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by jtregunna 15y ago
My family has been in what is now Canada since not long after our family was forced out of Scotland by the English. I myself am 7 generations removed from immigration.
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by jtregunna 15y ago
I like the analytics bitly gives. Noted for the future.
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Ninja Rockstar considered Harmful(shorten.ly)
2 points by jtregunna 15y ago|4 comments
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Being lazy has its benefits(shorten.ly)
2 points by jtregunna 15y ago|1 comments
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Fight software patents by filing applications...Expose prior art for good(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
2 points by jtregunna 15y ago|0 comments
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How Apple sustains their rumour mill(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
1 points by jtregunna 15y ago|0 comments
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Two easy steps to fix the patent system(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
2 points by jtregunna 15y ago|0 comments
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by jtregunna 15y ago
Funny, I recall billing one of my last clients significantly more than almost zero to develop an app for them. Apps cost real money to build, and real money to maintain.
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by jtregunna 15y ago
How about "all of the above"? Various projects have various needs, some more than one, which means you typically end up with lots of different databases.
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Programming languages are a design constraint(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
2 points by jtregunna 15y ago|0 comments
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by jtregunna 15y ago
I like the Canadian system of software patents. CIPO requires that software may only be patented in so far as the hardware it runs on is unique and patentable. I'm ok with those under the condition that the entities who hold the patent actu
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Feel you want to work remotely, eh?(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
3 points by jtregunna 15y ago|0 comments
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Why focus on memorizing interview questions?(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
1 points by jtregunna 15y ago|0 comments
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by jtregunna 16y ago
I'm sorry, but there's something to be said for a good article. A good article isn't one whose first two sentences are flame bait. As such, I couldn't read the rest of the article.
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by jtregunna 16y ago
Yeah it's certainly not limited to "superstar", it just strikes me as odd and I'm not exactly sure why it's used so often. I mean I am well aware that finding good developers is hard (always has been), but now, when it's hard to find develo
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When did we become superstars?(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
2 points by jtregunna 16y ago|2 comments
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by jtregunna 16y ago
News will get around if there's no money to be had for future projects. That said, don't focus on the bubble, focus on your ideas. Distractions kill.
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The art of pitching to a (potential) technical cofounder(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
4 points by jtregunna 16y ago|0 comments
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by jtregunna 16y ago
Best advice I can give you is to approach local individuals and organizations who are more likely to support your project (Google has offices in Kitchener, for example, some other local companies are very visible in the open source communit
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by jtregunna 16y ago
Best way I've found is to start out on hourly gigs, until you have a sense of how long certain tasks take you. With experience, you get better at estimating your time. EDIT: Oh and when you start out, if you're estimating time, double it.
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by jtregunna 16y ago
Due to lack of any good metrics, I always take all "Review my startup" links with a grain of salt. I try and keep note of the ones that look interesting, but generally after perusing the site, I forget about it. Some are downright ridiculou
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by jtregunna 16y ago
I'm not sure how useful those metrics would be at any point, since some ideas are simple, and others complex. Plus how do you quantify time since you got the idea? Just for example.
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by jtregunna 16y ago
Agreed, it's just very hard to see quality in some of the items that get posted. That's not to take away from the effort gone into building and marketing them, I know it's hard work. I've failed in the startup world before myself. Just one
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Review my startup...(jeremy.tregunna.ca)
3 points by jtregunna 16y ago|6 comments
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by jtregunna 16y ago
I wonder how many people have been caught by this bug on this post alone. ;)
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by jtregunna 16y ago
Smalltalk should be in the list :)
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by jtregunna 16y ago
No, I haven't applied to work at google, but I have been contacted by two google recruiters in the past, told both of them politely to go to hell, and they left me alone after the second time. :)
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by jtregunna 16y ago
I don't think the US needs more economic problems right now. This is a huge deal breaker for many companies, and short term, it will result in relocation of systems to emerging markets, and other established countries, like Canada, the Euro
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by jtregunna 16y ago
To be fair, Objective-C doesn't use C as an intermediate language, it actually is a strict superset of C, and only the objc calls end up being "translated" to C for the runtime to execute.
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by jtregunna 16y ago
As mentioned by ericbb, there is Go, yes. I've been working on another; a prototype based OO language without inheritance, explicit delegation and type polymorphism, but have nothing I want to show just yet.

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