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by 10ren 17y ago
Ah, thanks. Checking the links I posted: iPhone sales go from $1.84B per year to $2.3B per quarter. Still pretty good. (EDIT: rather bizarrely, that's precisely a five-fold increase.)
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by 10ren 17y ago
Guessing before you know the answer creates suspense: a cognitive receptacle for the answer + emotional engagement. When the answer comes along, you grab it, like an enzyme grabs one of its raw materials, because it fits . And it's a relie
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by 10ren 17y ago
For context, the 2008 iPhone sales (whole year, not a quarter) were $1.84B. And now it's $7.4B in one quarter . Is that even possible? http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/corporate/apple_fi... Here's 2009 figures in a similar table
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by 10ren 17y ago
Although IBM started in mechanical office automation - e.g. cash registers and type writers.
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by 10ren 17y ago
YAGNI? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouArentGonnaNeedIt
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by 10ren 17y ago
I was surprised to find that the lack of static types in python made the documentation less clear for me. I had to read through the documentation to get a grasp of what the formal parameters meant (e.g. were they strings, or more complex da
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by 10ren 17y ago
Niche. For a startup or mISV, catering to a particular internationalization locale makes a lot of sense. But I think you'd need some expertise in that locale, e.g. be able to speak the language, for support, and know the customs and convent
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by 10ren 17y ago
True, not every month, but every so often. It's more like punctuated equilibrium. In between, you might have something like 10-15 years.
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by 10ren 17y ago
One gotcha is that to truly making the code concise also can be over-engineering. It takes a phenomenal amount of work to really understand something, well enough to make it as simple as possible. And then you release it and discover that t
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by 10ren 17y ago
Maybe it could have then been positioned as portable mathematica + cool data sets. BTW: I don't get all the contempt for Wolfram. He's accomplished more than most (all?) of us. I think he's entitled to as many mistakes and delusions as it t
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by 10ren 17y ago
He's not exposited it well, but he's saying the documentation of the libraries is more important than the libraries themselves [middle, 4th paragraph]. It's an interesting point, like saying that advertising of a product is more important
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by 10ren 17y ago
Clayton Christianson (of The Innovator's Dilemma ) has a story about Digital, the minicomputer manufacturer that was the second largest computer company in the late 80's: Their management used to be the darling of the tech press and they c
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by 10ren 17y ago
I think you're getting at having a common language, terminology, notation, in order to be able to communicate. These also carry assumptions and biases within them. Often, breakthroughs come along with new notation or terminology - a new con
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by 10ren 17y ago
It seems pretty standard to use names in Australia (Melbourne, anyway). You can always use a pseudonym, "Tom", "Dr. Evil", "Dijkstra" or even "Ugh".
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by 10ren 17y ago
"They convince socially, not rhetorically." is an interesting take on the well-known idea of peer-group pressure. Humans have a need to belong, and we'll do it using whatever means are available. It's not just reddit memes, but also even
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by 10ren 17y ago
I think his definition of debt is the same as "not perfect". There's a lot of evidence from successful people that good enough is good enough.
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by 10ren 17y ago
FORTRAN may well be eclipsed, but like the moon, it's still there . This article gives reassuring answers to the question of: "If FORTRAN is the solution, what was the problem?" Portability and ease of use. The latter is an open-ended prob
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by 10ren 17y ago
Crossing the Chasm had a distinction between applications and platforms. The latter are harder to sell, but scale horizontally, leading to massive adoption. Potentially. Wave seems to be a platform. It needs a killer app in order to be ad
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by 10ren 17y ago
I've wondered about that soup-can artist... Campbells wouldn't have complained about it, because it was free publicity (and much clearer than Hormel's spam dilemma). The original designer would no longer have copyright in the design (Camp
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by 10ren 17y ago
It's very true that when you understand something that others don't - and see (more of) the underlying reality - you can do things that appear to be magic, not only to them but also to you. Unfortunately, as the deeper reality becomes more
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by 10ren 17y ago
Specs at Amazon (4.5 oz; 128 grams) http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B... A review: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/the-wikireader.php CrunchGear review: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/13/wikireader-packs
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"The Language Instinct" Review(physik.uzh.ch)
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by 10ren 17y ago
Tunnel vision is caused by stress. It also represents the worldview that all-you-see is all-there-is. It's a kind of solipsism. What makes what you see so significant? Literally, it is true that you can only observe from your point of vie
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by 10ren 17y ago
This highlights a very reasonable fear that people and corporations have about the cloud. It might even kill off some of the smaller cloud-based players...
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by 10ren 17y ago
So... which one did you mean? Your other reply * seemed to indicate the latter (as I say in the comment); but here you're saying that you'd forgotten about that meaning, so I guess you can't have meant it... * http://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by 10ren 17y ago
I think there's some ambiguity about whether you mean submitting your own blog entry, or making a submission that consists of text rather than a link. Literally, a "self-post" is the latter, and I see in one of your replies that that's what
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by 10ren 17y ago
The "Hello World Examples" for C was only 17 seconds old when I looked, so it seems there's some activity...
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by 10ren 17y ago
If "leverage" was defined (it's a technical, non-dictionary, meaning), and examples given, the hypothesis could be tested against each instance. - Financially, leverage means debt; more capital means you can do more. - Hiring people increas
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by 10ren 17y ago
vim: Recursively load all java files (i.e. in all subdirectories): :args **/*.java Refactor a package name throughout the project ("e" suppresses the "No match" error message): :argdo %s/oldpackage/newpackage/e
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by 10ren 17y ago
Important point: it doesn't have to be vigorous, nor a big production. A daily 5 minute half-brisk walk gives a disproportionate share of the benefits.

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