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by Volpe 15y ago
I believe it means it's slow, unreliable, and expensive. Oh and there will be some certification program to train people in it.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Repeat 4 (right?)
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by Volpe 15y ago
Curious why you think that? Every programmer? What does learning C provide that other programming languages (majority of which have some basis in C) don't teach you? Memory management (allocation, pointers, etc)? Pipes and buffers? They ar
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Cool Android Watch by Italian Startup(imwatch.it)
3 points by Volpe 15y ago|1 comments
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by Volpe 15y ago
Yep, just like the best way to learn carpentry is "Hammer". Languages are tools, people learn differently, there is no best way. If there was though, it'd be Ruby. ;)
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by Volpe 15y ago
I was comparing the word 'effective' in a different context to illustrate it's misuse. Vaccines in general are 90%+ (sometimes 100%). (See polio or hepatitis for examples). Those that argue herd immunity - go and read it... all of the thre
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by Volpe 15y ago
effective at reducing malaria incidence by 50%... Is that what we are calling 'effective vaccine'? It's a major achievement, but if this is 'effective vaccine' then we already have an 'effective cure' to a number of cancers as well. A bit l
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by Volpe 15y ago
There is still the very real chance this guy has all their member information. In this situation, how can a company ensure he has deleted all of the data, without legal action?
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by Volpe 15y ago
"To demonstrate the flaw to First State's IT staff, he wrote a script that cycled through each ID number and pulled down the relevant report to his computer. He confirmed that the vulnerability affected the firm's full customer database." S
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by Volpe 15y ago
So release peoples private information, just to point out security flaws. He could have pointed out the security flaw without downloaded peoples details. Admittedly the reaction was over the top. But sending hundreds of peoples personal da
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by Volpe 15y ago
Maybe it's in reference to the fact this "startup in a startup" scaled people to a point of disfunction, which is kind of what Mythical Man Month is getting at as well. But you are right, it isn't really the primary point he is making.
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by Volpe 15y ago
I think the downvotes reflect the fact you are belittling this post when it is clearly brilliant. Your reasoning that "he doesn't keep the car on the road" misses the point. He's demonstrating abstraction itself, and using a medium (reacti
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by Volpe 15y ago
You are conflating issues. Trying to find a 'moral high ground' by viewing history through a selective lens is never really productive. The Chinese govt has brought a lot of 'good' to the Chinese (and Tibetan) people (despite very horrible
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by Volpe 15y ago
The situation is a little more complex than that, and I wasn't making any claims about Tibet itself. But since you brought it up: Tibet is a fairly complex issue, with the crux of it being that the british (!?) agreed to 'release' tibet fr
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by Volpe 15y ago
I wasn't being sarcastic. I was sharing a point of view that exists, that a large number of people (possibly the majority?) hold.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Just to play the devils advocate (which admittedly isn't popular). He is considered a 'terrorist' by the Chinese Govt. Regardless the truth in it, it is important to show countries respect on these matters. Keep in mind, other countries h
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by Volpe 15y ago
Bullshit elitist crap. No one can argue with you because you just claim knowledge superiority that can't be confirmed or denied. People care about this stuff, I don't care if you don't, if other people do, then it's an issue.
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by Volpe 15y ago
That so needs to be one of the 'rules of the internet' (if it isn't already) http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-the-internet#.TpJshTn...
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm not saying they don't have debt, but they have consistently posted positive growth throughout the financial crisis, whilst maintaining a GDP debt percentage of < 20%. U.S has been in recession, and it's debt percentage is > 60%
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by Volpe 15y ago
I never said it did, but why would they "realise it isn't going to work"... when it has up until now?
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by Volpe 15y ago
... are you seriously positing it is "too hard" to start a business in China (the fastest growing economy in the world)? > let alone the fact if you have a successful internet startup, someone with more resources will make a carbon copy
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by Volpe 15y ago
> Just getting a business license in China takes a bribe and months of red stamping. Do you have any evidence of this? From my time in china, I see a massive entrepreneur spirit. In fact everyone I spoke to was starting a business of
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by Volpe 15y ago
They are? That's why they are the ones holding all the money while the "non-conformers" drown in debt.
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by Volpe 15y ago
This article doesn't even mention Wang Chuanfu (王传福)? Owner/Founder of BYD which is a pioneer in battery technology, expanding into cars and electronics, it's is not too disimilar from Apple (in a business sense, different industry).
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by Volpe 15y ago
It's not about fact, it's about disagreement. You disagreed, and no one likes you disagreeing about that. Down Vote! It's a nice replication of U.S style democracy, empower the people who agree with you, and disenfranchise those that don'
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by Volpe 15y ago
Partly what you say is true. But I'd say iTunes (music store) was disruptive. It changed how the music industry operated. The iphone changed how we 'use' phones more than it changed the 'phone industry'. In fact, on writing that, I think
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by Volpe 15y ago
M$ - Silverlight Adobe - Flash Google - WebM Calling Apple out as if they are some how evil here is disingenuous. All the players are pushing their own formats. Doesn't safari work without quicktime and support the <video> tag in h
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by Volpe 15y ago
U.S just love meddeling don't they? If China raise the value of their currency too quickly they plunge hundreds of millions of people into dire poverty. (We are talking more people than in the entire US). Just so the U.S can reduce its de
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by Volpe 15y ago
> ... to make sure he is ok. Sure people aren't just being nosy? If something happened to him, it is highly unlikely he'd remove his entire web presence. When someone removes their web presence isn't the implicit message that they don'
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by Volpe 15y ago
Chrome Frame?

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