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by byteCoder 16y ago
My son tells me that with SpeedChat Plus in Toontown, transmitting friend codes is much easier because only certain words are filtered out. If you want to transmit numbers, you can enclose homonyms in parentheses "(too").
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by byteCoder 16y ago
Nice table. Until my wife's MacBook slid off it. Note to self: Add a sticky mat in the future to add a little friction.
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by byteCoder 16y ago
Very true. Which is why, as a software consultant owner of a S Corp, my salary was always defined to be at least that minimum, to avoid any question.
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by byteCoder 16y ago
As the article said, there's already a "reasonableness" test for setting a correct salary for the work that an S Corp. owner does. If owners are still not setting reasonable salaries for themselves (and pay the appropriate additional employ
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by byteCoder 17y ago
"tu quoque" (party A did this so that makes it right for party B) is not a valid argument. If it was unconstitutional then, it's still unconstitutional now (even if it's now a tradition). (Cf. Gephardt Rule)
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by byteCoder 17y ago
This reminds me of the service from the 1980s (was it Sprint Mail?) where you could dial up (over a 300 Baud modem), type a letter, and it would be physically mailed to an address. At the time, it was several dollars per page.
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by byteCoder 17y ago
If this is true, my hope is that Apple takes this lack of good faith from AT&T as a good reason to not renew exclusivity after the contract ends sometime next year (2010). Of course, it's also very likely that Apple and AT&T are pla
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by byteCoder 17y ago
I find it quite amazing that the photographer even bothered to 'shop the photo. It seems to me as irrationality on his or his editors' part. In this case, I don't think the doctoring of the photo affects the substance of the article. Howeve
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by byteCoder 17y ago
The only thing I know is that just today my 8 year old son and I were watching cable TV and saw an ad for Vonage ($24.95/month). My son asked me who would get Vonage because you can get MagicJack for $19.95/year. I guess, personally, I'll s
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by byteCoder 17y ago
The layout of their web site is a symptom of the problem, but absolutely not the problem itself. The problem is the economics of news delivery, plain and simple. As Doc Searls put it recently (and I'm paraphrasing): If you came to me today
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by byteCoder 17y ago
Congrats to MLB! So, what does this mean for the iPhone gold rush for indie developers? Well, it'll take a perfect storm of loyal user base, deep and frequently updated data, a very useful and functional application, and a price point that
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by byteCoder 18y ago
A new religious war is breaking out before my eyes: web apps vs. native apps on the iPhone. The reality is that there are lots of native iPhone apps that should be web apps. Right now, the web apps don't quite pay as well. I believe what we
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by byteCoder 18y ago
While all the predictions were somewhat negative, but realistic about the economy, to use the term "scary" is media sensationalism at its finest. Objectively, we all need to prepare ourselves to weather this economic storm. Whether or not t
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by byteCoder 18y ago
Key point: "[Low capital requirement/pure software] [s]tartups can be run so cheaply now (with open-source software, cloud computing, and virtual teams spread across the Web) that many more can achieve profitability without any VC cash." I
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by byteCoder 18y ago
And this article has been posted to Hacker News for what reasons? http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/ appears to be a better place. Don't upmod me. Please downmod TFA.
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by byteCoder 18y ago
Freakishly close? pi - 3.141592653 is freakishly closer. Scared yet?
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by byteCoder 18y ago
Actually, as Nintendo DS enthusiasts, they form part of my application test department already! ;-)
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by byteCoder 18y ago
If you think you're too old, then you probably are. Age is a state of mind. Actually, at 41 myself (and 3 months into my own startup), I find that as the kids get older (7 and 11), I'm getting more time again to pursue my passions.
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by byteCoder 18y ago
I have to congratulate these developers for creating what appears to be a very useful iPhone app on a shoestring with lots of sweat equity. However, when it comes down to how much it cost, like jrockway said, it's not very meaningful to oth
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by byteCoder 18y ago
Imagine the problem that certain companies (who have delayed investing in their products) are running into now that Microsoft has announced no VB runtime will be in Windows 7 (optimistically due in early 2010). I hope they're starting their
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by byteCoder 18y ago
What is your name? Bill Gates What is your quest? To conquer the world with Visual Basic. At what index shall arrays start? One... no, zero... (arghhhhhhh.....)
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Robert Bachrach responds to infamous Ethernet would be a failure memo(bytecoder.com)
18 points by byteCoder 18y ago|0 comments
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by byteCoder 18y ago
I guess I'm a sucker for these programmers of yore stories. Yes, Mel would be an unsuitable candidate for most modern, team-oriented programming positions. But, heck, to be truly one with the machine in understanding all of its nuances is e
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by byteCoder 18y ago
The current system has an "accuracy" that sometimes can be most closely measured in miles (i.e., it's not accurate at all). Certainly, that's better than positioning in NYC when you're really in Zurich, but not by much. Thus, any applicatio
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by byteCoder 18y ago
Let me repeat... red light cameras are NOT for safety, but for revenue. If this was not the case, Dallas, Texas (and several other cities) wouldn't have recently stopped their red light camera program because it was TOO effective at reducin
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by byteCoder 19y ago
Yes, I had that deja vu feeling, too...
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by byteCoder 19y ago
The article is a lot of wishful thinking on behalf of its author. The news of the death of the suburbs has been greatly exaggerated. No doubt, basic bedroom communities with a lack of transportation options for commuting will suffer with in
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by byteCoder 19y ago
Now, if only the composer could have created music without altering the original sounds by transposing them to different keys, it would have been more impressive.
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by byteCoder 19y ago
I suspect that parental assistance on college admission essays has happened for decades. However, with the hyper-competitiveness to get one of a very limited number of admission slots, some parents (wanting to give their kids what they want
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by byteCoder 19y ago
Although an interesting essay, I find it a bit ironic that Orwell violates some of his own guidelines in it. Let's face it, corporate-speak and government-speak sucks. Writing can be a high bandwidth form of communication. You must write cl

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