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by bruce511 2y ago
Each part is necessary, but in itself not sufficient. Successful business takes hard work, the right work, done well, reaching a market that needs it and can afford it. Motivation by itself is worthless. Working on the wrong thing is worthl
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It's such a pity that a really exciting step for this company is bring ruined by such a bad report of it. Not surprisingly the focus of most of the comments are on the absurd statements of "first civil supersonic flight " or
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by bruce511 2y ago
At the moment "no one" is on mastodon. The folk there are the few, and are likely a self-selecting group that are resistant to spam or scams. Therefore you don't see (much) spam or scams there. Of course should it become popu
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I'll back you up here. While i don't do a lot of baking, I've done enough over my life to get a feel for what the ingredients do. I adjust enough that I think most folks would describe it as "not following the recipe&quo
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It varies a lot depending on airline. Top tip : if you are flying internationally avoid Uas airlines where possible. The US airlines are built around domestic flights. They treat international flights as "long domestic ". By contr
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by bruce511 2y ago
Replying to this whole sub-thread, not just this post specifically; All SQL advice has to take _context_ into account. In SQL, perhaps more than anywhere else, context matters. There's lots of excellent SQL advice, but most of it is bo
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My career isn't quite as long as his, but I concur with all the sentiments. I will note that some of these are easier to say in hind-sight than do at the time.for example There's a lot of pressure on you in your early career to pr
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> A new to the world software start up is trying to serve a need that is currently unserved. Well, yes in some cases. In lots of others it's just another implementation of existing software. Oh, you're building another fo
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The OS is part of it (Apple bad, Microsoft good) but the bigger part is integrations. Web APIs, import and export file formats, external resources (maps etc) are all part of the equation.
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I remember that episode well, and had cause recently (size of Greenland in the news) to show someone else the same thing. In the Peter's projection the size of the US and especially Europe, become "smaller" relative to say th
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On the one hand the number is a political thumb-suck which sounds good. It's not based in any kind of actual reality. Yes, the data center itself will create some permanent jobs (I have no real feel for this, but guessing less than 100
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>> Smart Charter. I think that might still be a viable business even today, I'm less convinced. Although to be fair, I'm really not the target market. I think the root fail of this kind of business is that it's a Venn d
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If it's just a random box you move left or right and keep going. Sure there might be a conversation, but frankly it's not gonna slow the army down more than a smoke break will.
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Well yes and no. There's no existing network (for something new), so certainly there's no network effect making them grow. On the other hand the pitch to get people to join is weak. I don't pitch it to my friends because (cur
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by bruce511 2y ago
Of course they have. They want network effects. It's good for lock-in. If you don't want or need network effects then don't use them.
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In a pile of devices, Apples are non-typical. The number of users is not terribly relevant. However, sure, lots of users chose Apple knowing exactly what it is. Apple's not going to change since their model clearly appeals to lots of p
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I feel like the "past" is a shorter timeline for you than it is for me. For all the examples mentioned in the parent article, PCs were significantly under-powered compared to workstations, much less main frames. An explosion of ha
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by bruce511 2y ago
An iPhone is a very non-typical device. Apple is a non-typical company which builds lock-in to every step of the process. If you chose to use iAnything then it's a bit late to start complaining about lock in now.
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They can move. They can be repositioned. They can congregate to provide mutual support. More significantly they can be used in attack as well as defense.
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It's hard to communicate without first agreeing on the medium of communication. When joining a group its easiest to simply adopt the choice the group has already made. Companies chose Twitter because lots of people (their customers) al
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I've not been to Albania yet, so I can't comment from observation, but I'm surmising that most all off these bunkers would be pretty useless militarily anyway. A bunker, by itself, is not much of a defense. It kinda advertise
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I expect these comments to be full of agreement. Corporate behavior in the computer space leaves much to he desired. I will however observe; None of the supplied examples showed any form of network effect. It was all stuff you did at home.
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I'm not sure 'miss priced' is necessarily the case- I think they're priced to move, and obviously there's no cost-of-sales, so its a volume game. Of course one can find truly valuable stuff, not just books, but I ne
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Nothing specific. Most everything printed that I have since circa 1980s is fine. I expect looking after them matters more than paper quality. Thats mostly paperback novels. Stuff that was printed cheap in the 30s and 40s (ie "pulp&quot
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Mastodon lacks what BlueSky has - a company with money driving the experience forward and getting everyone going in the same direction. Let's start with "no one has heard of mastodon" because no one is spending money marketin
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While there's a ban on overt politics, a lot of social discourse is ultimately political. It's impossible to discuss health care approaches for example. Americans believe in for profit Healthcare, while (most everyone else) tend t
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To be honest, I prefer charity shops to professional shops for 2nd hand books. That said, I still visit professional shops rather more than I should (it depends on the shop.) Of course charity shops are cheaper, that's part of the appe
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I agree. Staying up to date is important but not urgent. What you really don't want is that you don't do it, and one day it becomes urgent (usually for some external reason.) You don't want to upgrade your networking the
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All programmers, who end up doing it for money, go through 3 stages of growth. Stage 1) they program to prove to themselves that they can. Stage 2) they program to prove to others that they can. Stage 3) they program for money. You can&#x27
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The absolute value is only meaningful when compared to the amount of capital invested. Its also only meaningful when measured over a long period which takes good years and bad years into account.

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