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by glimcat 13y ago
What's best for warfare, to move fast or strike hard?
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by glimcat 13y ago
Software development jobs tend not to care what you majored in if you can demonstrate competency and experience. Your average CS senior is a VERY junior programmer. Also "math / engineering" is usually good enough to bypass t
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by glimcat 13y ago
I'm seeing a range from snappy to several seconds (favoring snappy), so I'm going to guess "better caching." Taking several seconds to load was common enough before that I would load the index & queue up all the arti
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by glimcat 13y ago
Things like Twitter often start as a "wouldn't it be neat if." Then actually taking the trouble to prototype it, show it to people, and find out if it has lasting value to any group of people you care about. And then you have
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by glimcat 13y ago
While you may be the "visible culprit" - I'd hardly say you're at fault. The action you're attempting is not a "send email" action, even if the API provider has decided that it should send email notificati
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by glimcat 13y ago
Is this separate from the line item about support (best effort / no SLA purchased)? And if it's separate, in what sense does enterprise purchasing use "maintenance"? Software updates?
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Tools for Ongoing Customer Development(grayj.net)
2 points by glimcat 13y ago|0 comments
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by glimcat 13y ago
As long as we're playing the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" game again, here's the relevant patio11 article: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... I
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Intro to Effective Customer Development(grayj.net)
3 points by glimcat 13y ago|0 comments
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In search of a target audience(grayj.net)
2 points by glimcat 13y ago|0 comments
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by glimcat 13y ago
"Software Businesses for MMO Addicts: The Dragons Wore Suits" There are also numerous similarities between progression raiding and marketing. Replace phases with funnel stages, try different strategies until you figure out which o
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by glimcat 13y ago
It's a developer tool. I bill more than that per hour. Lots of people bill more than that per hour. If it saves you time or stress, it's easily worth $70.
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Why I'm Building Yet Another CRM(grayj.net)
1 points by glimcat 13y ago|0 comments
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by glimcat 13y ago
Article: "What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup" http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/01/31/what-the-rails-security-...
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by glimcat 13y ago
"they can kill it if only they had a" Nine times out of ten, if you find yourself thinking in this pattern, you're making excuses not to start. Find a way to get started anyway. Do something. Make a mockup out of pieces of paper. Find and t
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by glimcat 13y ago
This approach is using the bounding box size and longest dimension to choose a camera distance and angle. It works better than static pose and it's computationally cheap. However, it can oversimplify for objects which are significantly asym
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An index of publicly-available papers from CHI 2013(hackthing.com)
1 points by glimcat 13y ago|0 comments
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by glimcat 13y ago
Thanks. I emailed you a few glitches and such that I encountered. This looks really, really nice so far, particularly for its initial release. There are a few things like discovery and analytics which obviously aren't in at this stage...but
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Starting your first product(hackthing.com)
1 points by glimcat 13y ago|0 comments
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by glimcat 13y ago
The decisive condition here is often "can a problem with the software create a halting error in someone's daily workflow."
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by glimcat 13y ago
I have training in designing such circuits and I'd still use an opto-isolator. This is not manufacturing. It's a one-off project. It's not a highly refined design. You don't have to worry about finessing a marginally lower build cost becaus
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by glimcat 14y ago
No it doesn't. The only way they display this information is if you (a) add it to your profile, and (b) make that information public. If you use LinkedIn to tell people when your birthday is - and I have no idea why you would, given its int
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by glimcat 14y ago
The display clause prohibits advertising your party / movement / whatever in the Supreme Court building . It's a specific exemption intended to avoid influencing the impartiality of the group responsible for making determinations about the
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by glimcat 14y ago
Beating $15k is certainly possible. If it's hard in your area, there's probably work that can be done remotely paying 10x. The catch is that you'd have to build up the reputation and the network of satisfied clients needed. I know a few ver
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by glimcat 14y ago
The problem with "learn x" from a motivational standpoint is that it is extremely open-ended. Say I want to learn more JavaScript. How do I know when I've met my goal? If the goal is indefinite, how do I measure progress? This is very demot
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by glimcat 14y ago
So, the really cool part is this: "At Watsi, 100% of your donations directly fund medical treatments. Watsi.org is separately funded. They pay all their operational costs from their own funding, and none from your donations. They even eat t
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by glimcat 14y ago
Reusing existing tweets is a common practice for Twitter bots. Research-grade bots typically combine this with some logic like taking tweets from sources external to your current network graph, or trying to keep the bot's persona reasonably
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by glimcat 14y ago
Surveying preference isn't a valid way of determining product viability, or even of comparing how well two products well sell. This is not to say that you shouldn't build it. Building stuff for the sake of building stuff is a good thing. Th
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by glimcat 14y ago
If you go here, you should be able to "reset" the admin account via the domain ownership verification process. This involves either uploading a file to the web server or altering its DNS records. https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdo
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by glimcat 14y ago
You know, I'm all for that - up until we invent Youtube and it turns up in search results for the person's name more or less forever.

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