tom_rath

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by tom_rath 18y ago
Hey, 22-year old self, you know all that stuff you're worried to death about? All those failures and existential crap that's keeping you awake? It doesn't matter. I know it really seems like it does but, trust me, it doesn't. No, not th
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Bitterness.
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Your mistake was not including the fashion tip "Wear a Guy Fawkes mask".
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by tom_rath 18y ago
Why convert the Java app into a browser-based AJAX form when you can launch the application using Java Web Start?
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by tom_rath 18y ago
Yes, folks like breck are why we stopped advertising on the content network. It provided us with nothing but a way to indirectly fund bloggers or buy someone sushi at the Google cafeteria. Behaviour like that is going to kill 'ad supported
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no
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I'd add in "add a checkbox to remove weekends from displayed results". Selling business software, we've found weekends are a dead-zone which throws the numbers off. It's not a huge issue, but it makes things a smidge more difficult to tren
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by tom_rath 18y ago
A start would be any second-year business degree marketing course textbook which discusses MASH analysis, among other foundational aspects of marketing. This one (link is for a used copy): http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/3rs/004826.shtml h
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by tom_rath 18y ago
I'm in Canada (and have lived for a spell in the U.S.) and not watching television in both nations does strike many people as 'odd'. For the idea of doing more of something "out of spite" in reaction to a preacher's recommendation that you
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by tom_rath 18y ago
The essay struck me as being more condescending than helpful (and I despise TV). If you were a regular TV watcher who had no intention of quitting, would that essay do anything other than encourage you to watch more out of spite?
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Yeah, I went through a sanctimonious "Oh, I wouldn't know. You see, I don't have a television!" phase too. I suspect I was about as annoying as those ex-smokers who can't shut up about how awesome life is without cigarettes.
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by tom_rath 18y ago
I own my company, love the technology, am delighted in the revenue it's giving me and am absolutely bored to death with the task I am doing today. It needs to be done and I'm doing it, but this day has been an absolute slog with every keys
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I find it helps to remember that if I don't do the boring stuff my company is going to fail, I'll be working for someone else again and the only reason for failure will be that I was too bored to do the work that was essential for success (
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Be sure to make it non-editable. Every editable EULA I've encountered has promised to buy me a pony!
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Those struck me as the four steps you take before you reach your first hurdle. The hurdles I though the author would note are: Defining a market, building something to address that market, generating revenue from that something and red
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Well, they did nail the cookie-cutter suburbs and perv catching his neighbours on video.
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Thanks! I see an "Atlantic Canada" option has been entered. You might want to add in a few other population centres (Quebec City springs to mind) and break "Atlantic Canada" out into separate cities (Halifax folks aren't likely to meet up
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by tom_rath 18y ago
Your 'Regions' list ends at Montreal. You're missing out on an odd 750-1000 miles of geography (and a lot of Canadian startups).
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Awesome idea! We can call it the Common Business-Oriented Language Oh, wait...
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by tom_rath 19y ago
Canada is very business friendly, so drop that 'bureaucracy' concern. Forming a corporation took about 24 hours, with most of that time spent waiting for corporate name approval. Everything (except for getting a lawyer to notarize a form
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by tom_rath 19y ago
...which there will be no reason to develop if an abundance of cheap oil is available.
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by tom_rath 19y ago
The Alberta tar sands will not be profitable if this new deposit can be accessed at a cost comparable to other deep sea drilling. If that's the case.... -pop- goes the Alberta bubble, again.
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by tom_rath 19y ago
Ignore them. Focus on your customers, not your competition. You will always have competition (if you don't, you probably don't have a market) and if you're the best one to satisfy your customers you will succeed in your niche. Joel Spolsky
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by tom_rath 19y ago
Day-to-day motivation is easy: My company is my job, if I don't work on it it will fail, and there will be no one to blame for that but myself. Work when you work. Rest when you rest. Play when you play. If you're too unfocused to work,
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by tom_rath 19y ago
That you do, but you're missing out on some pretty sound financial and business advice when you pass his columns by.
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by tom_rath 19y ago
Nice people can be idiots and assholes can be wise. Sometimes it pays to listen to those you dislike. It's a shame Ben Stein turns his brain off when his faith is questioned, but if blind belief in the sky elf is enough to turn you off som
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by tom_rath 19y ago
sigh ... I miss Usenet. I wouldn't mind seeing a One True Site for technology questions again and sure hope this becomes one.
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Why switch? Couldn't you run both? Google Analytics is spiffy, but it seems to miss quite a few queries and visitors to our site (according to our Apache server logs). Competition in this area would be nice, though I wonder how long quali
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by tom_rath 19y ago
I've come up with my best ideas at 2am but I've learned from experience that's the worst time to try implementing them. In the wee hours typos, syntax errors and simple transposition bugs seem to abound and those take an annoying amount of
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by tom_rath 19y ago
In traditional radio, an interviewer had x-minutes to get the job done. The duration of the time slot was the hard limit they were working against and it ensured a tight focus on the content. You received a lot of information in a short b

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