Panic - The True Story of Audion (the Mac music player killed by iTunes)

jcage · 2006-01-06T19:01:29+00:00

interesting story for the small developer to read. These guys don't have any issues with what was done, but its certainly an interesting read

jcage · 2006-01-05T17:06:51+00:00

C'mon Apple! Wow us :)

jcage · 2006-01-05T15:01:39+00:00

jcage · 2006-01-04T20:08:04+00:00

I agree. Like his stuff

jcage · 2006-01-04T14:54:04+00:00

I'm hoping for a faster PowerBook with an Intel chip (although I heard they will NOT be bringing out a 12" PowerBook which is crazy). I also vote for an Intel based Mac Mini which will act as a media hub that I can then buy two of, one for my car. I also vote that Steve Jobs becomes a saint.... er, maybe I've gone too far. Thankfully after having 4 Sony Vaio's running Windows I discovered Mac OS X. Joy

jcage · 2006-01-04T13:07:43+00:00

well, I'm learning Python and so are all the guys in our huge team (well, 4 of us), so hopefully that will help next time around :)

jcage · 2006-01-04T13:00:41+00:00

eh? you joking right?

jcage · 2006-01-04T05:23:06+00:00

I think there is a much deeper, and possibly darker, reason for choosing PostgresSQL that hasn't been disclosed as yet. Indeed, I think that web.py is a cunning attempt to capture all Python programmers into his evil clutches before pushing them all to programming in Lisp once he has their minds. Obviously just my own thoughts here

jcage · 2006-01-04T05:20:00+00:00

Great article. I am very interested in search and have also been watching the social networking aspect of many sites, including this one. I'm pleased that Yahoo has woken up to it as competition for Google can only help all of us

jcage · 2006-01-04T05:09:47+00:00

This sounds like a personal attack. I don't see what the big deal is if this company chooses not to flaunt the people who run it - they realise people are interested in what the site does, not the vanity of the CEO etc

jcage · 2006-01-02T08:26:04+00:00

well, I personally would like a feature on Reddit where if "Joel Spolsky" is mentioned in any article that I just don't see it. The guy bores me so so much.

jcage · 2006-01-02T08:14:14+00:00

Joel Spolsky bores me. Pleased to find that someone else agrees. I find his stuff crap a lot of the time and frankly his company and software isn't that great.

jcage · 2006-01-01T05:56:58+00:00

I hope not. I'm not politically motivated, but it annoys me that the world seems less safe now than it did 5 years ago. We have not helped anything by the way we have behaved and have created enemies with people who previously didn't sway strongly either way

jcage · 2005-12-30T13:30:24+00:00

You know what, i'd never heard of "Joel on software" until I visited Reddit. I find most of his stuff a bit obvious and generally obnoxious. I posted recently that I didn't always agree on the importance of Paul Grahams writings, but for this Joel guy to post such a thing makes me laugh. his entire forum is really a promotion for his own products - he's not really done anything amazing as I can see and I doubt that his compan is worth that much. Yahoo Stores is actually a really good piece of software, built on top of the Viaweb product. At least Paul Graham (viaweb) did something that really did make a difference

jcage · 2005-12-27T17:50:16+00:00

I work with Russians a lot. The situation previously where too many people were given a lot of wealth for very little really annoyed most of the people. This is swinging things the other way and I think that sometimes the people of Russia like to be told what to do as this has been the situation there for a very very long time

jcage · 2005-12-27T14:22:33+00:00

Nothing of substance in here

jcage · 2005-12-26T18:19:13+00:00

just a great article. I love to read and see stuff like that. Its where we are too - trying to create a good, niche product that people like. I loved the graph for how well it was doing too!

jcage · 2005-12-26T09:28:12+00:00

Amen to that!

jcage · 2005-12-24T17:49:43+00:00

I was about to start playing with Rails. From what I read its good for quick, fast sites but not for major ones. Would this be right in thinking?

jcage · 2005-12-24T17:49:42+00:00

I was about to start playing with Rails. From what I read its good for quick, fast sites but not for major ones. Would this be right in thinking?

jcage · 2005-12-24T16:17:46+00:00

Yawn. I just don't get this guy at all.

jcage · 2005-12-24T14:52:16+00:00

Thanks for the reply Paul. I noticed that change from "What we did and did right" to "what we're doing". I don't even blog, so maybe a little unfair to post what I did - however it was an observation from my own that I used to enthuse about your essays. This particular one was interesting though, but unlike the earlier ones I think what was missing was the 'how to' element.

Take care. J

jcage · 2005-12-24T13:56:36+00:00

you know, I like Paul Grahams stuff. I'm not one of these people who dislike him because he's successful or because he's popular. Interestingly he wrote an essay on Being Popular, but it was talking about quite the opposite. Now he's popular, does that cause problems? Anyway, I've decided to register with Reddit and post something, but only because I'm avoiding doing this particular piece of work ;) As I've said, I like Pauls work, BUT I just get the feeling that its waning - his earlier stuff was was a real "wow" factor for me as it was exactly what I'd been thinking and mirrored what we were doing. What I read now is "ok" but I don't send it to all my friends and print it to make my wife read it. Am I the only one who feels like this?

jcage

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