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by indie01 19y ago
Maybe it's more like companies should compete for people, and people should compete for whatever jobs or job titles there are to be had within a company. begin /mini-rant here from personal experience: But with the advent of bloodsucking ag
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by indie01 19y ago
Hmm. My understanding is that it strips out a bunch of unnecessary (correction: able to be simplified, not necessarily "unnecessary") elements and makes it easier to write leaner JavaScript. Also easier to have a browser render JavaScript
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by indie01 19y ago
Remember that shifts are cyclical, temporary, and not the end of the world. Be happy for other countries which are finally getting a break.
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by indie01 19y ago
Interesting how so many of them in this list share the characteristic of being fired from one job or another. Most innovative types don't seem to work so well in stringent environments, or what I like to think of as the SJ mentality of "ma
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by indie01 19y ago
I like pcnames: http://www.pcnames.com/ because it utilizes some nifty JavaScript, a kind of "search as you type" method regarding inquiries of domain names. It also (claims that it) doesn't log or record those queries. That Network Solu
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by indie01 19y ago
Indeed. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2005/211008.h... From the first page of the DOJ complaint: "The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division today filed a lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR),
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by indie01 19y ago
Quote from the article: "The business proved extremely profitable for the banks, which earned a fee for each mortgage they sold on. They urged mortgage brokers to sell more and more of these mortgages." This is a very interesting topic, on
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by indie01 19y ago
Skimping on sleep in undergrad and not regretting it, chalking it up as "practice" for life sleeping in a cube? That doesn't sound very fun. I think there's a saying. . . something like "A students end up working for C students." I've a
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by indie01 19y ago
>>5. Starve existing (and possible) social networks of users through network effects and platform lock-in (done) This is what Microsoft did. Maybe not necessarily with "social networks," but in principle. The fact that this little
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by indie01 19y ago
It's indeed an industry loaded with pretentiousness. Here's a clip from a related and interesting article about the wine industry: Source: http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/05/news/companies/Two_Buck_Chuc... >>>In 2002, Franzi
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by indie01 19y ago
One of the more interesting things about web media vs print media is that web media's impressons are actually more documentable than print media's. Hand a person a newspaper, and it's really quite iffy whether or not they caught or noticed
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by indie01 19y ago
There's really nothing like a stereotypical "the burbs" on the peninsula -- or anywhere in the Bay area for that matter. Concepts like "the burbs" are perpetuated by the perception of a need to commute via personally-owned vehicle or trans
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by indie01 19y ago
The peninsula is much nicer than the city, I think. I lived in the city for a little while after moving here, but after my car got broken into TWICE in one month, (even my sunglasses were stolen), and a couple of way too expensive parking
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by indie01 19y ago
>>>> ""I'm calling it," Roy sighs, "that's it." And so, at 4:20 in the morning, some 70 miles shy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Roy puts his turn signal on like some average commuter and once again stops, 2,160 miles s
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What do Americans want more than peace? A computer.(biz.yahoo.com)
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by indie01 19y ago
There was an article in Business 2.0 Magazine awhile ago titled: "Escape from Silicon Valley". OK, I just found it for you: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2... Although it discusses the pros and cons of big c
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by indie01 19y ago
>> One of the most important things we've been working on standardizing are investment terms. << I can see this being very beneficial, both for the VCs and the startups. The standardization of terminology in any discipline
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by indie01 19y ago
"Our developer workstations boast 386 Mhz . . . and industry-leading green text graphics. .." This is classic! You people are hilarious. I'm still trying to figure out what that was . . . did one of the dudes have a bottle of maple syru
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by indie01 19y ago
Wow, even my apology is getting modded down! I must have hit a nerve or something. :) To all who modded me down: way to jump on the bandwagon. Why is everybody so anti-HTML?
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by indie01 19y ago
>>'If I have to open a browser to read your "plain text"....' If you are able to open a browser to read both plain text (source code) and a rendered page with some text, you can be pretty sure that the person who wrote the code kn
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by indie01 19y ago
When did it become significantly more difficult to open a web browser vs a text editor? Command-line? [indie@localhost~] $ firefox [indie@localhost~] $ gedit I don't disagree with Mr. Yegge's assertion that plain text can be a decent way to
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by indie01 19y ago
A blogspot-templated blog; how cute. I always find it slightly humorous when people who profess to be "programming gurus" use something like a blogspot (or WordPress or MoveableType) template to dispense their expert programming guru knowl
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by indie01 19y ago
On your feedback page is this sentence: "Your opinion is very important for us since it help us to build a better preZentit for everyone. " Proper grammar would be <i>since it helps us to. . .</i> Just some feedback.
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by indie01 19y ago
Hey, you just can't learn some of this stuff: "Service is always included and tipping can be taken as an insult, as if the recipient helped with the expectation of payment." (notes from the article, on culture in Helsinki, Finland) without
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by indie01 19y ago
Actually, I doubt they'll be hiring any journalists any time soon. They're going under: http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/M/MAGAZINE_CLOSURE?SIT... Too bad, since I think they're one of the best business-tech magazines on the market.
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by indie01 19y ago
I scored 26 as well. INTP: the cause of and solution to all of my problems.
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by indie01 19y ago
I've been following this "net neutrality" debate for a long time, and both sides have made some decent points. I used to be a hardcore in the camp of pro net-neutrality, but the more I think about it, the more it seems that there are some
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by indie01 19y ago
"Stupid" is such a subjective opinion. Individual brand-carving matters much more. . . immediate association is more relevant. These abstract names (wakoopa, frengo, squidoo) aren't really built upon any particular app of substance . . .
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by indie01 19y ago
Nice! The only thing it lacks is a groovy favicon. Favicons can be one of the most memorable features of a website . . . and keeping with your target audience, I would suggest something like a music note. Otherwise, very nice site des