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by spolsky 18y ago
Probably true. I'm probably suffering from some kind of temporary airport-bookstore-induced dementia which is making me particularly intolerant to this particular genre.
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by spolsky 18y ago
Um, lemme see if I understand here, what you're saying... Are you claiming that (a) I'm successful, and (b) I think that I'm successful because I'm smarter and worked harder and (c) Malcolm Gladwell thinks I'm successful because of good luc
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by spolsky 18y ago
If you have real data, and used the anecdote to illustrate it, you're doing it right. If you give us the anecdote, but don't extrapolate to wild grand theories, you're doing it right... simultaneously telling an interesting story and giving
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Agile Marketing (very short speech from Business of Software conference)(blog.asmartbear.com)
8 points by spolsky 18y ago|1 comments
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by spolsky 18y ago
I'm pretty sure you're covered under the ADA. If this company has an HR department, one of their jobs is to protect the company from ADA lawsuits. If you really want to keep working for this company, talk to HR and make sure they understand
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by spolsky 18y ago
Dilbert: http://joeindie.com/blog/?p=50
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by spolsky 18y ago
Whine whine. I have an idea. Why not make a product to sell to consumers, instead of making shares to sell to the public?
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by spolsky 18y ago
"Give a boy twenty thousand dollars and put him in business, and the chances are that he will lose every dollar of it before he is a year older."
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by spolsky 18y ago
Yep. Unix was written on a PDP-7 http://www.linfo.org/pdp-7.html -- probably with 8,000 or 16,000 words of memory (18 bit words), probably running on the order of several thousand instructions per second
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by spolsky 18y ago
again, with the ad hominems!
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by spolsky 18y ago
When you're finished with the ad hominem part of your attack, I'd just like to weigh in and say that Aaron got this exactly right.
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by spolsky 18y ago
Another one is http://www.maxmind.com/app/telephone_overview This is a classy company, very reliable. We've been using them successfully for years for fraud prevention in online credit card charging.
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by spolsky 18y ago
rents go up from year to year. And we expanded in the existing space. Revenues increased about 17x in five years.
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by spolsky 18y ago
I went to the first Business of Software conference, last year in San Jose, and thought it was so good I agreed to put my name on the second edition. The audience is made up of pretty serious software companies... typically companies that a
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by spolsky 18y ago
there's a whole obsessive-compulsive website called realrates.com on exactly this subject.
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by spolsky 18y ago
Joel who?
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by spolsky 19y ago
But they could be audited by looking at the JavaScript, so at least you have a way to prove to yourself they're legit.
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by spolsky 19y ago
As far as I can tell Clickpass only works with 6 websites. Am I missing something? This is the mother of all chicken-and-egg problems... with no backwards compatibility mode to deal with websites that haven't gone along with a little two-gu
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by spolsky 19y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to create a site that remembers all your passwords but only has them in encrypted form? It would use JavaScript on the browser to encrypt and decrypt the passwords (using your master passphrase) before sending them t
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by spolsky 19y ago
ok, let's hear your explanation then. Notes was pretty advanced for its day and big companies bought it because it actually did what it was supposed to do.
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by spolsky 19y ago
I think selling 55,000,000 copies of a software package (around $500 each I think) qualifies as at least one type of success, probably the kind of success that people around here wouldn't mind to have with their own products.
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by spolsky 19y ago
if you're really determined to figure out their revenue, work your way backwards from their 9 employees. Most software companies take in $100,000-$200,000/yr per employee per year in top line revenue.
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by spolsky 19y ago
Sure, they realized interoperability would be important. But by 1995 customers were already whining about how often the file format changed. Nobody would buy Office (n+1) if it would start writing documents in a format that Office (n) didn'
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by spolsky 19y ago
PS i wouldn't
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by spolsky 19y ago
There are a lot of startup founders here. Would you pay for this?
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by spolsky 19y ago
what do you do when Amazon misconfigures their switch?
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by spolsky 19y ago
Have y'all ever BOUGHT car insurance? It IS priced by the mile, approximately-- you have to tell them where you drive and how often, including the approximate distance to work if you commute, and your insurance is priced accordingly.
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by spolsky 19y ago
Boy, I remember seeing that picture when it came out in 1982... it really influenced me. The article that accompanied it was about how Apple computer had grown so fast that the founders didn't even have time to spend their money and buy fur
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by spolsky 19y ago
The problem is more complicated than it seems. Apps have to be allowed to take focus otherwise a newly-launched app wouldn't have keyboard focus. You'd click on a link in your email and the web browser would come up but then you'd have to m
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by spolsky 19y ago
How about SATAN (1993).

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