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931.
by flomo 14y ago
Yep, the average bundled CRT was pretty terrible and far below the average bundled LCD. The higher-end CRTs (Trinitrons etc) were great, but tended to wear out over time. I'm somewhat surprised that Raymond still has one that hasn't gone bl
932.
by flomo 14y ago
I would suspect that messaging infrastructure like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Skype, AIM, and so on, all have very high "DAU to MAU ratios". Either you're on them or you're not, and if you are, you need to check it. But I'm not sure how these numbe
933.
by flomo 14y ago
Note you could buy a copy of VB for about $100. Which wasn't a bad deal considering it came with a thousand pages of manuals & tutorials.
934.
by flomo 14y ago
An Ars commenter posted this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.as... I agree this is really shocking. Even if most Windows devs bought into Visual Studio Pro & MSDN, there was always the free option.
935.
by flomo 14y ago
Sculley actually had a great 'product guy' for a while in JL Gassee. The Mac II and Powerbook lines were excellent, and the profits were huge. It was only later on when things started going off the rails.
936.
by flomo 14y ago
It's certainly fine to know about it, IMO, but all of the internet taunting seems immature and unnecessary.
937.
by flomo 14y ago
Unfortunately, I've been singed when Gmail decided 'dale' actually meant 'daboss@client.com'. So, please no second-guessing in email addressing. With good directory typeahead (I won't mention the system because its blue and yellow and smell
938.
by flomo 14y ago
I've learned this the hard way. Your production environment is probably going to be Linux, so you will need to know that setup & have deployment tools regardless. Setting up Windows (or even OS X in certain respects) is just an addition
939.
by flomo 14y ago
Also, that figure is probably not entirely marketing as they also maintain a customer service presence.
940.
by flomo 14y ago
Actually, you the one making this strange comparison to C code. My point is simple: IE's sandbox was broken repeatedly, creating a bad reputation and scoring marketing points for other vendors.
941.
by flomo 14y ago
The obvious different is that you don't want to execute arbitrary C code just because a compromised ad network is serving malformed HTML. The ease of attack is much greater on the web. Mozilla has used "no IE-like privileged mode" as a mark
942.
by flomo 14y ago
chicken/egg: One of the reason Torvolds is so respected as a leader is because he knows how to win a technical argument.
943.
by flomo 14y ago
It may have been a very good idea, but the sandbox implementation was shoddy, and 'Local Machine Zone' exploits are one of the main reasons IE has such a terrible security reputation. So other browsers should be wary about introducing a 'pr
944.
by flomo 14y ago
Note Torvalds is incredibly polite and articulate when speaking to the public or press. However in technical fora he carries an old-school 1992 usenet-style flamethrower. Its just the way most of those old *nix guys interact.
945.
by flomo 14y ago
And it will always have rounded corners, long after everyone forgets what a TV tube looked like.
946.
by flomo 14y ago
That recording tape symbol was also used on VCRs and stereo equipment, so it was already an "old person icon" long before it evolved into the standard phone icon for voicemail.
947.
by flomo 15y ago
Someone I worked with long ago had a t-shirt with about 8 of these COM 'rebrandings' with strikethroughs through each. The one that I recall was "Windows DNS" (no, not that DNS, it was distributed network services or something, aka COM+).
948.
by flomo 15y ago
Because $1000 for the entry-level Air still puts into the luxury-goods category relative to everything else on Best Buy's PC aisle. iPad+Keyboard is probably a compelling alternative to a crappy lowend laptop for say students with light wor
949.
by flomo 15y ago
I see some value in this type of thing. If someone can't bluff their way past a (non)technical recruiter, will they be able to handle a requirements meeting or communicate status to a PM? Some engineers really can only talk to other enginee
950.
by flomo 15y ago
I'm not at all clear on how I mocked Stallman. But since you brought it up, the man has some very well documented personal eccentricities, beyond his choice in laptops. I'm sure anyone who would be interested in his email-reading procedures
951.
by flomo 15y ago
Ditto. Stallman is an enormously interesting figure in the history of software development. But who really cares how he reads his email or books his speaking engagements? (And the less one knows about his personal life is probably for the b
952.
by flomo 15y ago
FCGI problems were very customer-visible. Prior to Zed coming along, the issue wasn't being discussed much anywhere, making it unclear if it was your code, ruby issue, framework issue, or appserver. Now it is your problem to fix!
953.
by flomo 15y ago
I certainly wasn't anywhere in the loop, but at least on my site, FastCGI didn't work, and Mongrel did. Zed's rant/flame goes into so much personal detail that he doesn't really articulate the point. Rails was receiving this enormous amount
954.
by flomo 15y ago
It was a hotly debated topic whether the www should use 7-bit/mime or not.
955.
by flomo 15y ago
In 2003, Munich publicly gave the finger to Steve Ballmer himself and declared they were moving to Linux. If they really needed 3 years to think about it, perhaps their PR was all wrong, because all eyes were now on them as the Linux test c
956.
by flomo 15y ago
> Stop making "databases" out of Excel sheets and implement good data analytics system on the server Note this is largely procedural. Employee can play with a spreadsheet 'for free', but a database requires finding budget for Business A
957.
by flomo 15y ago
My understanding is that Munich had a lot of issues which were orthogonal to Linux - decentralized support, lack of inventory, lack of standards. Of course, it didn't help that the original proponents were of an 'ideological' bent and perha
958.
by flomo 15y ago
- You want to buy inexpensive hardware and use familiar commercial software.
959.
by flomo 15y ago
OS/2 was nowhere close to being as stable as Linux. There were all kinds of normal usage scenarios which cause the system to lock or crash. (OS/2 had the same "49.7 day bug" as Windows and nobody noticed for years.)
960.
by flomo 15y ago
Haha, "Team OS/2" was up there on the insanity scale with Amiga advocates. The author described it as 'social media and conversational marketing', but I recall one magazine columnist who said something like "I stopped writing about OS/2 bec

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