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by tarr11 14y ago
They were initially successful because they build a product that people needed and was good. They continued to be successful by creating a culture that attracts good people who continue to build good products.
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by tarr11 14y ago
As someone who is building an enterprise startup, it's only because I've spent many years in enterprises and have experienced some of this pain first hand.
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by tarr11 14y ago
Cool idea. Any idea on what the topics will be?
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Tools for your ASP.NET Startup(douglastarr.com)
2 points by tarr11 14y ago|1 comments
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by tarr11 14y ago
I was talking more about Google Talk as opposed to Google+. Many of your business connections are on your Google Talk contacts list (since you've emailed them).
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Is Google Talk a LinkedIn killer?(douglastarr.com)
1 points by tarr11 14y ago|2 comments
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by tarr11 14y ago
This is a great idea and a solid execution. It should automatically stick the tldr on the page if I installed the bookmark, and a tldr exists.
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by tarr11 14y ago
Your site appears to be down.
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by tarr11 14y ago
Standards are much higher for maps than when Maps was new (just as they are for planes) You wouldn't want Apple building iPlane this way, right?
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by tarr11 14y ago
Have you looked at dbpedia.org? Perhaps your tools would fit in with their project.
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by tarr11 14y ago
Is there a web page to browse all these fonts? That dropdown is tedious to use.
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by tarr11 14y ago
The first few customers are not necessarily a market signal - they are often acquired via personal relationships or they want to leverage you to do custom development for them via your prototype. Neither of which are scalable businesses.
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by tarr11 14y ago
Some examples: * Resizing your browser window. * Changing font-size for accessibility (Ctrl+, Ctrl-) * Moving your browser between multiple screens If responsive was server-side, each of these scenarios would cause a page reload in order to
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by tarr11 14y ago
Playing with this for a few minutes: * I wish it had vim keybindings (ie, hit esc, then use hjkl to navigate) * It gives me the option to follow myself. (Bug?) * I like how I can learn commands via the autocomplete bar (issue, branch, grap
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by tarr11 14y ago
The problem is not that recruiting as an industry is obsolete. The problem is that you can't find a good recruiter based on your needs (price, specialty, experience level, etc). The quality of recruiters is variable, but the need for them i
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by tarr11 14y ago
How do you know "just the right time" to send reminders? Do I have to tell you when to send it?
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by tarr11 14y ago
Hug my wife and kids. Eat / Make breakfast and coffee, check my email, talk to my wife about the day
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by tarr11 14y ago
$2000 month is high (depends on your situation though). I've also done this, on Cobra, my payment is 1100 for a family of 4. If you have low deductibles, it would be higher. You are probably also paying some part of your health insurance
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by tarr11 14y ago
As a US/CA resident, i'm always stunned to see how low operating costs can be in India.
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by tarr11 14y ago
I get that there's an idea around doing this all in text. Many developers do that by default. I think that one of the reasons they do it is because they have a text editor that they already love, that works offline, and has a lot of featu
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by tarr11 14y ago
Had to look up "rent seeking", I'm sure I'm not the only one In economics, rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating ne
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by tarr11 14y ago
I've spent a lot of time on both rails and asp.net mvc over the past year. If you would have asked me 2 years ago, Rails was a clear winner, because of ActiveRecord Migrations, Heroku, MVC, RSpec, Gem Framework, great libs like Devise, Suns
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by tarr11 14y ago
It would be great to see an extensible, "Devise" like solution for asp.net
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by tarr11 14y ago
What is great about this?
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by tarr11 14y ago
I don't see folders going away. (I like them much better than tags, frankly) Google Docs started out with no folders. They added them with Google Drive http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... EverNote used to jus
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by tarr11 14y ago
Working solely on what makes you win (always) seems to be at odds with 20% time, or "slack" (where you focus on whatever you want, regardless of priority) Curious as to how you reconcile those things.
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by tarr11 14y ago
Dalton has managed to convince 8000 developers to cough up cash. He's got a working alpha with a high level of community engagement. Those are substantial accomplishments. I wouldn't write it off just yet.
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by tarr11 14y ago
The pricing section is cute, but it made me launch a calculator to figure out how much I'd pay. .001*10000 = $10/month
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by tarr11 14y ago
Interesting that they put this in a Git repo (instead of TFS), but only to then push it to CodePlex (instead of Github)
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by tarr11 14y ago
Learn from success, not failure.

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