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by ggruschow 17y ago
My parents had the same problem in the 70s.. a student was seen with a metal box with wires all over. They got the kids out and called the bomb squad. At least that case was cooler.. IIRC, he was taking over the PA system to play rock music
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Even if you don't have assets and flow to cover it... That's what http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance) is for and surely there's a company out there that'd do it for free / for publicity.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
US TIPS seem to be currently yielding between 0.21% and 2.01%: http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates It doesn't change your point though. They'd have to make >$200k/year to be an interesting investment. And 501(c)3 donations get tax
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I'm not paying for the app. I'm paying someone to care.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Are they naive and didn't have people try to break it in that situation first? Or are the genius and put the guy right in front of a sharp corner? The CEO seemed to be genuinely laughing. If I were HR at their company, I'd put this on the r
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by ggruschow 17y ago
If that's the main problem, then I've got to use it more often! I'm guessing most websites know what language they're serving up.. and for those that don't, you can detect it reasonably well in javascript too (e.g. http://whatlanguageisthi
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by ggruschow 17y ago
With any hardware made in the past couple decades, it's entirely about software. Plus, asynchronous, multithreaded programming isn't required for a perfectly smooth interfaces. Consider the enormous amount of instantly responsive softwa
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by ggruschow 17y ago
You can do a lot better hyphenation than most people realize.. e.g. http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Did he miss intrinsic motivation? VC seems less related to what designers like to do and think about. People often do tech work in order to build big things and make money, and VCs are right there in that game. Many engineers and programmer
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by ggruschow 17y ago
You can't be accurate when you need to hit multiple different targets with one shot. It's exceptionally difficult to get people to agree on what's valuable, and how valuable it is.. and the problem gets worse with scale.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I've done performance based pay for programmers both at the individual and group level. It adds a lot of non-obvious problems. I don't believe it improves happiness, retention, or productivity in the long run †. Most companies theoreticall
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Productivity based compensation for thought-workers isn't a panacea. Expenses based on time, income habituation, success or blame attribution, and differences of opinion on what is productive can actually make it a pretty horrible experienc
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I love to eat with a roof over my head, and I love to sleep in a warm bed.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
What does this guy's future look like now? Nobody'll give him a job in science right? Is there any way he can use his expertise outside of starting his own company that somehow monetizes it? Would he be accepted as a high-school teacher?
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Nikon, Canon, and others allow tethered shooting and sell gadgets to replace the wire with radios. Search for wireless tethering. There's often cheap alternatives too.. e.g. http://petetek.blogspot.com/2009/05/50-wireless-tethering-so...
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I've seen a lot of smart people who weren't good programmers.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
It thought /.'s quality was in a death spiral pre-digg, and as they tried to compete head-to-head, digg seemed like their death knell. Within a year I think they realized digg was different (crack-addict-speed-news) and if they just focused
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I know it hurts, but the baby is dead. He needs to bury it, mourn in private, heal, and move on. Litigation won't bring him happiness, wealth, a good reputation, or even closure. In fact, all this lashing out will do the opposite. If he jus
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I wish this all held true for pre-patent work.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Once you label me, you negate me. - Kierkegaard Specialization is for insects. - Heinlein Eat my shorts. - Simpson
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Great, they're going the exact opposite direction of what I'm willing to pay for. I wish my local paper(s) would cancel their Monday through Saturday editions and concentrated on one great Sunday paper. I'd pay ten times as much for clear,
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by ggruschow 17y ago
This must be how old mainframe programmers felt reading articles about PCs in the early 70s.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Send me cookies, or really, do anything that shows you're more (better) than your resume. Fresh homemade chocolate chip cookies are probably best though unless you know my humor or work and send me something even more personalized. My opini
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Millionaires try to convince people to spend money?
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by ggruschow 17y ago
His argument works just as well for createspace/lulu/etc physical books as ebooks.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Why [is the] focus on selling the company instead of building the company? Many people are only considering building a company to make money. They're rightly considering whether their action will get the effect they want. Only consultants
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I don't think he was referring to programmers from any period. I'd be surprised if work for Apple computers ever constituted even 25% of programming work, and I'd be shocked if Dave Winer's reach was even 1%. I don't mean any offense by eit
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by ggruschow 17y ago
How is "the cloud" a certain place?
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Maybe the features he highlighted are as important to some people as the features you highlight.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
First-come first-served is fine when there's consensus about the price. A lot of, if not most of, trading comes from people disagreeing about what a fair price is though - the buyer thinks it's worth more, the seller thinks it's worth less.

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