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Small startup, self funded, fast moving. Feel free to email me at jon at the domain above for more info!
I have one, and I love it as well. I have a hard time committing to read long things on my computer -- I now just put it on my kindle, and when I'm away from my computer, I can focus and really read the articles.
But portions can be open source, as long as you keep what makes you as a business closed initially, you can retain control over your bloodline, while either open sourcing chunks or utilizing other open source projects.
I thought the title meant it was using Altivec or SSE, but it's merely operating on a chunk of 4 bytes at a time dealing with misaligned data up front. Still a good article, despite my initial disappointment.
A similar article which originally taught me these tenants is:
I used illbuzz.com. They are great, fast, and have high quality paper. I opted for the rounded corners, making it 1000 cards for $45. Excellent service.
I second this. I have this option turned on in reddit, and it keeps me from accidentally navigating away from reddit. I keep clicking on links here and by the time I read the article, I forget to press back instead of close, causing some frustration.
I don't know if it's true that free is killing us. I can point to several counterexamples, such as 37Signals and FogBugz that charge for their applications, and are apparently healthy. I think that no matter what, there will be people who want quality service without the advertisements.
The author compares launching big and launching small, but really they're apples and oranges. Yes, to launch big, you need to make a big splash and either be free or very low priced. But the alternative is still there: get the niche market, and launch slowly and by word of mouth of your users.
I don't think we're in a situation where you can't launch small and make a living.
Small startup, self funded, fast moving. Feel free to email me at jon at the domain above for more info!