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by eob 18y ago
I'm with you man -- I consider myself a pretty good coder, but I'm a really crummy sysadmin. Trying to figure out how to configure Mongrel correctly has always been the worst part of Rails development for me, so Passenger is a welcome relie
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by eob 18y ago
Yeah -- single tasking is probably much, much better than trying to split between two companies at once. I'd pursue getting the CEO as an angel investor. It provides you with money to build the business but attaches you to only one person i
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by eob 18y ago
The paper was co-authored by David DeWitt, not Microsoft. DeWitt is a well-known database researcher from Wisconsin. And Microsoft, despite their awful history of business practices, pours tons of funding into really good quality research (
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by eob 18y ago
I met an English professor this weekend who was interested in how to best archive one's digital life. He recently went through the last N years of his email, copied the most treasured or important ones, and then had them bound into a book.
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by eob 18y ago
Buy a house at the beach. Start going to more conferences. Read a few books. Then start working on the next idea.
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by eob 18y ago
I'm a PhD student at MIT and arrived to my office on Monday to find the International Lisp Conference had set up shop downstairs. Let me just tell you.. I've never seen so many bearded people in one place!
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by eob 18y ago
Are they just wrapping web apps inside a WebKit window with a special javascript library? It'd be interesting to see a bake-off between the OtherLanguage->iPhoneApp frameworks. The one by 380 North looks particularly interesting, though
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by eob 18y ago
Perhaps there should be a return policy attached to every app. It seems that a fair argument can be made for both cases: some apps are clearly $1 disposable toys, while others are $50 business apps. It seems entirely appropriate to have a r
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by eob 18y ago
I couldn't agree more. Laws & rules are worthless unless enforced equally and absolutely. Once the cops start deciding /when/ to enforce a law, a country is no better than a lawless one. This is just the contractual parallel to that sit
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by eob 18y ago
Let's not get ahead of ourselves :) Nothing is ever one-click.
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by eob 18y ago
My guess is that it dates back to the Shockwave days when: 1) Flash was used solely for static & animated vector graphics, and 2) Browsers didn't have the zooming features they do now We take Cmd+/Cmd- (and whatever the Windows bindings
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by eob 18y ago
Does Amazon payments allows 3rd party developers to hook into the P2P-style payments? Their web site is a bit confusing.. as a consumer, it seems that they offer me P2P micropayment services. As a developer, it seems like they just offer me
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by eob 18y ago
if they were going to stick around anyway, then its worth it for the comedy factor alone.
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by eob 18y ago
I think Facebook has already lost too Twitter on this front. When people think Facebook, they think private info and friend's pictures. When people think Twitter, they think public broadcast mechanism. The identities of the two systems have
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by eob 18y ago
While I'm wary of the performance cost of what I assume will be a web frame wrapped inside a container with hooks into the iPhone's native environment, the ease with which this might allow development is pretty exciting. There is a mapping