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by m0nty 19y ago
And the "vote down" button should be removed until the voter has commented on the post. Getting fed up seeing worthy comments down-modded without explanation.
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by m0nty 19y ago
"Ideas are not worthless." Yes they are. They only become valuable when you work on them and make them into something people find useful. You can have a brilliant idea and watch it die on poor implementation and marketing, and a crumby one
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by m0nty 19y ago
Yes :) I can see there's prior art on this whole thing. Maybe I need to go and reconsider...
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by m0nty 19y ago
I want a HUD integrated into VR goggles with a GPS system so it can act as sat nav for people who are walking and cycling, etc. It could also allow you to meet with people who aren't physically there, but merely "there" online. You would se
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by m0nty 19y ago
That was better than I thought it would be. The bit about manager's saying "I want a pony!" really resonates with me. My latest project caused me immense problems because I got one damn long shopping list from the client's head honcho, who
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by m0nty 19y ago
I fail to see the point of this. Geeks are not a distinct breed of people and it feeds into second-rate, misleading stereotypes to suggest they are.
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by m0nty 19y ago
> Launch and get funded. Then no one will care what you're wearing. Robert Winston has a piece in his book "Human Instinct" where he was looking at the effect of "funding" on his attractiveness to women. Day 1, he turns up in old clothe
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by m0nty 19y ago
7-year old article, although that doesn't invalidate it. I think what does is that web development (particularly using frameworks) is much more tractable and probably more lightweight than creating an office suite or operating system.
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by m0nty 19y ago
"If tomorrow nothing changed (let's say!) except that macs had 80% market share, would mac fans be just as fanatic?" There is (possibly) a genuine reason for that. Macs have a culture which tends to be shared by people who use them. You can
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by m0nty 19y ago
Why not start off with how to use Blueprint CSS ( http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/ ) and then show how to extend it? Blueprint gets the basics very right indeed, and allows your readers to become productive quickly. Then you can move
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by m0nty 19y ago
www.novacaster.com is a CMS I coded from scratch in Perl, in 1999-2000. I was told by my boss it would be released as open source, but that never happened. When I left the job, he told me he would be "retaining full rights to the Novacaster
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by m0nty 19y ago
Oooh! A popup, under Firefox, no less. How retro.
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by m0nty 19y ago
63,000 fewer potential customers.
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by m0nty 19y ago
I don't know about "a ton", at least not with tabs and a nice user interface. But MacTelnet looks nice, thanks for the tip :)
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by m0nty 19y ago
I spent a long time looking for a decent, free text editor. I eventually found two: Komodo Edit and Text Wrangler. The only reasonable terminal program is iTerm, although I'd give it up to get a Mac port of PuTTy.
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by m0nty 19y ago
Well, best of luck with your project. It's clear you've got some experience so I hope it all goes well :)
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by m0nty 19y ago
"""In other words, there's no software that is designed to increase productivity -- to put powerful systems in place that stop negative inertia and establish a "creative and chaotic order," if you will.""" All other considerations aside, wh
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by m0nty 19y ago
Use Django for any web publishing app - blogs and news sites are its real strength. I'm using Django for what I would consider edge cases (eg building on-line databases) and it's not a perfect fit, although I think it will work. If you lear
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by m0nty 19y ago
Recipe-book style, light on theory but good for solving problems: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssant1/
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by m0nty 19y ago
"Taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free markets, and entrepreneurship are savage, unhealthy, and immoral, these children are raised on a diet of prejudice and bias." I have to say this in case anyone's got any illusions: t
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by m0nty 19y ago
A down arrow is a way to punish people who don't do group-think. The best way to bury a lousy story is to up-vote good ones.
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by m0nty 19y ago
As a 41-yr old hacker (and late-comer to the game; I didn't start until I was well into my 20s) I'd just like to thank you for sticking up for us "old-timers." It really bothers me that people think you're past it when you get past 35 or so
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by m0nty 19y ago
It's not really possible to introduce a Surowiecki-style "Wisdom of the Crowds" model to online news sites. In his book, James Surowiecki is very specific about what makes for a good "WOTC" poll, and what doesn't. In particular, he mentions
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by m0nty 19y ago
> Why would a startup want to relocate to DC Personally, I'm not quite sure why relocation is part of the deal, either for YC or Launchbox. Seems like a way to exclude people who are not in the US, people who have strong family commitme
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by m0nty 19y ago
I develop an open source project which I might offer as a paid-for service at some point. But the open source bit is highly beneficial to me, because it provides: - User testing, often from the clueful. - Feedback and ideas from users. - He