HenryTheHorse

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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
IMO, that space (minus the AI component) is occupied by BPM and workflow automation platforms. But what a business needs is an application and not a platform. So if you have a specific business problem and a use-case in mind and can prototy
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
Not getting your vitriol, man. NetSuite sells to SMB space. Those companies lack IT expertise and prefer cloud-based solutions. Hence they were successful. If your anger is toward poorly designed software, then yes, it doesn't matter i
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
Brilliant. What's stopping you? (Other than hundred million dollars and an enterprise sales team?)
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
SMB = Small-to-Medium Business (companies in the $10m - $250m revenue range) SaaS = Software-as-a-Service (like Salesforce.com)
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
This news is interesting because with NetSuite's acquisition, it leaves no significant SMB SaaS player for SAP or MSFT to acquire immediately. All eyes are on their next announcement. Anybody got a few hundred million sitting around
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
#1 A change in your current process must be "sold" in the business context of $$savings (faster dev cycle, lower number of bugs, lower cost of support) or increase in developer productivity/utilization or increase in customer
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
> It has constantly puzzled my why people are sleep deprived. why? Age, anxiety, work-load, sleeping conditions, habits, physical health - to name the more obvious reasons. Is that really such a puzzle?
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
Wish we had a "house paleontologist" here to explain the story better. My takeaway is that there is new fossil evidence, which I think should excite researchers everywhere. Instead, the article ends on a researcher expressing caut
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
Lewis Lapham also edited Harper's, another terrific magazine, for a number of years.
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
Actually he got his first Strat only in 1966. But that doesn't mean much - he was playing Jaguars and Jazzmasters before, which weren't shoddy. But to an electric guitar player, the amps and effects are as much part of the gear as
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
Pop simplified musical structures. It made music accessible to both the player and the listener. Anybody could make and enjoy pop and this was a major departure from the previous generation's code. The bands of the 1960s turned their
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
A cliche every guitar-player loves to spout is "tone is in the fingers, not gear". A good guitarist will sound 5x better playing on cheap gear than a mediocre player on expensive gear. That doesn't however mean a cheap guitar
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
You, sir, deserve the Mili Vanilli box set.
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
> ..those people like who are knowledgeable about and skilled in music themselves? This is an age-old question and implies that aesthetic judgements can only be made through knowledge. The Pop revolution that started in the 1950s pretty
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
I called that out too. If they wanted to go all click-baity, they could have gone with "Your favorite band sucks, but now we know why you listen to them".
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
The (jokey) title of the article is somewhat unfortunate as it confers a value to "musical taste". Anyway. > “This pretty convincingly rules out that the preferences are things we’re born with,” McDermott argues. The word &quot
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
> As much as a '56 Strat or a '59 Les Paul is in demand today, I bet there were a lot of dogs among the ones made back then. Most of them are awful - construction-wise. (But to some, that's the lure.) I would much rather o
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
I've owned cheap guitars and I have a "nice" Fender. I'd much rather play the Fender. But as any guitar player will tell you, you can put a cheap Strat knock-off in Jimi Hendrix's hands and it will still sound like
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
> the design phase is relatively cheap In my world (enterprise software), the design phase is usually the most expensive phase, as it tends to be staffed with expensive architect/designer/technical lead-level folks.
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
>...how many cars they are putting on the roads every day That, and the fact that abysmal city planning has created unhealthy environments, such as locating chemical plants in suburban Mumbai, where a massive population resides. Bhopal w
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
That satellite image of the haze is scary. Scarier still is how the deterioration of air quality in the cities is affecting health. (The WHO estimates ~15 million bronchial asthma patients in India.) You haven't experienced air polluti
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
> stopped 15 years ago, and I still get cravings. I stopped 6 years ago and have zero cravings. But I am curious how you define "cravings". Is it a physical sensation? Is it a mental "pull" when you see someone light
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
"Portrait" is a little masterpiece. There are sentences and passages in it that make me want to stand up and applaud the genius that is Joyce.
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by HenryTheHorse 10y ago
I am a die-hard Marx Bros. fan so I am biased obviously, but dammit Groucho playing Shiva would have been genius . (Even though Shiva is the Destroyer and it was Harpo not Groucho who destroyed things....but I nitpick.)
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by HenryTheHorse 11y ago
Add WhatsApp to that list. Its usage has exploded in the last 3 years.
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by HenryTheHorse 11y ago
I agree - navigating Quickbooks or a bank website is not that hard if one uses them on a daily basis.
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by HenryTheHorse 11y ago
Yes. One would log into their bank website/app and into Quickbooks. What am I missing?
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by HenryTheHorse 11y ago
Indeed. I have personally worked with two such companies that sold equipment and services to oil and mining companies. Both those sectors have been hit hard and their suppliers (esp. ones who had not diversified well) were hit in turn.
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by HenryTheHorse 11y ago
Consulting folks also tend to work with customer's schedules (and the offshore team's hours). There can never be fixed hours for those guys.
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by HenryTheHorse 11y ago
There's at least 35 companies in S&P500 directly related to Oil & Gas (equipment, drilling, distribution, refining etc). While 7% is not "over-represented", but it's not insignificant either. How would S&P pe

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