bornhuetter

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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I am reading a good book by Daniel Pink called "To Sell Is Human" at the moment, which makes the point that many people who do not think they are working in "sales" actually are. It sounds trite, but he does go into a lot of useful detail
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Of course that's one of the big reasons, but Microsoft don't want to say it because they don't want to be too critical of OEMs in public - and the media don't want to say it because many of them want to paint Windows 8 as a failure. Haswell
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I don't think they particularly have screwed up. Sure, removing the start button was a bad idea, but it's been blown way out of proportion. It was pretty obvious that the media and a lot of users were going to hate Windows 8 regardless of
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Fashion isn't about having the latest, it's about having what everyone else has decided is cool. Vintage is sometimes "in fashion".
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
You don't work in enterprise, do you?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
The basic look of iOS is unchanged since the first version. OSX has basically stayed the same for over 10 years. Apple like to find what they consider to be a great UI solution and stick to it for long periods of time. In contrast see Win
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Is there any news on how much less heat these things will produce? The heat issue is one of my biggest concerns about the current crop of ultrabooks.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Presumably that's an ARM CPU you have there, which is a lot more energy efficient than x86.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you hate so much about VBA?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
There is a difference between avoiding and evading, but it's often difficult to tell when a company is doing one or the other. When people say "well they either did something illegal and should be punished, or they didn't and everyone shou
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> As long as nothing illegal is happening The problem is that it is not always clear cut what is legal and what is illegal when it comes to taxation on an international scale. Tax laws are often written in language that lays out princip
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I almost exclusively launch programs in Windows 7 and 8 by pressing the start button and typing the name of the program. I've found Windows 8 to be better at finding the right program, and a lot better at finding settings when I want to ch
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It kills the app on my phone (Nexus 4 Cyanogenmod). If I ever get a slowdown I open up the switcher and swipe away all my recent apps to close them.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Thanks for the tip on Radiance - I found Ambiance too dark, but Radiance does look nicer (more similar to what I like about Mint). I think I'm going to give 13.04 another try tonight. I used to Ubuntu Tweak to change a few things like maki
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. Personally I like the Metro start screen (not the metro apps), but if they had just made it boot to desktop and leave the start button as a startscreen launcher, I think that the reaction would have been more positive
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I dislike the dock in unity as well - I find it's too in your face, but I've heard that auto-hide and a few other aspects have been improved in recent versions, so thinking of giving it another go. I do find it all very dark though, and ge
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It takes about 20-30 seconds to remove all the preinstalled metro apps from the start screen. By the time you have installed the usual programs like VLC they will grab all the file associations and you will never see Metro again, unless yo
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Metro apps are entirely optional, and the desktop is not going away. I don't like Metro apps, but I just don't get it when people seem to think that their very existence is a big problem. Windows 8 on x86 has almost exactly the same deskt
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
One big difference is that almost every new site seems to have a Macbook Air featured prominently in the middle of the homepage (at least for webapps anyway).
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Samsung to unveil laptop with 13.3-inch QHD 3200 x 1800 panel(theverge.com)
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Lack of skilled staff is hampering growth of businesses in Silicon Roundabout.(theregister.co.uk)
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It's still better than being a "Wanger".
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
This is the original article: http://www.glassdoor.co.uk/blog/top-10-companies-business-ou...
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I've done surveys like this before - it's usually just an email that goes around to all employees and asks them to rate the company, management, peers etc on various metrics from 1 to 5. The picture in the article shows the top 10 most happ
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm not surprised Microsoft employees are feeling down. It seems most media outlets and popular blogs really have it in for Microsoft, and that must get to you after a while. No matter what they do right or wrong the media hates it at the
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Exactly. You don't see that mentioned very often in the papers, though... If Google and Amazon are evil, then so are half the "British" banking and insurance companies. It's common practice to channel profits and off to countries like Ber
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
And it's particularly hilarious the UK complaining about it since they are one of the biggest enablers of tax avoidance in the world. Bermuda and the Isle of Man, for instance, make a complete mockery of British politicians who complain ab
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Thanks, that's hilarious. I can see someone thinking that unique passwords are a way to make sure that people aren't overusing common passwords - and not realizing that you are implicitly letting everyone know what passwords are currently
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I was wondering recently if someone had ever done this. Do you have any examples/links?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Interesting profile. Do you have a blog or twitter I could follow?

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