TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Are you kidding? I'm not smug. I'm saying Jobs is probably the most amazing success story in the history of technology and he did it after an age where most people would write him off and after experiencing a significant failure. The po
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I'm glad they mentioned NeXT and how much of a failure it was. There's a meme developing where people treat Jobs like he lived a charm life of constant victories but that really isn't the case. When I started High School people were telli
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree with the sentiment but here's the thing... The type of person to post an insult or an ad hominem is probably not the type of person who would read this post much less care what it has to say. Because for someone to read this they'd
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
That is what almost everyone says in these notes. "could no longer meet my duties" could easily mean "because I want to go on vacations with my wife and kids every day of the week for the rest of my life".
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How so? He was already on leave. Being on leave doesn't put a big strain on your health because you're not having to go in to the office. So how would health issues force him to step down? I guess maybe if he was so sick he physically co
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For the record this doesn't necessarily mean he will stop giving presentations. Gates continued to do his Comdex speech after stepping down as CEO (and remaining as Chairman)
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Because he's 56 years old and wants to start living a well deserved retirement? He's already on leave. So it isn't like there's a great strain on his health now. I would think no more than there will be when he remains on as chairman of t
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I'm almost certain they could offer it cheaper and have chosen not to. If you look at AWS' history they tend to price higher than they need to and then aggressively lower the prices after the service is established. I've always assumed t
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I've seen this written by a couple of different people over the weekend and it terrifies me every time. It's as if the author is completely divorced from reality. As if "just price it lower" is some kind of poignant observation that no one
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think this article touches on the real issue here but then abandons it for a more politically charged point. The problem here isn't religion or morality per se. To make that argument you'd have to be making the point that the people riot
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I actually don't mean to attack you here but can I ask what you expected to accomplish with this comment? It isn't relevant to the article nor is it really logical (since I doubt this low level reporter has anything to do with the high lev
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'm far, FAR more religious than almost anyone on HN (in my experience) but I don't entirely buy this. I think religion can give purpose. It can imbue someone who doesn't have a purpose with a strength of conviction. So in that sense I
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
There are plenty of rewards that aren't monetary. The author isn't saying you should work in a job that provides no benefits. He's saying the benefit of money shouldn't be the primary one because other benefits (like fulfillment) are more
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Some jobs are a way of working yourself up to the job you'd do for free and that's what a McDonalds job is to people who aren't stuck in it. If I were the author I'd make that an addendum.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think you're missing the point. My take on what he's saying is "If you had a billion dollars and money was absolutely no object would you still do your job". Hence the "remember when you were 12" line calling back to a time when money i
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Your point (and jabits below) is valid but my issue is he didn't spell out the fact that "discouraged workers" were counted in the Great Depression. Also (if you follow the link provided) you'll see we didn't hit the 20%+ numbers until 4 y
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't know what to think here. There seems to be some very obvious issues with his analysis that he didn't even mention. Now this is a very qualified guy so I hesitate to point these out but I can't help but think his agenda (to calm pe
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
One of my favorite Microsoft stories is of Windows for Pen Computing. A company named GO had brought out a product based on Pen interfaces (this was around the time of Windows 3.1). Microsoft feared they'd lose their monopoly so they rush
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree in the sense of having an asset and paying it back but I was thinking of it in terms of budgeting and getting through the year (or however long) For example, say you budget for a year of operation and assume you need $1.5 million an
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I don't agree with much of this for two reasons... 1. The bubble for already funded companies burst in the 90s but that didn't dry up funding. The truth is a wealthy person's best bet in a down economy is a small startup. Because the pot
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think being dismissive of this sort of thing ignores the bigger point. American Society has a group of people (I'm going to say age 35 and below) who had never lived through a significant downturn before this. So sites like this aren't
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This got 10 points? Seriously? Its a puff piece for gods sakes. (Not that it isn't good for Supreme Court justices to write well and express their opinions strongly but that's sort of their job so I don't see the point of 3 pages of prais
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I'm sorry but that's bull. Anything can be changed. Contracts can be revised and even charters can be updated by a Board of Directors. If you hold a significant amount of U.S. Bonds you aren't going to ditch them on S&P's say so. You
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Again this is based on the same logic that people will treat the U.S. Government the same way they'd treat any other person and that's just not going to happen. If the U.S. falls back into recession we'll take everyone with us. Other count
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Its really not. If what you say was true they wouldn't still be actively buying U.S. Debt. Their hesitation is they wouldn't get all their money back. If China pulled even 25% of its investments out of the U.S. the dollar would free fall.
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I'm sorry but this seems alarmist to me. Any automated system can make an exception. For your logic to hold these institutional investors would have to not take notice of the U.S. Government having its credit rating dropped. You're argui
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This will certainly have a small impact but it isn't THAT big a deal. Some things to consider. 1. S&P Has 27 different ratings between AAA and D (there are + and - intermediaries so you have AA+, AA, AA- and so on). So put in human t
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I'm in the middle here. I don't think this piece holds much weight because he's connecting two unrelated phenomenon (a downturn caused by overuse of credit and automation). Note the retailers he cites (Circuit City, Sharper Image, KB Toys
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His main point (the only one he really elaborated on in the current post) is Launchpad which is the very definition of OSX becoming more iOS like.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Well first the story about Alexander the Great is incomplete. When Alexander the Great faced the Persians they had the most formidable Navy in the world. So when his men wanted to retreat to get reinforcements Alexander the Great realized

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