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Maybe doing some time-consuming jobs in C?

"This kind of thing happens all the time" Perhaps this is why he is standing up against this?, perhaps he thinks that someone's got a put an end to all this and that he must take matters into his own hands?

If you feel remorseful about self-posting, you can do what jacquesm did in his post about his experience dealing with VC's (great post by the way). He just put the whole thing here.

I normally try to schedule blocks greater than 4 hours for programming and i do everything else on the remaining block of time. This normally requires a little bit of planning the day before and may be disrupted by peers or emergencies, but it works for me.

Just out of curiosity, did you see that Yahoo! Store (previously Viaweb) is part of the small business division?

Maybe you're right, but upper management knows what are the critical applications and those who deliver fixes and improvements to those apps, will shine. This happens at big companies too (at least it does in AutoZone, my current work place), perhaps this is the exception to the rule, but it's what I've experienced.

I strongly disagree with his "developers need to brag" section...in my experience, those developers that brag the most are those whose code is a negative contribution (pardon the oxymoron).

Also, if you're generating a bunch of good code and solving hard problems, people are going to notice you.

It's such a relief for those of us who share that fear. I stumbled upon this letter yesterday, it's a complaint that a 98 year old lady wrote to her bank's CEO. (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art42630.asp)

These two ladies are an excellent example that age is not an impediment for doing things (or doing something about things...in the latter case).

Contrived?,yes, useful?, yes (at least in my experience), do i plan to use that formula in every interaction?, i don't think so, it wouldn't be natural.

Thank you for sharing the example of the kid who "rained all over himself", it clearly shows that exceptions apply.

This was shared by a co-worker due to a problem i had at work, the business and engineers speak a very different language...anyway, the article has proven useful many, many times for me, hope you guys like it.

I read your blog, and i found the idea behind biz teen interesting, but i think you're targeting a rather small market (the world doesn't have as many young entrepreneurs as it needs).

If you don't mind getting an idea from a complete stranger, why not do a social networking app for people within the same age range but focusing on something that appeals to a wider crowd (parties, traveling[backpacking through the world comes to mind], choosing the right school, etc).

Best of luck.

Well you are an architect in a way, you may not be building things out of trees, but you should be building things out of thoughts.

Thoughts may not clean our air, but well directed thoughts may do things just as impressive :D

My advice is that you leave the information, any serious buyer will search "cherrypeel" and eventually stumble upon this thread, if you change your mind and take it off, it will make a bad impression.

I've never sold a web site, but i know for sure that incomplete information (and even worse, there would be evidence of it) only sparks mistrust.

Good luck.

Stanford's CS Ed library (particularly Nick Parlante's linked list and binary tree problem sets) is a fantastic resource for understanding the C language, it is the way i learned it.

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/

There's a quote, i don't remember who came up with it but it goes something like this:

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas, if they're any good, you'll have to push it until it sinks in their heads", it's very likely that at first you'll be the only believer.

In my opinion, convention means nothing.

Do what makes sense according to the problem you're solving.

Works well, i did like it, however i have two comments: -Please be able to get http://www.mywebsite.com , www.mywebsite.com , mywebsite.com , http://mywebsite.com and lastly the good case http://www.mywebsite.com

-I believe that you'd have much more success if you charged on a test basis, your monthly billing might scare people away.

This is an excellent article on the subject, hope you enjoy it:

http://mags.acm.org/communications/200810/?pg=38

Depends on the language, if I'm reading Java code, then I'll use eclipse (ctrl+h is much better than ctrl+right click, when searching for a methods definition, it's the only way i can follow code that uses interfaces a lot).

If you're reading C code, vim + cscope + grep work great.

I think it's about time...If they decorate their stores half as well as they decorate their offices, they will be neat.

No one method works all the time, this depends on the paradigm of the target language. At least i can't use one method.

One thing that makes it much easier (at least for me) is trying to use dependency injection, otherwise i get lost.

Misko Hevery said it better. http://misko.hevery.com/2008/11/11/clean-code-talks-dependen...

I don't know how many of you will read this, but i thought of posting this new finding that has helped me.

I read Joel's functional spec article some time ago and decided to give it a go. I started writing functional specs for three ideas i was thinking of working on (but obviously i don't have the time to work on all three).

I had a terrible time writing the spec for one idea,one idea was right in the middle between and there was the one i was truly passionate about(not obvious at first sight though).Writing these functional specs helped me find which of these possible projects was the most interesting and promising.

Hope one of you finds this useful.

Here's the link to Joel's article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html

The playing field is much more leveled, but few schools actually recognize what subjects are valuable to teach (so many go with the latest hype), Joel put it better in his article:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/article/ThePerilsofJavaSchools...

Cool (i like the fact that when i searched for duckduckgo the first result was "awesome search engine"). I also searched for google (and it gave me cool results such as it's use as a verb). It worked for technical questions such as NullPointerException and sigsegv so overall it's very cool.Congrats! [Perhaps building an add-on for word and office suites would be great for this type of search engine, i would like it(because of things like what i got out of the google query]

Apparently they are changing (very freaking fast) this so i take back my comment.

True. What worries me is that the EULA for the spanish version is still the same (and google is FAST about fixing their mistakes, hope they fix the EULA for the non english versions).

But what you say is true, my level of hate is misplaced. I've been reading about that and i made a very wrong judgment.

True, but that is not true for other languages other than english. At least the spanish EULA is still the same.

So if i build google chrome by myself without any changes whatsoever and use the product of my build do i unbind myself from the EULA?

And everyone's opinion of google with it's evil EULA. I just hate that EULA, it's the most evil thing i've ever seen, it makes look Hitler as a well intentioned fellow [I'm exhagerating greatly here, please take no offense, i just wanted to make a point].

Google hasn't changed their EULA for the spanish version and i wonder if this has happened for the many other supported languages.

You should be equals, that's what i'd demand, i don't see a partnership where the partners are not equals...but that's my opinion.

Interesting, try getting exceptions as well, that might be useful for debugging purposes.