TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It always amazes me that people don't see we're repeating desktop history. Look back to when desktop apps were the norm. People eventually realized it was counter intuitive to write the same program 5 times for 5 different platforms so the
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Well there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and get to the top of the front page. This video, aside from being hilarious, is actually very informative. As someone who h
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I agree. The fact that they wouldn't or couldn't confirm Honeycomb would work on the Tab pretty much killed it for any informed consumer.
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This is just how I read it and I might be reading a lot of my own experience into things but I was a very young foot soldier the last time (still in my teens) and I think there's an important point here. The thing about the last bubble is
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Perhaps but he's preaching against the very attitude you have which is "you're getting this for free so you'll take what you get and like it" If you're someone writing an open source project you're wasting your time if it goes completely un
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I don't think the issue is as much about design as it is about seriousness. Having a homepage for the project, spending some time or money on design and reaching out to the community shows you're committed to the project which will get oth
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That's the whole point of the article. Taxing the rich doesn't work because they always find a way to subvert the taxes. So we have to give them something they can "buy" rather than taxing them in order to get their money without them fig
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American Express has built an empire on your "bad idea"
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Not to criticize but I think you missed his point. The way I read it the point of the article is this... We can't force the rich to pay more because they always find a way out of it. We know this because there were days when upper tax rat
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I'd like to see this statement sourced... And studios, despite some hemming and hawing, would ultimately rather make a lucrative — reportedly up to $100,000 per mid-season episode — deal with Netflix than rely on middling ad revenue on Hul
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The article only touches on it but I think a lot more has to be said about the young children angle. What makes the Challenger disaster so relevant even today is many of us were young and had studied this shuttle and its crew for weeks. Th
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Why on earth was this even submitted? To save those the time I just waisted Fred Wilson hasn't received his phone yet. This post is him saying "I've decided to order one and try it out". The only paragraph with actual content in it is be
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
But see they have no muscle. I'll happily eat my words if this leads to some kind of mass exodus but I don't see it happening. Because in my admittedly anecdotal experience most people already don't like their ISP but are forced into the
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I'm sorry but I don't see how this is a fantastic idea at all. First, this is next to useless from a consumer perspective. Because anyone whose actually tested a single provider can tell you speeds vary by geography. Time Warner might be
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But Microsoft made an active decision to integrate WP7 with Facebook. Beyond that their marketing for the phone revolves entirely around social {or more accurately keeping up with your social network without spending your whole life doing
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Is there a full story of WebVan posted somewhere? I've read bits and pieces along with actually being in the Valley at the time but I'd be interested in knowing more.
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I'd also like to see a comparison but I tend to think Amazon is charging a high price. The thing I keep thinking is both WebVan and HomeGrocer blew threw billions and eventually imploded (WebVan bought HomeGrocer and then Amazon bought WebV
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A few things... 1. I'm not a big believer in saying "this person won this award so their argument must be well thought out". Even geniuses can make stupid arguments. 2. Krugman is an ideologue and people like that tend to ignore facts th
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Well it's not always that simple. Sadly technology isn't 1-to-1 and a lot of Enterprise solutions have become stagnant. To give one example. We've recently started moving our users to Box.Net because the hassle of having a VPN connection
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A couple things here... 1. I think there's a distinction between Sys Admin and a more management position like Director of IT or CIO. In some companies there's only one person who fills both roles but they are two distinct roles and I thi
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I think the relevance is that CR-48's are shipping again (after shipments were halted in early December)
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Disappearing Jobs: High-Paying Careers with No Future(moneywatch.bnet.com)
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On Google he mentions Etsy as an example but there are also quite a few famous examples. Microsoft was essentially run by Jon Shirley in its early days. People forget Steve Jobs was never CEO of Apple before he returned (most seem to think
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Two disconnected thoughts that came to mind reading this... 1. I agree with Google's approach. Microsoft spends $10 billion a year on R&D yet I can't think of a revolutionary product they've come up with (Kinect was bought from the ou
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I don't see what's surprising about this. Olbermann's 30% below Greta Van Susteren yet he's reported to make $7 million a year. It's a divided country so it doesn't seem crazy that MSNBC's most popular show should be able to match Fox's l
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By that same note every hotel I've been at in the last few years has been automated at every point other than the check-in. Mostly using the TV to order additional services, check-out, etc... I think most hotels keep the check-in clerks to
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Things might get better thanks to the new Azure Appliances (which are only 6 months old). I said it when Azure first started: No one wants an abstract cloud. Because it means they're stuck with that platform. If I'm on EC2 I can easily mo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't see why everyone's so skeptical of this. How is this any different than other social sites? Basically what they're doing is crowd sourcing humor and that seems like a better plan than a lot of other startups I've seen. Give the hug
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Just to make the point clear they said in the conference call today that they have no intention of forcing anyone to use an IDE and people using TextMate can go on doing so without interruption.
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The author is contending that armed conflicts have an impact on the economy. I'm offering other conflicts with similar troop levels to disprove that theory. I'd be open to any other factors you think distinguishes the Afghan conflict from

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