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by Hoff 18y ago
http://mamp.info
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by Hoff 18y ago
Who here can walk into a data center now devoid of its IT staff, and be fully up to speed with a whole new staff? Even if you're starting out with a detailed and valid plan of the IT transition, you'll still end up wiping and reloading the
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by Hoff 18y ago
Apple's Podcast Capture is a potential option here. It's part of Mac OS X client, and connects with Podcast Producer running on Mac OS X Server. Which means it's either free or (if you don't have a Mac OS X Server box around) it's not free.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Prove to me that improved design or increased implementation elegance in an existing corporate application can have a sufficient near-term effect on the revenue numbers, and we'll talk. DBAs aren't the only hard-nosed folks involved here.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Payola and affiliate programs and such are not particular news. Industry analysts and consulting houses can have similar profit motives for their recommendations and implementations over the years, too. There was a bogus application that sh
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by Hoff 18y ago
Cocoa meets Javascript: http://cappuccino.org/
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by Hoff 18y ago
Folks that want to apply these techniques have jobs and management and organizations that I simply don't want to have to deal with; fixed, inflexible, distrustful, political, bureaucratic. There might well be good and valid reasons for any
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by Hoff 18y ago
Zed Shaw discusses this in several parts within the presentation; it's somewhat of a recurring theme. ACLs as they're implemented on most operating systems are wicked limited; tracking attributes and access to anything beyond simple boolean
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by Hoff 18y ago
It is the installed base that is the double-edged sword hanging over any successful large-scale software product; both its greatest strength, and its greatest weakness. In particular, the desire to maintain installed-base compatibility runs
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by Hoff 18y ago
Correct. If you're looking to assign blame, then do evaluate your own particular motivations. You have probably already made or you are now about to make a mistake; you've taken your eye off your particular goals of creating value for your
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by Hoff 18y ago
Blame is wasted effort. Agism (either way) can be legally hazardous. Bailing out a failed business model is wasted investment. Given your perception of the older folks, I'd suggest pursuing a business model based on catering to and profitin
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OpenCL V1.0 Spec Released; Distributed, Heterogeneous Computing(khronos.org)
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by Hoff 18y ago
Hardware (driver- or OS-level) debug sucks. Commodity hardware debug sucks more. When working at this level, access to hardware probes and external monitoring and manufacturing taps can be invaluable. Boundary and edge conditions and timing
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by Hoff 18y ago
Profit always comes from risk. If I can borrow a house and live in it and get bailed out in the ensuing default storm, I win. If I build my house in an area prone to flooding and can get bailed out, I win. If I can originate a gazillion loa
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by Hoff 18y ago
Tesla manages to have PR coverage far out of proportion to the norm. They remind me of Second Life, at least in some regards.
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by Hoff 18y ago
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/17/halliburton-tries-to.ht...
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by Hoff 18y ago
With a non-trivial web site, the more browsers you test, the more cash you burn through, and (if you're not very careful) the more twisty the web site HTML and CSS code gets. But you already know that. Verify compliance with W3C standards
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by Hoff 18y ago
This is the same Microsoft business model and strategy that's been in use since the Windows product first got traction. New and up-rated buzz phrases, same and repackaged and renamed and updated products and services. If you watch, most of
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by Hoff 18y ago
gigaom is the new cnet. nothing to see. move along.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Dividends are useful to differentiate cash-rich and otherwise undistinguished stock offerings. Great mounds of cash allow for some stability and for judicious bargain shopping and for product upgrades during downturns; for a longer horizon.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Triads comprised of a developer, a tester, and a manager, operating independently? Does that alone strike anyone else here as a recipe for a high-overhead high-complexity software development disaster?
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by Hoff 18y ago
Yes. It's trivial. I use an RSS feed to scan for tweets on specific topics of interest. (qv: tweetscan.com) Various other approaches are available.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Arguing performance and scalability and footprint can be less than fruitful; a distraction. If you're serious about this, build your test cases, and benchmark. But before you invest here, ensure you have nothing better to do with your time,
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by Hoff 18y ago
email is used as a conferencing tool, as a group or company bulletin board, a calendar, for documentation and archiving and record keeping, for file transfer, and as an all-around general-purpose data store. Which means that email is used t
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by Hoff 18y ago
If you're an end-user or a vendor with .Net portability or coexistence requirements, then nothing. You simply want Mono to work, and to work right. Or you're porting code out of .Net. If you're not using .Net, then most folks don't care a
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by Hoff 18y ago
Gramercy Typewritter seems a hardware-based variant of the Open Source Contractor that was discussed back at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319780 Both are getting paid for their specialized and rare skills.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Have your peanut gallery enter and then vote on the tips and feature requests, and get the karma system going? Use that traffic to test code and servers and to sound out the comments and the requests, and then to establish in-network invit
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by Hoff 18y ago
There are other examples of this. Some are entirely deliberate. The ISO-9660 volume structure was deliberately designed to allow it to coexist with other file systems present on the same disk, for instance.
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by Hoff 18y ago
It's even better to recognize when your competition has sequestered themselves in a box; when your competition is being predictable.
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by Hoff 18y ago
There's the rental model, and there's the purchase model; DRM content is a variant of a rental. There's the patent used as a troll or a torpedo, and there's the patent as a reward and a compensation for innovation. There's the free content

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