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Because the hosting was illimited, it's good to have some revenues to finance it...

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it's even better, if it works for them, it'll work for anybody...

The problem is that there is more than one idiomatic c++

Even stage 2 programmer confuse stage 3 for stage 1, this makes very difficult to help stage 2 programmer grow. I suppose this is the difference between knowing the path and walking the path ;)

I find my way through TDD, but all my tentatives to help others failed. I can understand why because all tentatives to help me before I see the light on my own failed equality. I can remember some conversations with more experienced programmers where I tried to convince them about the benefits of more design as they were trying to explain me the vertues of simplicity...

Every company do early adopter pricing, sometimes they announce it as such, sometimes they don't. I don't know if telling it is better, but at the beginning you really need to have some feedback about your product, and your first customers may have to put up with initial troubles, so this is fair.

My opinion is that if the paiement is a one time fee, it doesn't matter, but if this is recurrent you should tell people before, otherwise you'll get a revolution when you increase the price like zendesk ...

yep, but that sort of defeat the purpose. If you use emacs by the menu, are you really using emacs at all ?

Wow, Linus is getting older : he didn't flame the poor guy down.

I feel a bit concern that Linus don't write code anymore but still decide on how code is written, etc... Happily, he has some experience.

Linus has good reasons, nobody is going to rewrite linux in C++ anyway, this has been debated to death.

Why I am still loosing my time commenting on this ?

it's interesting to note that open source works in reverse of entreprise where any manager can say no, but only the boss can say yes...

I think the brain switch into anti-deceive mode and customers become suspicious if your price is too low compared to other products. It would feel just like someone selling you a brand new car for $200, you would seek where is the issue, and probably won't buy it even if you couldn't find any issues.

It's very impressive to see the increase in number of licences for v2, but I suppose some of them are v1 user that upgrade. It would be nice to see the number of licences sold to new customers only. That looks like a very good financial move anyway.

I learned a few days ago that there is only two types of customers : - the one who would pay any price - the one that won't pay anything while selling way cheaper software : http://grownsoftware.com/blog/on-the-difficulty-of-not-givin...

"CTRL + :" then "of" -> focus the command line window then open file by name with completion. Great for navigating among files.

I use : http://domaintyper.com/ and http://www.bustaname.com/

Actually it probably works because employees already trust their management. Doing this at a random company without building a friendly culture first would be distasteful.

This is actually a good timing, there is many people upset by banks behaviour today, that some may be considering moving.

I'm french and I use a bank that was a 2000 internet startup (boursorama ). They didn't start as a bank but as a low cost solution for the money market. So creating a bank as a startup is definitly possible.

It's a better bank than others I have used, but it's still a bank. Their website is powerful but designed like crap though. However all of my money isn't there, as I fear a little bit doing a move I didn't understand (because of crappy design ) and loose everything.

I definitly agree, people disagreing with fail fast are taking it too literaly, ignoring the spirit of it. It's not about failing, it's about confronting to reality.

If your project is near completion, you should release it, you may encounter a partner on the way. A cofounder if not a requirement, confronting your ideas to others IS.

Beyond that, releasing is only half of the job, you'll then have to get some people use it, then pay for it (if not free ).

Capitalizing on you own strengh is a good idea. You don't want to spend month of research if you have a hour a day at most for working. Focusing on the production side is a better use of your time.

I didn't know bizspark. Can you get free licences to visual studio from it ? Do you need to be a real business to apply ?

The question is valuable still. I'd like to know.

As a win32 programmer, I always try things like createwindowex and I expect to get msdn as it is the most informative page. I can get it on DDG (doesn't even, show up ). It's the first result on google, even if I mistype it like createwindowe or createwindoaexaze. But may be I'm a dinosaur.

Does someone has any example of a small company screwing up under competition after publishing financial infos ?

I find local branch really nice, but do you really work on all thoses change at the same time ? I tend to code quite linearly, one functionnality at a time. May be I'm working on too small projects ?

Yes the impact of the battery would be unsolvable. Even if it isn't very bad, just a bit bad, the issue is that you have all that extra layer, consuming battery life. And battery life is probably the biggest issue in portable devices these days. There is no way to put a bigger one to solve the problem. There is no bigger one, and there won't be one in the next years probably.

Yes, the flash to native ban suck but it's probably not the way the flash works on the iphone with cs5 given the performance I've seen. As a programmer, it has no sense to vorbid a language, as every language are sort of equivalent in the end.

I would like to see flash works on iphone, and androids but the current port is slow for even the simplest thing. Even a single movie clip was slow on what I've seen. It's not possible to write a responsive flash app if even that is slow. There is no code, it can't be poorly written...

I'm french, so I may miss in what way the language is difficult.

I agree, there is a lot to learn to speak a language correctly. I was very average at english at school, but I improved by reading and recently listening everyday. I'm not going to write novels, I'm interested at communicating with others and as long as I can do that, I'm fine.

I think most comments are missing a point. His issue is not on the capture side of his ideas. It's on the execution side.

Read the "4 hour workweek", it give good tips about starting a business on the side. It's a bit over the top sometimes, but it motivate me working on this : http://grownsoftware.com/swiffout (just a project, not really a business, but that book help me anyway ) I think the book is great at convincing you that it's easier than you think.

Beyond that take any idea (ideas are not that important ), work on it everyday for a while and see what happens.

As a programmer I thought that preventing the use of some language on a platform by contract really sucked, but I've seen applications written in flash on the IPhone since and they are painfully slow.

I don't have an IPhone but I can understand that having lots of applications in the store and not knowing whether an application you try would be slow or fast would really feel like a lottery. It's sad because the adobe flash tool are great animation tools, and I don't know of anything coming close on the Iphone.

The impact on the battery would be unsolvable too. Sometimes it's better to avoid issues.

Recent real life example : To go from montpellier (a south of france city ) to corsa (a south a france island ) it cost less to fly by London first...

"How I Learned French in One Year" : http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/29/15258/287 is a very insighful article on how to learn language without going to the country. Advices are not specific to french. The best advice I retained is that commute time are your friends when learning a language.

ooh my poor karma

Don't do that. It will reboot the internet.

There is so many frameworks trying to circumvent css, may be css is crap ? Better than nothing but crappy still.

Adding extra layers is ok when we get more benefits than we loose in view. I'd like to have a better css too or a more programmable browser. May be will be able to rebuild a virtual browser within the canvas ... ?