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by kgrin 15y ago
Jeff's suggestion - perhaps not followed by everyone who does an "audition project" - is that the project be paid . (Spec work, of course, isn't guaranteed to be).
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by kgrin 15y ago
Not that it couldn't move faster, and I'm all for more Python web frameworks, but Django has certainly made significant progress. I suspect most people (that is, developers who use the framework but don't necessarily contribute to it) pro
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by kgrin 15y ago
So, serious question - how often do people actually switch their cellphone carrier or ISP due to poor customer service? From what I can tell, they're all pretty much universally reviled (especially Comcast, Verizon, AT&T), but manage t
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by kgrin 15y ago
This is of course strictly anec-data, but my experience has been similar in dealing with both the DMV and telcos. Broadly speaking, you have pockets of excellence everywhere, as well as pockets of apathy. But, as Winer says, the idea that
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by kgrin 15y ago
You may be right, but it would be nice if you'd actually read the article rather than just the headline. The OP wasn't talking about a startup founded by a one-person team - he was making the claim (defensible or not) that single people - t
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by kgrin 15y ago
Not quite ironic , but interesting: IIRC from Founders at Work, mobile payments was PayPal's first focus - it was only when that didn't really pan out that they said "hey, maybe web payments can be a thing too!" Fun to see it come around
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by kgrin 15y ago
You know, I'm sympathetic to this point and yet... I can't help feeling like this sort of thing really screws people who put up perfectly serviceable websites just 3 short years ago, who now need to go back and spend effort just to keep thi
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by kgrin 15y ago
I think it varies greatly... I've heard from at least two restaurant-manager friends that the margins are actually quite low. (I suspect this varies quite a bit based on the "tier" of establishment).
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by kgrin 15y ago
Fun fact: this article was clearly pre-written, or written by someone who didn't attend the session. It reads: "...at a session on connecting people with places, led by VP of location and local services Marisa Meyer." Except that I was at
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by kgrin 16y ago
RE #4 - note that the context here is the embarrassing inability of many applicants to, in fact, write a simple for loop.
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by kgrin 16y ago
(S)he also benefits vastly more (in an "absolute" sense) from the roads, police protection, defense expenditures, government's role in financial stability, and many other significant government expenditures. Look at it this way: the "botto
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by kgrin 16y ago
Except T-Mobile, FWIW, who doesn't charge me extra for anything (at least on my N1 - not sure if it differs by device, though I'd doubt it)
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by kgrin 16y ago
She, in this case.
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by kgrin 16y ago
The beauty of large groups negotiating! That said, that's roughly what the ACA ("ObamaCare") will likely end up with, if it doesn't get derailed, except that it'll take a few years to get there because 50 states is more complicated than one
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by kgrin 16y ago
You can do it right away - and in fact, basically have to, since the other part of the puzzle is that you MUST be insured. Ultimately it's not really that clever - the state just acts as a giant group purchaser, and the fact that it's comp
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by kgrin 16y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the MA health care law ("RomneyCare", which is functionally very similar to "ObamaCare") is really what let me start a startup - the money wasn't the issue, but the ability to get an individual
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by kgrin 16y ago
Is there a law/regulation? (federal or state?) Or just a norm?
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by kgrin 16y ago
FWIW, the actual article is by jwz - Jamie Zawinski (though the suggestion is a good one)
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by kgrin 16y ago
Well, to be fair, what he actually said is that Match didn't tell them to censor it - headline is misleading. So yeah, it was self-censorship rather than new-owner-censorship... which may well be bad too, just a different sort of bad.
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by kgrin 16y ago
> so I don't believe Bing has been able to crawl our search results directly Isn't compliance with robots.txt more of a voluntary thing? I'm not accusing MS of ignoring it when convenient, but if you/we/someone is accusing them of actin
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by kgrin 16y ago
If you live in Massachusetts, it's easy: http://www.mahealthconnector.org (unsubsidized but group-rate health insurance)
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by kgrin 16y ago
I think it's $20/show per season , whereas cable runs ~$60/month.
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Duke Nukem Forever is coming in May(blog.games.yahoo.com)
2 points by kgrin 16y ago|0 comments
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by kgrin 16y ago
Branching works. I know it works in theory in SVN, but in practice one often runs into problems with any non-trivial branch. With git (or really DVCS), branching typically Just Works.
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by kgrin 16y ago
Registered! Anyone got an idea what to actually do with it?
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by kgrin 16y ago
Short answer: no. This is what distinguishes an investment in a limited liability business (LLC, Corp) from, well, indentured servitude. I'm assuming their investment in startup #1 was made freely and without deception - they took a risk,
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by kgrin 16y ago
Could this be construed as anti-competitive behavior? (Effectively colluding with Orbitz?)
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Expedia makes American flights harder to find(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by kgrin 16y ago|1 comments
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by kgrin 16y ago
Actually, Yahoo has been a pretty developer-friendly company - for a while the geocoding service had less restrictive TOS than Google's; Pipes is pretty nifty; YUI, while a bit too verbose for my taste, is very well-designed; and of course,
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by kgrin 16y ago
Interesting contrast between this and the stories about teams at Google gathering data on optimal line widths or hues of blue...

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