bugsy

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by bugsy 15y ago
She's posted the names and details of what is going on, so yeah, it's a fact. Are you Anthony, or just one of his friends?
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by bugsy 15y ago
When I say that I've heard of this company named Google and the seem to produce some decent products, I am understating the fact that they are one of the top software oriented companies in the world today. Since this is widely known I saw n
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by bugsy 15y ago
My understanding is "they don't do usability testing" is in the context of "usability testing" being defined as hiring some usability consultants who have never designed usable software to come in and video tape random people off the street
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by bugsy 15y ago
Good point to bring up. Regarding "Have your designers and executives use the products realistically for long periods of time before release to identify problem areas", that's a form of user testing as well when the products are things that
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by bugsy 15y ago
Google seems to be doing pretty well anyway though. I've tried several of their products and they seem pretty decent. I have a hard time imagining that stuff I found like google search and google maps were built by developers without any sk
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by bugsy 15y ago
Yeah, sounds like we are in complete agreement on this.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Very few people have designed CPUs. A lot of people manage to write great software despite this. It seems to be irrelevant. Again, coming from someone who knows. If someone is interested, yes, I absolutely encourage them to pursue that inte
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by bugsy 15y ago
The 13th amendment establishes the right of the state to own slaves. Technically, according to the text of the 13th amendment, it formally and legally establishes as a constitutional right of the state to declare people slaves as "punishmen
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by bugsy 15y ago
I'm surprised that you are so open that you are disrespectful, immature, and uncivilized, but thanks.
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by bugsy 15y ago
I used to say absolutely yes too, but it's been a long time since I needed to mess with it. You no longer need to write in assembly to optimize speed, or even to write drivers for any but the rarest cases that hardly anyone will run into. D
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by bugsy 15y ago
I'll tell you what. She's not making it up and she's not a drama queen. Will you agree with both of these statements regarding this specific situation?
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by bugsy 15y ago
People don't usually make this sort of stuff up. I agree with her decision not to post details. She does not need your permission or consent to be upset. Her experience is not subject acceptance of every random passerby on the internet to
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by bugsy 15y ago
It's not about gender it's about being a minority compared to the majority in some group. I am not white and when it comes down to it, there are those that try to use that to discredit me. On the internet no one knows you are a dog, so usin
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by bugsy 15y ago
He's right that GPL is draconian and limits freedom. But I am not sure your point because you didn't state it. You have a drive by post where you post some cryptic excerpt that seems unrelated to the topic with no commentary. Are you a post
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by bugsy 15y ago
AT&T is a really bad company and has been for a really long time. (Another example company with a similar record is Allstate Insurance.) At this point in time it is so well known and obvious, that anyone still using them is basically a
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by bugsy 15y ago
Aaron was right about what should have been done, but it's known that Ives incurred the wrath of Jobs recently when he said he was tired of working in the US and wanted to go home and Jobs said absolutely not. This put Ives on Apple's "Disl
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by bugsy 15y ago
I agree completely. It was very clear to me when reading the original that the context is that the person simply has no interest in buying the product no matter what for his own reasons. The selective quoting completely changes the vibe to
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by bugsy 15y ago
I agree with the article. We occasionally get comments about how our software is too expensive. The only thing that matters though is we do periodic pricing experiments and we know for a fact we don't make more money by lowering the price o
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by bugsy 15y ago
Yes yes yes. I agree completely that those sorts of shenanigans are exactly what our young friend needs to consider. How this sort of thing works is you sign an onerous contract that, in a general sense, precludes you from ever jailbreaking
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by bugsy 15y ago
That's a good thought, aggregating them. Or better yet, curate a yearly print journal of product Post Mortems. Hard to get people to disclose details though, really hard to find these on the corporate level. Most published post mortems seem
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by bugsy 15y ago
It's not sad. As a new service, people are going to check to see if it works at all before spending time doing something more complex.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Do you have a source for your claim that US teachers make 60% of the national average for someone with a masters in education? (A degree which doesn't qualify one to do anything but teach.) Average US salary $40,711.61: http://www.ssa.gov/
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by bugsy 15y ago
I agree with you that "bad teachers" is not the core or only issue. A more serious issue, as an example, is that good teachers are actively driven away by petty bureaucrats. Those that remain are severely constrained in the good they can do
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by bugsy 15y ago
Not really, we are easy to find and all over the place. It's just that typical corporate environments are threatened by the highly talented, and those that aren't are unwilling to pay the market rate. Not a problem since others are and when
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by bugsy 15y ago
Seems like a silly distraction claim since they only look at raw number of things and not their quality or return. Would you rather invest $10,000 10 years ago and get a PHP calendar app, or invest $20,000 and get Google search? Both are si
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by bugsy 15y ago
> Web Surfing Helps at Work, Study Says The problem is the study didn't really find that at all. The experimental design was so contrived and artificial it is unpersuasive, difficult to imagine, and unestablished by the data, that it a
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by bugsy 15y ago
I find references to "resource" in general to be unnerving and a bit offensive when it refers to a member of the human race. When I hear about "buying another resource" meaning hiring an expert, it really starts to sound like some strange f
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by bugsy 15y ago
Well yes, this is my point. It's not clear to me why it's being massively downvoted. Randal is real, credible, and a valuable and well known contributor to culture and citizen of our early 21st century era. It is odd that Wikipedia is votin
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by bugsy 15y ago
The real question to ask is why does anyone take wikipedia serious as a source these days? I would trust Schwartz's opinions on Peruvian copper mining, quantum physics, square dancing, or any other subject long before I would trust any arti
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by bugsy 15y ago
"Productivity has fallen" Yeah that appears to happen when you inflate the money supply yet continue to measure in productivity using cash paid in devalued funny money. Prices in funny money are inflating by over 30% a year right now so of

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