bobinator30

>Monospaced fonts went out in the 1970s.

except for programmers

and why wouldn't they just publish the IP address, so I can order food?

impressive work for a small company!

old news

http://blog.pasker.net/2008/06/16/you-might-need-messaging-i...

Xeno would agree!

When gaza lays downs its arms (rockets) and picks up its laptops, Israel will be the first one in there with shekels, know-how, and support.

yes, there is a contract. its Rousseau's social contract: Each of us places his person and authority under the supreme direction of the general will, and the group receives each individual as an indivisible part of the whole

history doesn't move in concrete steps.

people have been running lean start-ups and building products via a customer-centric approach way before either of these guys put pen to paper.

there are many thoughtful and useful long responses to this question, but I would like to paraphrase the advice my best writing teacher gave me:

to write well, do as much reading and writing as you can.

i covered this and many other questions on technical diligence in my blog: http://blog.pasker.net/2007/08/28/a-high-tech-entrepreneurs-...

at my startup, we didn't have any coding standards, except one: don't reformat other people's code.

this meant that the original author of the compilation unit (uh, file) had the freedom to do what he wanted, and other people who made modifications had to conform to the original format.

the results:

1. no fights over coding standards, although we did have plenty of banter

2. it taught people to respect the other people's style if they wanted their own style respected, thereby making everyone complicit and fluent in every style

here's the original hand-drawn version of the cave that i used to use http://bit.ly/S5SRIK

beware registration wall

this is old news: "you never get a second chance to make a good first impression"