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by Swannie 14y ago
People don't like windmills because they are "ugly". They don't like power-lines in the country side. They certainly wouldn't like a 2.5M+ diameter tube running around. In London, 56% (IIRC) of the "Underground" is above ground, much of tha
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by Swannie 14y ago
I agree. A wise manager once said: "I don't want Rock Stars. I want a team that Rocks". So yes, we have a team of very mixed skills. But I agree most with this idea that you want to hire "the best", or "highly talented". The thing is, no on
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by Swannie 14y ago
MS Messenger is actually the foundation for their Enterprise level Unified Communications offering. It will be interesting if that client also gets the axe in favour of Skype, or if they intend to keep it as a separate product.
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by Swannie 14y ago
4500psi?! Haven't the ideal gas laws broken down by then? There's a reason most (recreational) scuba tanks stop around 3000 - 3500 PSI max working pressure: you fairly quickly stop getting linear gains, at the expense of additional tank wal
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Self disruption and super linear ... (blog.gardeviance.org)
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by Swannie 14y ago
Agreed. Trying to find a decent high-resolution screen is a real pain today. Dial back 5 years, and it wasn't such an issue! Everyone makes "HD" up until 24"... 24" HD is nasty. I would hope for something approaching 3000 x 1500 in a 24" sc
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by Swannie 14y ago
More like FON http://www.fon.com/en But yes, OpenZone is very similar. OpenZone lets BT know the end subscriber, based on the user name of the device on the HotSpot.
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by Swannie 14y ago
So much wrong! [EDIT: OK, not quite as much wrong as I thought] "Most of what we eat will be broken down to one thing: Glucose. Glucose is our fuel, keeping our brains awake and alert." Say what? Fat is not turned into glucose (fat -> f
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by Swannie 14y ago
Link bait title. "Kiyosaki’s Rich Global LLC filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay nearly $24 million to the Learning Annex and its founder and chairman, Bill Zanker." Money which had long before left Rich Global LLC to Kiyosaki's
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by Swannie 14y ago
I'd say Facebook is more like the front of your fridge (cool pictures of your friends/kids), plus your kitchen notice board (that wedding invitation from last year, that save the date card for next year etc) - the shoebox that you put all t
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by Swannie 14y ago
CISCO also sells Monitoring-aaS, which will do discovery, monitoring and upgrade for $xxx/device/yr.
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by Swannie 15y ago
10 years is not a long time frame for something like a new battery technology... it's surprisingly short, in fact.
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by Swannie 15y ago
Most insightful comment yet.
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by Swannie 15y ago
To the best of my knowledge, the O2 HQ in the UK is not in London, it's west of Heathrow airport in Slough. Most people will either commute via car, or train. As someone who works from home ~3 days a week, and 20% at customer sites, a seaso
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by Swannie 15y ago
Yep. My University implemented switch-port security before I arrived in 2001. Managed switches, central MAC register, you were placed on the VLAN your MAC said you belonged to. If your MAC appeared twice, you'd be locked out of the network
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by Swannie 15y ago
Oh dear. I've usually identified them in 5-20secs, but it takes another 60 - 90 seconds for the Host to block them :/
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by Swannie 15y ago
Indeed, and in WebEx the host can auto-mute everyone, but then MUST tell people to unmute if they have a question, otherwise it is meeting #fail. I've also had the opposite, where the host is UN-muting me, when I'm in the middle of eating m
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by Swannie 15y ago
Yep, that one happens ALL the time with my co-workers...
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by Swannie 15y ago
Link Bait... and I got Baited.
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Huge Company [Atos, 70k+] Plans to Ban Internal Email for IM(businessinsider.com)
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by Swannie 15y ago
The basic premise is correct. Most people on HN are liable to read too much, and not do enough. Personally I believe you have to do both for the fastest learning process. The "read, do, reflect" cycle. If you're not actively "doing" then yo
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by Swannie 15y ago
Yep. The real world says a programmer only writes code, a developer does all the rest of the work around programming as well.
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by Swannie 15y ago
One caveat to the replies here, is not to price yourself out of the role. If you're dealing with someone smart, they will want to negotiate benefits early in the process, rather than later - exactly because of the reasons in the article. If
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by Swannie 15y ago
Exactly. I remember reading an article from an outgoing editor of The Economist. He said there was an unwritten rule: 80% fact, 20% opinion, but that opinion should be clearly stated as such. I usually find the opinions quite easy to notice
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by Swannie 15y ago
"The coffeeshop fallacy assumes our coffee drinker knows no shit-all about coffee." I think you missed the point. It doesn't matter how much you know about coffee. It matters how much you know about other things, mostly unrelated, accountin
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by Swannie 15y ago
Regard Ross Snyder, I distinctly recall a televised report about it on BBC News.
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by Swannie 15y ago
Ditto.
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by Swannie 15y ago
The toughest problems in large enterprises are not solvable by one or two guys. And these are the problems that interest me. Where implementation of OK software can save $100k+ a year, and implementing a good software solution: millions.
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by Swannie 15y ago
I disagree. Why try and build your own community when there's already an existing one with a lot of useful questions, engaged moderators and smart people answering? Especially when you've failed to support your existing community at all.
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by Swannie 15y ago
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-... (I run a OSQA site, so can't recommend any of these, other than OSQA :-) )

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