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by umjames 18y ago
Yes, Microsoft = Mom's Robots. In the public eye, try to portray yourself as likable. While behind closed doors, the real Microsoft is revealed. Remember, at Microsoft, all buttons retaliate.
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by umjames 18y ago
Congrats. I envy you. Someone may have asked this, and if so, could you point me to your response. Did you tell your corporate job that you were leaving to pursue your own startup when they asked why you were voluntarily leaving? I wonder
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by umjames 18y ago
I wonder if that's common of consulting agencies. That would explain the triumvirate of crappy consultants that we had at work. I guess a way to combat it would be to publicize consulting agencies that are guilty of that sort of thing.
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by umjames 18y ago
I'd really like to let my manager at work read your comment. He recently went to a local "Web 2.0" conference and was surprised by all the Apple laptops everyone else had (both attendees and presenters). Yet, he still continues to bury his
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by umjames 18y ago
The French have more leisure time than Americans. It's just as much about what going on in your life stress-wise as it is about what you eat. We have much to learn about life-work balance from the rest of the world. It's unfortunate that
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by umjames 18y ago
How'd this get on Hacker News? I've worked with open-source and proprietary enterprise portals and I can safely say this: they all suck. They're a pain to install, customize, develop for, maintain, intergrate, and scale. If there ever was
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by umjames 18y ago
It doesn't matter what technologies you learned at college, high school, trade school, or from books. Whatever it is, it won't be enough anyway. You'll be expected to get to work, use what you know, and pick up what you have to. For the re
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by umjames 18y ago
It seems like what IT really wants is trade school graduates. Someone who should be going to DeVry to learn the J2EE stack or .Net and is only doing so for the paycheck, not genuine interest in software development. When I was in college (1
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by umjames 18y ago
I think the article gets it wrong at the end. Family Guy got resurrected because Cartoon Network's Adult Swim played the old episodes almost every night. This got a lot more of Family Guy's would-be target audience interested in the show.
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by umjames 18y ago
Why does 37Signals only have the luxury of working less? I'm sure when they were starting out (for their consulting business, not Basecamp) they had to work hard. Maybe it doesn't feel like work so much when you really enjoy solving the pro
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by umjames 18y ago
You only have to pay a $99 (more for enterprises) yearly fee to actually deploy native apps to the iPhone. You can download, develop, and test in the simulator iPhone code today for free.
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by umjames 18y ago
Maybe a better article would have been: "Is your company ready for higher attrition rates when your most skilled workers leave because you won't let them use the tools they prefer?" Maybe the title's too long.
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by umjames 18y ago
Then let the gas prices rise! So far, we're up to $4/gal here. Telecommuting FTW! I know I'd hate my job less if I could telecommute full-time. My equipment at home is better than what I have to work on at the office.
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by umjames 18y ago
South Bronx Paradise!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_%28Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_... Seriously though, if coffee is an appetite suppressant, what about the sugar and cream most people put in their coffee? Not to mention the fact that
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by umjames 18y ago
Aren't Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood working on something like that with stackoverflow.com? I'm not saying there can be only one though.
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by umjames 18y ago
What about having the other computer that's connected to the internet be physically uncomfortable to use for an extended period of time? Maybe force yourself to stand to use that computer?
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by umjames 18y ago
Also what if you use Google to find answers to your coding-related questions? That could take you to any random website.
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by umjames 18y ago
I cannot think of a better advertisement for staying small and profitable. Why work so hard for financial and creative indepenence, and then have money-hungry shareholders take that away for their own motives? It's not only bad VCs that can
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by umjames 18y ago
Maybe the fact that you feel like you have to keep this a secret is a clue that you're not at the right place.
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by umjames 18y ago
You're right. We use CVS at work, but I'm the only one who uses it the way it was meant to be used. I've seen my co-workers, boss, and the consultants we've hired check in output files as well as source files and make commits with no comme
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by umjames 19y ago
If only they had done this when I was working there in 2001-2002. Oh well, better late than never. Now if my current employer let me use a Mac as my primary machine...
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by umjames 19y ago
How about "Get a Life" by Freestylers? http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?... If that's not a startup anthem, I don't know what is.
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by umjames 19y ago
I think you're doing the right thing by doing a startup. Keep fighting the good fight. You have to do what makes you happy, which may not be what makes your mom happy. Remember, it's you who will have to live with your choices in life, no
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by umjames 19y ago
Wow. If I want that kind of treatment, I'll keep my current day job in IT. Seriously, would this sort of arrangement be acceptable for most people in India? I don't think anyone could put up with that, but for so long.
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by umjames 19y ago
How about the evidence of actual work produced? The facetime model is seriously broken. It doesn't promote productivity, it actually decreases it when employees figure out how to falsify the results. http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.
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by umjames 19y ago
Do you know if Game On has a website or anything that lists where they're going to be next? I'd love to go if it was near me.
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by umjames 19y ago
It's true that you must pay $99, even if you're developing freeware. I don't know if it's per year, but probably. Part of the cost is for the encrypted certificate that apps need to be signed with in order to legitimately run on the iPhone
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by umjames 19y ago
And hopefully a quicker way to get glacially slow, complacent IT departments (and the enterprise vendors they use) to use web standards. So some pages break because the site was IE-only. Nothing like a swamped help desk to get the IT depar
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by umjames 19y ago
by "open", they meant open wallet.
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by umjames 19y ago
Back in the day, WebObjects Builder was like Interface Builder for the web. But now you have to use Eclipse for WebObjects development and NeXT/Apple's WebObjects tools are no longer being developed.

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