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by pschlump 16y ago
A C programmer may not have the same productivity as a Ruby programmer - but when you need to write a device driver for Unix/Linux or a Windows System service - Ruby is not a decent choice. Productivity needs to be relative to the task at
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by pschlump 16y ago
In my last startup we used 3 Measures for productivity. Number of functions/procedures/methods, Number of lines of non-comment code and the number of defects found in the code. I wrote far more code than anybody else in the company. I to
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by pschlump 16y ago
I have looked back in the notes from my last startup. I was CTO and I had to spend time doing fund raising, making sales calls, editing documentation and designs, going to customer meetings. I was never full time in development. I wrote
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by pschlump 16y ago
This is the best list of JavaScript tools I have ever seen.
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by pschlump 16y ago
I remember when SVN came out that it was designed to fix CVS not as a big improvement over CVS. CVS had some terrible flaws. SVN fixed them. Git was designed to make source code control better. Git is a huge improvement over SVN or CVS.
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by pschlump 16y ago
This is a really good checklist on how to market your product.
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by pschlump 16y ago
I believe that there is a universal law of compensation. You get what you give. You help somebody - then some time in the future somebody will help you. This "universal law" is what makes open source work.
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by pschlump 16y ago
I support a small business with 3 PC's (XP, Vista, Win7). One of them has an intermittent problem that I have spent 50 or 60 hours tracing. Chrome OS would solve 99% of the support problems that they have - reducing all of the support to
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by pschlump 16y ago
We sold everything bought a sailboat and have been up and down the east cost of the US and the Bahamas for 4 years now. My children are 11 years old.
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by pschlump 17y ago
I built a successful angel funded start-up company. We had 2 other competitors in our "space". One that had $10 million in funding and the other that had $50 million. We had $50,000 at the time. (Yes 50k). We continued. In the end wit