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by slysf 16y ago
Business plan. This is a document I use to collect my own plans for the business: generate roadmaps, take a hard look at competition and market, and how I want to structure my organization. Regardless of any external funding these exercises
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by slysf 16y ago
You will gain programming skill far more quickly if you have an idea you're trying to implement as you learn. Read tutorials and change them to try suit your needs. It will probably be horribly broken and ugly but you will learn a lot faste
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by slysf 16y ago
A few friends with small businesses have had great experiences with New Resource Bank.
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by slysf 16y ago
If you're looking for something to force you to code why not just dive in? Photoshop up some sorta look you'd like, then pick a CSS framework and start slicing up your image into the resources that fit the framework. Here's one that's easy
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by slysf 16y ago
I have not worked with Joomla or Comentum but have done extensive work with Drupal. That said, there's a reason Drupal has become widely adopted with grassroots campaigns. They often have limited technical resources, just lots of eager volu
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by slysf 16y ago
I worked at a big streaming media company and there are significant DRM challenges with serving video in a way that protects the content. When you're trying to get serious content deals from producers they will dive into the deepest level o
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by slysf 16y ago
My advice would be to dive in. If you've learned a solid base of C++ and have built some apps then I'd look for an open source Java app that does something along the lines of what you've done in C++. Given the many references online you sho
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by slysf 16y ago
Overall I really like it, I don't know whether it's intentional but for today in Oakland CA the area to the left of the yellow "now" bar in cloud and precipitation is blocky columns that don't really tell much. To the right is the great gra
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by slysf 16y ago
We celebrate their anniversaries with the company at the closest company meeting to that date. There are increasingly cool company shwag presented with the acknowledgment, starting with sweaters and progressing through nice jackets, skatebo
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by slysf 16y ago
I've had great luck with using xmpp with pubsub as a method of client/server communication. It has a number of advantages in that once you've converted your commands to xml in an xmpp payload you can route to a variety of backend services t
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by slysf 16y ago
I think this goes back to the "bigger piece of a smaller pie" mentality. There's a huge difference between someone capable of looking up answers to things that have been done before (SO) and someone capable of generating novel solutions to
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by slysf 16y ago
A common format for most profiles would be interesting to explore.. When you look at a hardware review or game review you almost always see things like "setup" "performance" "pricing" etc. Key information like initial round size, conservati
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by slysf 16y ago
Having to support what I write in production situations let me to choose vim over emacs long ago. The biggest con about emacs that's not mentioned is that it's just not _everywhere_. Even if I have to log into a firewall to make some emerge
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by slysf 16y ago
This is great! I'd love to see a variety of startups profiled, it seems like the bulk of the press out there is focused on web services when there are probably tons of great lessons to learn from companies dealing with physical products or