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by goodkarma 18y ago
"The person may look like a hero, coming in to solve crisis after crisis, when in fact the crises could have been avoided. Sometimes, the workaholic may have unwittingly created the problems to provide the endless thrill of more work." I've
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by goodkarma 18y ago
Considering the amount of growth they are seeing, and the scaling issues they are dealing with, I think this is pretty darn impressive.
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by goodkarma 18y ago
Absolutely true! .com has definitely gotten a lot of mind share. This is a great example of it: "He pulled up Google News, quickly discovering the culprit. The vice presidential debate between Cheney and Sen. John Edwards was going on, an
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by goodkarma 18y ago
Anyone who has tried to buy a domain knows that a lot of names have been reserved by domainers who have not built out entire sites on the domains. They are often parked and have little content other than pay per click ads on them. The reas
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by goodkarma 18y ago
Just the thought of that happening makes me want to use cloud computing for everything..
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by goodkarma 18y ago
This is one of many examples of a company that has grown so big that they could care less about their customers and the user experience. Who are Microsoft's customers, and why do they continue to tolerate this sort of thing? Do they just n
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by goodkarma 18y ago
Ouch.
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by goodkarma 18y ago
It's like what PG says here: http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html "Fear of failure is an extraordinarily powerful force. Usually it prevents people from starting things, but once you publish some definite ambition, it switches direct
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by goodkarma 18y ago
Regardless of what you decide to do with the user registration.. could you add an example or two to show how easy it is? Like a static page with the output the site would give for a common scenario (such as a TV, DVD Player, and Satellite d
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by goodkarma 18y ago
We got our health insurance through the National Association of Self-Employed http://nase.org/ - paying approx $300/month for my wife and myself.
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by goodkarma 18y ago
We run our own business, and I have set up several subsidiary companies in the process. If your ownership structure is simple, it is actually pretty easy to get started. Here's what I do: 1. have your state filings done by a registration
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by goodkarma 18y ago
>> The fact is this: there is no process for programming. I disagree. There is a process, but it is so basic we may not realize it: 1. identify the big problem 2. break it down into smaller problems 3. solve the smaller problems 4.
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by goodkarma 18y ago
>> Yahoo won’t need their search marketing employees any more, possibly 2,000 employees. They have 2,000 people on the payroll just for search marketing, and Panama is the best they can come up with? Ouch.
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by goodkarma 18y ago
I use two different scripts: 1. dwatch http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/29/surviving-rails-1... 2. a PHP script that accesses a URL on the other server; if the server does not respond as expected, it sends me a SMS and emails the s
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by goodkarma 18y ago
In several markets - such as search, search marketing (i.e. pay per click advertising), web-based applications (i.e. Google Docs or whatever MS calls it), etc., Microsoft has really dropped the ball. The two things they lack are respect for
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by goodkarma 18y ago
Yes, Yahoo management will probably end up defending themselves. But Yahoo management has a legal obligation to do what's best for the company's shareholders. Unless they've got a silver bullet that will double YHOO's market cap soon, thei
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by goodkarma 18y ago
You can write a lot of code in a year. If what you want to do is write code. (And he does.)
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by goodkarma 18y ago
I agree, but that is in the past. He's asking about the future. I don't work in the field I got my degree in. But I still enjoyed the experience.. :)
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by goodkarma 18y ago
If your goal is to developer enterprise software, and you already have your first project (i.e. this summer in Italy), what do you need the Masters degree for?
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by goodkarma 18y ago
If 18 of the 24 said that the Mac offered a "better or best experience" compared to their existing computer (i.e. the IBM Thinkpad), but 15 of the 18 (83%) already had "moderate or expert knowledge of the [Mac] platform" - does IBM have eno
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by goodkarma 19y ago
If you believe that code is poetry, then programmers are artists.
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by goodkarma 19y ago
Haven't tried mod_rails yet, but have had a challenging time deploying rails apps in general For those that feel the same way I really recommend Rails Machine. Obviously getting something like mod_rails working on Amazon EC2 would give us
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by goodkarma 19y ago
When you put a device that transmits energy right next to your head, you're taking a risk that the transmitted energy interacts with the matter in your head/brain. The longer and more often you put the device up to your head, the more oppo