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by maryrosecook 18y ago
I work ten minutes' walk from the London end. The most interesting part of this is the way most people just stand and stare through the glass. The important thing is not so much the interaction with people at the other end, but just the s
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by maryrosecook 18y ago
Sign up for Slicehost and work through the articles. They will take you, step by step, from a new slice to a hosted application. Two months ago, I was in the same position you are. I now have three slices all running apps. I have learnt
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by maryrosecook 18y ago
4. The amount of comment activity. 5. Votes vs views.
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by maryrosecook 18y ago
Biggest, smooth-surfaced desk that will fit in the room without blocking the door.
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by maryrosecook 18y ago
Doing a dating app on Facebook would be difficult for two reasons. First, the privacy controls. If I am already Facebook friends with someone I fancy, we would just correpond via the messaging system - no app required. For an app to intro
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by maryrosecook 18y ago
An Australian visa is much easier to get than a US one. You apply online and get an answer within weeks.
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by maryrosecook 18y ago
He's said this before (for example, in the interview with Sarah Lacy at SXSW). His statement echoes Larry and Sergey's 20 year commitment to Google. It seems reasonable that Zuckerberg is telling the truth. He will get rich no matter what
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by maryrosecook 18y ago
You may already know this, but the developers of both Delicious Library and TextMate are going Leopard-only for their version twos. The DL dev's justification is that almost all the people who spend money on software will buy Apple's stuff
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
Insanely cheap (nice meal out = 5 Euros), loads of alternative stuff: squats, parties, gigs etc. Very young, very friendly. Not sure about the start-up scene.
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
I don't get distracted by music at all. If I want to get focused quickly, I listen to some particularly horrible electronica (Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole by Venetian Snares is a good example). If it's three in the morning, I listen to so
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
Yep, count me in. Looking forward to it.
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
Please do! I haven't got much time to work on Tweviews at the moment - I did it as a little diversionary side-project-burst-of-creation thing. My main focus at the moment is my start-up. I also used Ruby/Rails. I find projects like this t
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
I implemented a similar idea a few weeks ago and called it http://www.tweviews.com I like your implementation: the RSS feed and the grouping of items being rated into the Hot Stuff category are both cool. My set-up is similar: reply tweet
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
I work some weeknights, plus large chunks of the weekends. I get maybe 10-20 hours a week on the project. I find this approach quite frustrating, though: you get totally in the zone and then it's time to go to bed because you have work th
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
Insanely Great - Steven Levy. About the building of the original Macintosh. Extremely inspiring and interesting.
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
Not sure if this will do, but you if you're on OS X you can use TextMate's 'Edit In TextMate' to edit code in any text field in any web browser.
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
Two things. First, doing a startup is a really enjoyable form of technical work. You're working on what you want to, and that is fun in itself. It's also multi-disciplinary and thus you get variety and some quite arty bits of work. For ex
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
There are a number of examples of this. For instance, the guy who developed Passage, Jason Rohrer, lives entirely off donations ( http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/supportMyWork... ) and he releases all his software under the
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
Ones not already mentioned: http://www.atomicwang.org/motherfucker/Index/Index.html (programmer at Delicious Monster), http://ask.metafilter.com/ (Q&A site on a wide range of subjects), http://daringfireball.net (Mac weblog).
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
I gave up TV and computer games about two years ago. The first was easy, the second was harder. The way to do it is just to have a lot of creative projects on the go. In my case it was a start-up and a band, but it could be anything. As
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
We are bootstrapping and I find it really helps. You get a higher thought-to-work ratio, which means you can more often work out whether an idea is good or bad before pouring away development time into it. The downside is the frustration o
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by maryrosecook 19y ago
It surprises me that a man who writes such an unusual cartoon as xkcd should have such a standard political viewpoint. I am baffled by the fact that people get so worked up about general elections. Yes, the outcome will have a profound ef