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mrfish··on Why Users Dumped Your Open Source App for Proprietary Software
Re your last sentance. Can somebody email the developers at Joomla about that please.
mrfish··on Two-man start up can't afford chi-chi branding, could use your advice.
It doesn't really matter what it is called. Call it turtlepoo.com if that helps. Branding is less about describing your services and more about sticking in people's heads. That's the problem with most of these tricky names. Most people can't remember them. But something like fishpajamas or thundergnat would probably stick in the mind of people who heard of you. BTW I'd upload my instructional videos if I knew people would subscribe to them. Let me know when you go live. Paul
mrfish··on [dead]
Oh no, please don't encourage that! *sigh
mrfish··on Be a Jetpack Test Pilot
Yeah $30,000 to DIE!
mrfish··on Scientists Build Anti-Mosquito Laser
Maybe we should attach lasers to the head of other mosquitos and start a civil war!
mrfish··on [dead]
Could it be worse than Salmon of Doubt?
mrfish··on City of Vancouver Opens Up City Data
I think it's a matter of perspective. Obviously a product that has a large open source volunteer base will be more secure because of their ability to mobilize against security threats. So the City of Vancouver is Open, but not Open Source because they are not allowing masses amount of people access to change things. I guess you could say that if we could real time vote to change city decisions, then it would be open source.
mrfish··on City of Vancouver Opens Up City Data
Anybody else in Vancouver suddenly worried that our infrastructure will be messed with now? Hey World, you know those Olympics in Feb, well here are some electrical conduits you can fuck up for the event! WTF?
mrfish··on CKEditor 3.0, formerly known as FCKEditor, released (WYSIWYG editor)
I used to curse FCKEditor because it was so slow and unweildy for ajax apps. Creating and destroying and then customizing was a pain. Not many WYSIWYG editors really do these nicely. They all seem to be made to work in a static load once html page. Now CKEditor says you can do all that so I'm very excited. If it is fast, can create and destroy with ease and plays well with jquery then it's my new favorite editor!
mrfish··on Web Trend Map, built with CSS 3 & HTML 5
We need more explanation as to what new CSS and HTML elements you've used!
mrfish··on Software Programmers Should Never Have Dress Codes
I always dress to the level of the CEO. If he's looking scruffy, I make sure I look a bit better than that. If he's in suites, that's what I wear. Besides I hate to tell you this but looks are what people judge you on and the guy in the suite or even long sleeve shirt is going to have more weight than the t-shirt guy. It's just reality.
mrfish··on Rails won
I almost choked on my lunch when I read "charging customers" ha awesome.
mrfish··on Extreme Shepherding - Best Sheep Hack I've seen all day
I think with very very intelligent dogs. Hey it's like programming, do it enough for long enough and you get very very good at it. Do it for longer and then you start fiddling about with it until it breaks. Then do something different.
mrfish··on Ideas I Have For Pedals
I want to make a web framework that I can control through pedals!
mrfish··on Twitto: A web framework in a tweet
So what exactly would I use this for. Aside from shitting myself with geeky-ness
mrfish··on Images for Games
hey good thinking! thanks
mrfish··on JSONRequest: two-way data exchange with any JSON data server
Why? That would just confuse people.
mrfish··on Ask YC: What is a reasonable equity stake for a summer internship?
FREE BEER
mrfish··on Ask YC: Development-wise, what do you do that's unconventional and why?
Yeah I use Jedit for the same reasons. I love the hypersearch and the fact that I can run it in Windows, Linux and on Mac. And it's not as resource intensive as Eclipse.
mrfish··on Developers Copyright
So do you think something like this is appropriate;

"My Company grants the right to reuse the CSS styles, JavaScript, PHP scripts, XHTML markup techniques, Database design and other bits of “source code” for the non exclusive use of the Client. The Client may freely copy, paste, and modify any of this code for use in other web projects large or small, commercial or non-commercial. The client need not ask permission to do so. The client need not credit My Company or its employees."

mrfish··on Ask YC: Development-wise, what do you do that's unconventional and why?
Use a text editor like JEdit to do my code because I hate eclipse and it's overhead and I like the color coding and the fact that I can install it anywhere.
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