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I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

"The Elephant's Child" -Rudyard Kipling

"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." - Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

If reality appears arbitrary and capricious it is simply because we don't understand the rules. -me

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Comment · 12 years ago

Ability to run on Heroku

Comment · 12 years ago

> Not exactly a geological timescale

A. Humans don't live on a geological timescale

B. .com TLD's are in the formidable first ~15 years of socializing the web the mass public.

Comment · 14 years ago

Like climate control in your house

Comment · 15 years ago

But you'd be one typo away from being blocked by proxy filters

Comment · 15 years ago

Consider tablets and desktops versus notebooks and smartphones. Biggest impact is on notebooks whose vertical real estate is at a premium. Second are smartphone because of their form factor. As far as tablets and desktops: You can rotate your tablet and you can use a big monitor (or rotate that too if supported).

Comment · 15 years ago

Kodos hasn't seen a release since 2006

Comment · 15 years ago

I think what the blogger is saying indirectly that is a test that is necessary but not sufficient to qualify a non-technical co-founder. If you ask this as the first question, then it will save you the time for the rest of the questions.

Comment · 15 years ago

Kinda like Congress, huh?

Eight Jules Verne Inventions That Came True news.nationalgeographic.com

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Comment · 16 years ago

What kind of book? A math book? biography? romance fiction? In that respect, programming is also like cooking. For cooking, you can go from one extreme of food science, like NASA practices for food going up in space, to popping a frozen pizza into the oven, to many points in between. Programming allows a wide range of discipline to be executed in the process.

Comment · 16 years ago

What might be important which I've observed is that no one of importance seems to read signature disclaimers. Or at least they didn't in my case.

As a grunt programmer while working for one large defense contractor some years ago, I put something similar to the following, embedded in a paragraph of mind-numbing boilerplate and no one up the food chain seemed to notice.

If you are not the intended recipient, you need not do anything. Men in black will come to erase your memory. Have a good day.