espinet

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Mar 20	awarded	Yearling
Mar 27	answered	Startup Advice — Attracting “Unpaid” Talent
Dec 20	awarded	Commentator
Dec 20	comment	Can mistakes be made because you are too close to your own product? wheres the line drawn between love for your product, or passionate for your product? how do i know if i've gone to far and fallen in love so i can take a step back?
Dec 19	comment	What companies failed because they released too early? Yes it failed. Heard a talk from Leah Culver (one of the founders) and it didn't do so well.
Dec 17	comment	.NET vs J2EE/JAVA vs PHP sthomps, you mentioned your project is large. You may want to really focus your main functionality and polish it and release that first and after that add more functionality on top. Don't throw in tons of features that took you 10x longer to do, that are 60% done then release it only to find that no one wants to use your product. Remember your 1 or 2 main selling feature that are high quality is a lot better than having 15 features that are all partially broken.
Dec 17	comment	.NET vs J2EE/JAVA vs PHP Using a much higher level language like PHP or Ruby would probably be a lot more effective than using .NET or J2EE initially. You just need to make sure that you have someone who understands software architecture and general software engineering principles. Like olalonde said, majority of php coders are script kiddies and will hack something together. If you did this first and then tried to translate it to .NET or Grails (J2EE on Rails (similar to Ruby on Rails)) it would make life really difficult.
Dec 17	comment	.NET vs J2EE/JAVA vs PHP Ruby is a programming language like PHP, its nothing to special. The beauty of it is the Rails framework. I haven't used LinkedIn but an application similar to Twitter would literally only take a couple of ours to finish (im disregarding all design elements). Rails takes a lot of elements common to most web application and does all the hard work for you.
Dec 17	comment	Elements of a good web app/site design I cant really explain it easily through typing, but basically theres to much going on on their home page. Just did a count on their home pages html source code and there are 323 clickable links. If a person does not know what they are looking for, this certainly doesn't help. People usually don't handle information overload to kindly.
Dec 17	answered	Elements of a good web app/site design
Dec 17	answered	What type of tech blog should I write
Dec 17	answered	.NET vs J2EE/JAVA vs PHP
Dec 13	awarded	Teacher
Dec 13	awarded	Supporter
Dec 13	comment	How to ensure success before launching? Thats an interesting point. Never really thought about that. I always felt Apple's endless iterations where profit mongering. Maybe it is slightly but you have a good point.
Dec 13	comment	How to ensure success before launching? completely fair game.
Dec 13	awarded	Editor
Dec 13	revised	Keeping current with new technology and applications added 260 characters in body
Dec 13	answered	Keeping current with new technology and applications
Dec 13	comment	How to ensure success before launching? thanks for the response. ensuring success was not exactly my question, it was more related to being public about your idea before you release it as dharmesh said in the video posted. but thanks for your time.