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wallop | 16 years ago | on: Etacts Adds Contact Info, Social Networking, and Handy Statistics to Gmail

It's running, barely. I suspect they're using DreamHost.

wallop | 16 years ago | on: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs wanted to sue Sun

Makes them sound like a bunch of squabbling children.

wallop | 16 years ago | on: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of the fact that ideas in themselves can be extremely valuable and are worth guarding.

wallop | 16 years ago | on: RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desire for world domination

I believe you - I was just addressing plinkplonk's broader point about ads in this style and offering my own recent experience in the job market as a counterexample.

wallop | 16 years ago | on: RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desire for world domination

The problem is, in the US even jobs where you will actually be maintaining legacy enterprise systems are advertised like this these days. Having seen so many job ads in this style recently, some cooked up as job-bait by recruiters, I tend to trust ads with more grounded language.

wallop | 16 years ago | on: The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder

Extremely well-written, concise-but-detailed, no-bullshit guide to a process that I have shied away from because it seemed to involve a lot of mysterious complexities.

The author's recommendations provide extremely reasonable advice to follow in any project management endeavor. He emphasizes an assertive but respectful approach, taking the needs of both sides of the project into consideration and outlines a wide range of practical details that you could only know about from having a high degree of first-hand familiarity with this service.

I'm saving this and hope to draw on it soon, now that it doesn't seem quite so daunting. Thanks for posting.

wallop | 16 years ago | on: BBC News - The top 100 sites on the internet

Surprised that Livejasmin is bigger than Linkedin.