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by crag 13y ago
I didn't mean to compare Amazon to Box. I mentioned Amazon to point out another tech company that is a darling of Wall Street - despite unprofitability (generally).
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by crag 13y ago
Actually I do stand corrected.. cause Amazon DID post a profit, after several quarters of almost no profit or straight-up losses (for the holiday season). Also this crap about revenue before taxes, interests - etc (your EBITDA) is just that
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by crag 13y ago
It doesn't matter. The street will eat it up. Wall Street is begging tech to produce - even if that means no profit. They will line up to invest. Also, (and probably) because Box is a potential buy-out. Which is probably why they are d
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by crag 13y ago
Look, Steve Jobs, despite his accomplishments (and I don't mean to belittle them at all) is a gnat in history. Like the rest of us. He had marketing brilliance, and was a trend-setting and trend-guesser. But he didn't truly change
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by crag 13y ago
Gates got older. And realized his mortality. And he was smart enough to act on it.
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by crag 13y ago
You know, I always bowled better drunk. I was in a league once. it was a handicap league and my average was like 95. And I played on one of the best teams - due to my huge handicap. I'd start out terrible and sober, and by the end of t
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by crag 13y ago
How much did Google spend on lobbying for that brige? In Mountain View, who opposed the bridge? Maybe the denial had nothing to do with money. I've seen projects denied at the city level for lack of proper permits, zoning, insurance,
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by crag 13y ago
"There is a lot of truth in the idea that doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week." There is? Tell me, how would colonizing Mars help the aver
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by crag 13y ago
"In Africa, the arrow usually goes money -> power: you want pull with the government, so you buy it." Hate to break it to you, but it's the same in America (and most "western" countries). There are too many examp
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by crag 13y ago
Every generation thinks their ideas are new. When in reality it's all the same thing, just recycled. Sure computers are smaller, faster, and cheaper - but fundamentally, the systems today are the same as the systems in 1985. We have 4t
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by crag 13y ago
Oh of course. I didn't mean to suggest Metro wasn't great for tablets and phones. Funny, I came "this close" to buying a Windows Phone - but I didn't know anyone at the office, or personally who had one. So I stuck
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by crag 13y ago
Windows 8 is fine if you take away Metro. First app I installed was a "Start menu" app. I use Start8 from Stardoc. I don't blame Mozilla for not supporting Metro. And just to point out, Firefox runs fine on the Windows 8 Desk
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by crag 13y ago
I just wasted 60 mins playing this game. And I think I'm hooked. I hate you. ;)
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by crag 13y ago
No... agile has failed cause most of the "enterprise" apps written in the "agile way" (and many claim to be) are crap. This isn't the fault of the agile manifesto. It's the fault of consultants who used Agile a
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by crag 13y ago
1975 (ok, release was 1977). Was in active development/production work in 1977. The DOD standardized on Ada in 1986 (I think). I was in the Army then writing Ada (and using Wang - remember Wang?). Ada is still in use today. Besides the
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by crag 13y ago
You forgot Ada, 1975. Mainly used by the military and contractors. Still in use today, by the way.
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by crag 13y ago
"Who benefits from large corporate mergers like this?" You might think the share holders. Not correct. Though they don't lose. Think: the law firms handling the deal. This type of deal is worth millions in fees; banks - both
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by crag 13y ago
"You're using a very, very basic definition of cloud- one that really shouldn't exist anymore." Really? This is exactly what the "cloud" service are selling. Ok there's a middle-guy in there. The actual se
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by crag 13y ago
When I left Kidder (an investment bank long gone) I got six months pay and benefits, a end-of year projected bonus based on my earnings for the firm from the prior year and a nice bottle of bubbly. I even got a job. They were closing my dep
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by crag 13y ago
"Cloud is not the silver bullet." You can say that again. And it depends on where you are. In South Florida the cloud - well - sucks. Due to the carriers not being able to keep their networks up. I know companies who moved their P
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by crag 13y ago
" Administrative costs " They are HUGE. I work in the field (writing software). Every insurance company has it's own forms and payments requirements. So do governments, local, state and federal. Not to mention reporting requ
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by crag 13y ago
"You won't find much sympathy for the middle class who choose a nicer house in a more expensive city, a newer car, or a bigger family instead of safety and security for the future." The average cymo treatment is about $75,000
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by crag 13y ago
"The healthcare system is broken if you do an honest day's work and can't afford insurance, but that's not what we're talking about here." But that IS what we are talking about here. Millions of americans do a
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by crag 13y ago
That's exactly what it is. Granted, we didn't start out that way. It's a shake-down scheme now though. Everyone blames the lobbyist but really, it's the elected official. And by extension... us. Look, most Americans have
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by crag 13y ago
Hold on. Politicians aren't afraid to talk about the TSA to constituents. I don't know one politician (Rep or Dem) that's doesn't rail against the TSA. It's a hot topic in Florida. But journalists are not constituen
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by crag 13y ago
You've never lobbied before, right? Emails, letters, petitions - all useless. Although a hand-written letter probably will get read by an official's staff. Probably ignored too; but you might get lucky. Phone calls are ignored too
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by crag 13y ago
By the way, we aren't the only beings on this world with consciousness. In fact, depending on your belief system everything might have a conscious. Even plant life - on some level we can not experience. It all goes back to Gaia - the e
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by crag 13y ago
Oh really? And that's the fundamental problem with our society - we STILL put ourselves above (or outside) "nature". We aren't even the top of the food chain. Many organism consume us. So no... we have not left nature be
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by crag 13y ago
>I think this whole idea of Ray Kurzweil that we will someday upload our brain files into the cloud and run it there. Or able to survive outside our biological bodies, perfectly fits into the line of evolution we have followed at earth.
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by crag 13y ago
Might I also point out another great book.. a classic from 1974, Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones. The grand-daddy to most of the modern "AI taking over the world" films.

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