joel_feather

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by joel_feather 17y ago
There are several roads leading to rome, there is no need to use the highway.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
How about this radical idea: Once in a while, a moderator marks a comment which is reasonable but contains an unpopular opinion as a 'trap'. Anyone who mods it down gets a zap of -100 karma. Will make people think about their downmoding bef
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Look it up. 700 million from the US to Africa. GDP of a country like ghana is 20 billion. Look up the rest of the numbers yourself.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Aid to Africa is minimal. Compare the GDP of Sub-Saharan Africa. excluding South Africa to the amount of Aid received - it's minimal and insignificant.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
I've been using Windows 7 for a month now as my primary OS. Works fine.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
What the big companies are realising is this: When you get lots of small developers using your API, you have tens of thousands of people who are actively marketing your product through your API. You don't need to build up any large marketin
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Don't do all nighters. They will make you lose a lot more time recovering compared to just sleeping little. If you actually need to get a lot done in a short amount of time, go to sleep, and wake up after 3 hours, then kick down some energy
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Which countries are in perpetual civil war? Are these wars confined to smaller regions within the country or do they encompass the entire country? What's your opinion on the Balkan countries? Are they also in perpertual civil war?
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Hmm, was twisted not the next big thing that everyone was rewriting their app in? What does he mean, it does not scale?
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by joel_feather 17y ago
I think this is the greatest thing to happen in european politics in a long time. Times have changed, and this is a strong message to the establishment that things will need to change a bit regarding some laws!
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by joel_feather 17y ago
You're about to give up. What faces you in the next 6 months will be toughest period you will face in this enterprise, because you have a chicken and egg problem. The easy part is over, and now the very difficult part will come, and this is
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by joel_feather 17y ago
The record industry is dead. Anyone still trying to justify downloading in that it has not affected the industry is just plain old stupid. Millions of people who would have purchased did not because the music was available for free. The sel
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Surely Paul Graham does not need that many hookers.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
This is the shoeshiner version of getting an iPhone App Store Rejection letter.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Without a doubt, mobile applications make sense. But the amount of time you would put into this at this fledgling stage of the business would be a big mistake - one should first focus on the web based part of things, iterate till it matches
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Mobile is a waste of time. Mobile apps are too cheap, people can just call each other. And the construction industry is a niche, because we're talking about the intersect of construction and web apps here. The web designer industry is a nic
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by joel_feather 17y ago
The pricing is too low. It's a niche market, people are prepared to pay more for things that work. However, you need to offer desktop clients to upload the files, because I would believe that architects work with pretty large files - upload
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Yikes, you can sell nothing and break even. No, I actually sold an app for while, then took it down. People would still buy it occassionally, even though it was clearly stated that the app was discontinued.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
It's easy to sing to the choir. It's also boring and badly written. Microsoft has made a LOT of innovations. A massive amount of modern computing is based of how accessible microsoft made computing - if we still had to recompile our kernel
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by joel_feather 17y ago
Why don't you outsource your project? Then you can drink beer and yell at the coders for not understanding what you meant...
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by joel_feather 17y ago
The post is just wrong. People write a lot cleverer than they speak or think, because they spend a lot of time formulating what they want to convey.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
It has nothing to do with the humour becoming dated. It has to do with the humour being fresh. Humour by definition involves people suprising you. People you know very well have a much lesser ability to surprise you, and their attempts at h
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by joel_feather 17y ago
On a small tangent, getting rejected by the app store probably made the Eucalyptus Reader a few thousand extra dollars.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
That sounds like a bad idea to me. Arduino electronics are not designed to withstand vibrations, and they will go kapput very quickly.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
You get to travel, meet new people, learn new languages and make a lot of money. Why would I NOT want to start a business in those places.
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by joel_feather 17y ago
On a JSP server with a complex framework that is no longer being actively developed. To me that's the same thing as being abandoned. It's like this: A guy tells you he will ferry you to England for free. Half way there, he says - hmm, actua
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by joel_feather 17y ago
This is why it's a bad idea to build on hosted web services. They pull out your platform from under your feet, and what are you left with? An apology? Everyone running on Google App and all the other Rails services will have the same thing
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by joel_feather 17y ago
It's not on yet. China is a closed eco-system, it has not really entered the playing field on the same level as the other countries. You need to have been there to understand - china is very inwardly focused. When it decides to focus outwar
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by joel_feather 17y ago
China is not the next silicon valley because silicon valley is an artificial self indulgent child that sees itself as the cleverest kid on the block. China is the guy living on the farm and working harder, doing more and just being cleverer
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by joel_feather 17y ago
This is because you do not know how to navigate properly in business in other countries. Have you ever done business in Tanzania or Senegal or Kazhakstan or Peru? You'll have the same problems, sometimes a lot worse. If you cannot navigate

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