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by dgregd 15y ago
You get what you paid for. TC blog is free so all you get is simply product placement blog.
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by dgregd 15y ago
Copied from the nytimes article. "Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers" "Mr. Saragoza, an engineer, quickly moved up the plant’s ranks and
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by dgregd 15y ago
"That is absolutely no excuse for keeping people in near-slave conditions." Sure, just few clicks in Foxconn payroll system and problem solved. But Chinese don't want to do that because they are evil. Sorry for this harsh comment. I'm from
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by dgregd 15y ago
Ironically, the new algorithm does not allow people learn on their mistakes. Their upvoted score is silently incremented and that's all. BTW it is actually quite valuable for new people to look through that article and read later comments a
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by dgregd 15y ago
They should sell energy, not that power plant. You don't sell duck that lays golden eggs. Obvious scam.
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by dgregd 15y ago
One thing I do not understand. These HP and others CEOs earn millions monthly. So they are not stupid. How many desktop _platforms_ survived? Two. Windows and MacOS by miracle. So why they think that the world needs more than 2 or 3 mobile
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by dgregd 15y ago
Majority of Congress are lawyers. Lawsuits like this help theirs colleagues to make more money. They are not going to cut the branch their profession is sitting on.
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by dgregd 15y ago
"... and date library were reimplemented in C" Is this merge of https://github.com/jeremyevans/home_run ?
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by dgregd 15y ago
what a terrible name. "plus" what does this mean for ordinary people.
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by dgregd 16y ago
No ACID db is most useful in free web apps. Where users data is practically worthless. So who cares about occasionally lost data record. When people are paying for a service then ACID db is a must.
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by dgregd 16y ago
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/12/palms-third-act.html#commen... Only 3 OS platforms have survived in PC world. Windows (C#), Mac OS (Objective-C) and Linux (Java). IMHO in mobile space there is also space for 3 OS platforms only. As a dev
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by dgregd 16y ago
So Android will have a new feature. You take a picture of a restaurant or something else and then see search results for that object. Including reviews, prices in other shops.
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by dgregd 16y ago
If someone from here knows Bill Gates please forward this article to him.
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by dgregd 16y ago
This is a great example of well executed idea. As we all know the tablet idea isn't a new one. But Apple is first to execute it well. That's why bare ideas aren't worth too much.
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by dgregd 17y ago
Of course I agree that publishers add value. I am saying just that proportions of how much each party gets, have to be changed for e-books. App developer get 70%. Writer probably 10%, publisher probably 20%. And my question is if publisher
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by dgregd 17y ago
In my option, in e-book business, a company like Macmillan is unneeded middle-man. "unneeded" is probably too big word, I don't know publishing industry. But their added value to an e-book is much less than in case of printed books distribu