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by sabat 17y ago
I'm amazed this is not on the front page (as of this comment, anyway). I haven't had time to fully process the announcement, but anything Google does in the advertising space is going to have a fairly big impact.
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by sabat 17y ago
It's not an illusion. It's real. I'm closer to poverty right now than I have ever been in my life.
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by sabat 17y ago
The fact that we've gotten so far into this ridiculousness that the interior of a building that is open to the public is somehow considered "protected by copyright" is preposterous. This is not at all what the founders had in mind.
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by sabat 17y ago
I have had just about enough of My Little Pony. See this opinion piece from the SJ Mercury News (from yesterday) for a well-formed opinion: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14385237 But in summation: - Schwartz will depart with
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by sabat 17y ago
your point about "small business" versus "startup" is completely devoid of meaning Small businesses usually aim to stay small businesses; 37signals is not going to grow to 500 employees and become like Salesforce. Startups, whether or not
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by sabat 17y ago
The startups recently are probably partly due to the decline, and the projected improvement. People with money can capitalize on cheap locations to do what they want Spot on. Also, they want to take advantage of the downturn -- history ha
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by sabat 17y ago
What exactly is it about Stack Overflow that Joel can't pay for himself with his own funds? What kind of hiring does he want to do to make it any bigger? These are the precise questions that we can't presume to know the answers to. Joel p
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by sabat 17y ago
Brain drain problem? What, all the entrepreneurs are moving to India and I didn't hear about it? ;-) The US may be "hostile" to newcomers -- you're right, we do have stupid patent laws and some of the business taxes can seem ridiculous -- b
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by sabat 17y ago
I'd take DHH's opinion more seriously if he had any actual experience with VC or startups. 37 Signals is not a startup -- they crow about that fact themselves. 37 Signals is a small business. David's points all presume that he fully underst
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by sabat 17y ago
Ultimately, innovation is what allows an economy to grow quickly and create new jobs as old ones obsolesce and disappear. Typically, one salutary side effect of recessions is that they eventually spur booms in innovation. Some laid-off emp
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by sabat 17y ago
It doesn't need to be such a point of contention and resentment, though -- the author of the article writes as if sex is a begrudging gift, and that the way she happens to view sex is the way we men need to learn to see it. In short: emotio
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by sabat 17y ago
I wouldn't be worried that the "Ruling Party" deems something obscene or not. Instead, I would be worried about what the "average person" thinks. It's easy enough for the ruling party to create opinions among average people. There's not m
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by sabat 17y ago
ThoughtCrime.
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by sabat 17y ago
I have not read Roy Fielding's dissertation, and so I am speaking out of partial ignorance. But isn't most of this the opposite of what REST is supposed to be? URLs aren't supposed to represent resources? Whahh?
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by sabat 17y ago
I wish I had learned a long time ago that what matters is not about what talent you're born with as much as what you do with it.
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by sabat 17y ago
I frequently leverage synergies across multiple technology platforms on a go-forward basis -- stake in the ground. Call to action!
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by sabat 17y ago
Stop whining? When this guy stops posturing.
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by sabat 17y ago
I wish they'd mentioned whether they tested diet versions or just sugared.
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by sabat 17y ago
From your article: I once made a video hosting website and put 30 ninja videos on it. Adsense money was about $1 a day. From your post above: I don't really know how ads work, so I've never actually used them. Huh? Which one is true?
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by sabat 17y ago
* I didn't want to go the 'mfa' route for obvious reasons* Sorry, but what's "the 'mfa' route"? Couldn't find anything on this.
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by sabat 17y ago
Why is it racist?
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by sabat 17y ago
the owl site is just leaching off of that to make a buck Editorship -- or, if you're more cynical, "leeching". There really is value in collecting other people's works. I am convinced that it's more than mere leeching.
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by sabat 17y ago
he considers it something to be proud of I think he considers it that only in the sense that someone else may find it entertaining.
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by sabat 17y ago
they don't really create value Maybe they do -- it depends on who's judging. To use Max's example, let's say I am casually interested in owls. Seriously, there are such people. I'm 60, I am on the internet but am somewhat uneasy with how
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by sabat 17y ago
Ask a Ninja is so popular that he/they (I'm unclear) appeared alongside a bunch of stars in SF recently -- in honor of Conan O'Brien, whom I presume was there as well. Holy cow.
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by sabat 17y ago
Max is proposing that it isn't that difficult for a programmer to find a way to make $1/day. Max -- care to elucidate?
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by sabat 17y ago
I'm not sure your conclusion necessarily follows what he's proposing. He's saying: find 400 things that each make $1/day -- it's a thought experiment as much as it is a proposition, BTW. Some people would certainly make 400 spam blogs or so
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by sabat 17y ago
It's funny -- I live in Redwood Shores and am often in Starbucks when current EA employees saunter in for an afternoon coffee. They rarely seem like people who are happy in their jobs.
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by sabat 17y ago
Good philosophy; I wish companies operated this way. Most don't. I'm talking about big ones here, not the smaller, can-do companies who can't afford "dead wood" at all. The politicos want to build empires, and they hire people who are plian
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by sabat 17y ago
Anyone with some Riak experience care to talk about it?

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