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by barnaby 17y ago
"Given the nonprofit, tax-exempt status of colleges and universities, and the powerlessness of the market to control higher-education costs due to limited supply".. Sounds like sub-optimal supply/demand to me. If we dropped the charade that
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by barnaby 17y ago
>>> I hope that they'll let the material stand for >>> itself rather than lying like politicians trying >>> to score points. WTF? This is a video that Reuters has been trying to get released for over 2 ye
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by barnaby 17y ago
>>>The days of yellow journalism are still alive and well. Ahem, Fox?
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by barnaby 17y ago
also, doesn't hurt to ask your employer what they expect you to do. They most likely do want you to hand off some of your responsibilities to somebody else, or something, and may be too ashamed to bring it up.
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by barnaby 17y ago
:-) it seems there's a news story every day on HN about a new Linux based OS on the market. I do like this one much better than the North Korean one with the lockdown of user freedoms.
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by barnaby 17y ago
They built a crippled Linux distro? Didn't China try the same thing with red flag os?
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OSM, waze, Google Map Maker announce ClosedStreetMap Alliance(closedstreetmap.org)
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by barnaby 17y ago
Let me just stop you right there. If you bash IE6 hard enough, those legacy systems will HAVE to be upgraded because they'll be so monstrously expensive. It's a free market, if you want to affect change then manipulate the price of stuff. I
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by barnaby 17y ago
Lately I'm into reading Biographies of Entrepreneurs. Reserved "Founders at work" at the library, but currently reading "Match King" the biography of Ivar Kreuger. After failing a bunch of times, he figured it out: put on a show and pretend
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by barnaby 17y ago
Don't kid yourself. They already are. It's called "founders syndrome" when you can't possibly imagine doing anything else other than pushing the business forward every waking hour, and then are surprised that to your employees, it's just a
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by barnaby 17y ago
I'm amazed at the depth Canonical are going into in order to make the user experience for Ubuntu as simple and stunning as possible. It's this kind of attention to detail is making Ubuntu the number one OS out there.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yes. I wrote a biz plan and raised funding, then learned NOBODY read it. Focus on the demo and the slideshow, skip the biz plan.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Looks cool, gonna pitch this to the rest of the team and see about going.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Our office switched to Ubuntu 2 years ago, and every 6 months we wonder "how can they possibly make this better" only to be totally wowed that they've done something wonder each release. This one looks really well integrated, and competes w
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by barnaby 17y ago
While I agree all web frameworks are roughly on par, they do each have their particular strengths. The Onion could have gone with Rails, SPRING, Wicket, Cake, Symphony, or Pylons. They're equally as "good" as Django or any other framework.
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by barnaby 17y ago
I don't care if the whole text of the treaty ends up being as innocuous as "everyone gets a cute kitten". The very thought of making commercial treaties top notch government secrets is absurd, and angering. We don't know _where_ our tax do
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, code is a liability because it rots pretty fast and requires frequent maintenance. True value is in understanding the customers problem. If your unit tests accurately capture the customers needs then it has value.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Wow, I must be behind the times. Microsoft have a headless server? Windows as a hypervisor? Thank you for posting this, as this is news to me.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Quit, you don't want to be part of the salt that gets left behind in the dead sea effect.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Wow, that's scary. The epidemic just exploded within our lifetimes, and it started with the poor in states like Mississippi and Alabama and spread outward to middle-class America.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, VirnetX look like a "non-practicing entity". Their website talks about "products" but it's clear their whole business relies on "intellectual property", whatever that is.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, there are domain names that sell for millions. Candy.com for example sold for $3 Million.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Who's Linux Torvalds? Oh you mean Linus, with an S Interesting comparison with O'Reilly. Linus talks less but his words have more weight, Tim blogs, tweets, facebooks etc. frequently to get his word out.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Woohoo! A little behind schedule, but I honestly prefer "solid and functional" over "on time".
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, I was about to comment about "hasn't this been tried before" because I heard calacanis talk about theprintedblog when it went under. Thank you for posting your experience
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by barnaby 17y ago
Sounds like something I'd like to try out. Will it work on Mac or Linux? Wait, forget I asked.
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by barnaby 17y ago
I can't say enough good things about this event. Great people, great food. Let's do it again! Or at the very least, let's all keep in touch and meet for a beer or coffee sometime soon.
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by barnaby 17y ago
and the marketing materials, commercials, advertisements, distribution deals, etc. etc.
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by barnaby 17y ago
It's a telling sign that the questions 3 years ago were "is Linux ready for the desktop" and today the questions are "is Linux better than Mac". Linux as a product is obviously top notch now; from here on out it's just a matter of marketing
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by barnaby 17y ago
I'm always impressed when I hear Danah Boyd speak. Heard her at NetRoots Conference talking about how people isolate themselves in community online (e.g. MySpace = virtual ghetto) and thus our fabled use of the internet to spread informatio

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