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by SoftwareMaven 16y ago
While I do force my kids to apologize on occasion, more as a way of teaching that when you hurt somebody (either intentionally or not), you should try to make it better and an apology is part of that, I know what they are thinking: "Yeah, I
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by SoftwareMaven 16y ago
Microsoft typically only uses their patent portfolio to counter the attacks of others. It makes me wonder if Salesforce has some patents that Microsoft wants so it is trying to force Salesforce to do a cross-licensing deal.
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
I think saying WebOS failed is completely off-base. From everything I've read, WebOS was a very successful operating system. Rather, the company around the OS failed. From a historical perspective (not sure if it is currently true), Palm's
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
I think you are stretching a little here. Jobs (to make sure we are talking about the same "he") never once brought in any mention of money. His point is a fairly common viewpoint: it's easy to tear things apart but much harder to build the
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
> "You should create what you think is right and then discover who the consumer is." This is a fairly standard "engineering" view of the world. It is also why 90% of startups go out of business. > "The alternative is design by commi
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
The IM conversation that started this whole topic was not a social service, yet it, too, is public. If you don't want it shared, don't put on the internet. (Well, at least, not until my startup is shipping its product. Then you'll be fine.)
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
That's an interesting idea, but I can think of no way to do that without a door-to-door campaign.
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
I agree. It is probably an attempt to mitigate damage that would happen when the regulators announce their findings.
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
Since we are in hypothetical conjecture land, I'll give a guess: My guess is that the code was originally written for a completely different purpose. When they decided to start gather wifi data, somebody said, "Hey, I think Bob wrote someth
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
My experience has been that the Adobe fans are way more up in arms about this than the Apple fans. What does an Apple user hope to gain here? That is very unclear to me. The "true believers" have already put the war behind them; the Adobe w
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
I heard somebody say something to the effect that the iPhone was the phone Steve Jobs wanted (thus explaining how the company executed so perfectly on it). Sadly, they went on to say it was obvious Jobs isn't a gamer. I love my Macbook. I'm
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
Except that screw up may wind up costing Fortune a good chunk of change, in either lost advertising revenue from the "exclusive" or from Simon and Schuster seeking damages for some contract violation. Given the size of Fortune's response an
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
There is a certain irony that this comes as a blog post.
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
Wow, judge much? Throughout time, people have used technology to incrementally make their lives better. Not everybody has the skills, goal, or even desire to found the next Facebook or Google. The people who make the most money in the techn
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by SoftwareMaven 17y ago
I don't think that is being critical at all. I think the iPad looks very interesting, but I am also waiting to see how its use settles over time. Honestly, though, looking at some of ways I've seen people using them in the very short time s
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Ask HN: Legal costs for a enterprise software web startup
8 points by SoftwareMaven 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask YC: Resources for building scalable, secure, distributed, componentized applications
1 points by SoftwareMaven 19y ago|0 comments