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by mhp 16y ago
I imagine he's trying to suggest it is in Joel's best interest for people to have buggy code so he can sell more bug tracking software. It doesn't sound like a very good argument, but I think it's supposed to be a joke.
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by mhp 16y ago
I'm totally wrong. I meant to write .NET (not ASP.NET) and .NET isn't even a language, so I'm doubly wrong. It's probably been four years since I've touched the code :\ It isn't written in VB and never was. In 2000 it was written in classi
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by mhp 16y ago
It's written in ASP.NET, not VB.
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by mhp 16y ago
This looks very cool! My one concern would be popping up a chat window to a customer and saying "Hi, it looks like you're having trouble with our site" which could come across as creepy. But maybe they'd have to initiate the chat and I'm
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AB Multivariate Testing using Google Website Optimizer [video](youtube.com)
6 points by mhp 16y ago|0 comments
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by mhp 16y ago
Weird... and here I thought Start-Up Chile was what Paul served at the Ycombinator get togethers...
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by mhp 16y ago
Taken with a grain of salt since it's written by a magazine that basically has the word 'desktop' in its name...
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by mhp 16y ago
http://makezine.com/projects/
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by mhp 16y ago
Are you looking at the "newest" questions? or the off-topic questions?
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by mhp 16y ago
'will it be updated every time Facebook tweaks their site to discourage account deletion?' - that's the idea. 'How long is the accepted answer to that question going to be up to date?' - hopefully as soon as FB changes the system and someon
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by mhp 16y ago
webapps went into public beta today. gaming went into private beta today. GIS will be out soon enough. The point in the democratic process we're pushing is so the site doesn't have seven questions on day one and someone checks it out and
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by mhp 16y ago
Antitrust?
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by mhp 16y ago
Message just sent: "Consider yourself invited to lunch at our office or a beer after work any day."
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by mhp 16y ago
This passed the NY Senate and is now in the Assembly. I wrote to my senator (he co-sponsored the bill and obviously voted for it) and they called me (which was nice). Apparently there is supposed to be an exemption if the owner/renter is
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by mhp 16y ago
Once you get 200 reputation, I believe the content ads that appear inline disappear.
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by mhp 16y ago
You can buy Tbills directly from the Treasury at http://treasurydirect.gov/ Lower rates than a CD, but safer if you are worried about your bank going belly up (if you own a Tbill, the US Govt would have to go bankrupt for you to lose yo
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by mhp 16y ago
Why don't they change the price for new users, and leave the price for existing customers? Seems like the default way to increase your prices with minimal friction.
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by mhp 16y ago
Google may be having trouble finding good programmers. The Aardvark acquisition and this one as well may have just been an expensive way to get some good people. If you look at the HN thread about which companies are hiring, you'll see it'
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by mhp 17y ago
Telling you why you weren't hired wouldn't have been courageous. It would have been a stupid business decision: http://www.ihavenet.com/career_Do-not-Bother-Asking-Why-Not-...
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by mhp 17y ago
3% is as low as you can get with Amex. 2% is as low as you can get with Visa/MC. The only other thing consumers can pay you with is an ACH transfer (which is like a check) and even that costs money for both ends sometimes -- but the syste
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by mhp 17y ago
StackOverflow does just use openid. It just happens that yahoo, google, facebook, etc are all openid providers. But SO only accepts openid as a login method. (Hence SE is the same currently, but that will change.)
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by mhp 17y ago
It sounds like Apple's approval process includes a part where they run "strings" on the binary and look for the word "beta".
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Sposlky Startup Workshop: San Fran Nov. 11(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by mhp 17y ago|0 comments
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by mhp 17y ago
On Demand uses SQL Server, but yeah, licensed FogBugz can run against mysql.
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by mhp 17y ago
Ok, so don't contribute? No one is forcing you. Are you just as upset about people fostering rescue animals for free? Why aren't people outraged that they aren't paid. How can you decide the motivations for someone who wants to volunteer t
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by mhp 17y ago
Welcome to the free market. If there are people that want to do this for free for LinkedIn and LinkedIn is happy with the translation they do, then why should anyone else care? If you want to revolt against people working for free when the
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by mhp 17y ago
Jason Calacanis offhandedly, and a bit sarcastically, offered 100k for 10%. I wouldn't call that a 1M valuation. (I don't dispute that it's some valuation, but your statement is a bit misleading).
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by mhp 17y ago
Remove the offending image, resubmit, get approved, then re-add it (or have your app download it).
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by mhp 17y ago
Self inflicted (essentially) solitary confinement: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...
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by mhp 17y ago
You can always get a full refund at any point in time. The London event is already half sold out and Joel announced it today (no post on blog.stackoverflow.com or carsonified.com yet either).

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