hasenj

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1. 1831.▲
   by hasenj 16y ago

   and even now, it lacks the beauty of OS X, which is rather unfortunate. I use Xubuntu, and it's the best damn work station I've ever used, but sometimes I wish gtk apps were a bit more beautiful.
2. 1832.▲
   by hasenj 16y ago

   Something else to take away: don't require people to give away their billing information upfront when signing up for a trial; simply downgrade their account if the trial period ends and they haven't paid yet.
3. 1833.▲
   by hasenj 16y ago

   IDEs don't make much sense for dynamic languages anyway. I mean, really, it's not a matter of price or whatnot. I just don't need an IDE to build something good with python.
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   by hasenj 16y ago

   You need to read 37signals blog, they have a series of blog posts called “Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud”, in their own words: it's a series which profiles companies that have $1MM+ in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable. Th
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   by hasenj 16y ago

   I agree with his general idea, I think 37signals said it better: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Fund_Yourself.php There isn't much to fund anyway. If you're building a webapp: hosting is cheap and the infrastructure is open source;
6. 1836.▲
   by hasenj 16y ago

   small company? that should suffice for most people.
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   by hasenj 16y ago

   > So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing Doesn't that just piss you off? This is not what RMS and the "Free Software" advocates say about making money from free soft
8. 1838.▲
   by hasenj 16y ago

   I don't really understand how's this different from events. > and your web app still assumes that my browser can only do one thing at a time Um, no it doesn't. What makes you say that?
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   by hasenj 16y ago

   I didn't know that page had ads in it ..
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    by hasenj 16y ago

    hm I think I can't edit my posts? I suppose monopoly in English only refers to market control (my bad). In certain other languages, the word for monopoly is the same word for "complete control". I was assuming the word monopoly in English h
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    by hasenj 16y ago

    Apple is a monopoly in the sense that I can't drag and drop mp3 files into my iphone. They impose strict control on how you can use your device. They control the app store. and they seem to moving towards more control; not less. I was consi
12. 1842.▲
    by hasenj 16y ago

    I think he's referring to how he can use this incident to brag about how he's right with his views on open-source-but-not-really-free stuff.