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by generalk 17y ago
Point of order: a female entrepreneur could just as easily put the child-rearing on her husband.* And there's no need for the negative connotation: is it impossible that one partner can happily take the lion's share of the child-rearing du
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by generalk 17y ago
The main page you've linked to tells me almost nothing about the service you're offering. From the first page I should be able to answer the following questions: - What's an achievement? What's a badge? - How do I earn them? If I want to g
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by generalk 17y ago
We're using Harvest. I don't handle the administrative end, but from a usability standpoint it's pretty awesome: http://www.getharvest.com
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by generalk 17y ago
There's a new repository up on his Github: http://github.com/why/lol/tree/master Description: wtf adam, are you this slow I'm guessing he got hacked. Edit: Nevermind, the repo's been deleted.
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by generalk 17y ago
So the PHP internals team made a poor decision, but because namespaces are better than the ridiculous measures taken to work around the lack of namespaces, they're vindicated? No. PHP may be getting better, but I can't stand it any longer
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by generalk 17y ago
My company uses Basecamp to manage projects. It's the only project management tool we've stuck with over five years of experimentation. I have to attribute this to Basecamp's simplicity: it doesn't do a lot of the things we want, but we ca
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by generalk 17y ago
Or, alternatively, switch away from environments where that sort of pestering behavior is common! I haven't used Linux in a while, but from what I remember it was rare to have a program itself tell me there were updates necessary, but the p
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by generalk 18y ago
This sounds like bullshit to me: maybe I'm just naive, but I can't for the life of me figure out how a cell radio could be unable to transmit MMS. Especially the radio in a phone released after 2002.
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Startups: Actual Customer Support is Critical(joncanady.com)
2 points by generalk 18y ago|0 comments
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by generalk 18y ago
Author here: Random number generators have logic behind them. My capitalization prefs there did not.
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by generalk 18y ago
Man, I almost wish I was. Yeah, I know it kinda reads like an advert, sorry about that. But I'm still a little shocked when I come across support systems that work as opposed to the common OSS-project style of "File bug in Bugzilla. Wai
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Github teaches us that "great" is better than "good"(joncanady.com)
33 points by generalk 18y ago|18 comments
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The Difference Between Good and Great(joncanady.com)
3 points by generalk 18y ago|2 comments
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by generalk 18y ago
We use a MediaWiki install for a lot of general knowledge, and for project-specific stuff we throw it in our Basecamp.
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by generalk 18y ago
Why not? It seems PC notebook manufacturers are doing netbooks because they need a novel product to excite people. Apple doesn't need that, the quality of their entire product line (generally speaking) is enough.
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by generalk 18y ago
Perhaps a niave question, but why should facebook buy anyone? Why shouldn't they just focus on their own revenue stream?
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by generalk 18y ago
Shit, I thought you were referencing Myers-Briggs -- I'm INTP, although I know plenty of INTJs...
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by generalk 18y ago
I currently do a lot of work in PHP, and although it isn't my favorite language to work with (braindead built-in library, for one), it's hard to argue with the results we get. For the good of your soul, use a framework. We currently like Z
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by generalk 18y ago
Using Wordpress right now (voted for that one) but I'm looking strongly at Mephisto. Written in Rails and has a badass name? Sign me up!
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by generalk 19y ago
If you want a co-founder -- someone to take half of the equity in a startup and take the plunge with you -- hiring a freelancer is a terrible idea. They're not going to invest themselves in the idea the way you would. If you just want some