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by jdvolz 15y ago
Wouldn't that be a good enough reason to move?
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I can attest that Jack Daniels is litigious and they will actively defend their trademark. Jagermeister will also. And Chuck Norris. I speak from personal experience.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Until about 2 weeks ago I was the largest creator of stores on CafePress. I was earning decent residual income on existing stores that I had put up, but due to some external forces (some in my control, some out of it) I got my accounts shu
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Can we just all agree that owning a business is the real American dream and whatever you choose to do (rent or buy) after that has significantly less affect on your situation than owning your own business? I would certainly rather own a bus
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by jdvolz 16y ago
Am I the only person who thinks we're getting screwed in the US? I mean, I keep reading about how Asian countries have internet that is 100x faster than ours after we dumped billions of dollars into helping them upgrade their networks (whi
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by jdvolz 16y ago
With respect to this, I think that people are jealous of youth, which is why the generation that has it catches all the flak. Youth and Freedom travel together. Looking at youth from the other side of marriage, job, mortgage, kids only am
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by jdvolz 16y ago
I am wondering how long it is before people who like to get felt up are using this as there way to get their jollies. I'm also wondering how long it before someone sues the TSA for improperly touching them (too long, suggestively, etc.) or
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by jdvolz 16y ago
I have to wonder if the head of this thread is actually a rejection that counts. They're rejecting your use of rejection therapy.
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by jdvolz 16y ago
Actually, I would have characterized this more as: "Calling oneself a C programmer is like saying you're a finish carpenter." As in, it means you normally work in a particular set of circumstances, which is all we're aiming to say when we d
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by jdvolz 16y ago
Anyone else think this is just them A/B testing the price?
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Taking a Sledge Hammer to Writer’s Block(joshuavolz.com)
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by jdvolz 16y ago
As a father, I have to second this. One of the great values of the tablet is that my daughter can use it directly. She's already learned a lot of the gestures necessary to get to the things she wants. It fits really well in a diaper bag
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by jdvolz 16y ago
Protip: it doesn't always have to be money. In college I lived across the street from a art house movie theater. I was invited to the Thursday night after party by a guy who worked at the theater and another local establishment I frequente
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by jdvolz 16y ago
This whole thing makes me sad because I have a friend who is very good technically who just started his MBA this week. I'm strongly debated not sending this article to him just because I don't want to depress him.
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by jdvolz 16y ago
Let me make sure I understand this: The supposition is that if you take your millions and put it in a money market account you're not going to earn enough interest to offset inflation? No kidding. How about putting your money into someth
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by jdvolz 16y ago
I agree and I was pissed off at his tone: here's my rebuttal http://joshuavolz.com/2010/08/16/business-cofounders-are-a-d...
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by jdvolz 17y ago
This is exactly why the population of homeless people is so high. It's always high near a university, and it's especially high in a city where the homeless are borderline actively encouraged - the city even fought the university on tearing
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by jdvolz 18y ago
This kind of reminds me of the T-Shirt Hell guy's entry a couple of days ago. Basically, everybody is just tired of the crap and they are taking time off or quitting. You shouldn't be assaulted for your opinion (and spitting is assault in
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by jdvolz 18y ago
@backward compatibility This doesn't really matter anymore because you can just make a VM with the OS you need and install your program there. There are both free and open source virtualization programs. @Vista The UAC is annoying for prog
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by jdvolz 18y ago
I think Twitter should put out a personally hosted version of their service, maybe sell it to people for a nominal fee ($10-25). That way the uptime is improved (spread over a lot more computers and decentralized) and they start to have a
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by jdvolz 18y ago
About 18 months ago, I bought a Dell laptop (dual core, 2 gigs RAM, etc.) and it has worked really well for me through short (day) and long (to Australia) trips. As a contractor, it has made me a lot of money because I can show customers t
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by jdvolz 19y ago
I've written a lot of this sort of program over the last 18 months. This is something that people are in need of all the time. I would say that there isn't yet a tool which does this to the level that customers want. I use Mechanize, both
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by jdvolz 19y ago
1) Work on 1 computer, receive email on another (KVM switch works well for me) 2) Always follow this order: write code, write blog, read blogs. 3) Stop eating out -- it's not actually faster (at least when you work from home making somet
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by jdvolz 19y ago
You failed. Own it. It happened. Who are you worried will find out? The people who love you already know who you are and they don't care; they still love you. The people who don't love you probably don't matter. I agree about exercise
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by jdvolz 19y ago
Not all ideas are worth 0, just ideas that don't provide value in and of themselves. For example, a product idea doesn't provide value to your customer, a product execution / implementation does. On the other hand ideas that are provable
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by jdvolz 19y ago
I'm in favor of the speed of flat files. I have two Windows desktop applications (one for sale, one freeware) that both were converted from using a database to using a simple flat file. It was easier to program and much easier to distribu
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by jdvolz 19y ago
I live on both ends of the extreme. On Linux I use gedit and on Windows I use Visual Studio. If you are going to write in a static language like C#, you might as well have code completion.
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by jdvolz 19y ago
Long story short: Version Control (Subversion, Git) Test driven development / Continuous Integration Waterfall vs. Agile Practice talking to customers about what they want (not sure how you do this without actually having customers) Databas
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by jdvolz 19y ago
I think that this article overlooks some of the previously discussed issues with the iPhone API. Objective C apps can only be run on Mac stuff, unlike Javascript which can be (mostly) be run on all web browsers. When Android starts suppor
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by jdvolz 19y ago
I had something similar to this happen to me in my 2nd semester programming class at Berkeley. I was in the lab for a class that was taught in Java for data structures (and C when the memory management talk started). We were 5 weeks into

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