seanlinmt

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A number of people has been saying that the US has not been leading technologically. So if not the US, which country is doing better technologically?

Japan? Even if it's Japan, its economy isn't doing that well either.

I think sometimes it's more about the ability to form patterns from experiences. Like intuitive play in chess. Or ghost limbs in TED video http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind...

Sometimes I think it's just me forgetting the details of what I've learnt so I can't explain it to someone properly.

IANAL but a verbal agreement can be a legally binding contract.... which can be hard to prove in court.

But apparently if you have been paid for a job you agreed to do then that's considered a contract even if no documents were signed. If there are any lawyers out there please correct me.

Not worth it now but what happens in the future if his company does well and the cofounder comes looking?

So where do you go if you're just looking for startup jobs? Are there any good sites out there? Or where do startups post openings?

I for one prefer this map with New Zealand in the centre ;) http://flourish.org/upsidedownmap/mcarthur-large.jpg

Yes, it does depend on whether your upstream provider, i.e. ISP supports IPv6. DNS root servers supports IPv6 and most domain name services should support IPv6 by now.

There is no NAT in IPv6. The address that you get should be globally routable, Unless of course your ISP have any IP filters in place. In the end it will depend on how your ISP allocates IP addresses to you.

Initially, the main issue was non-IPv6 capable CPE devices like your cheapo ADSL modem. The way around this was via Teredo tunneling, tunneling on IPv6 packets within IPv4 UDP packets.

Windows Vista and above supports IPv6 pretty well out of the box including Teredo tunnelling out of the box. Most BSD flavours are alright via the KAME project... not too sure about Darwin though.

Anyway, it's been awhile since I've worked in the IPv6 area so god knows what else they've come up with.

If I'm not mistaken, the Mars Rover had a 1 megapixel camera. :)

I actually prefer webkit's javascript console. It's easier to traverse objects that you print out using console.log and it has intellisense. :)

If fool = less technically inclined, then yeah fortunately.

I reckon there's a fine thin line between simplicity and choice. Make it too simple and it's a useless piece of software. Too many choices will make it die a feature creep death.

Probably the problem with most technically inclined people is the inability to see the world through the eyes of the majority less technically inclined people. Then again I guess it depends on the target market and the product you're building.

Sort of reminds me of murphy's law. "Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it." :)

The best part about firebug is that it allows you to change the css on the spot and you get to see how that affects your layout immediately.

dvd backups of everything?

I haven't looked at what's in the leaked data but is it some guy just incrementing id numbers and getting the JSON result via http://graph.facebook.com/someidnumber ?

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api

I don't know about others but I have a tendency to end up making something close to comment type 3,ie. obvious comments. Or comments explaining what and not why.

Although it may seem that I'm describing why and not what, a couple of weeks later I would be looking at that piece of code and wondering what's the purpose of that piece of code. :|

This happens quite a bit when pseudo-coding in the code and these comments get left behind. However, sometimes these green comments are good to quickly scan through blocks of code.

it would be great if this could open a new tab with the split views on 'middle click' instead opening all links in the same page

Is it possible to hijack the 'middle click' on a link so that it opens the split view in a new tab?

As a lazy programmer I wanted to find out if anyone had done something about it. It's a fairly obvious itch that I'm pretty sure someone must have scratched it already. ;)

implementing HTML5 offline web storage for an inventory management system. C# MVC

drink coffee. create bugs faster. :)

right on.. i can't agree more

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. " - Picasso

Seriously... probably looking at examples of beautifully design sites and getting some 'insipration' from them. Articles on smashing magazine are pretty good, http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

And I've recently found http://www.metalabdesign.com/

I reckon it just boils down to practice and lots of redoing your design over and over again. I don't like doing it because it seems like a waste of time compared to the amount of code I could have written.

I'm not surprised at the news actually. And I'll put my money on Google Me being based on the OpenSocial framework. Wave, Buzz, iGoogle, Google Friend Connect etc. looks like MVPs which would fit into this new social network. Part of the master plan.

From my experience, I think it is unlikely to be due to cosmic rays.Most likely culprit could be power supply or data buffers. Those non tantalum capacitors then to end of life faster if you're operating in high humidity conditions.

This reminded me of a number of random crashes that a client of my previous company had. Stackdumps just showed random errors. We had about a years worth of crash logs from a couple thousand of network switches (they were an ISP). We initially suggested that this might be a problem with cosmic rays. We even checked the frequency of the random crashes with sunspot cycles. No relationship found. Turns out it was due to another component failing due to a design error.

gears come preinstalled in chrome ... i guess html5 is based on gears .. the editor for the HTML5 draft is from Google so there will be a great similarity

Cool. I'm Malaysian too but located in East Malaysia. I'm working alone on a web project too. From my experience, going alone is emotionally tough, working first may help find people who share the same ambition. Don't give up...."how can you fail if you don't give up" :) Tell yourself you're going to take 4 years (or more if you're still young) and giving it all you have. Even if you fail, you would have gained valuable experience and knowledge.

Be careful of saying that the software is done and launching it big. What you have is probably a product that you think what others will want. Until you get feedback and slowly releasing it to the world, you do not know. Probably getting those unmotivated people around you to try your software might be helpful as a start.

I think historically there's been a higher chance of failure but as long as you learn from the mistakes, you'll do fine. Fail fast.

fyi, I used to lecture CS in Malaysia :) and I failed trying to launch an ecommerce site in Malaysia. But I'm at it again.:)

This article may shed some light on your dilemma http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/10/03/harnessing-e...

Keep reading and learning. If you don't already know, I find the following things helpful - http://ecorner.stanford.edu/ - http://steveblank.com - twitter

It's not about the idea. It's the execution. If it's a good idea, someone else is probably doing the same thing...unless you have a crazy idea. Know your competition and realised that you are one person against probably a whole team of people if it's not a niche enough market you're targeting.

Well that's my opinion anyway...:)

I don't use Adobe Reader anymore. Foxit Reader, http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/, is way smaller and faster. And it's not by Adobe. :)

"The value of an idea lies in its execution"

It will always be an unending battle between hackers and the 'filterers'.

Actually, I wonder if there's another motive behind the filtering. I reckon by blocking access to certain foreign sites, it is actually giving opportunities to the locals to come up with their own home-brewed version of the service. The government is helping you kill off foreign competition.

Maybe it should be a case of "when there's a big problem, there's a big opportunity."