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by encoderer 17y ago
I don't know the right answer. I do strongly support our President but I do feel a discomfort over owning 75% of GM. On one hand, we've seen this before with Conrail. Huge success. And even with Chrysler 30 years ago. On the other, if the
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by encoderer 17y ago
this is a little silly because I think we're both in agreement. Brand is what matters in search, more than the (often minor) algorithmic differences. That's what that "placebo test" last week demonstrated. And the reason I brought up brand
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by encoderer 17y ago
Honestly, man, most people don't care enough about their OS to despise it. My parents or wife or non-techie friends have ever said anything bad (or good) about Vista. It's just there. I firmly believe it's a case of tech echo chamber at wo
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by encoderer 17y ago
The brand is the only thing that matters. Everyone here saw the post last week, consumers gave Live Search the highest marks when it was dressed up with a Google logo and stylesheet. The brand is it. And branding doesn't sink or swim based
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by encoderer 17y ago
Pimping "Google Wave" seems a little too deep into the hype machine for my tastes. Nobody ever heard of it last week and now it's going to "leapfrog" something.. We'll see. A lot of things stand in the way of Bing gaining traction, the leas
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by encoderer 17y ago
NY has high costs as well: You have to issue public notice when creating a new LLC. I've found that Earth Class Mail's Beaverton, OR street address (which has no add'l cost past the standard ECM fees) works fantastic. The Oregon SoS website
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by encoderer 18y ago
The part you're overlooking is that NeXT was as attractive to Apple as it was because they had a series of high-profile failures to develop a replacement OS in house. In Apple's case the re-write idea turned out horribly and the only reason
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by encoderer 18y ago
OK, I'll bite... I'm a co-founder of a software consultancy and we've actively marketed PHP4->PHP5 upgrades after we did a couple large, successful projects that just happened to include upgrading from 4 to 5. We wrote a Compiler that
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by encoderer 18y ago
Ok.. nice way to leave logic at the door, but it's not just that PHP is more popular. It's that it's been around longer than Python and Ruby. That list goes back a decade for PHP. Anybody using PHP seriously in a production environment is a
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by encoderer 18y ago
I can't say I love PHP, but some of your criticisms are a little silly. For example, about typing... your argument is that when you cast a string to an int, it returns 0. What would you have it return, null? Typing is jank in a number of wa