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by marcus 19y ago
Votes aren't meant to signal that a comment is polite or reasonable, ask yourself was the comment worth the time it took you to read it. Upmod if it was, Downmod if it wasn't. The idea is for the community to collaboratively filter the subm
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The Worthlessness of Code - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog(oreillynet.com)
27 points by marcus 19y ago|11 comments
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by marcus 19y ago
Not really a good idea to co-found with someone you've known for only a few days. Either aim for the Winter session, find a co-founder and start working with him (even if it's only part time) on your project or try to go solo now.
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by marcus 19y ago
I went back to school, studied a year of Philosophy and Business Administration, relaxed unwound enjoyed the sedentary pace of the academia. Worked like a charm.
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by marcus 19y ago
A healthier and more legal approach is to auction the resulting IP to an individual or a small group out of the participating people and divide the proceeds among the rest of the participants. You can't afford to maintain 100 employees in a
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by marcus 19y ago
Whatever the difference is between Redfin buyers and non Redfin buyers it obviously might be statisically relevant. I'd like to see the comparison for purchases where the users considered using Redfin but ultimately went the traditional way
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by marcus 19y ago
True, it doesn't solve all the problems, but taking on EBay one vertical at a time using a great domain for each field might be a very powerful strategy. EBays greatest moat is the sheer number of sellers and buyers it has, instead of tryin
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by marcus 19y ago
I actually think of requests of this type as an investment request, the product will take X days to build, I charge Y per day if I agree to build the product I have just invested X*Y dollars into the company. Then I calculate what the other
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by marcus 19y ago
That is a very good question, buyers who use Redfin are obviously more price sensitive and market savvy than the average buyer.
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by marcus 19y ago
Thanks for saving me the effort to write a reply
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by marcus 19y ago
If it taints anyone it will be their traders and their executives, I doubt their programming staff will get any bad rep.
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by marcus 19y ago
Just add the option to make the link nofollow so blogs that don't want to squander their PageRank prowess can keep the linking for links they actually want to approve manually. Another thing you might want to add is to build a wikipedia bas
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by marcus 19y ago
The thing is you can implement lightweight concurrency in C too and get the same/better results check out the Cheap Threads library http://freshmeat.net/projects/cheapthreads/
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by marcus 19y ago
I agree that everything he'll need can be found in a library but I believe that you always should get to know the internals of stuff, especially when it is as accessible and easy to learn as SMTP/POP/IMAP are. That is half of what being a h
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by marcus 19y ago
Never built an email client but I used to do my email checking by telenting to port 110 logging in and retrieving the messages. I think that'll be a great place to start. Learn the protocol and start playing with it directly instead of usin
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by marcus 19y ago
The truth is a bit more complicated than that, ownership of IP generated while working for another company can be a very tricky issue, it depends on your local laws, your employment contract and so on... consult a lawyer.
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by marcus 19y ago
Karma whoring galore
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by marcus 19y ago
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
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by marcus 19y ago
One very good solution is to make it a virtual appliance, that way it is relatively easy to install on all platforms, and you get a lot less support issues as all users use the same OS/distribution/framework version etc.
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by marcus 19y ago
Sir Richard Branson once said a sentence that stuck with me for years, "The best way to become a billionaire is to create as many millionaires as you can" You forgot what is probably one of the most important factors for people here when th
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by marcus 19y ago
In the beginning Jobs created the Woz and the Apple. Now the Apple was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the motherboards, and the Spirit of Jobs was hovering over the garage.
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The Courage to do things Simply (dirtSimple.org)(dirtsimple.org)
3 points by marcus 19y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 19y ago
That doesn't exactly work when your revenue comes from selling shrink-wrap software or games.
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by marcus 19y ago
True, but AdWords isn't meant for the average web-user. The point is not to automatically simplify the design to its bare minimum its to consider your users needs and their ability to handle complex UIs. Its a scale with power users on one
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by marcus 19y ago
An interesting idea is to use culturally biased captchas, based on popular local movies, local news and politics, names of local bars or restaurants etc.
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by marcus 19y ago
Actually the embrace of big search engines might be the death-kiss for the semantic web, as blackhat SEO will game the data and the little valuable content that exists will be drowned by junk & spam.
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by marcus 19y ago
This vulnerability exists in all programs that save their passwords in memory and on all OSs, the system doesn't even have to hibernate for the vulnerability to happen, it's enough that the password gets transfered to cache. If you want to
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by marcus 19y ago
Call me old fashioned but I like my dead-tree products, it's an entirely different feeling to read a physical book than a PDF. Although I usually have soft copies of all my favorite books, so I can search them quickly.
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by marcus 19y ago
Programming Collective Intelligence - O'Reilly Media Toby Segaran Art of the start - Guy Kawasaki The art of war - Sun Tzu
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by marcus 19y ago
Of course... checkout Folding@Home stats http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats To make the comparison more relevant I look at the difference between Intel based Macs(because they are all relatively new computers) and P

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