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by cek 14y ago
Well done. I've been thinking we need something like this for our app, but haven't poked around yet. Thanks for making this available.
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by cek 14y ago
I love Marcello and am a fan, but this is an emotional, not well thought through reaction. The best leaders, the best organizations, the ones that create excellence, are those that are as good at saying no as they are at saying yes. I've wo
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Using C# await in iOS apps for UI scripting(praeclarum.org)
1 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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by cek 14y ago
> But his insight immediately struck a chord because at the time it was extremely painful developing services for mobile devices. We had a closet full of more than 100 phones and were building our software pretty much device by device.
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by cek 14y ago
This blast from the past made me poke around some old code. My first shareware app was called TAPES I wrote in high-school. It was a UCSD P-System (Pascal) app that printed J-Cards for cassette tapes (the cards that list what songs are on t
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by cek 14y ago
I had two wildly (for me anyway) successful Windows shareware apps in the '80s & '90s. WinPrint[1] and INIedit[2]. They were $25 a pop and I made way more than $10K from them over the years. Each payment (except a few juicy site licens
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How Amazon achieves excellence at scale(crashdev.com)
5 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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by cek 14y ago
My memory of that part isn't so great. :-) I seem to recall the WP guy just backing out his approach and going another way. Often times in dev support situations like that, we didn't get to help with the solution: Just the identification of
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by cek 14y ago
As far as I know Google has not inserted code to deal with backwards compat. Yet.
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by cek 14y ago
> Great engineers don’t solve problems - they redefine them. In other words, great engineers deftly navigate false premises. This is an invaluable asset and is far more rare than a productive engineer. It changes the playing field en
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by cek 14y ago
It's interesting to see the parallels between Android and Windows in this regard. Here's a story from my past, copied from a blog post I wrote last year: My first job at Microsoft was providing developer support for the early Windows SDKs.
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by cek 14y ago
It turns out the real challenge in creating excellent things is being as excellent at saying no as you are at saying yes. Learn how to build an organization that can do a few things, really, really well and you will win. The trick is gettin
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by cek 14y ago
I call this concept "Ubiservers" for Ubiquitous Servers. The idea is the consumer demand for highly integrated computing devices, based on SoCs, combined with Moore's law being applied to solid-state storage will lead to very small devices
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Have a Plan(ceklog.kindel.com)
1 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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Businesses Buy Differently(ceklog.kindel.com)
2 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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by cek 14y ago
My favorite quote in the video is near the end: "Coding is as close to a superpower as you can get." I feel that.
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by cek 14y ago
Shockingly short-sighted post. Apple does not make it's profits from feeds & speeds (e.g. Retina display). It makes its profits, and delights its customers through its vertical integration; its excellence at every point of the customer
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by cek 14y ago
This hit us too. The fact that it went down was enough to frustrate me but the fact the portal said everything was ok really pissed me off. We just launched our product the day before!
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by cek 14y ago
This makes me very happy. None of the available themes are JUST right for me, and this makes it simple to tweak. Nice job!
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by cek 14y ago
Sorry it is not clear. I tried to express it but obviously didn't do it well enough. Here's another try: The best products in the world are those created by organizations that start with the customer. Everything they do starts with customer
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by cek 14y ago
Oh, and by the way, I am willing to bet I understand the JVM as well as most. I was responsible for the JVM<->COM interop in Microsoft's JVM.
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by cek 14y ago
OP here. James Gosling is actually a hero to me. I hold him up there with Dennis Ritchie, Jim Gray, and Anders Hejlsberg. He had a bold, bodacious technical vision and he moved heaven and earth to make it happen. Great things have happened
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James Gosling Screwed Us: “Write Once…” is Anti-Customer(ceklog.kindel.com)
6 points by cek 14y ago|9 comments
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by cek 14y ago
I wrote a similar piece predicting this would happen last March. http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/03/31/google-will-abandon-andr...
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Show HN: MileLogr mines your online calendar to save on taxes(milelogr.com)
2 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Nobody Can Copy Apple(ceklog.kindel.com)
2 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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by cek 14y ago
As the author points out, Apple is fairly unique in its command of vertical integration. Its products are unique not on their feature merits, but because of the way they are conceived, designed, built, sourced, manufactured, shipped, market
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Typhoon: A new Dependency Injection Container for iOS(typhoonframework.org)
1 points by cek 14y ago|0 comments
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by cek 14y ago
How about: I co-founded eHome, the business in MS that created Media Center.
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by cek 14y ago
Wong. MS hid the costs of IEB behind revenue transferred in from Windows Media Center (the functionality that allowed Windows Pro & Ultimate to have a higher license fee than Home).

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