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by synnik 16y ago
I have not heard anything regarding how they expect to open Facebook to external communications without bringing in spam.
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by synnik 16y ago
The major difference between this situation and any efforts of Gandhi or the civil rights movement is one of leadership. An entire country would (and did) follow Gandhi. I don't think there is a single person in the US whom everyone would f
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by synnik 16y ago
Keep in mind that in 2002, Russia seemed to be hand-in-hand with India when it came to outsourcing software dev. It might be a weak bet now, but was stronger when it was made. Wrong, but still stronger.
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by synnik 16y ago
I work both sides of the coin. I have a degree in fine Arts, but have been a software guy for many years. I put in an initial design when I make a HTML mock-up. I tweak it until I think it is good, then start to code the actual functions. A
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by synnik 16y ago
I wrote a similar tool in 2001, and had a tough time with it. My findings at the time were that there were 2 crowds: One who wanted an entire template laid out for them, and another that was willing to design everything from scratch. For th
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by synnik 16y ago
University of Denver.
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by synnik 16y ago
When I went to law school, orentation consisted of 3 days of being repeatedly told: 1) Your degree will not get you the salaries you expect. You will be paying these loans off forever. 2) Most law school grads hate being lawyers 3) There is
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by synnik 16y ago
"This got built and is in daily use." That gives me another idea! A web monitoring tool that will hit all your projects on a daily basis, solely so you can make this claim about anything you have ever written!
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by synnik 16y ago
I think this is changing. Corporations are not the blind, mindless creatures that people seem to think. They do see their own problems, and do want to change them. They are starting to recognize the needs and desires of a younger workforce,
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by synnik 16y ago
Automated password resets are a solved problem. Either email a new pw or reset link to a known address, or authenticate with "secret questions". Both have their problems, but no small company should waste support time when established techn
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by synnik 16y ago
I cannot help but notice that this entire page uses serif fonts.
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by synnik 16y ago
You should never be the lowest paid. Executives are paid not for the actual tasks they do, but for the fact that all responsibility and accountability is on their shoulders.
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by synnik 16y ago
You assume that super smart people have money as their primary goal in life. I have found this to be far from true. The truly brilliant people I know follow their passions, and usually make just enough money to do so, spending the rest of t
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by synnik 16y ago
I'm honestly surprised at the downvotes here. Even including people who went back to download older comments on totally different threads. Interesitng. In any case, I simply stated the pattern. Everyone else added a value judgment into it,
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by synnik 16y ago
This is following the pattern of many medical advances I have seen in my lifetime: Step 1) Alternative medicine quacks say that they can do something 'impossible', like regenerate teeth. Step 2) Doctors say that claim is flat out impossible
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by synnik 16y ago
That is true, but that is exactly my point. If you choose to use a product like Wordpress, then you should also accept the maintenance that goes with that choice, tedious and annoying though it may be. Installing a product, running a busine
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by synnik 16y ago
"...a weakness in an old install of WordPress...allowed the jerk to set up a phishing scam under my domain. I learned all of this from Bluehost, which hosts the WordPress portion of my site." When you log into Bluehost's control panel, and
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by synnik 16y ago
"over 50 hours in 5 days." That is a lot of work, but hardly excessive for a startup. I have weeks like that in the corporate IT world.
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by synnik 16y ago
True, for external sites. But for internal sites, storing my framework with my app lets my local web server cache it, instead of forcing users to traverse the network and go outside our firewall to Google's CDN.
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by synnik 16y ago
"You can access to all versions of Notepad++ on Download page of Sourceforge." Way to be consistent, dudes.
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by synnik 16y ago
If I've got a company with a million dollars per year in revenue, I'm well past the point that banks won't loan me 100K. So I'm not sure exactly who this service is trying to target.
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by synnik 16y ago
Kinda missing the point, IMO - the UI differences are nowhere near as important as the cultural difference. 1 foot = single active user. 10 feet = passive user, often multiple passive users. THAT difference is a much bigger concept to work
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by synnik 16y ago
Not scary to me -- I believe that advertising should be exactly like this: Inform you of a product, tell you what value it can offer you, then allow you to make an informed choice. Advertising is only evil when it is deceptive.
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by synnik 16y ago
Because it is one thing to limit the finances when I am single... But after getting married and having kids, I am no longer just limiting myself -- I am restricting the resources that I can offer the children. I could not afford private sch
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by synnik 16y ago
Yes, it is software development. It actually started when I was working at IBM. I asked if I could go part-time, and they said yes, offering 57K for 30 hours a week. I was also talking to some startups, and told them about the offer I had,
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by synnik 16y ago
That sounds about right. From about 1999-2004, I didn't negotiate salaries. I told potential employers that I wanted exactly 60K. The question was how many hours a week I would have to work to earn it. The winner was 22 hours. I only chang
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by synnik 16y ago
IF their product is such that an end user needs hosted service and phone support in the first place, they are worse than underwater.
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by synnik 16y ago
I have worked in the banking industry. Building a better technology stack for a bank is possible. But you need to understand the current technology first, including how it got to where it is today. You also need to understand the banking in
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by synnik 16y ago
Diaspora may or may not succeed. The whole "node" concept turns me off, personally... I'm more interested in the idea that is could compete with Facebook at all. Facebook has become too big for a small startup to just step up and replace it
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by synnik 16y ago
I concur - the "caution" is good, as it forces people to re-think their settings. I decided not to change the items I was cautioned on, but it was beneficial to see them called out, allowing me to make a conscious choice.

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