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by crucini 17y ago
parsing Word documents in the OS kernel. This is fascinating. What's the use case? And can you point me to the product?
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by crucini 17y ago
Cool place. I visited it around 2000. The actual silo is sealed in with glass because it's contaminated with rocket fuel. You can look into the silo from various levels but you can't enter. Apparently one drop of the fuel they used will
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by crucini 17y ago
China's government sometimes reminds me of a big US corporation. Basically, the PR department is furious that an important interview didn't go through them. There's no mention of any content that would harm China's interests (other than m
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by crucini 17y ago
I'm afraid Aaronsw has gone too far. But there is an element of truth here. The men who created the media empires were incredibly aggressive. Many of their business practices were rooted in organized crime. For instance, Lew Wasserman, cr
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by crucini 17y ago
How many industries luminaries would be good contributors at Google? Wozniak, who prided himself on building circuits with fewer chips than anyone thought possible? Would he be happy programming in Java?
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by crucini 17y ago
Google keeps amazing me. Chrome OS could mean many different things, but if it really means a polished, complete OS it will have huge impact. We have brilliant manufacturers like Asus creating cool netbooks. But they can't really compete
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by crucini 17y ago
Summary: 1. Alice is applying for a marketing position at XYZ. 2. Alice used to work at ABC. 3. Interviewer Bob at XYZ says "ABC sucks". 4. Alice says nothing. 5. XYZ does not hire Alice. 6. Alice is upset and confused. Solution, for
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by crucini 17y ago
Like most language advocacy, this piece implicitly compares the beloved language to one other. In this case, Java. "Java sucks, so use language X!". Problem is, this argument works for many values of X. I think the elevator pitch for Cloj
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by crucini 17y ago
I question #3. Why is it admirable to play a role in the languages world? Shouldn't languages be a means to an end? If the end is good applications, DJB showed that you can produce good applications in C. It seems like a lot of the energ
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by crucini 17y ago
> That 'thin' scripting layer has been used to program some pretty impressive stuff in the engineering and architectural world. Yes, I've seen people work wonders with AutoLisp. There was - probably still is - an application used for d
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by crucini 17y ago
AutoCAD is not written in Lisp. It has been written in several languages, including C. AutoLisp is just a thin scripting layer. See <a href=" http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autofile.html>the autodesk file</a>.
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by crucini 17y ago
> If your writing is nonsense, maybe your thoughts are nonsense too! I was in a meeting at VeryBigCompany where someone presented a PRD for review. A large Word document, projected. In theory this is a high leverage document; getting
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by crucini 17y ago
I'm ambivalent about this concept. I agree that everywhere I've worked, there's been a residue of boring yet necessary stuff like your describing. Sometimes the residue could be reduced by automation; not always. However I'm very concerned
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by crucini 17y ago
It depends. Learning a significantly different language can be mind-expanding. Going from C to Lisp is not just picking up a different tool. More like a brain transplant. Going from Java to C# is more ho-hum. There will be no epiphanies.
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by crucini 17y ago
So you want him to implement the Observer pattern?
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by crucini 17y ago
Good marketing has a long ramp-up time. Ideally you would have started your marketing program several months ago. I think the most effective marketing communications is PR. You can find a solo PR agent to handle your account for about $1k
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by crucini 17y ago
I wouldn't endorse that. A lot of successful partnerships had clear division of responsibility - often an "inside man" and an "outside man". The inside man handles the employees, bookkeeping and systems. The outside man handles sales. When
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by crucini 19y ago
Something doesn't add up. Steve is hoping for a 50% - 75% reduction in LOC. In other words, he hopes to compress by 3 or 4. In other words, a mere linear reduction. Is that worth a complete rewrite? Remember the lesson of the Mozilla r
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by crucini 19y ago
The real question is, "what process model do you use for multiple CPUs?" Assuming a Unixy OS, you can use threads or multiple processes. If you choose multiple processes, you have to intelligently use IPC to coordinate them. But you can h
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by crucini 19y ago
It depends on your market. Some markets would consider source-availability an advantage; most wouldn't. Are your competitors making source available? If you have no competitors (which I really doubt) find a comparable product selling int
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by crucini 19y ago
> Somewhere, I dont know where, Im standing exhausted outside a hotel ballroom right after the umpteenth demo, and someone is giving me some ridiculous objection. Well, its all good and fine what FogBugz does, but we wont use it, becaus
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by crucini 19y ago
The first step is to inventory your assets. What value would you bring to a hypothetical startup? You're not (currently) a coder. What about business, marketing and sales? If you can become strong in one of these areas, you provide valu