TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
HN and the Tech Blogosphere tend to be populated by a certain community and that community is influenced by their common opinions and tastes. Right now the common belief amongst that community is we’re moving into a period where software m
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It was HIPAA compliance and apparently you are working on it but I'm in LA County where there's already a pilot program. And for the record you did not lose my personal business for what it's worth. On the point I clearly hope Zoho contin
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think you’re right about the big picture at first but I think it all comes back around in the end. So even if the smaller company fills more obscure gaps at first the bigger company will continue to gain steam and continue to need growt
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Zoho had the good fortune (and foresight) to venture into an area that no one took seriously. Namely Web Apps. Because of that they’ve had time to slowly build, not take VC money and experiment. But I don’t think that’s true of every com
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I guess i should have said "like most people in our beta test". I have no statistical insight beyond that.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I consulted on such a product a while back and unfortunately the task is much harder than you might think. The project I worked on was actually easier than this because what we were doing is taking a bunch of the local unsigned bands in Lo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The iPad's app library basically breaks down into two categories. Games and Date Front Ends. If you don't want to write a game than what I'd do if I were you is to find a website that doesn't have a good iPad experience and write a parser
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
That's simply not true. Gates was the CEO up until 2000 and though Ballmer had a lot of influence the Senior VPs still reported to Gates. People like Brad Silverberg and Jim Allchin weren't taking their marching orders from Ballmer during
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't disagree with your summary of the situation but I don't think you portray the point of the article correctly which essentially boils down to this sentence... "During its first 10 years, the euro zone has not led to any measurable ho
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
We can go back and forth on Apple's policies but there's a clear lesson here and I hope everyone takes note... Build as much of your app as you can in HTML 5. I'm not talking about a web app. You can embed safari into your native app. As f
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Is anyone else tired of hearing about all the mythical rival tablets that are "just around the corner"? I mean, Call me when you have a product and I'll be interested but for now stop bugging me. Especially from the OLPC project which has
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Short Version: There's blood in the water. People are realizing Windows could fail and that in itself is leading Windows down the road to failure because other companies are now starting to vie for Microsoft's core business where as they w
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I haven't developed a production app with MVC 2 yet but I've tested it for use in my organization and I've played around with RoR. Given that experience I'd put forth the following points... Pros: 1. Despite what RoR fans claim I think yo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think the article does a disservice by focusing on Allard’s work on the Xbox and Zune. The truth is JAllard has been at Microsoft since 1991 and has had some pretty big accomplishments. The man built TCP/IP into Windows for God’s sakes.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
To me this seems like a nice gesture but largely ineffective. The fact is it takes effort to make changes that would earn this money and the school districts who are willing to make that effort are the ones that already care. So while it’s
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
There's a difference between being a witness and being interrogated. I'd dare say you have a civic duty to answer questions that aren't about you if a Cop asks them. Cops wouldn't be able to catch actual criminals if citizens don't talk t
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
First my Aunt is a CHP officer (CHP is California Highway Patrol for those who don't know) Second I worked in a computer store where police would come in all the time and hang out for hours. I've taken hundreds of smoke breaks with them (I
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Again once you've asked for your lawyer interrogation must stop. So there will be no probing. Second if you're being interrogated than you're suspected of something. To suggest otherwise is again treating the cops like their some kind of
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
First, the only reason you don't talk to cops is because you don't want to give them something they can use against you in court. So unless there's something in that statement that they can use in court (which there isn't) it doesn't matte
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm sorry but that logic will get you thrown in jail for the exact points you outline. Police are people and they don't like a jerk and they don't like someone who seems to think he's smarter than they are. You say just "No Comment" and t
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This seems obvious to me. Put it this way, if you're ever accused of a serious crime your life will hang in the balance. So how much research would you be willing to do to save your own life? Now if you get arrested for a serious crime yo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm not sure that's true. The Google I/O conference made a pretty compelling case for Android's Enterprise chops and Microsoft has (ironically) backed itself into a corner by making Exchange and other servers open to non-Microsoft clients.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
For what it's worth this is what I would say... Look, I’ve been told in the past that it’s not a good idea to talk to the police without a lawyer present. The people who told me this were experts on this sort of thing and the point they ma
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
His points on Microsoft are well made. Given the strategic importance of this market it amazes me how badly they've done. Realize they beat Apple to market by around 4 years (depending on how you count the PocketPC/Phone hybrids) and Goog
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
In fairness (and as the person who made the decision that forces Sam above to use .Net technology) there are reasons to use Microsoft technology even when it isn’t the best fit. Let’s be honest about technology for a second: Things go wro
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
With all due respect you're guessing, I'm not. You're basically saying "it's worked itself out in the past so it will surely do so in the future." But that's not a logical conclusion. Things do change. What I'm saying is the fact that we
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Because people have different capacities. People with the capacity for what we consider "skilled" positions can be directed towards technology based positions. But there are people out there who, no matter how hard they try, lack the ment
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Actually my point is that we are in a unique time. Up until now technology replaced skilled labor positions. So people who would have gone into something like economics instead went into computer science and we just did more with what we h
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I agree on it not meaning much but let's not kid ourselves either. If you even joke about people being stupid for putting their trust in you than you probably aren't trustworthy. I had access to a pretty significant amount of user data wh
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I see two basic truths here that make this comment seem irrelevant to me... 1. Users shouldn't put anything into Facebook that they wouldn't be willing to make public. Because even if Facebook never betrays your trust someone in your circ

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