petuniapredator

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   by petuniapredator 17y ago

   This approach never works. It just creates lots of patronage jobs and production lines that are constantly in need of taxpayer handouts to stay alive.
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   by petuniapredator 18y ago

   I was wondering when someone else was going to figure this out and write about it. I abandoned the site about 2 years ago.
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   by petuniapredator 18y ago

   With the kinds of tools now available I'm wondering if the next Steve Jobs will even need funding.
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   by petuniapredator 18y ago

   Good article raganwald. I'm just learning RoR and I guess my biggest hangup is the prodigious use of colons. I admire your ability to "rewrite code for Ruby"... For me it's tough enough to learn one language. There is no way that I would ev
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   by petuniapredator 18y ago

   A good read dmix but do not despair. Only a very few startups ever get any traction and you have done a nice job of identifying some of the reasons. The nice thing about software startups is that no matter how unsuccessful a business model
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   by petuniapredator 18y ago

   Very well stated cog........ The best artistic portrayal of how "leadership" works (in the software development anyways) was with the character "Blumberg" (or at least I think it was blumberg... something like that) in the movie "Office Spa