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by bprater 18y ago
That's actually kind of a neat idea. I think the word widget might be appropriate in there somewhere. I wouldn't use it, but grandma might. And there are lots of grandmas out there!
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by bprater 18y ago
It can not happen. Until you can bring in a visionary dictator like Jobs that everyone channels their energy through, it is impossible to bring Linux to the level of Apple. "The challenge for us is to figure out how to deliver something w
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by bprater 18y ago
Yep, enjoy it while it lasts. A good chunk of their profits comes from that hedging, so when they have to redo their agreements, the belt will probably tighten.
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by bprater 18y ago
After seeing this and other Pixar movies that include their workspaces, I've decided that any companies I start in the future will have a 'no white wall' policy. I'll give employees a budget to use as they wish, or if they don't, I'll bring
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, sounds like just like the common "irreconcilable differences" Hollywood couples like to use. Seems foolish to leave a hot startup without really good reasons.
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by bprater 18y ago
Why would he leave at the zenith of Xobni? What is a year or two more? Would you leave -- even if you had aspirations of doing your own startp?
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by bprater 18y ago
Wow, this is a great snapshot into what it will take to move a language to App Engine. Kudos for him taking this up as his 20% project, certainly sounds challenging.
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by bprater 18y ago
Love the title, drives home a fascinating commentary on today's tech.
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by bprater 18y ago
Y!Hack may not be the best forum for finding answers to tech issues. You might try ask.metafilter.com, some smart folks over there and they dig those types of questions.
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by bprater 18y ago
Oops, I'm totally embarrassed.
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by bprater 18y ago
Would love to see Kindle take a swipe at the textbook market. Less weight on your back and god only hopes, cheaper books.
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by bprater 18y ago
Google's track record with companies hasn't been stellar: see GrandCentral and Delicious. A list of all Google Acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
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by bprater 18y ago
Nobody is talking about the campaign... I have a hard time believing they are going to gain ground by trying to "logic" their way into position. Nobody cares about logic, they work off emotion. I can tell you all night long that the softwar
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by bprater 18y ago
I like this concept. Top-tier firms do little in truly protecting the consumer. Fax a letterhead to them for proof that my business exists? Anyone can do that in 60 seconds with Microsoft Word. The problem is that browser would need to be u
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by bprater 18y ago
My Mac does wake up in about a second right now. However, I see your point and totally agree.
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by bprater 18y ago
Didn't the XO project give us some indication on how difficult it is to create this type of thing? And unless Arrington is ready commit to this project full-time, it is going nowhere fast. I suspect that he is using his clout to simply tryi
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by bprater 18y ago
Ding, ding, ding. Great thoughts.
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by bprater 18y ago
FP is function pointers, functional programming, Frontpage, floating point, frame pointer, flower power?
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by bprater 18y ago
I appreciate folks who take a shot at explaining a difficult concept in ways that other folks can take a stab at understanding.
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by bprater 18y ago
Wow, that took me way to long to figure out what that post was about. I was looking for big projects that needed to be funded by a VC, when I finally got it that someone is looking for a VC to fund them. Yeeks. (Note to self: read slower!)
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by bprater 18y ago
This is a great illustration for folks that don't understand why the iPhone works so well. When you can compare it to a phone that has similar functionality, but fails miserable to measure up, you start to sense how important the small deci
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed. Give us a teaser about your project idea.
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by bprater 18y ago
Exciting article. Hopefully the concept of bandwidth caps will go away and we can focus on the future with massive amounts of bandwidth. Does anyone know what level of processing it takes to decode a 1080p picture?
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by bprater 18y ago
You can hold downtime to a few minutes for a good chunk of your traffic. How can you speed up the time it takes for DNS to propagate? Set your TTL low now, before you the move. (Set it to about 300 seconds.) This means that many DNS servers
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by bprater 18y ago
"Almost come" is accurate. There is some major distance to be made in slew of robotics categories. For instance, robots can still barely and accurately maneuver around using just vision. Slap on 3D like Lidar and it gets expensive both fina
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by bprater 18y ago
Curious why you head out before you share pictures? If you did it right there, you could burn x numbers of DVDs.
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by bprater 18y ago
Folks dreams are constantly muddled by the daily grind. It's easier to focus on how much you hate your boss than how sure you are that you are going to get a killer job at the start-up everyone is talking about.
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by bprater 18y ago
In the long-term, we will get out of this funk with technological leverage. Firing bits over the wire costs zero. Inflation hits us by oil and food, but costs only continue to decrease on the tech end. I'm sure firms are going to start maki
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by bprater 18y ago
Aside from software others have mentioned, I find myself using Coda frequently. When I'm working on a variety of different websites via SFTP, and it allows me to quickly log into a website, make a few changes, hit save and be done. No fiddl
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by bprater 18y ago
I don't own a kindle and haven't played with one, but in messing with the Sony one, it seemed like the pages turned verrrryyyy slowly. When using a textbook, I find it helpful to be able to flip pages quickly. I wonder how this will affect

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