wyday

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by wyday 17y ago
Well, they still have MS Accounting 2009 (see: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/accounting/default.aspx ) which is essentially MS Money for Small & Medium Size Businesses.
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by wyday 17y ago
YouTube commenters are known for their erudition.
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by wyday 17y ago
Right, because nothing inspires risk taking in a corporation like a good old fashioned witch hunt. I agree with you in that this is a shitty thing for MS to do (hell, I was one of the first ones to write a blog post explaining how to undo i
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Steve Blank: Founders and dysfunctional families(steveblank.com)
32 points by wyday 17y ago|11 comments
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Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives(inc.com)
185 points by wyday 17y ago|79 comments
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Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong(steveblank.com)
81 points by wyday 17y ago|21 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
Excellent! But too bad it's a blog post and not a wiki. It's missing a few that I know of, including this NYCSeed.
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by wyday 17y ago
I know this is blasphemy (being on Y Combinator news, and all), but someone should compile a list of all these funding programs. I think it'd be helpful for all of us.
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SuperMac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions(steveblank.com)
17 points by wyday 18y ago|0 comments
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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location(steveblank.com)
1 points by wyday 18y ago|0 comments
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by wyday 18y ago
In fairness, he wrote that more than 4 years ago. ("I'm a normal guy at Bella Vista High School ...")
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by wyday 18y ago
> I didn't know they still made wire wrap guns. I don't know anyone who has used one in the last 15 years. I just use a manual wire-wrap/stripping tool (from digikey.com). I'm a software guy who dabbles in hardware, hence the arcane tec
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by wyday 18y ago
What are the advantages of homemade PCB boards over wire-wrap? Is compactness the only advantage?
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by wyday 18y ago
I see what you're saying, and I do miss the days of Firefox 0.6. However, the minimalist browsers (Chrome, Firefox pre-1.0, etc.) aren't enough for constant use. Have you given up Firefox?
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Browser Notifications and Flow(blog.mozilla.com)
11 points by wyday 18y ago|5 comments
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Designing Aero Snap(blogs.msdn.com)
4 points by wyday 18y ago|1 comments
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Paying Entrepreneurs To Find the Right Business(nytimes.com)
7 points by wyday 18y ago|0 comments
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by wyday 18y ago
If they could "explain to you how to solve the problem or what went wrong" then they wouldn't need to show a vague error message. They'd just fix the problem.
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by wyday 18y ago
You're confusing the "secret" Walt is referring to. He's not talking about intellectual property. He's talking about the so called "secret to success".
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by wyday 18y ago
He doesn't work at google anymore.
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by wyday 18y ago
I think the whole point of the article is that it doesn't matter. You've got your own unique radio with your own unique dials. Start twisting.
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Joel Spolsky: A new business is like a shortwave radio.(inc.com)
89 points by wyday 18y ago|19 comments
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Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation(blogs.msdn.com)
14 points by wyday 18y ago|5 comments
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by wyday 18y ago
> Could you cite a source? Like a research paper? No, I'm afraid not. All I can provide are similar anecdotes like you provided (except for the opposite argument).
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by wyday 18y ago
I know I'm walking into a field of landmines in replying to this, but I'll try to tread carefully: The plumber/pipe metaphor is better suited to consulting & custom corporate apps. For wide-release software (like Adobe's software) it's
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by wyday 18y ago
GIMP vs. Photoshop isn't just about features. It's about polish. I don't think I'll be able to convince you of this, but proprietary apps are usually more polished than the open source counterparts. I'm talking about every sense of the word
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by wyday 18y ago
Fair enough, but the article doesn't mention control tests at all. The "transcranial magnetic stimulator" is touted as voodoo magic. I feel like I just read a 3a.m. infomercial.
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by wyday 18y ago
Or better yet, have a control test. Tell a person their mental faculties will be enhanced, but don't actually run the test. See if just that knowledge increases their ability.
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by wyday 18y ago
That was a nice set of slides, but was there a video (or audio) to go along with it?
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by wyday 18y ago
> maybe they can fix it! Millions of newbie programmers have this exact thought. This is why you see countless forum posts with chunks of code and a note like "Something's wrong, can you guys fix it?" No programmer with experience is go

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