The terms night and day confused me a little. I consider myself a morning person, but a night programmer. I thrive in the early mornings, but I have all the traits described here as a night programmer.
I second what both those people said. I had a nice email exchange with him about my startup. It didn't turn into a meeting like it did for the second person, but he did help me. Also, you can find him on Reddit as well. I have never met him in person, but from our interactions, email and Reddit, he seems like a really nice guy.
In the comment section on there someone pointed out that they knew someone who died the same way and it was a peaceful death. They just stopped breathing while in a coma. I do hope he went peacefully.
Let me ask you this. What do you do when a friend says they are on MySpace? That is exactly how I see my friends On Facebook after I make the switch to G+ over the next few months. I will still log into Facebook to see what is going on, but for the most part I am only keeping my Facebook account because I admin several pages. For now I am double posting things to FB and G+, but eventually I will stop. IMO, G+ is another social platform, just like Facebook was when there was already Friendster and MySpace. Some people with jump ship, some people will keep both accounts.
I am a contractor at HP in Roseville. While we are not associated with the WebOS team, there have been talks here about layoffs. I work on the HP Networking/Procurve team. We have been told that our team is being integrated with HPIT, but the problem with that is the HPIT team is on the east coast, so that means the chances of even the employees keeping their jobs is slim. All of us contractors have been warned that our contract will most likely end at the end of October. While I don't know for sure, I would guess that the WebOS team will be folded into some other HPIT team if they are willing to relocate.
I have used the iPhone GUI PSD Version 4 several times. It does lack a map though, which i thought was in the version 3. Thanks for this resource, I have bookmarked it.
One problem that I see is that I did the "Get a taste" thing and it just spun and spun and never did anything. I am now a little apprehensive that I gave your app access to my Facebook posts.
Actually, after posting this I found an article that said that GoDaddy is selectively denying DNS requests, so they are now being crappy with DNS as well. I guess I need to move to a new registrar and DNS host.
DNS wasn't really the problem here, it was the hosting and setting up a ssl cert. I use GoDaddy for my DNS stuff and have never had any problem with them for that. Most of the horror stories come from people hosting with them.
I think now that the anti-trust stuff in the US has expired they may start a more integrated and nickle and dime type of integration. As an MSDN subscriber I would love a more barebones Windows that allows me to add on what i need when I need it.
The free version can give you an idea of how your server will handle a small spike, and the other versions are per day so if you only need to test once or so a week as you finish a sprint then it wouldn't be a horrible cost.
There are already companies out there selling +1s. Google has done well with its ability to spot people cheating on page rank, hopefully they will be able to spot fake +1s
I am planning on applying this round, but I have to admit that I hate making presentations, in fact I am dreading the 1 minute video I have to make for the application. I imagine that I will get over it.
Maybe my startup is different than others, but I have to do everything at least some of the time. I can't imagine a startup ceo saying "I refuse to do X".
This may apply with OS X apps, but with iOS apps it doesn't make sense. For $0.99 you have little to lose if you download my app and you hate it, but to make a dumbed down free version that will entice you to buy my paid app I have to redesign it. I have to think from a marketing perspective. What can I take out to make it painful enough for you to buy? Do I put in a nag screen? Do I put it on a timer? If I am going to do all that I might as well make the app free and put in iAds.
I will be honest. I have been "that" person. I almost never type in urls. If I don't have it bookmarked I will google the name just to get a clickable link.
That wasn't at all what I was expecting from the title. This could have easily been "How to be a good business co-founder". You did what you was supposed to do as a business co-founder, and Chris did what he was supposed to do. I wish all business co-founders understood what their jobs are.