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by crag 15y ago
C is perfect. It's low level and compiles on every platform in the world. I wonder why this "research" hasn't been shut down by various governments. Yet. Unless it leads to a red herring.
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by crag 15y ago
The one paper still holds over any other "media", convenience.
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by crag 15y ago
Welcome to America. Standard behavior with all broadcast media. I'm not blaming NPR.. but the producers of This American Life, in their zeal of catching a top story cut corners. And now, I consider this Daisey fellow as low as Rush Limbaugh
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by crag 15y ago
"Something happens to companies as they get larger, where the culture of a company starts dying from a death-by-a-thousand-cuts, ..." Goldman (or Google) is no where near death. But Goldman is still in crisis mode. The primary focus now is
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by crag 15y ago
Every company grows up. I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft was cool. I remember my first copy of Windows 286; all 12 floppy disks worth. I was excited. Now I fight with the MS sales team over MSDN prices. :) My point; it's part of th
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by crag 15y ago
"Any type of situation that is expected to happen can not be covered by insurance, it needs to be covered by savings instead." Yeah right. Until you run out of money. Then what? In your world, you die. Good for everyone, until it's you or s
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by crag 15y ago
No you are not alone. But that might be part of the problem. Get a dog. I know I know. You don't have the time to care for a dog. But you do. Cause you'll make time. And hire a dog walker. I do. She comes in every day and walks my 95lbs lab
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by crag 15y ago
When we are born, nature promises us nothing except death. It's just that simple. It's unfortunate we've surrounded it with so much fear. Our ideas on death must change. Cause frankly, it's killing us. Death is the natural order. I heard a
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by crag 15y ago
I wished they'd fix bugs in lion before releasing the next version. Bluetooth problems, wireless connection (mostly with new MBA's, etc ) - there are huge threads on both these issues in the Apple forums. Among many others.
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by crag 15y ago
One dangerous thing that stands out is this "kill switch". VERY bad idea. Now you are liable for damages. The way to handle this is: When you get the judgement against your "client", slap a lean on his properties equal to the amount owed (a
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by crag 15y ago
I'm 49 years old. Currently I write python, php, (and all the usual web scripting like js, html, css etc, etc) and c. I've always written c. But spanning my carrer (life) I've written Assembler, BASIC, Xbase, Pascal, COBOL, & Ada. I've
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by crag 15y ago
I don't even see a friend count on my Facebook page. I have to click on "Friends". And even then I get a list. So it's not like the number is surrounded by an H1 tags. And I don't tweet. I'm on Twitter, but I lurk. I think I have like 4 fri
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by crag 15y ago
"...that at least SOME meaningful percentage of people find utility decay in social network design." Define "Some"? I mean, you can never please 100% of your user base. Ever. And to be crude, who cares if 5% of the user base doesn't like th
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by crag 15y ago
..."hough, he should have cooled off before sending that e-mail." Yup. Think before you speak. Or in this case, before you write.
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by crag 15y ago
It doesn't matter. There's an old saying, "The customer is always right". It doesn't matter if he is or isn't. You wanna stay in business, best to take that quote to heart.
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by crag 15y ago
This super virus was created simply cause the "scientists" could. What, they gonna learn infection rates from ferrets? Personally I would destroy the virus and hope everyone forgets about it. Not because I'm afraid of terrorists- I'm afraid
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by crag 15y ago
Coda is nice to look out. But compared to other editors it's years behind. Now I know Panic is working on Coda 2. But I'm not betting the farm on that. Considering Coda has been out for like 5 years. Sure they've released minor updates to k
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by crag 15y ago
Business phone systems are the same. Most manufactures only allow a 4 char password. Now phone systems are being hack left and right; "hackers" (more like organized crime) selling carrier service and the company gets the bill.
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by crag 15y ago
"What Google needs to do if they're going to pursue this strategy is to contract a manufacturer like Asus and basically design and sell the thing themselves." Google doesn't have a marketing team on the ground. Selling to enterprise requir
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by crag 15y ago
The menu's font needs changing too (Safari, MBA). Why ever use a "fancy" font? Make it easy to read.
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by crag 15y ago
Where is Google in all of this? Why isn't Google defending "the free use of Android"?
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by crag 15y ago
Even the typography in the framework is damn good. I only add a few fonts (like pictos for symbols) and I'm off. By adding a data-grid, additional alert/button colors I got 80% of my work done. It's pretty amazing for me. But I only work on
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by crag 15y ago
The browser is restricted to 3 panels? And I agree [with the other comments] about the words (menu items along the top), use icons or use the os menu bar. Preferences should only be where Preferences is in every other mac app. It's the firs
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by crag 15y ago
"But the only way to avoid this one major failure mode is for Shuttleworth to ignore, as politely as possible, the complaints of his users." The problem is Shuttlworth can't keep his mouth shut. Personal attacks only make the situation wors
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by crag 15y ago
You are right, Python package management is terrible. Even using an OS package manager (on Mac) like Ports or Brew it's still a nightmare. The other problem is fragmentation. This package requires python 2.5, that one wants python 2.6, and
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by crag 15y ago
How much you wanna bet you won't be able to use it with Google Apps (the paid accounts)?
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by crag 15y ago
I doubt that. Trust when I tell you this, the carriers (and I'm including Comcast) sales people do not tell the customer the downsides and limitations. If you don't believe me. Try it. Call the business sales units of the carreirs. Now I be
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by crag 15y ago
"informed choice" No, no. It's about price. Most small business buying subscribing to these services aren't tech. In the phone market (as an example), carriers are selling hosted "solutions" for less then $75 a month. Comcast is too. I like
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by crag 15y ago
Except of course when that small business relays to much on the cloud. I know a local gym that decided to "host" their cash register. I told the owner it was a mistake. He basically said I was suck in the past. Until his Comcast went/slowed
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by crag 15y ago
Any person with so much of the spotlight on them is gonna go off the farm a ways. I won't even get into the eccentries of Hollywood celebs so lets just focus on "our" tech world. Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and so on and so on. The point is,

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