TimGebhardt

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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I'm a Mac owner. They make great products. But people don't know about great products without great marketing (the tech-startup entrepreneur's trap). Great products don't just speak for themselves, people need to know about them. I'm tir
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Somewhere out there, the guy who invented the Handspring Treo is sitting in a rocking chair yelling at his TV: "Apple didn't invent anything! They stole my ideas!" Get over it. Apple stood on the shoulders of giants and has the best market
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Did you actually read the story? It's not that the books were low priced. It's that they were priced predatorily. Preditory pricing is bad for consumers in the long run, and in every industry outside of software is seen as a bad thing.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
But there is a big benefit: you know what the price of the item is. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Think about Apple gear: your gear-head computer friends scoff and say "I'd never pay the Apple tax, they're not worth the extra price"
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Related to this: It drives me up a wall when someone responds to something someone else did with "Wow someone has too much time on their hands." And just what were you doing that was so important that you hardly had enough time to put that
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Will people stop referring to share price when talking about company value? Share price isn't comparable over time due to stock splits and buy outs and other shenanigans. Please refer to market capitalization instead.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
But those contributors... they gave them $50 bucks. It should be whatever they think it should be!
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Yes, but they had been developing the NT product line for years, so it wasn't a full start over. Then they had the Windows 2000 release which was their first stab at a "merged" kernel for desktop and pro/server. XP was the full cutover af
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
One of the dirty little secrets is that a lot of all the easy money was made a while ago. The media's just kinda catching up now. The increased cost of playing this game means fewer and fewer firms are able to chase fewer and fewer dollar
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Anyone else find it funny that 2 of the 5 are working on education related projects?
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I had no idea that this was a new feature of the newer Ubuntu releases and I was pretty excited to stumble across this. It's pretty darn cool.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I use Mozy for full backup and Google Drive + Picasa for photos and videos. Hopefully both of them wouldn't fail me at once.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Eh, don't feel bad. If they're not denim or button down there's really no difference in kids' day-clothes vs. their pajamas. "Convention over configuration" I think we tend to call it in our industry :).
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Sure, but things change. My grandfather used to beat the crap out of my dad with his belt. My dad decided he didn't want to do that to me. I'm deciding to be a more involved dad than father have by historical standards. I don't think I'm
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Oh man, please let me steal that response from you. That's fantastic.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
You could have taken six weeks off. You were legally permitted by law to take up to 12 unpaid weeks and still have your job waiting for you when you got back (assuming your employer had 50 or more employees and you had been working there f
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
And there are mothers who absolutely cannot function as a caregiver to their own children. I think the article is asking why mothers are assumed to be good parents and everyone assumes fathers are lucky if they can get pants on their kids i
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Most school systems are underfunded right now because our state governments are still recovering from the 2008 financial crash.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I was in the same boat: My wife carried twins and had a rough non-delivery followed by a C-section. She couldn't hardly walk for the first three weeks, and I took six weeks off total, so I pretty much did everything that didn't involve mam
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I remember reading an article (can't find a link, it was the local paper) that highlighted that when my mom and dad when to college (1975) the average college student could pay approximately 44% of all their college costs by working part ti
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Or you "need" to buy a house now (circa 2006) before all the good ones are bought up and you're out of the housing market boom. Man, if I could go back in time...
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I get the same thing too, but people seem hyper-scared for our family when I'm at home with our twin 18m boys: "Well is your mom (kids' grandma) going to help him? No!? I can't believe you'd leave him alone like that." I'm about |---| thi
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Shh, if you keep pointing out that the system isn't broken then people will think they don't need to always continually try to make it better.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Use a credit card as a debit card and get charged the cash advance rate? No thanks, I'm glad people ask!
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Here's a great rule-of-thumb that I've gotten by with: Never ever compare the cost of your standard of living to someone else's. You just don't have enough information to do an accurate comparison. My in-laws buy a lot of stupid stuff (I
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
200 lines of code is the average. What's the standard deviation? There may be some days I write 20 lines of code, and there may be some days I crank through 1000 links of code.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
'Oh that's neat so Puppet's kinda like Group Policy?" "I'm not sure I've ever heard of Group Policy" It cuts both ways. There's an infinite number of things to learn and a finite amount of minutes in a day. People that are too broad and k
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I second this. I noticed my MBA running hot and I figured it was because I was photo editing. I stopped but then it continued to run with fans full speed ahead. I looked at Activity Monitor and saw KiesOverWifiAgent running at 100% CPU.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Interestingly, German doesn't really have a concept of small talk. It was a problem translating Paddington Bear from English to German: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13545386
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
So they're successful because they're holistically thinking about the entire supply chain, rather than just think that a cool product will sell itself? Wow, sounds like another company I've heard of...

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