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by cleaver 15y ago
I walked into an Apple store a few weeks ago. I'd estimate that about 80% of the people who were trying out a machine were on their Facebook page. That's not hype. (It's actually a bit frightening.)
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by cleaver 15y ago
In my experience (over a decade consulting to government in Canada), not charging enough can sometime put you at a competitive disadvantage. The purchasing decisions are often made by someone who doesn't understand the technology and their
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by cleaver 15y ago
And it must have made it into another gem from Borland: Sidekick. I used that extensively until I moved entirely off DOS. (Sidekick was a TSR--Terminate and Stay Resident-- utility program that could be launched by hotkey from single-taskin
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by cleaver 15y ago
I would be surprised if the CP/M version was any smaller. Turbo Pascal was smaller and faster than anything else at the time. However, the CP/M version would not have been a native compiler. Pascal generally compiled to p-code which was the
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by cleaver 15y ago
Turbo Pascal wasn't my introduction to programming, but it was where I started to find my way. The edit, compile, test was factors of magnitude faster than any other compilers. Like the post says, it was very small, even for the time. The
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by cleaver 15y ago
I did see exactly the same thing in Toronto for some time. The satellite image was misaligned with the street map for the Jane/Finch area. It's fixed now. I do wonder how much trouble Google goes to fix up maps in China. I can't really se
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by cleaver 15y ago
Sometime soon, Oracle will develop or acquire a NoSQL product and this whitepaper will be buried. It will then be replaced by a new whitepaper to get you excited about how Oracle's new product will revolutionize price and performance for yo
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IRS criticized for releasing app using open source and Objective C(treasury.gov)
9 points by cleaver 15y ago|6 comments
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by cleaver 15y ago
I was just thinking about this yesterday. I was comparing Dropbox with Box.net. I use Dropbox--it's simple and works well. The website is the same. Then I went to Box.net. The list of features was overwhelming. I was interested in whet
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by cleaver 15y ago
I'd be really happy if they get Android browser to support SVG.
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by cleaver 15y ago
ICBM's fly outside of the atmosphere and they don't turn... IE. they're ballistic. I could see that something designed to hit the predictable path of a ballistic missile at mach 20 would fail to hit an aircraft which can turn at mach 20.
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by cleaver 15y ago
Better invest in lots of defences... If you're an independent micro-country, nobody's going to rush to defend you from pirates.
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by cleaver 15y ago
China has long culture of believing in studying hard and becoming part of the system as the route to success. (The imperial exam system.) Although it no longer formerly exists, there are analogues and the influence is still there. It is i
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by cleaver 15y ago
I think you want to discourage them too.
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by cleaver 15y ago
Somewhat related... relationship between psychedelics and developments in math and computers: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_8-10.pdf
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by cleaver 15y ago
One thing I saw missing from all the comments and cost breakdowns is how I see the major component of the iPhone: software . The comments on the Economist seemed to be along the lines of: "see how stupid the American company is... outsourc
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by cleaver 15y ago
Thanks to HN, there's a few comments worth reading. The comments on the Economist site were woefully ignorant of the tech industry. Seemed like a bunch of kids with their first-year business textbook in hand and trying to sound intelligent.
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by cleaver 15y ago
its;dr (interface too shitty; didn't read)