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by DaveMebs 15y ago
I don't think that boarding back to front is the necessarily an obvious win here. One thing you will see on flights is that people in the back often place their overhead bags in a compartment near the front. As they do not plan to access th
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
This mail is from 3 years after Gates stepped down as CEO. I think you are trying to use this to reaffirm your personal beliefs about MSFT, rather than use this form your beliefs about the company. You seem to think that because MSFT made G
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
While it is a fair point, you have to keep in ming you are comparing Microsoft's main campus with a secondary Google campus.
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Microsoft, SUSE Extend Linux Interoperability Agreement(eweek.com)
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
There is a Firefox icon on the desktop in the screenshot, and the article specifically mentions being able to run Firefox.
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
There are going to be plenty of things that come out of MS Research that people don't realize came from there (examples: PhotoSynth, Kinect). Expecting an exhaustive list is unrealistic. Furthermore, MS Research was founded over a decade ag
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
What a ridiculously over-exaggerated title. An iPad helps a girl with albanism to read and Steve responds with a charactaristically short email saying thanks and can I share this with leaders at Apple. There is nothing wrong with his respon
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
I think it depends on the kind of business. I think it is useful to break Groupon deals into a few categories, as well as the number of customers involved in any given deal: FAST-FOOD DINING Depending on the number of customers. most, if no
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
No, he got it right. His point was that Groupons customers are merchants, and they have been screwing their customers. Excluding the first sentence, your point completely validates what he was trying to say.
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
It is interesting to note that it is impossible for a theory spouted by nutjobs to be true in this flowchart. A non-nutjob must endorse a theory before it enters the realm of possibly true. Danny must have an incredibly low opinion of consp
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
Actually, it implies the opposite. If someone who is not a nutjob is spouting the theory it will get debunked, regardless of placement on Hacker News. If Hacker News were in the nutjob category, it would be irrelevant in the flowchart. The
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
Why is it a gamble? Worst case scenario Samsung is told no and they are right where they are today. It's not like lawyer fees matter in this kind of case. Both companies make enough money and have enough at stake to not worry about the cost
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
You could call it a warm-up period, but the point is that period is pre-launch. I think it is fair to assume a team at Google worked on this project before launch as well. I don't know how long they did for, but they could have chosen to ta
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
It would be interesting to know the Instapaper and ReadItLater's user break down by OS. I think the percentage of Windows and Linux users who who use Safari and one of those services is small enough to discount. So for the sake of discussio
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
Unless, of course, you are running a hard real-time OS, in which case kernel timers are guaranteed to fire at the exact rate specified.
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by DaveMebs 15y ago
The article presents a fairly plausible theory, but no actual evidence to support incredibly serious accusations. It certainly sounds like the case was beneficial to Cisco, but the theory completely disregards the idea that the founder actu
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
When did you do the comparison? In the summer of '09 when Bing launched I gave it a shot, but just did not like it as much as Google. A few months ago I went back and tried it again, and have not gone back to Google since.
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
Its certain that these are only estimates, however, Bing has been growing in market share consistently for quite some time now. If memory serves correctly, they have had month over month improvement for at least the last 6 months, if not lo
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
The biggest problem with articles such as these is that the author willfully ignores all of the other mobile platforms currently on the market (Windows Phone, Blackberry, WebOS (note: ignoring Nokia due the the expected retirement of their
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
Yeah, except Bing gets to mine Facebook and Google doesn't. Maybe that's why it has a higher success rate? http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20... http://www.stateofsearch.com/bing-gaining-share-in-the-us-su...
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
Your point is valid and well taken, but I would like to call out that 1) I specifically mention the use of optimizations as impacting my argument, and 2) I did not mention gcc. I completely agree that for system programming you "have to und
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
The STL does lead to increased memory consumption and code bloat, however. It is wholly unacceptable to use the STL in any embedded system, or kernel-level OS code.
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
The key point, IMO is the fact that C++ compilers are essentially a black box, and you cannot guarantee the code that will be output. When you write C code, you pretty much know exactly what the assembly, and thus machine, code will look li
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
To add on to the this, the author also ignores the many benefits of keeping a variety of products under one organization. By keeping the products within a company, you enable much greater levels of collaboration than if they were separated.
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
But the context of this is much more akin to forums than parties. I'll +1 a link I agree with or found useful, but I'm not going to bring the link to a night club.
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
"It's a little bit nerdy," is exactly the problem I see with this. They are taking a piece of internet/geek culture and expanding it to my Grandma. My Grandma know what it means to "Like" something, but does she understand "+1"? Probably no
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
Yes, but I would not think about it as code sharing. MSI (the installation technology used by Office and most Windows programs) supports the notion of "Shared Components," which allows applications to share common resources. A component is
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
Apple's version of iTunes on Windows is so much worse than the Mac version, that I can only assume it is intentional. For example, only one user may run iTunes at one time on a PC while multiple users can run it on a Mac. It also shits all
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
Why do people seem to think this is so bad for CentOS users? It seems to me that if the CentOS devs quoted don't find it to be a big deal, it probably isn't. They know better than you or I.
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by DaveMebs 16y ago
Everything done at MSFT is based upon dev-test-pm triads where all members of the team have equal say in the product and decisions. This is true from the individual contributor level up to the VP level (where it starts to break down). Dev's

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