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How long the application is supposed to live, should be relevant here. Some stuff can be a piece of crap, even if it goes against some sensibility of a developer, if it isn't suppose to live long and can give you something back. Some times it should be up to the people that know how long it'll live. It's first when you make the money to pay for the refactoring, you should do it.

But hey, make it perfect from the get go ;)

I know, temporary stuff has a tendency to become permanent. But if you see this trend, then you and your manager should be grown-up enough to have the discussion of rewriting it for something more longterm. (It all depends on what sort of project it is).

Long term projects should never voluntarily allow technical debt. It's just bad for business.

Check out www.playframework.org they have a successstories site that shows successful startups for their bundle. I'm working on a site right now using it, it's really neat. Scales really good, and is totally lightweight.

Actually found this one helpful. Thx. There are a lot of these out there, but you can see the value of the explenations.

The only thing is, if you can't print it(something you'd have by your desk), it ain't no cheat sheet.

Is this the way the big companies talk to each other? By getting some random email published?

I don't think apple and oracle had a dialog going here, because why would apple want to look like the bad guy?

So if Oracle says "we'll do this", then great. Oracle will be appreciated again.

So sorry to hear this. I don't know how the work situation is in the US, but here in Norway it's quite common to get positions, even the really good ones, thrown after you if you have the right resume.

Sit down and think what you want to do. If the position you were offered was the dream job; locate a similar company and send them your resume. Or even better, the best people is reading this very post. Put up a link to your resume right here, and see what'll happen. Couldn't hurt(?).

Are they just pulling these numbers out of the air? Let me rephrase, what goes into the calculation when they estimate the value of a company like LinkedIn?

Sure in the article they say 70 million users + a healthy economy. But $2 billion ? I think I've heard estimates all ranging from $5 to $15 billion for facebook. That's 500 million users.

So the secret formula is:

500 million users / 70 million users = 7

15 / 7 = 2.1 or about 2 billion if you like.

What really determines the value?

1) Amount of users, and loyal users.

2) Amount of cash they are generating

3) Amount of cash they have tucked away

4) Growth

5) If anyone wants to buy them

Any other factors?

A homeprinted card will still have to be decorated and perfectioned beyond death by your soon to be wife.

You might save a buck. We made all our card by hand. I still hate myself for doing that. But I still don't really see what you're providing here? A design for the cards? Suggestion of text?

I have openoffice and the interweb full of fonts, and I googled much of the text.

In norway everyone can call themselves "engineer", but the specific titles are protected (for instance "civil engineer").

I think the titles represents jobs that are that similiar that it's hard to say why we are trying to differantiate them. I guess it would've been a boring and uniform industry if everyone had the same title.

Never make the browser guess.

I bought the sx-1 extension to the amiga cd32, to make it into a beast of an amiga. I really loved every bit of it, and it's sad that this is what brought it down. Someone should really pay.

Since Hyperion and Amiga Inc finally have agreed that the os can be enjoyed on other hw now, maybe I can get that feeling back.

Don't you just hate lawyers and greedy people messing up a consumers right to have fun? Great post, I always thought I knew everything about this story.