MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Yes. That is exactly true. When Oracle started working on Linux it was only useful for print servers - and I created a white paper for Larry analyzing its shortcomings (lots of functionality missing from the kernel.) So we, along with IBM,
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That "critical review" says: "The best current evidence suggests that it is effective as a symptomatic treatment of dental pain, fibromyalgia, nausea/vomiting, knee osteoarthritis, insomnia, epicondylitis, chronic back p
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I guess you haven't read any of the studies of Acupuncture. The World Health Organization endorses Acupuncture, and there are decades of studies showing how Acupuncture is effective for particular problems. Some insurance companies ev
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Just because Wikipedia says something doesn't make it true. Bloodletting was also practiced as part of Acupuncture in China - without any "humor" theory. Interestingly, when you talk to people who have actually practiced it (
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
At Oracle we did an analysis of all the major Linux distributions worldwide. Red Hat was just a major player in the United States - among others. We decided that we needed someone to work with in order to help Linux compete with Microsoft -
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Personally, I was asked to submit suggestions of charities to Larry. But it was made clear to me that there had to be some benefit - preferably large ROI, since small ROI wasn't worth Larry's time. And, while it was possible to oc
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
We started off with a series of strategy meetings prior to the release of JDeveloper. We hired a small team to integrate the JVM into Oracle with the idea that we might be able to replace PL/SQL with Java within the Database. We starte
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I think we get too caught up in binary thinking - why limit our choices to the current definition of Open Source. Isn't it possible to redefine open source using laws which could be implemented by the government? We could simply ask ou
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I'm not really trying to say a lot with respect to Oracle. Except perhaps that their interest in Open Source is really not philosophical - it is strictly profit driven. That has real implications to those who adopt Open Source or view
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I was part of the team choosing charities. You might be surprised to hear that we evaluated all our giving for ROI (measured in columns of print or TV time and the equivalent cost of purchased time. We also considered audience - and overlap
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If you list the Fortune 50 you will find that they all get huge benefit from Open Source. I've worked with Wall Street Banks, Monsanto, NSA, Big Ag, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and other companies which are extracting incredible profits f
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I was a Product Manager at Oracle when we decided to integrate Java. It seemed like an odd decision to those outside Oracle, but at the highest levels in Oracle we were circulating a Microsoft internal presentation about how Microsoft was g
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Geithner advocated saving the big banks, and undermined any effort to help average people who couldn't pay their mortgages. That's why the "mortage relief" program was designed to not work. He represents the 1% who belie
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You're arguing legality - I'm arguing morality.
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That the court order stems from a student loan debt is not beside the point. It is the exact point.
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Beyond CapEx and OpEx considerations, the ability to extract cash to offshore (via loans from offshore companies to entities offshore) allows both tax avoidance (legally) and transfer of wealth to executives (legally, since ownership of the
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Steve rotated his "costumes". I handled some of NeXT's strategic technical accounts and also worked on some special projects in Engineering. The bowtie and turtleneck were unusual at the time, since he seemed to favor the Pu
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
When I worked for Steve Jobs he would often change clothes several times per day. More than once when I was in his office when he would take off his custom-made, imported dress shirt and put on another from a huge wall closet in his office.
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
It's not true that better utility will cause the stores to stick around. Some utility will be external to the buyer or seller (for our society, for example), and some utility will possibly come with dis-utility to, for example, a distr
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Yes. There are some products that are better purchased in person. Looking at this from a strictly analytic perspective, we could build distributions for each characteristic of a particular product. We would expect that some products would
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I think the biggest problem is that the USA seems to be in the business of creating terrorists. We send troops all over the world and undermine governments - even the US diplomats say that they are responsible for US "economic interest
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I do consulting - and I spent some time with the Sears data science team. Don't get your hopes up. A broken culture is hard to change. They seemed pretty "downtrodden". (I should add that they were all good people. I would wo
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I read the book by the Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard, where he described how they had to send people to their manufacturers to be involved with quality, and how even then they would get bad batches and be forced to dump the clothes at a
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
A wacky idea: I'd like to see some product lines and perhaps some product types protected by law - so that they can only be sold at physical stores and not online. The idea is to get a minimal subset of products so that physical stores
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I used to buy all my clothes from Land's End - easy, convenient, and "good enough" quality. After the Sears acquisition Land's End went from occasionally "iffy" to rarely satisfactory. Everything became the che
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Are you saying that Zephyr is Rocket? I didn't see anything in the press release saying that, and I didn't see anything on the web site saying that (admittedly, I only spent a few minutes looking...). If it is Rocket, is it a prod
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I don't know their reasons...but virtual memory is generally non-deterministic. In practice, when I did real time programming with C, we had to empirically test for best case and worst case latencies, and then model our code performanc
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
When I worked in Sweden I was surprised to discover that there is something called "low power distance" management. It was incredibly refreshing. Bosses were more like coworkers who made decisions when they had to - and not arbitr
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I quoted a price - say 6 thousand dollars, for the job. Then, when I billed it, I would bill for the full six thousand dollars, with the notation of 1/10 net 30 or sometimes 1/15 net 30 (since a few organizations had trouble getti
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My invoices typically varied from three thousand dollars to sixty thousand dollars. Counter-intuitively, I offered a 2% discount on the larger invoice - since getting that money would provide plenty of cash to continue my company. After I s

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