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by edanm 16y ago
"I'm not an expert on these privacy matters, so my approach is simple. I approach all companies that have my personal information with caution..." I like Robert Scoble's take on this: assume from the start that anything you put on a compute
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by edanm 17y ago
Try going to the "Add more services" link. It's on the main Google Apps domain management page, right next to the "Service Settings" header (the header of the sections which has things like mail, calendar, etc.). Worked for me, and I'm on t
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by edanm 17y ago
Gmail could probably cost money and have a big userbase (at least now, when so many people know about it and use it). But I think a lot of the community sites can't charge money. I don't see Twitter, Reddit, StackOverflow and other such
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by edanm 17y ago
How far along do you expect a prototype to be? E.G., if I'm building a social web app, do you expect to just see a prototype with a few of the basic concepts? Or do you expect a first version that's already online and starting to get users?
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by edanm 17y ago
"Can it not all be summed up as 'talk to your customers?' Isn't this the foundation of any business? Does anyone actually advocate not doing so?" I don't think anyone advocates not talking to your customers, but Steve Blank makes a bigger p
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by edanm 17y ago
That's a good question, and I'm sure people go either way on this. I for one am definitely looking for success, but I try to find it by doing things I like and care about. I'm comforted by Paul Graham's thoughts on this, namely that if you
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by edanm 17y ago
Some people sleep better knowing the "abandoned" software can always be taken up by other developers, because it's open source. Others sleep better knowing there's a company with a financial incentive to keep the product alive. Honestly, ei
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by edanm 17y ago
Code is ugly or beautiful based on what you're used to seeing. This is the reason for the endless style debates: the way you're used to working just looks better to you. Whenever I find a new way of working which has actual benefits, I
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by edanm 17y ago
Yeah, I'm also used to adding a comma after the last item (in C, C++, Python). One of the problems is that this is an error in Javascript, but only in IE. Which means code will work fine while you develop, but when it comes time to test, it
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by edanm 17y ago
Not the ones I use. But actually, there are other benefits: easier to add new lines to the list (just duplicate the previous one and change the value; no need to remember to add a comma at the end of the last item). Also, someone mentioned
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by edanm 17y ago
I think Twitter should just not count URL's towards the 140 characters. All URL's should count as one character.
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by edanm 17y ago
Their popularity comes from a few places: 1) Both vim and Emacs are really really good at basic text manipulation. This means for navigating files and entering/changing text, they're really quick (and don't require a mouse). Most other ed
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by edanm 17y ago
Intelligence agencies don't report on their successes. So how would we know how much terrorism is being stopped by intelligence?
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by edanm 17y ago
I'd vote Spanish (lots of countries speak it, which makes it a good language). Or Chinese - more people speaking it than any other language, I think. BTW, I started learning Spanish using the "Pimsleur method". It's an amazingly easy and q
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by edanm 17y ago
I went through this exact process a few weeks ago, when I started using Mercurial as my main source control. This article would have helped a lot. I settled on Codebasehq, btw, and I'm extremely happy so far.
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by edanm 17y ago
I'm guessing that less research exists because it's not as "sexy". The patent system exists, the assumption is that it works. Why would anyone think to do a study to prove it? On the other hand, proving that it doesn't work is certainly an
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by edanm 17y ago
"Doesn't really seem plausible, does it?" It doesn't, but I think this is what happens in practice.
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by edanm 17y ago
"Keep it simple..." I think the idea is to keep it simple for most users, not the techies. I don't think many non-techies have any clue why the http is there, and they (rightly) don't care. As for "adding an 's' for the secure site", once
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by edanm 17y ago
"Also, a small fraction of complaining customers might actually purchase a Mac." While the rest can't use their IPods anymore? I don't think Apple would be too happy with that .
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by edanm 17y ago
A few comments about the basic design of the front page. I'm not a designer or anything, so take with a grain of salt. The design is nice, but has a little bit of a "thrown together" look: the different things on the page don't really seem
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by edanm 17y ago
This is exactly why I love the "Open File in Project" functionality that exists in some editors/IDEs (e.g., SlickEdit). It lets you type the filename, and does a "fuzzy search" match on it. Practically, this means that whatever file you thi