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by gscott 19y ago
I have a family and children, they like to eat and wear clothes as well, often they do both at the same time. I got started on a project but was unable to hang on long enough to make any revenue, so I licensed the code to a company that I d
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by gscott 19y ago
They deserve to be cut down by ninjas if they did not perform. If you are bleading money it's your fault, fix it or get out. Business Ninja http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/fa3/060/fa3060a9-...
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by gscott 19y ago
This reminds me from the Internet blowout a VC person investing in a company because of the name (I think it was liquidaudio). When it failed, all I could think about was that story and what possible qualifications that person had to be giv
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by gscott 19y ago
They will come up with some simple html to get some access to phones, libraries would probably install a MS application so I doubt if libraries would cut people off from the MS services. Especially if they make all of the Hotmail users dow
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by gscott 19y ago
Microsoft really is shifting the entire focus of the company and anyone who doesn't take Microsoft seriously will end up like Stacker or as popular as Realplayer. The google web apps, they look horrible. I know they are all standards based
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by gscott 19y ago
>All good if you're single, but what if you've got a wife >and family and just need the cash? This is doable, you need to be able to at least get your application developed and maintain hosting for it, but work also for others so y
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by gscott 19y ago
As pretty as it may be, picking a language is an important choice, the oldest web application I have designed has already been online for 7 years and I expect it to last more or less forever. So making a choice of language is important, ju
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by gscott 19y ago
That is it, I had not heard of Ruby until I started seeing a lot of postings about Ruby on Rails. I never got past the part where you have to make a configuration file or something to generate the code for your page. That just seems to me
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by gscott 19y ago
Programming in latest greatest language = bad. Time is an investment in your future, when you take the time to learn a language, you have invested in yourself. If you pick some new on the block language like Ruby on Rails is that a good in
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by gscott 19y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish... worked great for Microsoft for decades. How to extend that to web apps though?
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by gscott 19y ago
OfficeZilla.com allows you to setup multiple pop accounts and get them all in one place, but wait till the end of this month to sign up as I have a bunch of improvements on the way, the mail module is a bit dated right now.
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by gscott 19y ago
Once there is a problem and then they fix the issue they end up hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of transactions behind which is now a new problem; catch up the old transactions until the system is entirely caught up or process new
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by gscott 19y ago
While purging the mailing list would decrease the number of spam complaints I wouldn't send out messages to past customers with the explicit message (and only message) of opting out because... suprise they WOULD opt-out. Instead email your
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by gscott 19y ago
If you can buy a season of episodes on DVD for about $40 and there are 24 episodes in a season that is close to $2 per episode. There is packaging and profit from the store so NBC does seem to be unreasonable in this case. Regardless ther
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by gscott 19y ago
I know nothing about sql wrappers but I do know whenever I have a scaling problem it is ALWAYS the sql. I doubt if any wrapper will save me from this. As your database grows larger you need to fine tune your sql, indexes, and so on.
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by gscott 19y ago
Right, when the giant man was burned early it was found that it was really put together with marijuana plants. Hence the entire population at the event were confused why they had the munchies so bad and wrote only 'quicky' articles between
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by gscott 19y ago
> Personally I used to be like this. I would never launch anything, because nothing I did was ever good enough for me. Sounds like practice coding to me, I am sure the experience you gained helped you write what you decided was worthy o
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by gscott 19y ago
> So you'd better be a Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is a huge perfectionist. However he will make you work 70+ hours a week to achieve his perfection and he will ride you every step of the way to get the best out of you. http://www.folklore.
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by gscott 19y ago
A previous company I worked for split in two, one half took on an online training site project and my half built an online website development system. The half that did the training site all hated me because I code by the seat of my pants,
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by gscott 19y ago
Napoleon was 8 or 9 feet tall after he got onto his horse. So it is about height! Or maybe drive & passion are more important... oh well so confused.
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by gscott 19y ago
I decided to host one of my applications, a live chat service for 'replicated' websites on GoDaddy.com of all places, before you laugh it has really worked out better then I would have imagined. I already had the code working well under loa
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by gscott 19y ago
Listing officezilla.com being free as a "Deal Killer" is too bad. It would have been nice if he would have at least gave it a try. Sure it is not a pure project management system but because it is not there are some advantages since it can
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by gscott 19y ago
One good thing about developing and making products yourself is that you can give those ideas time to develop. User feedback is key, I find if I just keep on doing what the users asks for then the product just gets better. They think of i