Swannie

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by Swannie 16y ago
That's very true, but what are these "things"? They aren't just general "events" a la Plancast. "meetup" has been taken by another brand in the same space. Meeting sounds too... work like :-)
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by Swannie 16y ago
And the patents is where the problems lie. Which is the problem with not being able to pass the TCK - no access to the patent pool. How does the MS CLR get around this issue? Surely their VM is infringing on some of this pool? Do they now l
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by Swannie 16y ago
Because so few people actually redeem their FFMs. They hoard them up. And then quite often, completely in the terms of the program, they don't earn enough and their balance gets wiped. And yes, reward flights usually require you to pay tax,
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by Swannie 16y ago
I thought "wow, 200M!!". That's a huge value per customer! (Considering how small most of them are). And yes, the GroupOn valuation is bubble.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Cars generally still do have backwards nuts on the LHS. Something about vibration and direction of turn. Some of the other bolts on the LHS can be that way too. Same with some of the LP gas cylinders I have encountered here in Aus.
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by Swannie 16y ago
It sounds to me like the Writely engineer who called you didn't know why he was meant to call . That would have set of very loud alarm bells for me. What did you think at the time?!
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by Swannie 16y ago
You could build something like that with YQL?
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by Swannie 16y ago
It goes some way of solving that issue yes. Ultimately though the problem of "few people registered" is poor sales, and to a degree marketing, by that individual conference. There is a reason why conferences (as opposed to trade show events
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by Swannie 16y ago
I'm still slightly surpised there has not been an optional "email address" field in the profile page, in preparation for the day this comes!
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by Swannie 16y ago
I just read this and the post-mortem. Whether by luck, or more likely experience, Lanyrd ventured into the event space quite differently from EventVue and all of the companies listed in the article. The emphasis on crowdsourcing to build
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by Swannie 16y ago
the connected conference directory?
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by Swannie 16y ago
Hmm, a move towards a pure big-phat-server:thin-client architecture? Not pretty. "Best practice" moved away from that because our databases were struggling with stored procedures on top of their regular work.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Java was a safe bet for enterprise software companies - it had wide vendor support: Sun, IBM, WebLogic, Oracle, Apple. It also had a strong community: Apache, JBoss, etc. However WebLogic and Sun are now part of Oracle. Apple has backed off
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by Swannie 16y ago
The value of the Java community, for Oracle, is measured by those that are paid to develop Java for licensed (or sold) software products. If you don't to that then you don't get counted. "IBM and Apple are both supporting OpenJDK -- Oracle
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by Swannie 16y ago
You say "got married" = hosted a fantastic wedding, complete with huge conga lines, traditional Jewish chair dance, a wedding "cake" of cheese, otters, owls, eagles, and more!
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by Swannie 16y ago
I find it interesting that almost no one wishes they'd done it sooner. I intend to wait until they can successfully deal with the night time "halo" problem, or at the least minimise it. I enjoy my night vision too much!
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by Swannie 16y ago
Yet no mention of lambda calculus (or combinatory logic) anywhere in the article.
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by Swannie 16y ago
More features for the win. I must admit I am not completely won over by the usability of this new feature. Integration intention feels a little weak compared to 'coverage', but hopefully that will be resolved over time.