Tamerlin

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Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn't get the iPad(arstechnica.com)
26 points by Tamerlin 16y ago|32 comments
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Experience leads me argue that they are LESS educated now. Look around on the web. Start paying attention to how many people consistently make basic linguistic errors like "loose" when they wanted to say "lose" or use the incorrect homophon
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
By what standard? And to whom?
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"They're being installed because regulators sincerely believe that they represent a reasonable compromise between privacy (which is actually not one of your ironclad civil liberties) and safety." No, they're being installed for profit. They
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I think kickbacks is a more likely motivation here.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The folks here are knocking liberal arts degrees because they don't believe that there are any worthwhile careers outside of hacking. That's obviously false -- there are quite a few non-technical professions out there that are perfectly via
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
So, define "value" in the context of an education.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Go get a science/engineering/JD/MD heck even an MBA and you damn well better be smarter at the end." Are you sure about that?
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Except that Intel wasn't in any danger of dying, I agree. Even with Itanium's steep costs and delays, NetBurst came pretty close to keeping pace with the Athlon and Athlon 64 -- close enough for Intel to compete with price. Admittedly, it w
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Realistically, Apple hasn't even been all that innovative at all. They haven't really come up with all that much that's new, they've just been making existing things looks nicer than everyone else does. If you look at OSX and Windows 7 from
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
At least Apple is consistent about choosing bad horses, eh? (G4, G5, AT&T)...
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It's also a re-run -- this article only highlights exactly what lead the mac into almost 15 years of marginal market share and an ad campaign based on poor grammar. :)
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"The first generation of Itanium was hugely expensive, didn't run x86 code well, and couldn't easily masquerade as a plain Jane x86 machine." THAT was its biggest blunder -- the x86 part. It was pointless, and a waste of silicon, and it als
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's true, but the author is looking at what's under the hood -- at the moment, ALL of those companies are heavily depending on Microsoft and/or Intel. In most cases, both. Example -- IBM is still one of Intel's biggest server OEM's. And
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It also leads to bad interviewers. Like the one I had for my Google phone interview earlier this year... when he asked me to code up a simple sorting implementation (an array with an empty slot, and you can't use extra memory) the FIRST thi
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
We have a... well, some random dolt with a VP or director or some similarly overinflated title, but no meaningful role who explained that you should use "agile" method when: 1) You don't have time for planning 2) You don't have time for des
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If you do it all the time, then people start to recognize it for what it really is: a sweat shop.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's usually what "war rooms" are for, in my experience. Something goes wrong, and to provide the illusion that everyone's on top of things, some managers set up a "war room" where they can "triage" problems and come up with an emergency
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Agreed... it's supposedly one of the few remaining companies that actually respect engineers, but this post pretty much comes out and says otherwise in bold, flashing letters. "(Exception: War-room firefighting. Google loves those, and love
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"I disagree with his anti-engineering and anti-research points. Attacking pseudo-technical degrees like undergraduate business, sure. Attacking humanities research, sure" I think you're missing the point. At Johns Hopkins I had a mix of goo
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Nope, I'm not confusing them at all. I should have been clearer though, I was referring to the hardware inside. Apple does the industrial design, and then solicits RFP's to get the system board. The laptop OEM builds the motherboards and al
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Except that Oracle didn't actually break anything... Though I agree, they would have been wise to test some of the popular 3rd party apps based on Java.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Well, not quite J2EE, but it is Spring based. Spring relies heavily on magic that makes tracing code very difficult without a debugger. It wasn't my choice, and I wouldn't choose it again, but at least it's better than J2EE.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
You should probably start by looking at Apple's history, which suggests that the alternative isn't likely.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Small companies can't afford to fight the big ones, so they tend to either back down or fight and go bankrupt before the case is concluded. Apple has done this in the past -- one example is IIRC NuTech, assuming that I remember the company'
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Having said that, isn't that true for any other degree? In the end, it's not the degree that matters, but the person." Yes, definitely -- there are a lot of cultures that place more value on the degree than on anything else, and these are
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I use an IDE, and I write clean, tight code. I don't see your point -- part of it is that I have far more important things to do with my life than learn the API, so code completion is a great resource for me when I'm working with 3rd party
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
So you're saying that Oracle should be responsible for the defects in a 3rd party product?
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Wing Chun is derived from a branch of Feeding Crane -- Wing Chun was, I believe, one of the Feeding Crane designer's descendents -- though it may be rather that she was a trainee rather than actual family. That at least is based on the gene
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
This does remind me of an interesting bit of historical trivia. I've been practicing martial arts for 27 years -- tae kwon do, shotokan, Goju (traditional pre-Japan Okinawan karate), Wing Chun, Aikido, Jujutsu, Aikijutsu (i.e. Aikido for co

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