marionogueira

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by marionogueira 16y ago
Just soldering doesn't make anyone "technical". Woz's designs were the technical assets that made Apple a successful startup. Furthermore, that experience certainly didn't mean a thing for his second tenure at Apple since 1997, during which
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by marionogueira 16y ago
That's the right attitude. Unfortunately, that's not the norm at all. Mostly, technical folks tend to behave as spoiled brats when dealing with non technical people as cofounders (which amazes me given that one of the best performing tech c
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by marionogueira 16y ago
btw, a good technical cofounder isn't "just" a good programmer (or even a great one)... actually, he doesn't even have to be the best programmer on the team
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by marionogueira 16y ago
Are you willing to try to solve non technical problems by yourself? You know, researching the market to assure you're actually building something people will want to use, finding paying customers or advertisers, dealing with investors, find
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by marionogueira 17y ago
Now you are comparing apples to oranges. Proprietary and open approaches work very well in different scenarios (there hasn't been a lack of experiments in OSS for smartphones for example). Some innovations, when developed via a proprietary
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by marionogueira 17y ago
It's a free market... anyone can create their own platform from scratch. Even you and me. But it's hard, right? Anyway, it's not as if Apple had a special license to address this market. By the way, IP is far from being the only cost involv
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by marionogueira 17y ago
So Apple is also an "opinionated" vendor, so what? Not happy? Try developing for Android or something else. Really, what are the merits for this guy to complain about it given his own stand regarding Rails?
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by marionogueira 17y ago
isn't that the guy who likes to say "f*ck you" to the developers who use the OSS framework he created and still manages?
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by marionogueira 17y ago
Are Facebook or Twitter irrelevant?
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by marionogueira 18y ago
Hum... tell that to the non-programmer Steve Jobs (who doesn´t have a MBA either).
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by marionogueira 19y ago
oops... "bubbleXs burts" -> bubbleXs burst.
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by marionogueira 19y ago
Recessions come and go. If you can find a sustaining revenue source ealy on, by doing something thatXs truly new and useful, I canXt see a reason why not start a startup even during a recession. Actually, if what you sell really benefits us
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by marionogueira 19y ago
I was reading "Weaving the Web", by Tim Bernes-Lee.
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by marionogueira 19y ago
Good job dcurtis! My friends and I built the app in the link below with Rails and in 48h too. http://pagestacker.com ThereXs an interesting story behing its development. It was in september. At the time, we were pretty much still learning