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Startup Gossip - Your Source for Local Startup Gossip (ATL only for now)(atlanta.startupgossip.com)
3 points by ivey 18y ago|0 comments
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by ivey 18y ago
How do you figure? I don't know the specific laws involved, but I can't see any way to claim that my employer (if I had one) has the right to read my Gmail account, or to access emails hosted on my personal server.
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by ivey 18y ago
Actually, you can with gems. It will happily install to ~/gems or some other place.
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by ivey 18y ago
In my consulting business I've tried to move all of my clients to fixed-price iterations: Each iteration has a fixed length and fixed price, and we determine the appropriate scope at the beginning of each one. Hours worked never figures in
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by ivey 18y ago
Even if you're not interested in reading the article, I'd recommend a quick skim to look at the pretty pictures. There are some novel approaches to data in there that may inspire you later.
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by ivey 18y ago
That tends to be a safe assumption in most places.
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by ivey 18y ago
This is pretty old, but is an important piece of the "What/Why REST" discussion we seem to be having here on HN.
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Potential for method_missing/#doesNotUnderstand in JavaScript 3.1(yehudakatz.com)
5 points by ivey 18y ago|0 comments
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by ivey 18y ago
No, I don't think it really does. We could make it slightly more relevant, though. This is obviously an annoying situation that many of us have faced, and complaining to the companies appears to accomplish very little. So, if you were goin
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by ivey 18y ago
I played around with my Uncle's Prodigy account a little, and I had a buddy at college who had what he called a "PINE account" (shell access, but he only ran PINE) that I poked at a little...but I still remember my first time really getting
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by ivey 18y ago
<tinfoil>Of course they'd say that...</tinfoil>
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by ivey 18y ago
One of the original articles: http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/02/the-white-house-is-b... Followup: http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/05/perchlorate-on-mars-...
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by ivey 18y ago
Disclosure: I'm one of the authors We actually started Early Access when chap 1 was available. One of the things we told Manning we really wanted was as much early feedback as possible, so they're giving it to us. There's a forum on the M
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by ivey 18y ago
Posted here because it has implications for anyone doing large amounts of email. Even if you play by the rules, you can still hit some serious snags if your users don't understand what those rules are.
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Yahoo blocks 20,000 subscribers from one of the net's oldest email newsletters(thisistrue.com)
8 points by ivey 18y ago|6 comments
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by ivey 18y ago
I woke the baby up while reading this out loud to my wife. It was worth it.
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by ivey 18y ago
That sounds a little like http://amiestreet.com/ as well.
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by ivey 18y ago
Picking and remembering strong passwords isn't really a pain. There are several systems that are easy to use and easy to remember. I've been using Diceware (hand-rolled for really secure, PRNG-based for most web apps) for a while and have
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by ivey 18y ago
LinkedIn says they're working on an API, but I haven't heard anything other than "part of it is OpenSocial"
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by ivey 18y ago
I think there's a growing trend towards awareness of multiple languages, and Smalltalk may be seeing a share of that. For whatever reason, developers are starting to be (a little bit) more open to expanding their language horizons.
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by ivey 18y ago
Thanks for veering it slightly more on topic.
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by ivey 18y ago
The problem with the apps described in the article is that they've attempted to make as much money as possible, instead of figuring out how to serve patients better. My doctor doesn't charge my $30 for a phone call, or to give me a prescrip
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by ivey 18y ago
"UPDATE: Yahoo emphatically denies the Wall Street rumor that Jerry Yang is planning to resign." When he resigns, I assume we'll hear about it. Until then, is it really worth re-hashing again? (Can you re-hash something again, for that mat
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by ivey 18y ago
Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast. GitHub is a stellar example of how to start a software company.
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by ivey 18y ago
A big thumbs up for Github. I've got OSS and closed source projects in GH and I absolutely love it. Pull requests are the new patch ticket.
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by ivey 18y ago
Then say so. Have an online cancellation option that says "We find that many of our customers who are canceling stay with us, if we get a chance to try to fix it. If you're canceling because of a problem with the service, check here to ha
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by ivey 18y ago
I've been building on Facebook's platform lately, and some of the guidelines they have (rarely followed) started me thinking in terms of gradual information request, or a JIT users table. Need the name? Ask for it, and store it in a cookie
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by ivey 18y ago
Exactly. When I was a proto-hacker I suffered from a kind of paranoid monoglossia. I had found Perl, Perl made me happy, therefore I needed no other languages, thankyouverymuch. Over time, I've grown out of that, and have learned to appre
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by ivey 18y ago
Decent reminder about the issue. I think I've heard the Bob and the crystal widgets story before. Actually, that's a great name for a company. Or a band. "Bob and the Crystal Widgets". I think the main case where Fail Open is important i
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by ivey 18y ago
I'm not a huge Prototype fan, so SproutCore initially turned me off, but the more I look, the more potential I see. Anyone used it for more than experiments, and have opinions to share?

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