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by 10ren 17y ago
Article reports 18% revenue rise in 08, but it fell again the next year: PERIOD ENDING 30-Jun-09 30-Jun-08 30-Jun-07 Total Revenue 58,437,000 60,420,000 51,122,000 http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual
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by 10ren 17y ago
Hey, looks great! Suggestion: small search box on the main page (like SO). It's my first port of call.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Windows software, the key benefit of Windows, won't be compatible with a Windows on ARM, without a x86 simulator (slow) or a re-compiler of executables (tricky).
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by 10ren 17y ago
Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212519 ("Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?") I've heard it said that comp sci students who get a 2b in honours, do better in their career than those who get a 1st. Ma
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by 10ren 17y ago
Re: examples vs problem-solving: I found that attempting a problem that was beyond me would prime my mind, so that when I read the solution, my mind would grab it. Like an enzyme. Apart from focusing on the relevant aspect of the material,
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by 10ren 17y ago
I'm always finding new places to use brace expansion. Recently I've starting doing diff longpath_andor_longfilename{a,b}*
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by 10ren 17y ago
I use up-arrow for that. My .inputrc has: "\e[A": history-search-backward If you don't type anything, it acts exactly as the old up-arrow.
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by 10ren 17y ago
It's a DAG. The arcs are diffs (edits).
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by 10ren 17y ago
This is horrific, unbelievable. I'll probably be downvoted for this, but I can't help but think that precisely because it's killing them, it exerts an enormous selection pressure on albatrosses. Nature is also cruel.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Could you summarize the "smackdown" please? My take is that NoSQL is a return to the hierarchical databases that the relational model replaced for many uses (both have a place of course).
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by 10ren 17y ago
JIT inventory control + Dr. Evil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_(business)
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by 10ren 17y ago
Why those nm numbers? Hmmm... surface density (nm squared) roughly doubles every two years. Slower than Moore's Law (double every 18 months).
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by 10ren 17y ago
So... if you find you have some empathy for something that is non-standard for a developer (and even non-standard for the mainstream), you should cultivate it.
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by 10ren 17y ago
What size project would you typically get done for the $450-$550 mentioned? I'm intrigued that this might be a way to get some small projects done I've been putting off done (like a simple shopping cart app with a few specific functions, th
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by 10ren 17y ago
RIM grew three times faster than Apple during this period.
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by 10ren 17y ago
The characters were more filled out in the original, even longer, screenplay http://chud.com/articles/articles/21969/1/PROJECT-880-THE-AV...
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by 10ren 17y ago
“we’ll launch a bunch of products and see what works.” That is the old “throw spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks” approach. It’s intellectually lazy and I doubt many great companies are born this way. Sony and HP were born t
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by 10ren 17y ago
More a Fanpack. Still, very cool. video http://www.martinjetpack.com/video-gallery.aspx
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by 10ren 17y ago
This is great stuff, kudos to Kevin. The "looks like/is a goose" one reminds me of looking for a "market alternative" (from the book "Crossing the Chasm"). The market alternative is how potential customers presently deal with the problem
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List of StackExchange sites(meta.stackexchange.com)
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Sites built using the StackOverflow platform(stackexchangesites.com)
35 points by 10ren 17y ago|14 comments
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by 10ren 17y ago
$40 million at 18 is mindblowing. The "hire developers to make it" approach is not for me personally, but there are important pure-entrepreneur lessons here that some of us inventor-entrepreneurs forget all too easily: - “When you go to mar
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by 10ren 17y ago
As written, one thinks of a poster on a person's wall; but it might be about a person with a stock of bootleg posters for sale. Such rules tend to be specific, but we can't know without seeing them. EDIT or they could even be non-sponsor
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by 10ren 17y ago
Yes, Sun's inability to execute in consumer markets appears in the failure of applets against flash. And it would also prevent them from creating something like an iPhone. It seems that just about all current success stories in computing ar
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by 10ren 17y ago
idea: a social aggregator, that votes on blogs that elicit that moment; organized by category to form virtual books of 300 chapters.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Sun was primarily a hardware company and that's where “The Innovator’s Dilemma” is applicable. The PC killed them.
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by 10ren 17y ago
FogBugz has competitors, I think especially Jira, but it's hard to dominate the market if you only target 5-10%. Isn't pg an entrepreneur who has reaped similar dividends from a similar formula of "blogging"? i.e. a book/essays addressing b
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by 10ren 17y ago
I wonder would is the percent of revenue from products that originated from the 20% time ? e.g. for gmail, its adwords revenue.
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by 10ren 17y ago
A minor aside: I don't know anything about the person Penelope, but one key to popular characters is to be relatable. This also applies to the persona one projects. A person with a very popular blog is likely an expert at being relatable -
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by 10ren 17y ago
One reason is that several different skills are required for a successful startup, and it's rare to find aptitude for all of them in one person. OTOH, any intelligent person can develop skills they lack, with sufficient determination, humil

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