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by frossie 16y ago
... and don't forget the rearview mirror spellers... http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/61...
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by frossie 16y ago
they were nice enough to let you use it for free They didn't give me the option to pay for it to keep it though, did they. It's not the case that google (or any other tech company out there) gains nothing by "letting people use things for
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by frossie 16y ago
You know what the complement of Kill Early/Often is? It's me never letting my shop use a new Google product ever again. People invest time in adopting these technologies. Sure, with a little startup you take into account the fact that the
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by frossie 16y ago
You pretty much need an experienced HR person to deal with this kind of thing - if your startup is, well, a startup, I am guessing they won't have anybody with the knowledge (or interest) to do the paperwork. I imagine there might be an exc
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by frossie 16y ago
We use co-op students for (paid) four month terms. My number one concern when deciding to take an intern is "Am I going to get positive effort out of this exercise"? In other words, will the work the intern does significantly exceed the eff
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by frossie 16y ago
Are they more cheerful for being in colour? The effect on me is to deepen my empathy, so they leave me a bit sadder, actually. I also look at #9 and thank my stars that I am culturally allowed to do manual work in jeans and boots.
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by frossie 16y ago
I replied that I could make a transmitter, but that I would have problems building the digital interface, since the only ZX Spectrum available to me in the department was occupied day and night by colleagues (more for fun than for work Th
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by frossie 16y ago
B&N have been doing a good job not only selling their e-reader, but bringing the nook readers into the store by various promotions (show your nook and get a free book, show your nook and get free coffee) and the ability to browse any e-
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by frossie 16y ago
Agreed, but to my confusion Amazon has been very aggressive in competing with B&N. Every price drop of the Kindle in the last 9 months has seemingly been in response to a price drop of the Nook (B&N's e-reader). Given that B&N i
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by frossie 16y ago
Could you elaborate more on what you feel is "female-friendly?" I thought the commenter went on to explain herself on that point (by discussing downvoting of sexist comments). One could define female-unfriendly as a place where the conver
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by frossie 16y ago
Hey thanks, flattr seems to be pretty much the content micropayment system I have been wishing for (being one of those people who actually want to give money for content I love).
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by frossie 16y ago
What would be wrong, in your eyes, to trust in Google and word of mouth to steer readers to your blog by issue instead. Aside from the odd blog linked to from HN, the vast majority of blogs I most engage in are the ones to whose RSS feeds
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't object to the name on cutesy grounds, but I do feel it's a bit long for a search engine . Hope if they hit the big time they can buy ddg.com or something :-) [Before anybody asks why am I typing URLs in the first place - I was prom
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by frossie 16y ago
if you have a blog and there's tens and tens of entries and nary a comment to be seen, doesn't that look sad somehow? Some people blog on locked-down (private) blogs. You don't have to make it public.
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by frossie 16y ago
My main credit card offers daily balance summary emails (I use the weekly option). It's a good feature. Yes, if they gave me an option to look at my transactions through RSS I would be interested. My concern about a third-party app is how t
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by frossie 16y ago
You just need to allow and encourage everyone to submit ideas, and if they don’t cost anything, but they’re good ideas, implement them! There are two sides of this. One, indeed per OP, having no resources forces you to be more inventive a
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by frossie 16y ago
runs code examples through standard analysis I am not saying that this would not be generally useful. In our case we're a specialised shop, without many short-listable applicants (we only ask code from candidates going forward to an inter
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by frossie 16y ago
I always mention the open source contributions of the team members to potential applicants and give them links that would enable them to find the source if they were so inclined. I can see this being more of a problem in closed source place
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by frossie 16y ago
in this particular case, for the most part also be fulfilled by the more versatile iPad I understand your point, but all I am saying is that in this case "for the most part" is not good enough for many people (eg. me). I do, actually, hav
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What's Wrong With the American University System(theatlantic.com)
55 points by frossie 16y ago|48 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
You are much less likely to work with an idiot I can't stress this enough. I ask for code samples and you would be amazed how many people look good on paper, and even interview reasonably, and yet send in the most awful code. Now it is tr
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by frossie 16y ago
Agree about an option to have routes following the street. Also, when you clear the map, it jogs you out of whatever view you were in (eg. if you were looking in hybrid mode, it dumps you back into map mode). But really, it's very nice!
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by frossie 16y ago
I find it fascinating that people these days are willing to pay (a premium) for less features or less choice. Well in this case people are paying a lot less for less choice. A kindle/nook/kobo is priced nothing like an iPad. Having access
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by frossie 16y ago
I'm meeting with my boss in 2.5 hours. Who says software engineers are deadline driven, eh? :-) I was thinking that I'd take a 50k reduction in salary for 25% equity in the new company. I don't really know the answer to your question,
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't feel the need myself, because the "really really good" ones I share out to Google Reader (one click via the lovely shareaholic Firefox extension), which reduces the pool to search from (and of course is easier to search). And I coul
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by frossie 16y ago
I had no idea what a "sha-bang" is. I've plowed through it and I never noticed it. If you're wondering, it's the "#!" magic number at the start of bash scripts. I know, what the hell, right? There are definite geographic variations on tha
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Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter(mashable.com)
2 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
So, let me see if I understand. This is a hosting company that had (foolishly) some kind of unlimited plan, and when people actually did use boatloads of resources they turned them off without warning? No throttling, nothing? Well. That cou
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by frossie 16y ago
* Obviously no website UI can ever cover absolutely all cases and some queries will need to reach a human, but most companies don't even seem to try* I completely boggled the other day at encountering a "Contact Us" web UI that had no "Othe
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by frossie 16y ago
As a technical person who spent too much on wedding invitations at the last minute, I do think that integration with a printing company would be the killer feature. Moreover, I worry that launching without a printing service would be a

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