roughly?
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by dminor 16y ago
Oracle hasn't canceled JavaFX - they're discontinuing JavaFX script . JavaFX is going to live on through an API (third time's the charm for a Java UI API?).
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by dminor 16y ago
Yeah, but Google can retaliate with search patents and MS would probably rather not have that fight.
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by dminor 16y ago
With the exception of 6,826,762 these are pretty laughable.
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by dminor 16y ago
HTC reached a deal to license MS patents shortly after being sued by Apple. Presumable there were negotiations that included the threat of litigation.
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by dminor 16y ago
9 misconceptions about Social Security: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98jul/socsec.htm The first addresses the "accounting fiction" aspect.
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by dminor 16y ago
Get to know all of your classmates as best you can. They are a big part of your future network, and potential startup collaborators.
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by dminor 16y ago
> Now, it is true that the Social Security system then holds "assets" in exchange for that cash, namely, government bonds. But this is just accounting fiction. No, there's no fiction - legally it must be paid back. That's why Social Sec
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by dminor 16y ago
Developers have been asking for this for a long time. Hopefully soon we will also see 1. Better app discoverability 2. In app purchases 3. More carrier billing 4. Coupons and discounts
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by dminor 16y ago
> I fail to see how it's a marketing failure. Because it's awkward to pronounce and then you have try to explain it. Ideally a name would be easy to read and pronounce, and self-describing, and LibreOffice fails on both counts.
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by dminor 16y ago
In olden times, people would get their vacation photos made into slides, invite their friends over, and bore everyone to death with a slideshow that didn't convey the experiences they had. Facebook is way better.
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by dminor 16y ago
Where you go off the track is using "should" rather than "could". Where the original went off track was in calling it a "tragedy".
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by dminor 16y ago
Alright, I'm in. I started an Android game for last year's developer challenge but didn't finish by the deadline.
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by dminor 16y ago
And the game?
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by dminor 16y ago
Any photos of the windmill? That sounds pretty cool.
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by dminor 16y ago
We're moving to a smaller apartment soon so I'm building a platform for our bed (king size) this weekend, so we can get more storage under it. Should be fun!
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by dminor 16y ago
Hopefully it survives as somehow as open source - it was a nice DSL for building a UI, and having used WPF the last few weeks, JavaFX script was much nicer to work with.

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