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by d4nt 14y ago
In all fairness, it does come across as "well thought out" and "solid"; similar to the way that Java comes across as well thought out and solid. I can tell it does a lot but I have to be completely initiated into the JVM way of thinking bef
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by d4nt 14y ago
I understand why people choose the JVM, I'm sure it gets people up and running very quickly, and maybe if you're an enterprise java programmer then getting set up on the latest cool JVM based language is quite easy. But speaking as a Python
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by d4nt 14y ago
I agree with everything you say, there is no doubt that the US is way better at producing successful tech startups. But pg's point was specifically about how the Euro top ten was dominated by old companies and boring business models. My poi
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by d4nt 14y ago
How about Arm?
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by d4nt 14y ago
There's no denying that the US is better at making tech billionaires than Europe, but the US list of top tech billionaires is hardly a picture of new thinking and innovation: Gates, Allen and Balmer are all from Microsoft (which, like SAP,
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by d4nt 14y ago
The difference this time is that there are very workable ways in which developers can target both platforms i.e. web/HTML5, and some other frameworks. Plus there's usually more paying customers in the iOS world so going "Native Android firs
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by d4nt 14y ago
I would take it area by area, walk around to find the buildings that have gates, then mail everyone in those buildings with a voucher code. A/B test your letters, refine as you go. Consider partnering with local pizza delivery stores, maybe
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by d4nt 14y ago
Is it necessary to sell to landlords? Although B2B is often said to be easier, in this case you're solving a problem that only the residents have, so I would have said B2C is the way to go.
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Failing Over Stack Overflow and StackExchange for Sandy(blog.serverfault.com)
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on an app for the Windows 8 Store?
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by d4nt 14y ago
Do we need a planet at all? Seems like an easier option for being non-Earth dependant would be to develop vessels that are self sustaining and which perhaps mine asteroids and gas clouds to get what they need. The whole getting onto and off
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by d4nt 14y ago
You're right, they bought abbey first. Completely forget about that. It's probably a descendant of the abbey online site then.
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by d4nt 14y ago
I expect the UK online banking site is a decendant of Alliance & Leicester's site. Santander bought A&L a few years ago when they got into trouble during the credit crunch. Before then, Santander was not trading in the UK.
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by d4nt 14y ago
http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/TDDpaperv8.p...
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by d4nt 14y ago
"The best thing to measure the growth rate of is revenue. The next best, for startups that aren't charging initially, is active users. That's a reasonable proxy for revenue growth because whenever the startup does start trying to make mone
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by d4nt 14y ago
"HTML5 Canvas" gets into a loop on Truth ... Fact ... Truth. Not the usual philosophy loop.
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by d4nt 14y ago
While its probably correct to say that Microsoft does not have a homogenous audience and that that is why their online presence lacks the clarity of, say, Apple. I think the lack of clarity is a bad thing and Microsoft only really have them
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Your Words are Wasted(hanselman.com)
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by d4nt 14y ago
I think the level of expectation on fathers is still on an upward trend. But getting to parity is probably related to the gender pay gap and whether that's a problem that needs some kind of intervention. In my own family it made sense for m
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by d4nt 14y ago
The use of RF frequencies to broadcast TV content is by far the best way to deliver that content for a certain subset of programs that cover live events for huge audiences[1]. Serving that stuff over IP would be a real challenge. I'd prefer
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by d4nt 14y ago
Lonely? I agree. Impossible to explain your motivation to those closest to you? Hmmmmm. If you want customers or investors surely you need to learn how to explain your vision and be confident doing so.
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by d4nt 14y ago
The most challenging thing is that the people you’d normally share your challenges or fears with don’t understand the concept of “I’m gonna create something huge with nothing and I don’t care if I die trying.” This strikes me as the sadde
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by d4nt 14y ago
Well, I guess they do have an 's' left over from from their way of saying "Maths".
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by d4nt 14y ago
This concept reminds me of "Technical Debt" in that its a way of expressing what the software development world has found to be best practice in terms that an outsider/business-person would understand.
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by d4nt 14y ago
In theory a separate company who's core competency is running IT systems should be less likely to mess this up, not more so. However, retail banks are rapidly becoming sort of API hosting companies for the processing of financial transactio
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by d4nt 14y ago
I work with some people who used to work for RBS IT, they tell me that the department was as bureaucratic as they come (presumably to reduce risk) but once all the hoops had been jumped through, it came down to single team who would put cod
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by d4nt 14y ago
I think the apple was only ever valuable in the sense that it had some calories and could keep you alive a bit longer, long enough to keep on working a bit more and generating other forms of value for others. Value is a very strange concept
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by d4nt 14y ago
OPM? Other Peoples' Money?
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by d4nt 14y ago
I think it rarely makes sense to view Microsoft as one consistent entity; you have to look at which division is doing this and what are they're motives[1]. The Azure bit may have some affinity to the Windows Server division but probably doe
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by d4nt 14y ago
Good point, when I was looking into Azure about 18 mths ago, you could have a Windows VM but the idea was that it was instantiated and port 80 was called and then it might get thrown away again afterwards. The same may be true for Linux ins

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