epynonymous

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by epynonymous 16y ago
careful, being broke is fine, but being broke and sick is miserable.
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by epynonymous 16y ago
i use http://www.mozy.com
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by epynonymous 16y ago
zen zen wakaranai...
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by epynonymous 16y ago
this strikes at something i've been thinking about for a long time, a good manager learns to leverage his people to get things done, he/she is paid to drive people to get things done. there's an age old adage that says you should not give
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by epynonymous 16y ago
he used to run documentum, which got sold to emc.
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by epynonymous 16y ago
i think i speak on behalf of many here: WHAT... THE... FUK?!? that's like trojan buying a porno studio, sure they're in a related field but where the heck is the synergy?
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by epynonymous 16y ago
i disagree with your first point, management and leadership are fundamentally different disciplines. management is more about execution and risk mitigation whereas leadership is more about strategy, vision (as you stated), and perhaps thin
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by epynonymous 16y ago
great question, i used to wonder what the heck my development manager was doing all day, then i became him. currently i work in a mid-sized company (150+). if developers and designers could work out effective processes while maintaining ev
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by epynonymous 16y ago
shame, no mention of china, at least from what i scrolled through. china has a relatively low cost of living (food, housing, etc) and excellent infrastructure in 2nd tier+ cities. the talent pool can be somewhat mixed, i don't think you'l
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by epynonymous 16y ago
it's the economy. this is the worst recession since the great depression. americans are without jobs. people without jobs are angry and sometimes have to resort to other means of providing for their families. most of the jobs are in the
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by epynonymous 16y ago
though it's never good to compare to the worst :)
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by epynonymous 16y ago
good points. i think cloud is a broad set of technologies in which operating system, database, web server, apis, etc play a part. msft could make some inroads with these as services considering their past record for shrink wrap software.
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by epynonymous 16y ago
i'm based in shanghai, china, there are lots of factories in china that can produce a prototype for sophisticated hardware on the cheap, i mean, they have all the machinery and processes in place to assemble all sorts of today's most sophis
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by epynonymous 16y ago
the whole premise of microsoft cloud technologies is windows, windows virtualization, and .net. from what i understand things like lamp, ruby on rails, and so forth reign supreme in this industry. is ballmer on crack?
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by epynonymous 16y ago
i think spolsky was saying in the context of a company. firefox started as an open source initiative, it's a different construct.
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by epynonymous 16y ago
thanks, i have tried it, basically the conversion just sort of hangs, i've never encoded successfully, tried different dvds, too.
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by epynonymous 16y ago
btw, handbrake has a gui for windows and linux. i'm going to try that out, but i don't know if it includes the latest ffmpeg.
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by epynonymous 16y ago
lol, oh wait, forgot this was hacker news, you don't do guis :P
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by epynonymous 16y ago
what's the best front end for ffmpeg on windows? i used to use ffmpegx on my mac, but that thing's out of commission in favor of handbrake.
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by epynonymous 16y ago
pretty simple, i like simple user interfaces. one thing that kind of sux is that you have to manually erase everything in the canvas if you want to start a new document. would be nice to add something to the effect of "start new txt". no
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by epynonymous 16y ago
just fyi, the princess diana link is NSFW