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by dstein 16y ago
If it's a b2c product (lolchat, lolcards), then yeah you can get away from it. But if it's a b2b product then probably not -- unless it is a ridiculously innovative lolcode application server.
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by dstein 16y ago
Stay in school. Quitting school just "because" would probably be a mistake, especially without a spectacular job offer already on the table. Yes, talented people will succeed either way. But always ask yourself: "what if I'm wrong?" Wha
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by dstein 16y ago
I am in the camp that thinks JavaScript and related technologies are going to, one way or another, take over a large aspect of web development. But things always work out differently than people think it will. I don't think Node.js and Mo
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by dstein 16y ago
You can become an even better programmer by re-writing your programs. Refactoring your code, or possibly coming up with an entirely different approach to solving the problem is what I consider one the most important parts of becoming a bett
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by dstein 16y ago
I think this is the sad reality of the world we live in today. The job market sucks. Salaries are consistently dropping. People are being squeezed from every direction. And there's no such thing as a long term job anymore. The market i
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by dstein 16y ago
Does it come with a EULA that clearly specifies what I can build without being sued?
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by dstein 16y ago
You should think of it as equity, not money. Do you want to extract your equity (convert it to cash) now and buy stuff, or do you want to reinvest it in your business?
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by dstein 16y ago
Why is this on HN?
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by dstein 16y ago
India, where technology companies go to die.
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by dstein 16y ago
I think the "open source everything" movement is misguided. Open source generally doesn't work well for anything except for very large "community projects". I've seen it countless times -- one highly skilled coder can often out-code an en
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by dstein 16y ago
The video is on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc It is an extraordinarily well-crafted speech.
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by dstein 16y ago
Except I think startups are collectively figuring out that creating a company solely around an API plugin isn't a very solid business plan.
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by dstein 16y ago
Outsourced data center on a pay-per-use basis.
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by dstein 16y ago
An easier solution is to remove the points received for stories submitted.
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by dstein 16y ago
Canada lacks tech VC because the whole investment market is structured for mining and oil companies. Through the TSX Venture Exchange small companies (eg. one guy) can raise funds to buy land exploration rights and go off and start a minin
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by dstein 16y ago
These deals are structured to lock gullible startups into a funding structure that returns the most amount of money for the "angel" investors for the least amount of risk. Obviously $6000 isn't enough to run a startup for very long (it can
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by dstein 16y ago
Digg was a news aggregate, it includes from many different sources.
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by dstein 16y ago
Why? On average I found Digg's slice of news (current events + comedy + tech) pretty appealing, and it's format was better for skimming the news a lot better then the other aggregate sites -- including HN. I also got very comfortable with
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by dstein 16y ago
I got almost all my news from Digg for the past 3 years. Watching Digg self implode like this is somewhat sad to see. It is fascinating, and scary how fast it happened. And I think Digg is in pretty serious trouble here regardless of wha
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Will Digg.com be able to recover?(digg.com)
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by dstein 16y ago
It depends -- did she ask for a raise? If she asks for a raise, then it really doesn't matter what the reason is, you just ask yourself do you want to give this person a raise. If she didn't ask for a raise, then a 3rd option might be to g
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by dstein 16y ago
Having lived in the US for many years and then returning to Canada recently, it is absolutely stunning how few people here have cell phones. The primary reason is in the US, nation-wide plans are standard, whereas in Canada they simply do
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by dstein 16y ago
Just because a lawsuit is successful doesn't make it less frivolous. This is not like a company called "AppleSoft" being sued by "Apple". It's more like a company called "AppleSoft" being sued by "Microsoft". It's unfortunate the laws are
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by dstein 16y ago
The fact is they trademarked "Facebook", not "book". Very clearly this is a frivolous lawsuit and scare tactic borrowed from McDonald's who started suing every company and brand name that started with "Mc".
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by dstein 16y ago
XSL became widely usable in 2007 when Safari 4 was introduced (on the iPhone too). Nobody even noticed.
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by dstein 16y ago
I am working on JaxScript, which will be the first XML-based abstraction framework for HTML/CSS/JS/DOM. First tech preview version within about a month. http://www.jaxscript.com
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by dstein 16y ago
There will be competitors. I can assure you of that.
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by dstein 16y ago
Clearly I spend way too much time switching between my code and mindlessly browsing the internet.
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by dstein 16y ago
These aren't very geeky. I understood almost everything. I would rather see the complete back-and-forth of the "most geekiest argument on HN".
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by dstein 16y ago
Combine this idea with the pushState() API and you've got your 100% ajax website. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browse...

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