OllieJones

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by OllieJones 15y ago
We have people scrambling to reduce power density in data centers. That, apparently, is the easy part. Our industry (online services of all kinds) obviously needs to tackle power consumption on customer premises too. Otherwise we risk a u
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HEMA department store web site -- fine flash work(producten.hema.nl)
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Who do the company's financial executives serve during an IPO, when the identity of the investors is changing fast? Let's not forget that the point of an IPO is to (a) provide an exit for the startup investors. (b) raise funds for the comp
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Many institutional investors won't touch two-class shares. It's an inherently rigged model. But at least you know it's rigged, and the rigging rules are transparent.
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by OllieJones 15y ago
What a fine combination of typographical aesthetics and algorithmic computer science! Makes me proud to be associated (however distantly) with those professions. As for finding peoples' names, there's a strong symbolism it making it hard.
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Agree completely. We are still in the early days of AWS-like technology. Providers and users both will experience some serious issues in the years to come. Heck, users of municipal water systems still experience outages and that technolog
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by OllieJones 16y ago
Right on. Also, clean up the bathrooms when somebody's coming for an interview. Wipe the floor under the urinals and around the crappers. Why make a potential co-worker wonder whether working with you is worth living in filth? But, it's al
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by OllieJones 16y ago
There's an astonishing amount of really wise and relevant stuff here six years on. Joel is correct about automatic garbage collection being the big win in the PERL / Python / PHP / Javascript / Java / Ruby / Scala / C# / VB language genera