birdman

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by birdman 16y ago
you two have almost motivated me to try switching. do you have an example of what you like better about it?
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by birdman 17y ago
Agree with the self-indulgent part. It's sophisticated to like jazz so people try to like it. And then they do because one can grow to like anything. From TFA, "... the American ears are getting lazier and lazier." I'll agree with that, b
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by birdman 17y ago
I agree. I had assumed there wasn't a volume control until I read this.
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by birdman 17y ago
Play golf. I thought that was the whole point of starting and then selling your own company. Plus, country clubs offer socialization opportunities. Even if the people are a bit snooty.
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by birdman 18y ago
I really liked it. I read the whole thing in one shot, which isn't like me. I actually started re-reading because I was afraid I may have missed details at the beginning when I wasn't yet aware that it deserved my attention.
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by birdman 19y ago
You can do some programmatic drawing in Flex, but for the most part you need to load in external graphics. Flash is one tool for making (vector) graphics, but you could make them in Photoshop/GIMP. I use Flex, and it's more intuitive than
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by birdman 19y ago
Sure, they'll want to cash in on their investment in a few years, so the exit might be different from what we would do if we were on our own. But we would have already had to go get real jobs if not for them, so in that sense they've enabl
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by birdman 19y ago
It depends on the venture capitalists themselves. Our start-up has little to no interference from our VCs. It feels very much the same as before we got funding, now we just get to keep working. But again, that only says something about o
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by birdman 19y ago
It's a little harsh to compare Adobe to Microsoft. They were friendly to the open source community by open sourcing Flex. And as far as controlling the runtime goes, that does have some risks going forward as you say, but it also has the b
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by birdman 19y ago
Paul Graham is an 8 foot tall beast-man who showers in grain alcohol and feeds his baby shrimp scampi