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	<description>Appeal to greatness not guilt</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Silicon Valley is hostile to startups</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/the-silicon-valley-is-hostile-to-startups/170</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/the-silicon-valley-is-hostile-to-startups/170#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not technology startups, but human startups (aka small business).&#160; At one level you can look around the Silicon Valley and see strip malls full of stores, but if you look closely you&#8217;ll see that there is very little variety.&#160; Here&#8217;s two examples:

Furniture
Outdoor Gear

In the furniture case, there is almost no variety of stores in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July in the Silicon Valley</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/july-in-the-silicon-valley/169</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/july-in-the-silicon-valley/169#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t be just the high price of gas!&#160; It&#8217;s Wednesday and there very little traffic and a pleasant 70 degress outside!&#160; Track was a blast yesterday and not only did I run well (quite a few 75second 400&#8217;s) but I&#8217;m not sore today and &#8230;
&#160;
IT&#8217;S A NICE DAY!
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		<title>Shopping out of season</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/shopping-out-of-season/168</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/shopping-out-of-season/168#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really hard to find ski gear in the middle of summer&#8230;
REI sucks, not only is 90% of the clothing closeout, but there isn&#8217;t anything outside of rain gear to be found.
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		<title>Before you go half cocked and build a company&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/before-you-go-half-cocked-and-build-a-company/167</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/before-you-go-half-cocked-and-build-a-company/167#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skitoy.com/p/before-you-go-half-cocked-and-build-a-company/167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this on a old blog that I&#8217;m decommissioning &#8212; insight from an old WSJ article.

Tip 1: Don’t slap your name on just anything to make a buck.  
Tip 2: Find weaknesses with existing products and fix them. The you can charge more.  
Tip 3: But raise prices cautiously; make consumers feel they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to handle Settings for Accounts.</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/how-to-handle-settings-for-accounts/166</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/how-to-handle-settings-for-accounts/166#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve run into this problem a few times, but I&#8217;m putting out a call to see if anybody has some great insight into a good solution. To date, I&#8217;ve come up with three different approaches to handling user settings, but none of which I&#8217;m in love with. Other ideas, other comments, other ways?
Working assumptions

It&#8217;s handy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike shirt poetry</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/bike-shirt-poetry/165</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/bike-shirt-poetry/165#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bicycle poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skitoy.com/p/bike-shirt-poetry/165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bike&#8230; I bike more than average&#8230;&#160; While a Poseur Jersey would be fun, I was thinking on my ride to work today that a shirt/jersey that said (primarily on my ride to work):
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The more I bike&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The less gas I use&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The more there is&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The cheaper it is&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The happier you are
Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JavaScript (spidermonkey) version</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/javascript-spidermonkey-version/164</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/javascript-spidermonkey-version/164#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Way to carried away with this&#8230; here&#8217;s the SpiderMonkey version (as opposed to the rhino) one.  Biggest complaint is the File object is a bit of a pain to use&#8230;

fd = File('p.test');
fd.open("read",'text');

mre = /^__MULTI_TOKEN__\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)\t?\s*(\d+)\s*$/;
sre = /^__SINGLE_TOKEN__\s+(\S+)\s*\t?\s*(\d+)\s*$/;

var ofd = File('full.txt');
ofd.open('write,create,replace','text');
first = {}

while (line = fd.readln()) {
    if (m = line.match(mre)) {
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JavaScript version of the Perl/PHP performance test</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/javascript-version-of-the-perlphp-performance-test/163</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/javascript-version-of-the-perlphp-performance-test/163#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Using the Rhino compiler&#8230; sorry no benchmark numbers, but just as a placeholder. To pick a nit, wanted to do first[m[1]] += parseInt(m[3]) but that yeilded a NaN since first[m[1]] was undefined&#8230; You would think that JavaScript would make undefined == 0.
fd = java.io.BufferedReader(java.io.FileReader('p.test'))

mre = /^__MULTI_TOKEN__\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)\t?\s*(\d+)\s*$/;
sre = /^__SINGLE_TOKEN__\s+(\S+)\s*\t?\s*(\d+)\s*$/;

ofd = java.io.PrintWriter(java.io.FileWriter('full.txt'));
first = {}

while (line = fd.readLine()) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When&#8217;s a string not a string</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/whens-a-string-not-a-string/162</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/whens-a-string-not-a-string/162#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it&#8217;s intertwined &#8212; ok, bad joke.
I&#8217;m currently &#8220;fighting&#8221; (playing) around with the python storm ORM system and had the following problem (not the real code, but demonstration).
What I wanted to say is:
find(..., employee_title == 'CEO')

However this didn&#8217;t work, I had to say:
find(..., employee_title == u'CEO')

After a bit of discussion down a mailing list, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The $100,000 Keying Error</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/the-100000-keying-error/161</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/the-100000-keying-error/161#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.skitoy.com/p/the-100000-keying-error/161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The IEEE summary of this error is worth a read, both from the cause and the outcome of the UI testing.
Since I&#8217;m frequently dealing with interfaces that require typing of sets of digits or numbers.&#160; I&#8217;ve been thinking about this for the last few days and have two thoughts on how to reduce errors like [...]]]></description>
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