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Google Chrome Considered Harmful [opinion](osnews.com)
2 points by blogimus 18y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
Interesting blend of marketing and informational material. I had to laugh when I read the contrived comment of one character asking "why is this application downloading the entire Internet?" when looking at the Chrome task manager.
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by blogimus 18y ago
One without someone else's food crumbs and skin flakes in it. One that's designed to be washed in the dishwasher.
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by blogimus 18y ago
You may think 250 GB is generous... today. How long ago was it that people were happy to get 56k modems in their homes? Its obvious we keep consuming more bandwidth, more disk space. 250GB of bandwidth is good enough for anyone is like tha
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by blogimus 18y ago
Like passive (CSTN?) versus active matrix (TFT) laptop screens in the mid 90's. To most people, the TFT screen was not worth the additional cost. Those of us who valued its quality paid the premium. Now I think all laptops have TFT screens.
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The Science of Fantasy Football(livescience.com)
1 points by blogimus 18y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
The keyword I read through this is that your brass ring is a $150K LOAN. For this loan, you obligate 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year, if I recall my reserve obligation right. If you are doing it just for the money, I'd suggest don't. F
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by blogimus 18y ago
Considering that Ma Bell was a monopoly until 1984, I'd agree. To paraphrase John Draper (aka Captain Crunch), "A system is a system, whether a phone network or a computer."
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by blogimus 18y ago
resent theories, at least according to the diagram's caption.
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by blogimus 18y ago
It is OS X only, not open source, and I haven't used it myself, but I've heard a lot of recommendations for OmniGraffle. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ I was in the market for just such a beast a couple of years back:
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by blogimus 18y ago
Meanwhile, reporters anxiously anticipate Steve Jobs to quote Mark Twain.
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by blogimus 18y ago
We are moving to testing soon and can offer either a hosted version or let customers use their S3 account. Which offering would you advice we focus and why? Is there something that precludes you from offering the option to use either (or
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by blogimus 18y ago
I'd even say it is a hasty generalization.
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by blogimus 18y ago
Invite codes are a good way to limit access as you ramp up and also let you have a rough idea of which users are externally connected, even if it is not very accurate. I'd say use as a marketing ploy is limited, unless one can successfully
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by blogimus 18y ago
Likewise.
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by blogimus 18y ago
Welcome to humanity.
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by blogimus 18y ago
Anyone want to finish the third paragraph from the bottom? "One way that Erlang differs from OO languages is its emphasis on failure. Any message can fail. Processes don't raise an exception, they fail. Systems are structured as worker pro
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by blogimus 18y ago
I don't disagree that copyright infringement is bad for those in our business who rely on sales of software or media licenses. And sure there are negative residuals like trickle down economics of the media and software publishers. But it is
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by blogimus 18y ago
I would say " A mistake" rather than " The mistake." Another mistake in this analogy is that between criminal and civil law. Theft, in most if not all countries, is a criminal offense. Piracy, formally known as copyright infringement (or
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by blogimus 18y ago
a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. its never too late to start, just look at Grandma Moses.
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by blogimus 18y ago
Not just be a top coder, but be a good salesman, self promoter, and networker to make those opportunities.
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by blogimus 18y ago
Given that there is a heated discussion going on on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=287851 I did some digging to try to find something definitive to help clarify some information for this ad-hoc debate we're having. So th
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Legal information vs. legal advice(ajs.org)
1 points by blogimus 18y ago|1 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
"Piracy" is just as inappropriate and ridiculous as "theft" as a term to describe illegal copying or copyright infringement. Call it what it is, "illegal copying." It fits its own class, not theft of hard goods on land or piracy on the high
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by blogimus 18y ago
For business and professional development, I pay for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library, which includes a lot of material including a couple of online books selections: One large run by Books 24x7 and a somewhat l
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by blogimus 18y ago
Its not your browser. You're absolutely right, he's breaking his own rules.
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by blogimus 18y ago
I mostly agree with you in the case of "back door" sales, where groups are able to make turnkey purchases as part of a group's given budget or purchasing plan. Then it is not like you are dealing with a large corporation or a large sale whi
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Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015(webpagesthatsuck.com)
3 points by blogimus 18y ago|3 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
I checked out some of the examples listed on a blog referenced by the 37signals article: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/01/architects_like_to_p... Why do people think they need a grand splash for people entering their sites? Ohh!!!
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by blogimus 18y ago
Back in the .com boom days, I was at a startup developing online negotiated trade software. The sales team had figures where only about 15% or so of sales to large corporations are turnkey products. The remaining 85% or so are customized in

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