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by notauser 18y ago
It's an area where personal contacts can really help. I have a carefully husbanded (and very short) list of people who will work for equity + insurance cover. If the list was longer I would be willing to share, but sadly there are very few
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by notauser 18y ago
Ouch, rather hard to read. However: - Open source (in a way that works) is here for web 2.0. Check out the AGPL (I'm releasing a big project under it this weekend.) This offers the same advantages for companies as desktop/server open source
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by notauser 18y ago
I still don't understand the OLPC move. The whole _point_ of the things was to teach a man to fish, not to give him a fish. From that basis everything (even the hardware) was open so that it could be studied and changed. It made perfect sen
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by notauser 18y ago
Attacks that require an in-flight rewrite of the client side element of the authentication method are several orders of magnitude more difficult than wire sniffing for passwords, which is not an insignificant barrier when we are talking abo
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by notauser 18y ago
That's an intel video chipset utility. More recent ones support Ctl-Alt(left|right) as well.
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by notauser 18y ago
This is true under US copyright law, and in those nations with harmonized laws. The site could be hosted somewhere else, which might still give rise to infringement in the US but as no one in Outer Nowhere will care it doesn't really matter
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by notauser 18y ago
One about the Roman statesman Cicero. He was an idealist with huge character flaws, which makes him pretty interesting to start with. But he lived in a time when Rome was descending from Republican rule into autocracy - and both resisted an
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by notauser 18y ago
I walk for 5 miles every evening. It's not very strenuous exercise, but I'm always happy to do it (thank you BBC comedy on radio 4). I suspect doing something easy 7 times a week beats blowing off something hard every day. The diet part was
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by notauser 18y ago
It's not a boat, it's a rusty old battleship, but the guns work :)
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by notauser 18y ago
Inkscape, open office, some custom PM software I wrote myself, front ends to eJabberd/mySQL/Apache/Cyrus, emacs, LaTeX and Firefox. Plus a few things that aren't so important, like xplanet and SuperKaramba.
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by notauser 18y ago
Obviously it didn't improve usability enough to stop you posting this three times :) My MacBook Pro is my second Apple laptop (the first was a G4 powerbook) and it is going to be the last unless things change rapidly before it goes u/s. - T
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by notauser 18y ago
I have been sitting management accounting exams for fun. (Well, really to keep in study mode - half an hour a night every night is maintainable - unless you stop, then restarting is hard.) I would highly recommend them to programmers. Becau
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by notauser 18y ago
Just browse at -1 on any Slashdot thread about Ubuntu. One guy converted back to Windows after Linux refused to see his keyboard, crashed for no reason, drove away his girlfriend, stole his car, murdered his grandmother, burned down his hou
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by notauser 18y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data, but in our engineering office there is only one iPhone (and it's owned by an accountant). There are a couple of hundred 3G nokia handsets though. In the UK the combination of no 3G and limited carrier/pla
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by notauser 18y ago
In a freemium model there don't have to be any ads at all! Your basic service can be totally free, provided you can justify it as marketing expenditure with the conversion rate to paid services. The biggest problem I can see with running ad
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by notauser 18y ago
Depending on the company and the projects maintaining the status quo may be the best decision you can take. Right now we have 20 years worth of legacy code in ADA. We have a legal obligation to maintain a large percentage of that code to 20
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by notauser 18y ago
My thesis supervisor always used to finish projects before submitting grant applications, as it was the only way to put together a reliable estimate on research projects. The only trouble he had was when the application was bounced as being
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by notauser 18y ago
Setting client expectations is really the core of project management. Everything else helps with the first part. - Have a plan and share it, including progress updates (so they know when to expect things). - Have an agreed statement of work
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by notauser 18y ago
If no one else is doing what you are doing, then there is a 99% chance that it is _not a good idea_. Competition is not something to be avoided, but rather something to be appreciated. It:- Proves your market exists. Proves that there is en
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by notauser 18y ago
They are free to make any choices they want, and in return I'm free to stop buying from them. It's pretty safe to assume that any good game will be cracked whatever they do. They might manage to make it so that only one twisted genius can f
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by notauser 18y ago
I'm not sure it's the best advice but the nugget of useless wisdom I liked most was: "Never give people advice."
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by notauser 18y ago
He missed a step: After wiping your laptop and hiding the data on the internet, remember to generate some fake browsing history. Even if they don't chuck you in jail as a suspected terrorist, having a totally virgin laptop will get you nail
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by notauser 18y ago
I work in an office that has a doorway that opens onto a brick wall. Fortunately they knocked a new doorway into another wall before walling up the old one, but it's a bit of a hack. Even architects find it hard to plan for growth it seems
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by notauser 18y ago
100% of the stuff on my publicly-visible CMS (not a blog!) is stuff I think I will need again one day. All of those handy one liners, administration commands and the occasional longer piece go there - every time I have to look something up
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Fish-bicycle problems(revis.co.uk)
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by notauser 18y ago
My parents have US passports, which means I am in the 8 year queue for a green card (2 of which is a wait to get a slot number!). There are no modifiers for education on this one, so a masters and other post grad qualifications don't mean m
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by notauser 18y ago
Here in the UK the starting salary for coders outside London is around $45k (+$5k for a masters). However that is for a 37 hour working week. Most people can add 50% over basic in overtime (for 40% extra hours, due to premium rates). Northe
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by notauser 18y ago
Slides can help: - Add structure in a visual way. - Provide graphics to illustrate your points (including code). ...and really that's about it. I keep my slides to one graphic or max five words, plus a little flow chart of progress through
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by notauser 18y ago
There are a couple of very large business focused projects that work on code escrow and termination clauses. The general idea is that when you contract for a customized application you get a price break by not taking the source code (as the
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by notauser 19y ago
There are other ways to be free that don't require ads! As long as your revenue engine benefits from lots of traffic, then giving stuff away (which is cheap on the internet) will be one way to get that traffic. One example is 37 signals. Th

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