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iuygthn
16y ago
Of course we 'ad it tough We used to have whistle Hayes codes up t'phone line ourselves - after making our own modem leads out 'o back to back NULL modems. Ones and Zeros - you were lucky. We only had zeros and we had to catch wild ones and
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iuygthn
16y ago
You're exactly right though ;-) As a 40+ engineer I would have considered REST urls but facebook would never have occurred to me.
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iuygthn
16y ago
>They are probably older than 40 Yep it's tough being over 40 - we don't really understand this web stuff. I mean we invented it all 20years ago, we wrote the first browsers and the first servers, we wrote the first pages - but since we
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iuygthn
16y ago
The nice thing about being a startup in Vancouver is you have really motivated staff We keep an office in Toronto to send all the failures to - that really motivates people to succeed!
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iuygthn
16y ago
Touch screens suck in those environments. We used to use a fancy touchscreen gadget in mining - where everything is covered in water, oid, dust and you wear gloves - genius idea!
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iuygthn
16y ago
Depends on the product - this pitch is aimed at 'cool new web framework' type opensource projects. If I'm looking for a heavy duty technical library, say 3D mesh generation or image processing I want someone serious behind - preferably with