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by elblanco 16y ago
Quote from the same guy who presided over the nixing the Courier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Courier sigh Has anything come out under this guy that wasn't always going to anyways by sheer force of market inertia?
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by elblanco 16y ago
I was going to supply quotes here from the article, quotes that Ballmer made demonstrating his complete lack of competency in understanding the playing field, but then I realized that was all of them.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I really can't stress how important these types of pure R&D incubators are for future tech. Almost every major piece of technology we use today came out of one of these types of labs.
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by elblanco 16y ago
"The efficiency gains are enormous, much larger than if every computer needed a buggy, licensed copy of Windows that automatically updated in the middle of your slideshow (happened in the office yesterday)." yawn , welcome to 1995 again.
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by elblanco 16y ago
"I faced the same question at the beginning of the GNU Project. I decided that I would rather do something good with no monetary reward than profit by mistreating people." Bang! Nailed it. This I think is the source of all problems in the f
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by elblanco 16y ago
Zed is clearly in the wrong business. He's such a prolific writer, he should really be rewriting and updating the O'reilly catalog.
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by elblanco 16y ago
oh apologies, I thought they both derive from the Old English "hneaw". But I see that I am corrected! I still wouldn't use it though, definitely archaic. It would be like inserting "yonder" and "thee" into my speech.
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by elblanco 16y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Mudd has a very well regarded engineering school as well.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Personally, I think it's wise to avoid it as I have heard it used in a tremendously racist way. And again, everyone has different experiences in this regard. I do think, however, that it's a bit odd to get offended when someone points out
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by elblanco 16y ago
"And Buffie has nothing to do with anything and isn't really a valid analogy though I appreciate the humor here. If you can show me actual usage of those words in the way you describe, then yeah I'd avoid those too. Again, go ahead and use
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by elblanco 16y ago
I acknowledge that you aren't saying "people! stop using Buffie! It's racist!". But it gets a bit silly when a random group of people, a very small socially marginalized one, can co-opt any random word for a stupid reason and then we all ha
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by elblanco 16y ago
You also can't use "teapot" or the name for the martial art "Sambo" or refer to various types of chocolaty deserts either -- just FYI. Oh, and "Buffie the Vampire Slayer" was a thorn in the side of the African American community for years u
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've been around the block quite a few times and have never heard "niggle" used in a racist way. added to long list of things I can't say because somebody got offended by the way somebody else, who I don't know or would care to know, used
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by elblanco 16y ago
No, I'm simply stating that I really like what they're doing with Perl 6 so far. I'm excited by the new grammar system immensely. It's clear that doing it in an older syntax is clearly less elegant. However, it's very impressive though that
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by elblanco 16y ago
This is a cool capability. But I have to admit, it's lacking in the syntactic sugar that made the previous example look so appealing. I just simply read the code out loud in English and immediately knew what it meant. This is a bit more of
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by elblanco 16y ago
Wasn't Android developed by another company that was then later acquired by Google? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc200... At the time, most mobile phone dev was done in Java (and probably still is today). It seem
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by elblanco 16y ago
oh God that looks absolutely delicious.
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by elblanco 16y ago
The analogy goes even further. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/11/18/study-revea...
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by elblanco 16y ago
The impressive upgrades to the OS helped as well.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Who knows? "Good enough" is a golden target that seems to be fantastically hard to nail. I personally wouldn't think a resistive touch screen and a TN panel would be "good enough". But I also think that we'll see "close-to" iPad screen qual
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by elblanco 16y ago
But a cheap + good enough + lots of vendors did take over the PC industry and the mobile phone market (the iPhone doesn't own it yet) and the car industry and the video game industry and <insert other industry>. There are always e
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by elblanco 16y ago
Brilliant. I find I spend an awful lot of my time in street view trying to do exactly this.
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by elblanco 16y ago
But it'll take just one easily hackable $99 Android tablet with just the right mix of "good enough" features to take the world by storm.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Now this is starting to get closer to a sweet spot. I'm curious if E-Ink is starting to lower their licensing costs now that there's a lot more competition in the space, or if manufacturing the screens is just becoming cheaper. Design looks
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by elblanco 16y ago
* Adobe's (the biggest name in content creation) current answer to this problem is a horrid mess of gigantic, flat images embedded in a rudimentary framework. Think flat images and image maps. It's a technical shortcut at best. * If I'm not
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by elblanco 16y ago
One problem Starbucks around here seem to have is that they will inevitably make cups of coffee for mystery customers who never pick them up. I've seen as many as 3 cups of very precisely crafted coffees on the counter with nobody else in t
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Reddit vs. Digg (infographic)(i.imgur.com)
4 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
Perhaps a better question is "if the N1 failed, being promoted on Google's ad network, how good is Google's ad network?"
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by elblanco 16y ago
If there was ever a field where the current, male dominated, population wanted women in it, it's CS. I've never met a male CS person that wasn't genuinely happy to have a woman in the room doing CS as well. I think the issues of men in CS
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by elblanco 16y ago
The U.S. Immigration System Sucks, period. It's broken broken broken, out of touch with reality, has the problem of being hard for legitimate users to use and easy for illegitimate users to get around. It's basically DRM for borders.

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