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- Make songbird look like spotify: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1440
- Got it, thanks Paul!
- Email me your email address so I can invite you Mike (paul@paulmwatson.com)
- Happy New Year to you, as well! I was stopping by to see if you would be willing to lend a reader a Spotify invitation. I am desperately hoping to be able try out the service. Thanks! Mike
- Nice one Jamie. Even more ironic is that that "mass production" is probably still underpaid, underage workers in some 3rd world country sweat-shop.
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Joel reckons you have to be a programmer to run a software company because:
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again […] ... Continue reading »
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again […] ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
> Was Microsoft successful because Bill Gates wrote great code in the
> beginning or because he was just a shrewd businessman who saw
> something the business folk at IBM didn’t?
As far as i'm aware, Gates *never* wrote /great/ code. He wrote code that got the job done, wrote it quickly, and surrounded himself with people who did the same. And i'm not sure why you'd put "just" in front of "shrewd businessman" - the history of the software industry is filled with companies and products that died due to the lack of people who could get things done, whether that was writing the software or selling the software.
You can have one or the other and be yet another mediocre organization. The ones that go further are the ones that have *both*, and both know their jobs, and both *do* their jobs, and each leaves the other to his specialty.
Then again, there's SAP...