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bdwalter

255 karma · joined December 17, 2008

CEO & Co-Founder @ OpenContext.com
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bdwalter··on Ask HN: Would you work at a startup that requires you to use Linux?
Testing, yes... but laptops?. It is important for QA and or Staging environments to match production, but not developer laptops.
bdwalter··on Ask HN: Would you work at a startup that requires you to use Linux?
Teams should be allowed to use whatever tools best suit their work style. We stopped the draconian IT practices a year ago and now allow our developers to have literally whatever they want for a laptop. Productivity went up. 2/3's of the team runs Mac, 1/4 runs PC, and the remaining fraction run Linux. Seems Mac is the clear winner in my shop. Interoperability issues are somewhat a part of life, but the good outweighs the bad.
bdwalter··on Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android
I expect this to be the first of many lawsuits from "the larry" surrounding Sun IP.
bdwalter··on Oracle shuts down PostgreSQL test servers
There seems to be no end of the enterprise deuche-baggery that is Oracle.
bdwalter··on Opera Mini approved for iPhone
Now its time for Chrome!
bdwalter··on Mac OS X 10.6.3 Released
Installed just fine for me, although I see zero evidence of it actually doing anything for me.
bdwalter··on Keeping Customers Up-to-Date on Development: Cultured Code
Funny thing is, I just sent them a request a couple days ago to see where they were at w/ Cloud sync. Glad to hear its being worked on.

Love those guys.

bdwalter··on Use patents or lose them?
I agree 110%

Patents should not be a marketing defense strategy.

Patenting things you have no intent of implementing/selling simply to block competition should be outlawed.

bdwalter··on Founder Liquidity
I couldn't agree more.
bdwalter··on Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
xterm
bdwalter··on Ask HN: How to ban users from your site?
These guys do it all day long.

www.iovation.com

bdwalter··on Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)
www.xname.org is good.
bdwalter··on A different type of VC holiday card
When he showed up to take the video, I thought oh great, I'm going to look stupid on the internet, again...but it turned out good!
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