badmash69

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Predicting when China will overtake America(economist.com)
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by badmash69 16y ago
Could you please add an introductory write-up ? I am assuming that this has something to do with Google App engine , of which I know little. Your post could be a great starting point if you could elaborate upon your idea a wee bit more.
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by badmash69 16y ago
As a curious outsider, I have to ask why are you giving away the recipe to your secret sauce ? I mean, there are several of your competitors such as zencoder , etc. that could easily copy this idea and implement it . So why would you blog a
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by badmash69 16y ago
I have used WindowsBuilder as WYSIWYG UI design tool for GWT. It made GWT UI development a whole lot simpler. Thanks Google !
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by badmash69 16y ago
As one programmer to another -- don't do it. Programmers can never learn the ART of graphic design from books. B Graphic design is a black art -- for most programmers; you could end up spending a whole day trying to create a 32x32 icon and
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by badmash69 16y ago
The features in JDK 7 and 8 are what we the Java developer community have been asking for. Heck, even RedHat held its nose and voted yes for the technical merits. Java is only getting beter and the JVM -- thanks to Clojure , Scala and JRub
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by badmash69 16y ago
I am not defending Oracle. My point is that regardless of the jockeying in the mobile world, Java language and the JDK which you and I both use has no threat to its future. There are no technical issues that jeopardize the Java language's
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by badmash69 16y ago
I would settle for a link -- from an analyst or a press release to back up that claim. Otherwise , this thread (not the parent article)is just FUD.
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by badmash69 16y ago
please cite the link for this statement "Java is for paying customers." 'Cause without this link , it seems you are merely spreading FUD.
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by badmash69 16y ago
I fail to comprehend your objection. The licensing terms are what is at dispute here and not the technical merits of the language or the JVM platform. These were the same terms ( more or less ) when you downloaded the first JDK. Apache an
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by badmash69 16y ago
Hey Google --- why is Kindle not supported while Nook and IPAD are supported ?
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by badmash69 16y ago
Apologies in advance for being off-topic, but am I the only one who hates people hunched over their laptops while hogging starbucks' chairs for hours . I work in a downtown location and its impossible to have your coffee at starbucks as t
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by badmash69 16y ago
I will. Is the email listed under HN profile correct ?
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by badmash69 16y ago
From my perspective, the question is more of how would you hire the right designer to turn an application from an eyesore to a polished professional look ? We are never going to meet , so how does one go about separating true designers f
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by badmash69 16y ago
Another perspective is that Salary and competition for Java programmers are way beyond affordable for most start ups who have not made it big. Java is widely used in Financial, Insurance sectors. (There are several others as well but I s
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by badmash69 16y ago
Sad but true.
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by badmash69 16y ago
I have been curious about Clojure for a while. I have the Manning MEAP for his book and I have watched Rick Hickey's introduction videos. My first impression is that is a very well thought out language; my biggest concern is the perform
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by badmash69 16y ago
OP -- you sound like an MBA : bland and completely devoid of any semblance of originality. I think hackers should be opinionated ( right or worong doesn't matter) and have something original to say. So let me answer the question for you. D
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by badmash69 16y ago
ffmpeg has presets for ipod ( which btw also work just as well for Blackberry ) and dvds. Go tweak and select a preset that works for you and go with you. My advise is to use existing ffpresets presets. I think you will find preset in th
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by badmash69 16y ago
good question. We like to have them both in our toolbox along with other mpeg tools such as gopchop.
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by badmash69 16y ago
That is a smug remark that misses the point. Dropbox is a service aimed at everyone and their grandma . Zencoder is a niche technology aimed at people transcoding videos. There is a whole community of us at videohelp and similar sites and
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by badmash69 16y ago
I am curious : how is your service better than ffmpeg + some scripts ?
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by badmash69 16y ago
It doesn't seem to working for my Blackberry Bold. I see only the plain HTML text.
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by badmash69 16y ago
One of my favorite shows was Cops and they made sure that they got a waivers from even the suspects/people being arrested or else they masked the faces. Everything that happens is not free content. If that were a public space like a park or
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by badmash69 16y ago
My heart bleeds for you . Its really does. Writing boilerplate code -- oh the horror ! And yet an evil part of my brain would like to subject you to annotations and spring config xml files. But that can wait till you Python lovers grow up
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by badmash69 16y ago
The key consideration with Blue Ocean is that it is based upon an existing Read Ocean; you take some features/functions/value propositions from an existing market, reduce some, enhance some and drop some etc. etc. to create your blue ocea
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by badmash69 16y ago
My point was that it was neither marketing nor sexiness that was the root cause of failure. It was simply that most TVs are already plugged into cable cos or Dishnetwork boxes. They had an opportunity to make a deal with the "gatekeepers o
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by badmash69 16y ago
I respectfully disagree with Steve's assertion about Tivo's issues. Blackberry had a huge advantage : it had truly pioneering technology and competitors did not emerge for quite a while. Tivo, although very cool, did not have huge technolo
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by badmash69 16y ago
Not really. Remember Sun's stock during the dotcom boom. Sun failed because of poor execution. They blew the cloud computing opportunity. Their sales people did not chase orders like the HP guys did (this is for a personal experience ). T
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May be so , but so far no software patent lawsuits from Google. Yet. I read somewhere that Schawrtz, the nincompoop former CEO of Sun, pitched Google lawsuit as an asset. A typical Asshat CEO meets douchebag investor love story. May be my

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