modoc

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by modoc 16y ago
Never dress for the ride, dress for the crash.
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by modoc 16y ago
Agreed. In my mind "front end" is HTML, JSP, CSS, JS/AJAX, Design, browser compatibility, etc... "Back end" is business logic/code development (Java in my case).
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by modoc 16y ago
Even better:)
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by modoc 16y ago
The iPad is still on iOS 3.2 (unless you're running a pre-release developer build for it).
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by modoc 16y ago
Same problem here.
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by modoc 16y ago
Congrats! Just signed up, but my co-founders didn't get the invite e-mails when I added them to the account... Any ideas?
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by modoc 16y ago
I'd argue that if you're spending ~0% of your time with you kids then you're doing it wrong. Something has to come first, and imho if you have kids then the kids need to come first. That means spending as much time as you can with them, b
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by modoc 16y ago
"Having kids has no impact on having your own business" You're saying that raising children has no impact on your available time and money? That seems a bit far fetched. I'd agree that it's totally possible to have kids and do a startup,
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by modoc 16y ago
Yeah this seems like a great phase one offering. I'd love to see the features you describe plus maybe some line cleanup (make boxes into boxes), maybe OCR (with PDF return type), etc...
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by modoc 16y ago
If you don't store it you get to skip Req 3 basically. You still have most of the other 11 Requirements to worry about... Multi-key strong encryption and key rotation isn't that hard... The policies, documentation, and other areas are har
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by modoc 16y ago
Pretty much:( Usually lots of tens of thousands. Luckily PayPal and Google Checkout are getting more popular, but still, it just feels sort of ghetto, imho. The vast majority of small eCommerce sites out there are almost certain not PCI
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by modoc 16y ago
tptacek has this right. Also, to clarify an all too common misconception, if you TAKE credit cards on your site, you STILL need to be PCI compliant, even if you don't STORE credit card numbers. Not storing them gets you out of a few requi
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by modoc 16y ago
It's uglier in Java: minVal = a < b ? a : b; I never use them, and typically enforce coding standards preventing their use as well. Good code should be easy to read, and if/else blocks are easy to read.
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by modoc 16y ago
I know a number of Indian, primary out-sourcing, tech companies who employ folks I know as "token white guys". They are technically knowledgeable for sure, but magically there's always one token white guy presented as the project architect
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by modoc 16y ago
Communication skills are always important in a business, and often if people can write clearly and coherently about a topic it means they understand the topic clearly and coherently.
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by modoc 16y ago
Great way to select people who can be lived with, aren't terrified of commitment, etc... Although there may be fidelity issues... :)
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by modoc 16y ago
My company/startup uses iChat AV for video conferencing pretty much daily. Huge fan. My wife uses it with friends and family. My mom and my sister use it several times a week.
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by modoc 16y ago
I've seen several instances where in order to make really nice JS/AJAX UI interactions and flows also SEO friendly we had to do a lot of extra work. However that work also makes us accessible, so it's not the end of the world....
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by modoc 16y ago
In my experience with several large-ish companies (ymmv with smaller shops), they paid outside SEO firms good money to provide "good" SEO and tell them what we (the technical folks) already knew. However, the value was that then we were gi
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by modoc 16y ago
Bad SEO does that. Good SEO makes it easier for people to find the information they were looking for. It's a race.
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by modoc 16y ago
The biggest issue is the difference between: SEO=link farming, spamming blogs, generated blogs/sites, etc... SEO=building accessible standards compliant markup, making it easy for people to find content they were actually looking for, etc..
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by modoc 16y ago
Site that's been around for years: Google Analytics: ~1,000,000 visits/month Compete: 110,000 visits/month Alexa: 9,548 traffic rank? Quantcast: 5,000 visits/month They all seem to be very low and very all over the road.
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by modoc 16y ago
My advice is to use a calendar app to remind you of things so you don't forget/cancel. Schedule a weekly date night and a monthly date weekend. You need a break as much as she needs time with you, so it works out pretty well. Try to make t
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by modoc 16y ago
Actually he does say how much it costs: "Clearly, it is not the cheaper business card in the world (about 5 euros/piece for a small batch order), but it is a (relatively) small price for having a card in your pocket that has more CPU power
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by modoc 16y ago
I've taken the approach of selling a service for $250,000/year to a small number of people. The sales cycles are longer, but the customers are very loyal if you provide good service, and it's much easier to support 5-10 clients than 200k c
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by modoc 16y ago
Maybe it's my dislike of the show itself, but I have nfc how this is hacker news....
447.
by modoc 16y ago
You check out Zencoder? http://zencoder.com/ Another HN community gem imho.
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by modoc 16y ago
Two out of three ain't bad? While I'd like to blog about the internals and experience, we sell mostly in the B2B large corporation space, and our small size is our largest pain point during the sales cycle. I think an open blog about our i
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by modoc 16y ago
Very sweet idea, and something I've been wanting for ages. No android here though so I guess I'll wait for the iPhone/iPad version? Good luck!!
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by modoc 16y ago
Because they haven't wanted to build one....

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