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by bigtones 10y ago
Pendo.io does this and a lot more.
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by bigtones 10y ago
That is not true at all. Silicon Valley Bank is absolutely friendly to startups, helps fund them, and supports them with a great network of early stage company get-togethers many times per year. They supported my startup from first funding
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by bigtones 10y ago
Microsoft and Google both score a "D", Mozilla itself scores a "D-", Apple and Amazon both score an "F"
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by bigtones 10y ago
.Net is 14 years old now - if you don't know what it is by now you're probably not ever going to know. It's a cross platform runtime and a group of programming languages that run on it, just like Java.
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by bigtones 10y ago
This is from 2015 - should be reflected in the title.
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by bigtones 10y ago
Because this post-mortem was written by an American in Seattle
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by bigtones 10y ago
Dude, it's 2016 - that was twenty years ago.
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by bigtones 10y ago
Errr, yes they are. From the article: In Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US.
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by bigtones 10y ago
Thank you to Microsoft and Anders Hejlsberg for inventing Async/Await (and to F# for the original inspiration) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises
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by bigtones 10y ago
Yes, Dianne Hackborn was one of the main proponents and designers of the fragment system lamented in your StackOverflow question referenced: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-30-fr...
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by bigtones 10y ago
The New York Times have referenced Theranos and Holmes in three separate articles discussing the company - you're not looking hard enough.
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by bigtones 10y ago
Fantastic, I really enjoyed it.
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by bigtones 10y ago
I agree, the number of shares is of less consequence than the total value as the price of each companies shares varies wildly. If they all got the same number of shares, I would choose to work at Google with a $790 share price rather than
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by bigtones 11y ago
Agreed, BuzzFeed has produced some great articles of late.
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by bigtones 11y ago
Wow, that is a very informative and amazing use of 3d printing technology.
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by bigtones 11y ago
I wonder how he found a replacement for that exact same phone fax thing? It looks like an antique piece.
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by bigtones 11y ago
And Microsoft SQL Server is a descendant on Sybase since SQL Server 6, after Microsoft purchased the source code.
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by bigtones 11y ago
I don't understand this - Yelp provides free breakfast and lunch to all employees in their SF Office. Why would she be starving if her employer feeds her two meals per day for free ?
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by bigtones 11y ago
Omnibar is an awesome feature, with zero discoverability. There should be a UI queue in the header to drop it down.
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by bigtones 11y ago
I would guess it is using Push-IMAP to communicate with Yahoo Mail, Outlook/Hotmail etc. That's why they have only implemented it on mobile devices and not the Gmail web experience - because it's a client to server fetch mode
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by bigtones 11y ago
An interesting story. Ars Technica [1] dug up a few months ago the the Pixel C was never meant to run Android - all the way through designed and development it was tested with the Chrome OS loaded. At the last minute, the now unified Androi
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by bigtones 11y ago
E5 v3 CPU's are old, and the Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 at the top of their charts was released back in Q2 2014 - nearly 2 years ago. The new Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 when it is released should blitz that.
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by bigtones 11y ago
It's still a silly distinction and pedantic. A modern car is a consumption device, but it also contains several computers, input and output devices, and significant computing power. But everyone is fine with just driving around in them
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by bigtones 11y ago
Also, employees under the guidance of their former CEO could face multiple years in prison for crimes committed while they were at the company and under instruction from the CEO. If your employees are now facing significant jail time becaus
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by bigtones 11y ago
"We are dedicated to conducting business according to all applicable local and international laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and with the highest professional and ethical stand
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by bigtones 11y ago
And to the article authors point, that is because of religious reasons - in this case the Mormons.
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by bigtones 11y ago
I for one am happy it got posted again - looks like a quality JS component I have not seen before.
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by bigtones 11y ago
NAND flash was not commercially available at that time.
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by bigtones 11y ago
It's not useless - its humor.
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by bigtones 11y ago
Spokesmuppets - awesome description for them.

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