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811.
by dstein 16y ago
May I ask how you received a visa to stay there? I looked into Thailand but axed the idea when I could only get a 30-day visitor visa. Whereas Costa Rica lets you stay for 3 months before you need to cross the border to extend your visitor
812.
by dstein 16y ago
I quit my day job last year and began my ISV/web startup after I calculated I could live very comfortably in Costa Rica on $20,000 per year. I haven't made a full time move there quite yet though, I go there for the winter to surf and code
813.
by dstein 16y ago
The HTML5 canvas and audio API's are fairly simple and easy to coordinate. You probably do not need a library unless you require complex collision detection, or physics math.
814.
by dstein 16y ago
The first thing you do is buy each of them a design patterns book and start forcing them to both read, and use eachother's code. When bugs appear, don't make the author fix the bug, make one of the other guys fix it. That'll probably moti
815.
by dstein 16y ago
I used to do stuff like that, until I found it was a lot easier just to work directly out of my Dropbox directory. It's tough to argue with real-time offsite backups.
816.
by dstein 16y ago
The coming dominance of mobile/tablet oriented web apps running in the cloud with persistent offline operation is what is going to keep RIM (and others) from needing a better OS. Android and iPhone only have a temporary advantage in the mo
817.
by dstein 16y ago
The problem with JSON is that isn't very useful by itself because you always have to encode and decode it, and then analyze the structure to do something with the data. It works better as part of a protocol, not as a native data format. If
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Jason Fried: Why You Can't Work at Work(bigthink.com)
5 points by dstein 16y ago|1 comments
819.
by dstein 16y ago
If Java applets make a comeback and replace the Flash plugin, I will probably spit up my milk.
820.
by dstein 16y ago
It is trivial for a multinational corporation to register company.co.kr and company.co.us. If they don't really want to run separate websites one can redirect to the other.
821.
by dstein 16y ago
There of course would be a period of migration. Ebay would tell ICANN redirct ebay.com to ebay.co.us indefinitely. And maybe at some point in the future .com is entirely eliminated.
822.
by dstein 16y ago
The problem really only exists for the .com TLD. What really needs to happen is to deprecate .com entirely. ICANN should stop registering them, and all existing .com's should be migrated, or re-registered in their country of origin (.co.u
823.
by dstein 16y ago
"What do you want? To have any arbitrary element in your markup? Ok, you get your <foobar>barbaz</foobar>" Yeah I want my own elements that do anything I want, and I'm working on a solution to it. And this project is what l
824.
by dstein 16y ago
HTML5 basically takes HTML4 and adds 3 tags: audio, video, canvas. These solve very specific issues, sound, movies, and drawing. HTML5 does not address some larger scoped problems related to HTML -- the biggest being that HTML sucks. It
825.
by dstein 16y ago
What I don't get, is why is MathML only for displaying formulas, not not for making actual, working algorithms?
826.
by dstein 16y ago
Everyone's so hyped up about HTML5. And yet I am slowly coming to the realization that the W3C has made a very, very, grave error in not going ahead with XHTML2.
827.
by dstein 16y ago
They have dumps available, but their application and server are proprietary. And now that Google controls them I want nothing to do with it (other than maybe using one of their dumps to start me off).
828.
by dstein 16y ago
That's why you don't rely on free third party API's. I'm seriously thinking of starting a Freebase alternative, but where you can pay to replicate and run your own copy of the database. Anybody think this would catch on?
829.
by dstein 16y ago
As a rant, it annoys me to no end that C is the SI unit for Coulomb, yet everyone uses C as Celcius. Someone should fix that.
830.
by dstein 16y ago
I'll be "that guy" and say start with JavaScript/HTML5 plus a NoSQL database system like CouchDB. The reason is, this combination (like it or not) has a very good chance of completely taking over a wide spectrum of applications within a cou
831.
by dstein 16y ago
It's okay to not like frameworks. My opinion is that frameworks, in general, make easy things a little bit easier, and make hard things even harder.
832.
by dstein 16y ago
I starting learning how to program just to "see if I could do it". Once I became a good enough to code anything I wanted, programming became boring. There was really no satisfaction in coding something that I already knew how to do. I thi
833.
by dstein 16y ago
Meh, he stole that from my post on Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/13/google-net-neutrality-video...
834.
by dstein 16y ago
"It will probably take 5-10 years to find out if this is going to happen." I won't even take 2 years. I will be surprised if several competitors don't emerge by the time Facebook goes public.
835.
by dstein 16y ago
Facebook will "die" when it is no longer unique. They have defined the template for how all future websites need to operate. And I guarantee within a few years developers will find ways to standardize (or at least ubiquitize) every importa
836.
by dstein 16y ago
The richest man in the cemetery is rolling in his grave.
837.
by dstein 16y ago
<sarcasm> Hi, I'm a beginner programmer. I'm interested in learning to program Java and MySQL on Solaris, where should I begin to learn this free and open platform? </sarcasm>
838.
by dstein 16y ago
Why is taking so long for 1.0.1 to be released? On a side note, they clearly jumped the version number to "1.0" way too soon. It is nowhere near production-worthy software (which is implied by a 1.0 release).
839.
by dstein 16y ago
I disagree. Contractors should never waiver on their prices. Whatever your asking price is you should always be willing to walk if your price isn't met.
840.
by dstein 16y ago
Oracle is sending a very clear message every programmer, young and old. "If you use Java to make something valuable, we're gonna sue the crap out of you". This will have long term consequences for Oracle.

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