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by sfamiliar 18y ago
generalization is not always correct, and isn't intended to be. that i have to explain this makes me sad. i have worked with 120 or more indian programmers over the course of many jobs and several years, in bangalore, kochi, and chennai.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
as a math nerd: i approve. as a pragmatist?
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
i actually attribute that to the overall culture of india. i was in south india; chennai. the folks that live there have been in a caste system for a long time -- it's integral to their culture. when the caste system was abolished it did
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
you should license this to Rosetta Stone immediately. not kidding.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
this is pretty fantastic. のほんごああかりません、いごねがいします。 that it can be turned on and off with the same click is great. double-plus good.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
i have yet to view anything that makes me want to install silverlight. that's unlikely to change.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
it's interesting to hear this from what some folks think of as the 'other side'. i spent a month in india this may training a dozen replacements for US programmers. this was in a company that has had traditionally very low salaries, and i
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
this can be true, but i was sold so completely on my startup (flowmingle) when i first heard about it that i was anxious to start. one of the things that really got me going, and brought me in fully was the person who'd had the idea was o
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
quite a few newcomers come to rails and think it's slow, because they're 'doin it wrong'. every framework's speed is really about your deployment setup. running mongrel can be slow, especially if you're load-testing a single mongrel insta
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
True words: "The secret to surviving in a bad economy is to become a real business." However: Given the snarkery is in this article, and that the author is a 'digital marketing expert', I'm sensing some resentment toward programming 'rock s
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
personally, i'd kick in the affiliate revenue if and only if the customer lasted for three months, since your first month is free. bonus/customer in line with your tiered pricing, continuing revenue ftw. also, clean up your website some.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
a company that wants to use amazon as their CDN with amazon's delivery service doing the heavy lifting? who could use the price tier to offer a discount to a smaller company who didn't need that much, perhaps? if a company could wrap that
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
i can see articles like this, and other chicken little articles and notices applying to big-funding startups, but what i haven't seen is how this applies to the little guys. me and my partners launched very recently (and were reviewed here,
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
i can see articles like this, and other chicken little articles and notices applying to big-funding startups, but what i haven't seen is how this applies to the little guys. me and my partners launched very recently (and were reviewed here
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
would any of the folks who signed up as demo users want to go through a fake mingle, updating on the hour instead of the day to get a better feel for how things work?
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
i still want a beach with flamingos. :)
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
This looks interesting. If I were critiquing the display, I'd say sub out the various browsers and os's with icons of each for readability, with icons for bots and the like as well .if a non-unique user accesses the page while his last re
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
At the end of the day, you can write an app that runs on the iPhone and is installed however you want. So long as you don't write it with the dev kit, or want to deliver it via the AppStore and install it with iTunes, the sky's the limit.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
we're a web-based startup, and we decided not to support IE6. why? because we're more interested in delivering a rich experience and useful functionality to our customers than debugging someone else's code. yes, i said it. fixing bugs in
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
Not getting that message.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
Is a collage degree made up of other degrees that are cut apart and then pasted back together to form pretty pictures? (couldn't resist). I wasn't shooting for the poor. I was shooting for a bunch of people. It's roughly half of the hous
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
give $11,000 to each of the 62 million households in the u.s. making under $50,000. watch the ensuing chaos with glee.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
if person.has_idea? && person.can_afford?(patent_attorney) { business.start! } makes an entrepreneur hope that his idea stays under the radar.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
this is exactly why patent reform needs to happen now. innovation-stifling patents make everyone nervous, and cause neverending hassle for tech research and development. patents were designed to keep someone from copying someone else's de
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
the 'global scope' might work well for global applications, but could just as easily serve as a hindrance for a focused social application.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
#6 is the one that resonates most strongly with me. in my last position there was one of these tiny-dog managers that'd pop in every 15 minutes or so and ask if something was done. at which point i'd spend five minutes explaining why it w
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
you're quite correct -- there is no mention of inflation. this is mainly because i don't know how to not work. i've tried it. i fail pretty hard at not working. but at the point where you have this steady income, any job you take contri
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
each one would yield $800/year, true, however you put one in a month such that they come up at the end of the year. 12 CDs, one for each month, each yielding $800/year. sorry if that was unclear.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
hooray for out of context quotes, sound bites, and vitriolic campaigning! seriously though, whenever a campaign releases this kind of statement it's always clipped down to sound bite size and paraded around the seedier side of the internet.
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by sfamiliar 18y ago
smells just like http://radiantcms.org , but i didn't seen any support for custom tags. (same basic, ruby/rails instead of python/django, a shade more mature.) having developed a LOT of radiant code, i can recommend it. if django-cms foll

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