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by cpr 16y ago
This reminds me (uh-oh, another neckbeard old-timer story) of the very early days of the ARPAnet when there about 20 nodes or so... Back then there were free guest accounts on all the systems (mostly TOPS-10 and TENEX systems along with som
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by cpr 16y ago
2. & 3.) It's very, very late to come to these races with nothing truly compelling to show. I think they've already lost, but, nothing's sure...
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by cpr 16y ago
Boy, those are serious issues, enough to keep me from seriously investigating SendGrid.
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by cpr 16y ago
Wow--already sold out...
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by cpr 16y ago
Boy, that brought back happy memories! I was running the MIT-EECS department computing machinery back when Symbolics and LMI (Lisp Machines, Inc--Greenblatt's competitor) were just getting going, and we had around 8 or 10 of the original Li
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by cpr 16y ago
I didn't have mobility, for personal reasons. (OK, I'll tell you: I had joined a religious order, that I later left. Yes, I'm wacky. ;-)
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by cpr 16y ago
Bob was my best buddy freshman year. He's a great fellow, though I've lost track of him lately. He left Microsoft because he was never able to break into the tight "inner circle" of Gates, Ballmer and Allen, even though he was classmates of
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by cpr 16y ago
I'm sorry, but this is laughable. Do people put icons in their iOS apps advertising the use of CoreAnimation? Do they put some kind of Silverlight or Flash badge on their web sites done with those technologies? It's just a set of useful tec
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by cpr 16y ago
Yes, it's certainly well-targeted, and we used their demographic targeting to the ultimate degree. It still didn't do us any good. Do you have any sense that people saw and acted on your ads?
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by cpr 16y ago
As one of the sibling responses points out, it's not a Ponzi scheme. But it's certainly a completely useless advertising medium, from my limited experience with them for a few months. We spent hundreds of dollars of advertising on an iPhone
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by cpr 16y ago
The sad fact is that Apple will never be the same after Jobs. I think he embodies a unique ability to see the heart of a new technology or aspect of technology and to focus in on the critical part or parts, ruthlessly getting to what he see
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by cpr 16y ago
The first part is fun! Brought back great memories of hacking IBM 1130's at Teledyne Ryan while in high school. He's wrong when he said that machines of that vintage didn't know about stacks: the whole Burrough B5000 series of machines were
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by cpr 16y ago
Remember, Facebook, like Google, doesn't have to get its data operations 100% correct. A very low-level failure rate (such as this kind of spurious message) is acceptable to them.
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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Google, WebM, Android, Flash, Adobe)(appleoutsider.com)
4 points by cpr 16y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 16y ago
Doesn't this just reflect the dirty little secret that Google doesn't really have to get any particular details right, just mostly right most of the time?
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by cpr 16y ago
This article whitewashes the issue by first pointing out the problem, and then making some vague hand-wavy claim that Google is providing direct answers immediately that obviate further search. This is nonsense. I think the whole world know
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by cpr 16y ago
Damnation, now I'll have to get a Verizon iPhone so I can replace my Mifi (for which I'm paying the same monthly amount for a wifi 5-user EVDO hotspot).
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On Seven Inches (good ruminations about the 7" pad form factor)(iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com)
1 points by cpr 16y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 16y ago
The US should act more like Israel: accept that acts of terrorism will happen, don't publicize it, just clean it up and quietly go after the bad guys. And, most of all, don't act terrified--just go about business as usual.
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by cpr 16y ago
WordPress 3.0, hands-down. Easy to install multiple blogs in one platform, each entirely independent of the others (including themes). Domain mapping: http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495930 Getting started with 3.0 multi-site: http://weblogtoolsc
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by cpr 16y ago
Boy, that brings back fond memories of IBM 360 mainframes in big, noisy, cold rooms. I remember the transition from cards to online terminals, when hacking (as a high-school junior) at the Naval Electronic Labs computer center in Point Loma
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by cpr 16y ago
The back story of Byte (if anyone cares) is that Carl Helmers, who was working at Intermetrics at Fresh Pond in Cambridge, MA at the time (1973? 74?--forget details at this late date), was publishing a little samizdat Intel 4004/8008 hobbyi
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by cpr 16y ago
The promo video's gotta be a fake--figuring out the fonts used & fitting in the same space with perfect color, etc.? Nope. Would like to see what it really does.
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by cpr 16y ago
Patrick, how do you compress such hard-won wisdom in such a young person's head, and express it so well at the same time? ;-)
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by cpr 16y ago
First featured in Self many years ago, done by the same folks (Lars Bak and crew) who brought you V8. Then Sun bought their Smalltalk/Self-based company, and they built HotSpot for the JVM. Then Google hired them to do the same for Javascri
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by cpr 16y ago
Sure, just minus the software. ;-)
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by cpr 16y ago
We have four folks in 3 states (Ohio, Texas, Colorado) and use Campfire all day, plus the very occasional phone conference when we need some high-bandwidth discussion.
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by cpr 16y ago
Interesting--they're basing the 2D graphics on Cairo, which is probably the best choice available in the OSS world.
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by cpr 16y ago
This actually makes some sense (if I understand it correctly), vs. a VNC client solution in a browser. You can, in theory, use the higher-level hints given at the toolkit level to optimize the bits sent for each toolkit API invocation.
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by cpr 16y ago
Given my Java hatred (perhaps irrational), and no real allegiance to iOS & Cocoa Touch (other than it works very well, and has paid off somewhat for our efforts), I wonder if it would make sense, long-term, to mount an OSS effort to bui

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