Each wants to be last through the door.
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So what were the companies? For some articles I just read the comments here. ;)
Plus, a brick-and-mortar store owner has higher fixed costs.
Blub work on a startup at night could be another path away from employment that isn't really addressed in the presentation (though it's very difficult to pull off, IMO).
Hopefully this summary does justice to the remainder (but IMO it's worth watching):
40:00 Essentially he says you're not defined by your job. Your outside projects represent your self-expression and the corporation doesn't get a piece of that.
42:00: Most companies treat programmers like factory workers. In that case, act like one: do a professional job and punch out at the end of the day.
43:30: "If the company makes money off the sweat off your back, you get a chunk. If you don't get a chunk then you give them what they absolutely ask for, keep it to a minimum, be friendly, be very professional, do your stuff, make sure it's well-written, but don't go out of your way to give them your latest, greatest research or your idea or whatever."
44:00: Work on weird and cool stuff at home to stay sharp. If all you do is corporate coding, all you'll ever be is a drone.
45:00: When you're coding at home, "you're making poetry people can play with." But you don't want to do this for a company that doesn't care. "Who wants to make another document management system, time tracker or accounting system? There is money in that, but unless you're making the money too, it's not really fair."
47:30: Don't fear change. At home, take chances and learn new stuff. But at work, just give them what they want because they'll make changes whether you like them or not. It's just a job.
50:00: If you're concerned about being outed, consider creating an online identity (like "_why").
51:30: Don't do Blub at home; do something completely different, break the rules and code for fun. At work, don't think too much, don't be different and just get it done.
52:40: Outside work, make sure you're not someone's "resource" to be "utilized." Run with like-minded folks.
54:00: Embrace your geekiness, get out there and do it now.
55:00+: Questions and answers. This was good too, but somebody else will have to take over the transcription. ;)
My first impression was that the feature list next to the logo needs a different font. In general it seems like a nice improvement over the old site's visual design.
And besides services I believe there are already dev tools being sold.
"JF: While the lack of a free plan lead to increased paid signups, we decided we’d bring it back because we’d be missing out on a lot of upgrades from free -> pay. That’s a lucrative pay path for us."
Regardless of the outcome, I hope you'll be okay with yourself (actually I hope that for everybody). There are other things in life besides payoffs.
I also think they've become savvier about promoting their generic brands.
I went to a group meeting similar to the one you mentioned at its inception and was really bored, but it has to depend on the people, the presentations, and you.
Are you sure you didn't receive a series of e-mails warning about the upcoming renewal? That's what I always get from GoDaddy for each of my domains, prior to the auto-renewal.
For example, I received one at the end of November notifying me that one of my domains will auto-renew at the end of February 2009.
I just checked and have another from a few days ago notifying me of an auto-renewal for a different domain in March 2009.
IIRC, several of these are sent.
I wish he'd tell us. ;)
http://www.networkforgood.org/Default.aspx
There's a "Crisis Relief" link off the home page.
Either way the app will be based on web technologies, it's just a matter of who does the hosting. So if customers self-host it should be technologies they're comfortable supporting, which IMO rules out Ruby or Python frameworks since most of my targeted customers would likely be using .NET or Java.
Merb: Nooooooooooo!