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by warwick 17y ago
* Carpool coordination. This problem turned into our next homework assignment for my collaborative work class. I'm thinking of something that lets each team member mark down their home, adjust it on a per-day basis if they'll be somewhere
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by warwick 17y ago
Andy Brice wrote a great article about 'The software awards scam' for shareware. Does anyone know if website awards follow a similar pattern, or are they more legitimate? http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards...
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by warwick 17y ago
"We provide our customers tools to help them succeed." That seems like an overly general phrase. Using the generic 'customer' seems like a cop-out, since it feels like you haven't really asked yourself which market you're making your pro
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The New Media - The best photographer is the one that's there(stringerpress.com)
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by warwick 17y ago
Do you know if he meant larger as in 'wc -c' larger, or as in number of symbols larger? I'm curious because there are languages (Cobol, Obj-C) that are extremely verbose in terms of characters but not in symbols.
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by warwick 17y ago
There are a couple of things I disagree with. Colours have very different meanings depending on where the culture. The go-to example is how red is percieved in the U.S. (danger/bad) versus China (happiness/luck). With regards to website na
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by warwick 17y ago
Getting pictures off of cellphones.
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by warwick 17y ago
It really doesn't. For example, try the URL http://paulgraham.com://articles.html
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by warwick 17y ago
I've used Trac and Fogbugz. My general feeling is 'too many fields to fill out'. That being said, for anything more extensive than weekend hacks you _need_ bug tracking software or else things slip through the cracks. Developers who don't
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by warwick 17y ago
It feels like a spamming service to me, just with a twist to make it less detectable.
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by warwick 17y ago
I'm curious how it would work if you gave a free month, then billed at the end of every month. Let's say they sign up on January 1. On February 1st, they receive an email or notice mentioning that their free trial is over, and they'll be b
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by warwick 17y ago
I haven't lived in Sherbrooke for a year or so, but the system was fairly well done. I lived on campus in one of the boroughs, so I can't speak to how coverage was in the city proper. It's also worth noting that Fredericton has an excellen
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by warwick 17y ago
Another way to kill a great idea is to fail to implement it. This post brought to mind an old ze frank video: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html
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by warwick 17y ago
They did tell me this when I was an teenager: "You're a smart kid, but you need to put in more effort". I tried putting effort towards school for a while. I figured if I had to play, I may as well win. The problem with treating high scho
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by warwick 17y ago
Overheard at McGill: Guy 1: It looks like we're out of a job. Guy 2: Don't you mean extinct.
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Flat World schools textbook publishers with free Web editions(arstechnica.com)
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by warwick 17y ago
Generally I sign emails to customers with my title as "Developer". When you're responding to a support email or a pre-sale email, a lot of customers think it's very cool that they can contact the guy who built the product, not some random
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by warwick 17y ago
You might want to have a look at CEGEPs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGEP
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by warwick 17y ago
Using a statically typed language might also help, as the compiler can catch a lot of really stupid errors.
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by warwick 17y ago
Personally I use an artists sketchbook with big pages, heavy paper and a thick cover. It's too heavy, but the contents are safe and the paper is of the right texture and unlined. I generally pick them up at University bookstores where they
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by warwick 17y ago
My big problem with a legal pad was throwing it into my bag tended to destroy the top one or two pages.
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by warwick 17y ago
I wonder if you could adjust the coffee shop model a bit to work better for these kinds of people. Here's a wacky idea about how it could work. A few assumptions: - People who walk in, pay $n for a cup of coffee, sit at a table and stay fo
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by warwick 17y ago
I'm not sure why there are scare quotes around the "compiler" in this. A high-level to high-level compiler is still a compiler.
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by warwick 17y ago
"Ease of access has been a principal, I think, determiner of success for technology companies." - Charlie Rose
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by warwick 17y ago
I disagree. In the absence of axioms logical reasoning amounts to recursion without a base case.
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by warwick 17y ago
From the demo, it looks like you provide a subdomain per user. If that's correct, maybe you could allow paid users to assign a different subdomain to each project? Have you talked to any of the users doing this sort of thing? Asking why t
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by warwick 17y ago
Is it possible that they're creating multiple accounts so that they can show different portfolios to different types of clients? I'm curious if this might be a workaround a missing feature instead of just trying to get by quotas. (Perhaps
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by warwick 17y ago
There are three areas in Canada that I'd call tech centers. I've heard all three of them referred to as 'Silicon Valley North': Southern Ontario (Waterloo, Toronto), Montreal, and Southern BC (Vancouver, Victoria).
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by warwick 17y ago
I already accidentally spoiled it. I voted for three generations, but I'm Canadian.
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by warwick 17y ago
I find it very difficult to believe an article from a major startup blog about how you shouldn't go around the startup blogs when it's time to launch. That being said, I personally believe that anyone who wants to talk about you should be g

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