curiousgeorge

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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I know of applications that have been rejected not because they sucked, but because they were similar to ones that already existed. It's bad for long-term innovation, but maybe it's good for the platform by not confusing users. I personally
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Find a way to do it yourself. If you don't need that much extra cash get a job on the evenings or weekends. If you require a lot of money at least get a prototype out the door.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
>> Long battery life >> Light weight >> Fast wakeup and sleep Only thing I'd add is "small". The market may be tilting towards larger computers, but I wouldn't get anything larger than a 13.3 inch computer at this po
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Totally different. Socializing is happening around a directed activity here, and it's asynchronous.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Considering the complexity of the system, it doesn't seem like that much. Remember that staff at the UCal systems (7 schools now?) are all state employees. A single college would probably be paying in the tens of millions for a new payment
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Reads like self-affirmation more than anything else. Frankly, in my field the ideas that are getting funded in the Bay are mostly derivative and hardly innovative - almost everyone is trying to monetize through online advertising instead of
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Not to put a downer on things, but this is not going to be useful for me at all. Why should I want to chat with complete strangers about random topics. And why online?
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
>> Coding before design. Software tends to be much more usable if it >> is, at least roughly, designed before the code is written. In my experience, software and web development tends to fail when early work is made with sp
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Online Credit Card Processing for Non-Americans
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Data integrity testing?
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
The mortgage bailout is an effort to keep people in houses, even if they can't afford them. It keeps homes from going back on the market where competition would further lower the price level. The Bush attempts to buy stock directly in the t
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Reading the comment makes it pretty clear why he left. The number of first person references and self-promotional statements there suggest underlying personnel conflict. Whether the company is going up or down at this point will probably d
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
there are classy and non-classy ways to say "fuck you".
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I love you guys. Thanks for finding a business model that helps support independent game developers like whoever wrote that Desktop Tower Defense game.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I really, really like the simplicity of the interface. The slow-typing/auto-complete was irritating until I realized why it was taking so long, and then I liked it for finding new music. This is much better than Baidu's MP3 search. You shou
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Why don't we make this thread more valuable than the original article then. Any community suggestions on ways to monetize? My suggestion: terms of service that permit free individual use, but require some form of subscription for corporate
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Quote was more intended at the article than your comment. :)
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I think the new CCTV building is great. That being said, I'm reminded of a comment I read ages ago. "Spend a day in China and you can write a book. Spend a few years and you can't think of a single thing to say."
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
if you trust the relevance of his research its far, far cheaper to just purchase the report than hire someone to do the same research yourself. I'd suspect most developers with niche products have niche usability needs that make it lesson r
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
>> If a particular institution is getting too big, shouldn't the other >> players want to hedge against its failure to protect themselves >> against the low-probability but high-cost situation in which a >&#62
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Fujitsu has some good, relatively inexpensive ultralights. I use whatever their 13.3 screen model is. Anything bigger is tough to use in an airplane/cram in a bag.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Good measure of how on-page the team is though. It bothers me when developers aren't working on hard problems and fail to make frequent commits. They are used to working in isolation and without scrutiny. Unless people are actively breaking
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
In my experience women are less involved in FLOSS because they gravitate more heavily towards institutional jobs where IT staff learn whatever systems the company uses. FLOSS expertise is concentrated in people who use software independentl
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
"But the downside is that you now have this mysterious black-box in your code that you can't really do anything with." Presumably you have the source code. Which makes it about as much of a black box as Apache, or MySQL or anything else you
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
huh? whatever you do on the client machine you're still open to a man in the middle attack . hashing passwords simply make it more difficult for eavesdroppers to figure out the original password, and keep people from passing potentially sen
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
competence, initiative and reliability.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
The reason there are line-ups in the short-term is rarely because of the pricing mechanism, but because the degree of control required for effective rationing requires fewer points of distribution. If you could vote at the convenience store