Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I don't think that Microsoft is an exception to that, actually. C# didn't really start gaining popularity until AFTER ECMA ratified it as an open standard (same for the .NET platform and the CLR).
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
That's going to be a long time in coming; I shoot film, and what ends up in Photoshop is Silverfast raw in TIFF format.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Mine are already over 500MB. An online Photoshop wouldn't be at all feasible for me :)
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"To me too. I never understood, ten years ago, why on earth most people would prefer a web-based email client to a native desktop app but they did. And today that percentage is just increasing. Most people just don't have the same concerns
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
One situation I was even worse; the "senior" programmers were actually juniors with nearly no experience, but who had office politics (i.e. nepotism -- one was the CTO's son) on their side. Needless to say, the company didn't go far.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I agree, and I fear that it is in fact a dying practice.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I don't think that the wall street folks have figured out yet that Pixar's unwillingness to make commercial films is a strong contributor to their success. They have imagination, story, characters, and not a lot of cliches, unlike most Holl
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
And sold it for a LOT less than they paid for it. That couldn't have helped their financial situation any.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I know they tried to add NT to their portfolio, but they kept using IRIX for their supercomputing systems, as well as for their higher-end workstations until they switched to Linux for the supercomputers, and completely gave up on workstati
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
SGI didn't switch to NT they switched to Linux. Their Columbia supercomputer isn't a Windows machine, it's a Linux machine.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
When I was interviewing for jobs to get out, I encountered close to a dozen ex-Amazon folks... none were at all surprised that I wanted to leave, and one even said that he only joined Amazon for the resume pad. My experience was basically t
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
The company'd be much better off if he applied the same standard to the development side of the company, which has an average tenure of around 12-18 months for developers (more senior devs tend to leave more quickly than junior devs).
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"Apple meanwhile is realizing the AIR is not a netbook and cursing every moment of it despite it being a slick machine." I don't think so. They're pretty short-sighted, but although I didn't get the impression that the Air sold all that wel
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Probably not. Most computer users today don't need anywhere near the capabilities of even a low-end PC, whether it runs Windows or OSX.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I agree, the point was that seemingly impossible problems rarely come up in business. Most of the seemingly impossible problems that business have are a result of overcomplex solutions to simple problems. The down side to hiring people who
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I think you're right about this one. SPARC hasn't been competitive since the late 90's, so it's hard to see why IBM would care about keeping it alive in the face of POWER -- not to mention, IBM is also one of Intel's biggest server OEM's.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
The big sea change that AMD caused is that 64-bit processors are now a commodity. Intel COULD have done that without AMD, but I doubt that they WOULD have if AMD hadn't essentially forced their hand.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I don't agree. Business requirements very rarely require complex solutions, yet most "engineers" come up with stunningly complex solutions for every problem they face, no matter how simple the problem might be. Good engineers, much like goo
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Making more money is an ok goal, though a bit too general for practical use. The problem comes from a short-sighted approach to making more money now at the expense of making money later, which is what GM did. If they'd decided to sell mo
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
You nailed it on the head. The correct thing for Google to do was to tell AG why they disabled his account, not give him the runaround. They deserved to lose that suit. Maybe if enough people with canceled accounts file suits, Google will s
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
That's a pretty broad generalization. I'm actually working on building a business on the side of my work, but I do my job. I focus on my own thing when I'm not at work. I also get my work done, and take time to test it. There will in theory
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Hear, hear. I can't believe that anyone worth anything would choose to work for a company that believed that it owned them even after hours.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"I pay them to get their jobs done, they do, and I could care less what they do with their own time." That's one of the best answers yet. Anything else is entirely unacceptable. (And reminds me of amazon, worst place I've ever worked.) If t
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Actually, the way you read it almost exactly contradicts most of the reported reasons that the engineers who left did so. It seems far more likely and believable that you'r exactly wrong -- and that the engineers who are leaving google are
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"tried harder to succeed on its merits than Microsoft has." The flaw in that argument is that it presumes that Microsoft's success was based on Microsoft's success. You're addressing what MS has done to maintain their dominant market positi
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I think you're giving MSFT's marketing department a too much credit, that sounds clever ;)
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"The humility in your attitude is the mark of a good programmer, not a bad one. If you really are learning and working hard at it, you'll do fine, and I'd rather have you on my team than a lot of the (apparently) super-smart guys you're fee
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"Yes. I am not a great programmer. I only started caring about it a couple of years ago and since I don't have a real education in it I am very behind in many areas. I am trying to get better, but it's not easy." You've just put yourself ah
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"o not confuse people who don't think global warming is a problem (or even happening) with "it's all OK" dolts." You're putting words in my mouth. If you're going to engage in a discussion, that's a mistake, as it invalidates anything furth
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Agreed. The part you misunderstood is that the mini-ice age doesn't come from cooling, but rather from a lack of convection currents -- it's a result of warming. The same is true of extreme weather; we're getting raftloads of snow out here

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