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Comment on Tips on negotiating a great consulting rate by seo

seo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:54:49 +0000

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Comment on Firefox is the new Internet Explorer by Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:19:56 +0000

My problem with Firefox were “features” that were more like bugs. They had a one second delay on “alt click” for download, so clicking on a link and alt-tabbing within a second caused a junk file to get put into your downloads folder.

Chrome has started doing that too, so maybe some people like it.

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Comment on New Laptop by Mike Taber

Mike Taber — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:21:44 +0000

There’s only one external Thunderbolt enclosure that I know of and it’s pretty expensive because it’s a 4 or 5 drive RAID enclosure. Which kind of makes sense, since to get the I/O needed to saturate the Thunderbolt bus, you need either SSD’s or RAID. I’m still waiting for a Thunderbolt flash drive, which would just be awesome for being able to carry around some mini-drives and source VMWare images through those instead of through the SSD on the Macbook Air. Just splitting up the disk I/O is all.

Comment on Developer Fail by Mike Taber

Mike Taber — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:17:36 +0000

I don’t think it needs to be a named stage unless it’s closed to the general public. Once you open it up, then basically it moves from one stage to the next, regardless of the label you’re mentally using.

I already own Quickbooks, but it might be easier to use Freshbooks to keep track of it. I’ll make that decision when I get there.

Comment on Developer Fail by Rafal Dyrda

Rafal Dyrda — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:10:05 +0000

When to move from one stage to another? Does there really need to be “named” stage?

When we started, we had a few customers testing our product. Great to have a few of those. We quickly put it together, got it into customers hands, when they stopped asking questions and submitting requests/etc we made it public. Then started charging, improving features, adding more functionality. Every app is different not only because of what it does, but its customers. If customers are fine with the current features/functionality, that’s when you should move on. At least that’s what we did.

As to manual billing… Look at something like Freshbooks. Use their API and their recurring billing to get things off the ground.

Comment on New Laptop by Rafal Dyrda

Rafal Dyrda — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:47:04 +0000

Thanks for the post! Was looking for something exactly like this.

Mostly I develop on a MacBook Pro (Old beast) but still need to fire up Windows. Need to get a new laptop and was on the Macbook Pro/Air debate for a while, so great to see that it’s a good idea to get the Air. But, will wait couple more months and see what new comes out and then make a purchase.

Hopefully at that point there will be some thunderbolt HD enclosures that will hook up nicely to a Mac display, and then, pure nirvana

Comment on Firefox is the new Internet Explorer by Mike Taber

Mike Taber — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:43:08 +0000

Lennie, with memory leaks the problem is that the actual memory usage isn’t always reported accurately via the task manager. So although the task manager may be reporting less memory, you can’t be sure that it’s an accurate number. I’ve seen Firefox claim to be using 500MB and when shutting it down, more than 2GB is freed up.

And as for using more memory, most people don’t care if it uses more RAM so long as it doesn’t impact the other things they do. Once it impacts other programs, then people start to dig and massive memory use in relation to other applications will surface as a symptom. At that point, it doesn’t matter whether it’s more or less than another program if that other program isn’t causing issues.

Comment on Firefox is the new Internet Explorer by Lennie

Lennie — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:08:11 +0000

@w359 @FG_JR Actually Chrome uses more memory than Firefox, I don’t know where you get your numbers from.

The biggest memory problem in Firefox always was that it grew a bit every day for as long as you had it open. Seems to be mostly fixed now.

Comment on New Laptop by Mike Taber

Mike Taber — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:24:38 +0000

I like to use OSX for all of the applications I use which are cloud based, like email, Evernote, instant messenger, etc. The calendar is pretty nice too, although that’s iCal.

The service at an Apple store is top notch, assuming you have an appointment. If not, you’re likely going to be waiting a while for technical assistance. That place is usually just mobbed. If you need sales assistance, they always have enough people on hand for that.

I work with a lot of customers who go through Dell for their PC’s, and it’s just awful. Chances are good I’ll never buy another machine from a major manufacturer other than Apple ever again. My only complaints about the Macbook Air are that it doesn’t support 8GB or 16GB of RAM and it doesn’t have a USB 3.0 connector. And even then, everything else just rocks so much that I feel bad complaining about those two things.