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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Agreed. I've never personally sold to big companies, but I have a consulting client who has/does. Ugly process. What about getting through the back door via consulting? I know some people who have taken this route, and it seems to work at l
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Yep - co-founder of one startup too many. :) -- http://tumblon.com -- http://zencoder.tv and http://flixcloud.com
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Agreed on small companies, though big companies do spend a ton of money on software, including software that compares poorly to open-source equivalents. Think of commercial source control. In both cases, the author is right on. Focus on i
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
One of my clients ships software to such an organization - several of our users had IE6 installed when Training day rolled around. Interestingly, rather than going through Tech Support to request an upgrade to IE7 (which takes a while), the
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
There are two open source ethics. The first (MIT/BSD) says "do whatever you want with it." The second (GNU) says "keep software free." The latter places heavy restrictions on certain ways to commercialize software, e.g. selling it without m
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
I agree. You really have to be disciplined to do this, though, because there is always something in a startup that needs to be done right now . Rushing for a month and then taking two weeks to refactor/improve code is fine. But doing the s
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
I tell my clients that cutting corners is "an hour of savings today, 5 hours of cost tomorrow". I've worked on too many projects that raced to cram in features by a deadline, and ended up with a sloppy app that took forever to maintain and
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Nice idea and execution. A few questions/comments. 1. Does the app assume that users want to spend about the same amount every day? I'll sometimes spend $0 one day and $1000+ the next day (e.g. mortgage payment). I'm entirely interested in
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Thanks for the helpful response. If it is a mere opinion, it would not constitute libel. For something to be libelous, it must be an assertion of fact - it must also be false and tend to injure the reputation of the party within the commun
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Any lawyers here want to comment on the case? Is this libel? And if so (uninformed legal commentary here), is it illegal to express negative opinions in writing? "My landlord doesn't care that my apartment is moldy" seems pretty tame and co
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Retweeted the story, hoping to get in on the lawsuit action.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
And that it would sue one of its own customers - not a competitor.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
the various full stack rubies are cute, but if i don't have grown up concurrency then i'm not interested. A place for everything. Ruby's weak threading is a shame, but doesn't keep Ruby/Rails from being an exceptionally productive way to
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Another reason why ramen profitability is important: when you're working on investment, and your revenues don't meet your expenses, you slowly (or quickly) watch your bank account progress to $0. That is really distracting, and occupies yo
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
I had a friend who did this, with a goal not of starting a business, but of reading a ton of literature and philosophy. He ended up just being tired all the time.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Have you tried Git or Hg? I think the point is that Git and Hg are extremely close in features/power/etc., not that every SCM is equal. Not trying to troll here; if you really prefer SVN over Git or Hg that's your preference. But if you hav
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Great article. I'd this analysis is about 70% of whether I'll be productive or not in a particular day. Anyone solve this by setting aside a few half-days each week for manager stuff, and reserving the other time for maker stuff?
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
As a partial answer to your question, I for one thought that Zed's final point made sense (and made me better understand the GPL): Open source to open source, corporation to corporation. Basically, you can do just about anything with MIT-
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
This is not news. The text of the Codex Sinaiticus has been available for over a century. I have a Greek New Testament on the shelf at home that footnotes points at which Sinaiticus disagrees with other ancient manuscripts. The "news" is th
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
I would love to see more discussion of his ideas - especially from people who have really tried to follow his principles. Customer Development makes a lot of sense. But other than Steve's own companies, who has used his method and benefited
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Agreed and understood. But for better or for worse, TDD is often used as a synonym for unit testing.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
From the conclusion: So for the time being, I'm quite comfortable with my testing approach. I've given up on "pure" TDD of writing one test at at time. I'll happily write a block of tests and then the code. I'm also happy to write a block
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
That could be, but it would still be a violation of Wikipedia's licensing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Comm...
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
I think this article overstates the responsibility of the CEO, even in America. "The board does not set the plans, objectives, goals, or strategy; instead, the CEO develops these, and presents them to the board for discussion, feedback and
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
You'd be surprised. I have several friends with multiple children who freelance. One, in fact, left a stable job just a few months ago to go independent. I think it's a myth that freelancing is less stable than a regular job. They both have
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
And/or a bigger link to the "FREE! ::: 1 board, unlimited users ::: sign up". I doubt most folks are going to whip out their credit cards based on a rotating homepage image.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
I take it your test of language quality is Turing completeness?
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Estimating software: a rule of thumb(railspikes.com)
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When announcing your new web framework, don't be a douche(jrmehle.com)
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Even a temporary sabbatical from technology? I don't think that's a luxury at all. If we wanted to, most of us could schedule our lives so that we got a month (or more) away every so often - away from work, from home, from technology, or wh

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