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by cypress-hill 18y ago
I think that we're all dismissing just how seriously game changing this might be. whatever will be "game changing" in 2012, my guess is that it won't be a new version of windows, or any other desktop os make a jump like the one that Appl
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
Web-based Office competitors have been underwhelming time and the trends are on their side. google docs shows the possibility. once web systems evolve to better handle these type of apps, the advantage will play to them more and more
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
who needs virtualization anyway? salesforce is doing just fine...most of msft's bread and butter apps are moving to the web
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
c'mon, man. you know microsoft can't do that. they're MICROSOFT. even if this were the best technical choice to make, they would never do it. the negative publicity would kill them. i agree, eating that much crow would be impossible for t
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
let me know when people stand in line for three hours to get a windows mobile phone. tell me the next time a wall street trading house does a re-architect and move to windows
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
wtf is there to talk about??? "do you drive all over the city taking pictures??" "yes"
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
but what is the problem they are solving ?? the network stack of freebsd (for example) is perfectly adequate for saturating any modern outbound connection under heavy concurrent load. unless you grow the pipe bigger than the device can fill
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
why do you "hope they pull it off"? their time has passed. none of their own users at home or in business are even interested in products past xp. they don't represent a positive force in the market, they continue to cling to dead ideas lik
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
music to my ears as a free software zealot. microsoft is going off to build an os "done right"...where have we heard that before?? wait for the concessions and half-baked reversals. they're obsessing with a whole new kernel, that will likel
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
he beats us over the head with the fact that gcc uses ssa yet seems to think that this fact makes general mutability desirable at the language level. the compiler is not a magic wand. hey why not make everything a string too? works for tcl!
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
canada's immigrants tend to be more educated. this isn't much of a stretch, the people crossing the border at arizona in 110 degree heat tend to be some of the most disadvantaged from their own society
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
its amusing how harvard stanford and princeton with endowments of like forty quadrillion dollars shake and quiver in the face of a thirty person publishing firm. the big schools could trivially "nationalize" textbooks with online material.
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
"The problem is that the average textbook sells a small run of copies, and doesn't benefit from economies of scale" WHAT??? for example, stewart's calculus book has been used for twenty+ years all over the english speaking world. you find
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
there is blood in the streets now, more than you may see again in your life
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
always have enough money in the bank to live your current lifestyle for six months. unexpected unemployment may be rough, but it need not be inhuman
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
well allow me to modify my robots.txt so you can be at infinity-1. since you pricks decided to hijack your role as impartial algorithmic search to walled-garden with knol, i want nothing to do with you. every major website that handles refe
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
yahoo could never surrender all ads to google - the govt would never allow a cartel to control over 90% of web ads most advertisers also are not interested in an ad cartel, which is why many continue to spend on yahoo and other ad networks
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
haskell without a doubt haskell is on the edge of almost every interesting trend in programming tools. parallelism? check STM? check closures? haskell is closures functional programming? better than any other lang continuation style? chec
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
left to right
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by cypress-hill 18y ago
try investing with imaginary money. the only way to learn about the market is to be in it, even with imaginary investments. what was written about the market in the past is based on the market of the past. its not all bad or outdated, but a