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by Hoff 16y ago
You can become mentally locked into a programming language or development tools or an operating system, or to particular approaches to solving problems, too. Learning something entirely new is more work, as is spending your own money on thi
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by Hoff 16y ago
BizSpark is nothing particularly unusual. Most commercial software vendors have similar programs and analogous offers available to developers, and seemingly most featuring the "for development and testing purposes" restrictions. If you're o
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by Hoff 16y ago
BSODs once a day or so with the high-end Windows 7 64-bit boxes. More often, if they try to run backups with them. Yes, diagnostics have been run, etc. Microsoft has problems with the permutations and the qualifications and all the anti-mal
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Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money(good.is)
221 points by Hoff 16y ago|192 comments
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by Hoff 16y ago
Filler. There's more in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_... And there's... http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-a...
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by Hoff 16y ago
At various points in its history, Microsoft Windows NT and various descendants have been available on Alpha, MIPS, Itanium and PowerPC, in addition to the more widely-known 32- and 64-bit x86 versions. The Windows Embedded version has been
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by Hoff 16y ago
tl;dr Eight repositories, and there's probably a reason why you didn't know about those eight repositories. Many, many other references to permutations of Java and "Open Source" at that site. Certainly looks intended for SEO, too.
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What's your goal with choosing MAC? MAC is one of those environments like OOP or Lisp; an approach that twists your head around on a completely different axis than you might have been previously accustomed to. Programming techniques you'd e
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by Hoff 16y ago
Have you considered disposable razors, printer ink cartridges, cartridge-based coffee makers, those dust mops that use sheets, highway toll transponders, etc. You might not be making a profit up front, but there can well be profit from conv
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by Hoff 16y ago
Your position appears to be one of tactical and not of strategic thinking. Per the article, Xbox itself wasn't itself intended to be a large revenue stream. It was (again, per the article) intended to protect other existing revenue streams
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by Hoff 16y ago
Here is a list of Broadband Initiatives Program grants from USDA, the folks with oversight of the rural grants: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/Reports/RBB_report_v16.pdf Here's one of the groups that is now building out middle-mile optical, a
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by Hoff 16y ago
While certainly useful, video can also be used to misrepresent reality. Ask Shirley Sherrod about that, for instance.
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Microsoft Excel owns that niche. If you're going to aim for the same niche, it'll likely involve a web service for creating RFQs and also for building up a database of both the requests as well as building up the feature loci of the various
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by Hoff 16y ago
Similar features-checklist spreadsheets can arrive from industry analysts seeking your assistance in building their whitepaper products and various other of their comparison products, too. Seeing the other side of those analyst annual revie
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by Hoff 16y ago
With iOS, screen shots can be used to hack this. (To take a screen shot, position the display, and momentarily and simultaneously click both buttons. The screen shots are loaded into the Photo library.)
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I do hope that's not an up-and-coming web color scheme or site layout, as that web site dances the edge of Angry Fruit Salad.
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by Hoff 16y ago
VMS acquired this circa 1995, via a mechanism called protected subsystems, and specifically via a subsystem ACL. The associated access control list entry added additional access onto the running program, and the rights were stripped off at
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by Hoff 16y ago
Missing a market is as big a problem as blowing a software project. Outsourcing can work. Insourcing can work. Both approaches can and have gone down in flames, too. Screwing up the responsibilities for the oversight of code development or
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by Hoff 16y ago
Please don't get defensive. Accept the feedback. Move on. And yes, whether it was intended or not, that statement can be inferred as a negative.
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by Hoff 16y ago
When government is in ascendence, the results are unstable. When commercial interests are in ascendence, the results are equally unstable. Neither lower taxes nor more regulations are a solution. Nor higher taxes, nor less regulations. And
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by Hoff 16y ago
Thinking like the instructor/presenter/seller quite clearly, though also remember to think like the student/purchaser, too. You're clearly familiar with running the process line and incremental improvements for yourself and optimizing your
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by Hoff 16y ago
Without intending disrespect toward Linux, DRDB-like storage has been around for a number of years. There are examples that have been in production for at least a dozen years in commercial operating system deployments. The following is mult
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by Hoff 16y ago
Your job as a teacher or as a presenter is to extend the available materials, and to provide me with insights that I might not gain from Googling existing materials. Not to prevent me from accessing the available materials. Not to control a
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by Hoff 16y ago
A variation can be encountered during product management involved features and prices. In more than a few cases, the product specifications for an update or a new product can indicate near feature parity with a current competitive product,
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by Hoff 16y ago
I don't personally prefer to subscribe to the "it's the user's fault" school of UI design. While sometimes a problem is the user's fault, it's not an auspicious starting position. If a UI design presents a slot or button or knob to an inex
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Either don't nitpick, or don't apologize.
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The NTU distributions appear somewhat oddly presented in those tables, and odd portrayals of data make me curious. Odd displays can indicate the existence of information that a presenter intentionally wishes to avoid highlighting, or infor
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Similar to .com? Not really. .co is the TLD for Columbia.
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Are they customers? One site I'm aware of asked a somewhat different question. They mapped the browsers of the visitors that were buying and how much each bought, and found a completely different answer. Though the site saw a higher percen
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Discussions of technical feasibility aside, getting a sufficiently large installed base to make this interesting is (as usual) the "fun" part; your plan for getting to critical mass against an available and "good enough" solution. As for pr

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