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by elblanco 16y ago
That's an interesting example. I wonder how much of the software stack is profitable in this way? I'm willing to guess very little because most software isn't so horridly complex. If you need to pay for support services to use a web browser
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by elblanco 16y ago
The outstanding question though is that in this type of case, high-end domain specific software, the pure open source model tends not to produce the ultra-high end software. The reason, though it seems to mystify many open source advocates,
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by elblanco 16y ago
Sometimes it takes young people who don't know any better to do things that everybody else regards as too hard or impossible. "let's build python in python, compile to everything possible, and make it faster than cpython" are all examples o
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by elblanco 16y ago
I took it as an allusion to the phrase "insanely great" for which only one thing fits -- Jobs' own, massively profitable, creations.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's okay, as this thread is showing, you can always get all your karma back by just posting a statement about how you wish Jobs was your dad and how he really showed some blogger what for in an unnecessary back and forth that ended with
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by elblanco 16y ago
Jobs' near terrorizing of his own employees is pretty well known. It wouldn't surprise me if he hasn't really had a long serious internal debate on this...with the answers well rehearsed and ready to go. Either he just likes endless conflic
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by elblanco 16y ago
Then why would he say it? The implication that he thinks he's done something great is clear (not saying that he hasn't done great things, but the semantics of his statement are clear, "go away guy who hasn't made billions of dollars and com
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by elblanco 16y ago
What bothers me about the tone of his statement is that it puts down anybody who doesn't make something "great". Great being narrowly defined as "making a metric ass load of money". Additionally, he's presuming credit for the work Apple's
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by elblanco 16y ago
> By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations? Yes, let's hi-light and praise what's probably one of the most absolute jerkiest part of the exchang
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by elblanco 16y ago
Users do have to use something. Developers make those things.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> I've got a working, genuinely useful semantic system. It will take months more before I can get it to that demonstrable form. But when I do, I think you will begin to see how cool the SW is when it's rendered in clear, easy, and usefu
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by elblanco 16y ago
Demonstrate a working, genuinely useful semantic system and the world will believe you. Until then, the SW is a monumental waste of everybody's time. this is the semantic web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web Searching google maps
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FBI Gets Evidence in Student Webcam Scandal(wired.com)
30 points by elblanco 16y ago|5 comments
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An Ingenious Hybrid Map: Why Didn't Garmin Think of This?(fastcompany.com)
1 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
But the semantics of searching on a map is not the "semantic web" that people like Tim Berners-Lee are talking about. It people out there can't be bothered to search google maps, is there some particular reason they'd instantiate a reasonin
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Why didn't she use the web? Because she can't. Please describe why she can't? I shall now demonstrate why she can. Here's an example in the states. http://www.sitters.com/default.htm That took me approximately 1 second to find (give
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by elblanco 16y ago
No, with an account. I happen to know a bit about a few, completely unrelated areas (the area I live in, foods from a certain country, digital music composition, a couple martial arts, computer sciency stuff, etc.) that I wanted to make sub
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by elblanco 16y ago
I think your reasoning about why people make web pages is error-prone. Just another node on a semantic graph is not what anybody wants to be, otherwise the web would be populated with HTML 1.0 pages. It's not like making one of those is muc
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by elblanco 16y ago
Tichy is correct. The semantic web is essentially a big knowledge management effort that's doomed to failure (like most KM efforts) because xyz Joe Random web page maker really doesn't see any incentive to go through and spend a couple ho
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by elblanco 16y ago
You should also throw in iPod shuffles and the Mighty Mouse if you are going to just be making up arbitrary, non-competitive market space, thresholds.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's okay, most likely some overzealous editor will simply delete whatever that person contributes anyway. Contributing to Wikipedia as a non-editor is a massive waste of time since even minor submissions get killed quickly and quickly turn
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Google Android outsells Apple iPhone(mobile.venturebeat.com)
3 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yes. At least in my own company. We were picking a vendor and had gone deep in talks with the MySQL folks to license their technology, and then Oracle stepped in and we picked somebody else. Following the technology since then, it's clear t
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've found that these types of comments make for easy karma. The longer, more thoughtful ones make for significantly less.
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by elblanco 16y ago
A company I know puts all new hires on 90 day probation. If, within 90 days you can't show you can begin the process of integrating, out you go. Their ratio is about 1:5, though typically they let the people resign since it's far less damag
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by elblanco 16y ago
Hiring employees takes a lot of time and effort, and generally a lot of money. In the future, some prospective employer may see that you've jumped ship and wasted everybody's time in the past. They would probably decline hiring you out of f
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by elblanco 16y ago
My BB has native PDF opening. It's "ok". Lots of zooming and scrolling. It may be the OS version.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Terrorism is a legitimate tool or strategy of warfare. It's terrible, distasteful and I think we can all agree it's bad. But in terms of asymmetrical warfare strategy it's the strongest weapon you can use. People often forget that because m
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by elblanco 16y ago
Because they need to keep doing more terrorist attacks, not perpetuate open warfare. If they turn the heat up too much, it turns into open warfare and the U.S. invades Afghanistan. If it stays infrequent and random, the U.S. only does a m
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by elblanco 16y ago
>So you always had to have IE or Netscape handy. That's a very interesting point. I guess when Opera first came out, it didn't quite work right, IE and Netscape were the 800 pound gorillas fighting it out, and Firefox simply inherited

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