RobGR

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by RobGR 18y ago
It seems to me that the file-sharing and version tracking are two different things that should have two different problems. If you want this but on your own servers, maybe check out ringlight: http://ringlight.us/
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by RobGR 18y ago
Much commerce depends on offering different deals to different sets of customers, to extract the highest price from each individual instead of relying on the "market price". Airline tickets are a good example. In such markets, there may be
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by RobGR 18y ago
I run a few mediawiki's, and so far the search that comes with it has been adaquate. For other sites I have experimented with CLucene, htdig, and maybe some others. A decent search can be put together in the course of a couple of days of c
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by RobGR 18y ago
Both hackerspaces and coworking facilities are kind of operating on the "gym membership" model, where a lot of membership fees are pooled to get something that is shared but no one could afford to buy for just their own use. However the peo
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by RobGR 18y ago
Fifty thousand dollars is an extravagant amount to spend on basic transportation. You could later end up wishing you had that cash in hand. You can get a decent, reliable, functional used Corolla or similar for $5,000 to $8,000. If you ar
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by RobGR 18y ago
I would be interested in talking with anyone who is thinking of forming a hackerspace in Austin, Texas or nearby. While I am interested in a hacking space for hacking's sake, I also think there is a lot of un-exploited economic potential in
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by RobGR 18y ago
Is there any reason to believe that the founders of Microsoft, Google, etc did not have other side projects ? And that if one of those projects had succeeded, they would never mention the others, because pretty much everything writen by or
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by RobGR 18y ago
There is only one Google, but there are many crumbling behemoths. A few years ago I read a statistic about the percentage of the workforce employed by large traditional corporations, and it had continually dropped; but like a lot of statis
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by RobGR 18y ago
I believe that as a general trend, we are in a period of time where the large organization is collapsing, across wide areas of human activity. Without writing a thesis on it, I offer the following disconnected observations: * The US Militar
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by RobGR 18y ago
If you mean a "join-stock company", large corporations are probably less than a thousand years old. The first were alledgely shipping combinations organized in London and Dutch coffeehouses, but I have also read suggestions that Medieval J
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by RobGR 18y ago
I like to read Bruce Sterling's works, fiction or non-fiction. I own every single one of his published works except the first, which is rare. Sometimes he is cheesy or stupid, but overall he's probably one of top sci-fi writers now living
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think the "bonus" idea that Seth gives, the automatic sending of recorded reminders, is a feature that is available from www.traqmonkey.com. It is called "callback reminder", and you have to know to make the reminder go to a "distributio
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by RobGR 18y ago
It can be done on a small scale, and is all the time. The first step is likely to assemble a few yourself, or even manufacture a short run yourself. If you don't have the necessary knowledge, advertise among your friends or here and find s
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by RobGR 18y ago
It has nothing to do with scribd, it's just a link to a pdf. Looks pretty good though, I saved it.
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by RobGR 18y ago
My advice: 1) Do some contract work, just to build some cash, networking, and confidence. It can expose you to more different parts of the industry in 3 months than working in a big corporation ever will. -- Search for gigs via person
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by RobGR 18y ago
William Clinton had a large press office that was quite capable of correcting the New York Time's reporting on his reading. In fact, knowing what we know about how newspapers and political offices work, it is probably that Clinton's press
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by RobGR 18y ago
The first book I read by him was the one about the bio-terror attack with a virus. I read it because the New York Times sais that then-President Bill Clinton had read it, and this had lead to some anti-terrorism initiative that I thought w
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by RobGR 18y ago
About 4 years ago a friend went to a "rapid protyping" conference, and there was a guy there who was making resin models of people's online game characters from his garage. He would paint them or you could paint them. I think the game com
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by RobGR 18y ago
But any programmer smart enough to design such a system, would not get the gratification, because they would see through it, just as playing for hours in a computer game that you wrote is torture, but playing someone else's can be deeply ab
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by RobGR 18y ago
It's a very interesting list. I would like to learn more about the old Japanese firms listed. As some of the comments accompanying that article noted, they did not mention the Hudson Bay Company, which was incorporated in 1670 and still op
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think his description of computer programming is very accurate. I suspect that many people are attracted to computer programming because at first, when you are learning it, it gives a constant series of little instant gratifications -- yo
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by RobGR 18y ago
If you find this useful, you might find this better because it works even when you are not on the same network: http://ringlight.us/present/About
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by RobGR 18y ago
In general, in bankruptcy or "winding up" the unpaid salaries of employees come first, then creditors, and shareholders last. In spite of this general principle, I am sure many of us know of cases where employees worked for months without
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by RobGR 18y ago
I agree, however consider that most people who are smart enough to make a print media css file, still end up with the print version of the web page being a better design even for web browsing than the browser one. If the print media css fil
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by RobGR 18y ago
Maybe you could market it in a way targeted to anti-consumerists ? You would probably want a directory or search engine which covered the people who had signed up. You could promote it as an "ad-free search engine" to bring traffic to your
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by RobGR 18y ago
This is probably more than you are looking for, but the fftw code ( www.fftw.org ) is a pretty amazingly designed piece of C code that does some very advanced stuff. However, if you trying to get off to a good start, you might want simplis
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by RobGR 18y ago
Firstly, think about if you really need to do this. Will a single line to a telephone that has an ansering machine suffice ? How much of a "professional" image to have to give to telephone callers at this point in time ? Fancy phone syst
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by RobGR 18y ago
I would like to point out: 1) This is a product created by a single person from their own creative inspiration, and sold -- it counts as a start-up, by some definitions. 2) It is a HARDWARE product, with no web user subscription base or aja
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by RobGR 18y ago
are you a script, ionela ?
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by RobGR 18y ago
This article, the "Norton Antivirus 2009" submitted by the same user, and the "nail fungus" one submitted by a different, also newly created account, seem to be page-rank farming spam. But anyway, to answer you -- I don't know about Student

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