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by subwindow 18y ago
I looked for a solid week earlier this year, and didn't find anything that was really free or open. Kind of disappointing. What I needed was to be able to take an IP, and get a reasonably accurate (25 miles) lat/long out of it. If anyone
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by subwindow 18y ago
By far the best source I've had is to build real-life applications. Two applications that I built in about a weekend each have netted me around 5 gigs around release time, plus about one per month. People are much more likely to want to hir
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by subwindow 18y ago
Myspace gained their initial traction with pseudo-spam. I'd suggest not following by their example.
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by subwindow 18y ago
This is what happens when you confuse technical complexity with product success. A complex product, or one that takes "more than a weekend to build" will not necessarily be successful, and a simple product will similarly not necessarily be
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by subwindow 18y ago
It is kind of unfair to say all programmers are bad at designing interfaces. I've never personally met one that was actually bad, and know several that are quite good- to the point where they could be professional UI designers if they want
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by subwindow 18y ago
This is exactly the problem my startup is trying to solve. We'll have the materials management portion (purchasing, inventory, warehousing) soon- June is the tentative target. There seems to be a pretty big gap between excel spreadsheets an
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by subwindow 18y ago
In the past 5 years they've mostly been one of: 1) Hardware 2) Giant 3) Enterprisey None of which are very applicable to the original question, which is about web software startups.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I should have said: "Sun isn't really a big dog in the startup acquisition game." MySQL wasn't a startup.
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by subwindow 18y ago
Sun has been the most ardent corporate supporters of Rails. They were even before JRuby. Plus, Sun isn't really a big dog in the acquisition game.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I think Microsoft is really the only acquirer where language/platform choice would matter. They're the only acquirers that have a real stake in the success of a particular language. Even still, they bought Hotmail, who was using FreeBSD.
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by subwindow 19y ago
Wow. Just... Wow. I understand that this is talking about India and I guess they have a different work schedule than is standard here in the U.S., but this guy must really have no clue. To say that the need for employees to have a proper w
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by subwindow 19y ago
That's not complaining about competition, that's complaining about theft of design. I really don't think they care if someone copies the functionality of one of their products, but I think they care when someone copies their words and desig
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by subwindow 19y ago
I don't recall the 37signals people ever complaining. There are oodles of Basecamp competitors out there, and I honestly don't think they mind the competition/copycats. They are really very humble about competition, in general.
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by subwindow 19y ago
This was the last year of C++. It is entirely possible that the Java version of the class was less useful.
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by subwindow 19y ago
I think I took the AB test. This was in 2002, and AB covered binary arithmetic, data structures, Big-O, and a bunch of other stuff. The CS A test (which is all that remains now) cut out almost all of the data structures, and was light on
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by subwindow 19y ago
The code and user base (the two most valuable parts of a startup) will still exist and could still be ported to another hardware architecture.
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by subwindow 19y ago
It was really good. I took it 6 years ago and even though I continued on to a non-CS degree, I still feel like I have a good grasp on basic CS topics (data structures, in particular). This is a really terrible loss. I don't get it at all.
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by subwindow 19y ago
I used to work for a company that hocked speed reading training software. As a kind of side effect, I learned how to speed read. The thing with speed reading is that you can increase the speed at which you read fairly easily, but your comp
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by subwindow 19y ago
Good article. I had seen the original from the Skype blog, but it was kind of empty. This was a good recap. Plus, it liked to SkyTools, which for some reason I had never heard of.
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by subwindow 19y ago
Interesting idea, interesting people with enthusiasm. The challenge is convincing people of those three facts without coming across as an overbearing asshole. Generally, you're going to have a hard time recruiting people that are going to
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by subwindow 19y ago
4 GB of RAM is $60? When the hell did that happen?
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by subwindow 19y ago
Not true. If Guido van Rossum had written it, it would definitely be worth noting. It would be noteworthy if any evangelist for any programming language that is not PHP said something like this.
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by subwindow 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128119
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by subwindow 19y ago
This update will have more of an effect of my day-to-day life than the 1.2 -> 2.0 update. It is good to see that the Rails team is confronting serious issues (like the Migration numbering) quickly and not letting them fester.
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by subwindow 19y ago
I wrote mine in Ruby. Surprisingly enough, she loved it.