TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Just to put a number on it Facebook was spending an estimated $50 Million a year just to lease space for its data centers in September ( http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/09/16/faceb... ). Assume that more than doubles due to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I actually think this is an incorrectly attributed number. If you multiply $43,100 * 300 Million people (remember the population number is 2008) you get around $12.9 Trillion dollars. That's around where the National Debt Clock would have
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
His logic doesn't quite track for me. Take the Twitter example. He uses that as an example of why you shouldn't focus on simplicity because it makes twitter busier with inline media. But to me that's an example of simplicity because it m
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't see why this COULDN'T happen. There are already list brokers out there who buy information from retail outlets (all those "member" programs that collect what you buy). They then combine them into master lists to sell In that same
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Yeah but someday it might and if it does today's info will be there. Because these companies are collecting the info now. So while there's not yet a company collecting, collating and selling this info from all the various sources the datab
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
* @broadstuff.com: Sorry I can't edit or delete after a certain amount of time goes by.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
@broadstuff.com: I'll check back and delete this comment once the site is restored For those trying to get to the page here it is from Bing's cache (Google ironically hasn't cached it yet)... The lead up to the Christmas and New Year
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Look...the author is the CEO of Box.Net which is a company whose business model is the cloud. So there's obviously a bias and I do think he's a little hyperbolic on some of his points. That said I'm someone who runs what is considered a me
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't disagree but in fairness it was created by 3 people one of which worked at SixApart
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
They also employ 2 of the 3 creators of PubSubHubBub a technology specifically created to enhance feed syndication. It's also a project that was developed on company time (albeit 20% time) and is hosted on their GoogleCode website. AND Go
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
RSS is not dying. There are very few individual users of it but there are literally millions of web sites that use it. Almost everyone on the Internet uses a portal site of some kind and the only way to be included on one of those sites is
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I mean no offense to the author (who I do think is right) but I find it terrifying that the startup world has come to the point where "Have a business plan that doesn't rely on you having millions of users to be profitable" is considered an
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Two points here. = On the floodgates already being opened I'd ask this question: Did the Senate Succeed in blocking Wikileaks? Yes they played bully with a few private companies but in the end they failed because they didn't have the tools
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think Net Neutrality is a complicated debate and this depresses me because it's obvious the pro-net neutrality side is avoiding the counter argument by assuming the other side is just stupid. Just to state it outright that counter argumen
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Congrats. Programming is made out to be a hard thing and for people who don't think logically it is. But to a logically thinking person it's like the greatest game you'll ever discover.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Honestly you're probably right when put in that context (I had no idea who B. Traven was) but if that's the case this post is kind of odd. It ignores the end result of every government based on Marx's theories that has ever existed in the
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I’m in no way a fan of modern day liberalism but having said that I think this author misunderstands it and accuses it of something it’s not guilty of. He says… This is what liberals, who think that human wellbeing consists in the consump
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
But his personal tastes are shared by an enormous number of Windows developers, so based on his blog post, I imagine that WP7 will succeed with in-house corporate developers. Interesting. I'm not sure that's true. To answer that question
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think enough people bring up the advantage Expression Blend brings to the table. It's like being able to design your UI in Photoshop (Say what you will about Microsoft the one thing you have to give them credit for is the amount of
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The problem with leftists (which I'm choosing to define as "to the left of normal liberals) is they become obsessed with money. Even when they know money is an ineffective tool to solve the problem. Take education. Someone who lives and b
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
True but the same could be said for Facebook and Mobile apps. 95% of the time I consume Facebook content on my iPhone these days (with the other 5% being times I just happen to consume content while I'm specifically going on to create cont
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I agree with your sentiment but I'm not sure I agree with your point. The problem with taking the attitude of "its all about recognition" is it ignores the fact that (a) other people are willing to take credit for stuff you do and (b) other
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
There are two issues I see here. The first is the quality of answers to "normal guy" questions (e.g. questions anyone could answer). The problem here is answer sites are only as good as how they scale. As has been pointed out several time
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It is an insanely sloppy article but the point is a valid one. Microsoft has spent all kinds of money making Development on WP7 easy and that's after they spent all kinds of money making Silverlight easy. WP7 development is very easy. But
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The question here is one of degree. The "short work" program was an austerity measure. It was put in place after Merkel steeply cut welfare payments. Edit: Just to quote facts... Welfare Cuts: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm sorry but you're arguing a political opinion as if it were fact and not offering anything to justify your argument. A good half the country believes that tax cuts ARE a great stimulus and you could get conservative economists to give y
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Right but the fact that it cut it's unemployment in half in 5 years time while the rest of the world sank into a depression leads you to ask what they were doing that caused that. The fact that "what Merkel was doing" was moving the countr
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
That's not the question though. The question wasn't "why don't liberals agree with a tax cut for the Rich" (the answer to that question is exactly your point). The question is "why would they be so angry that they'd turn on the most liber
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Germany's unemployment was 12.6% before Merkel took office in 2005 ( http://www.icmrindia.org/Short%20Case%20Studies/Business%20E... ). That's hardly prosperous. She's done almost nothing but move the country further away from socialism a
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Yacht guy can just as easily set up his legal residence in Barbados while actually living in the U.S. and get the same benefits (and many do).

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