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by grantc 5y ago
+1 for Embody. Had an Aeron. Pretty comfortable. Broke. Steelcase Leap after that. Durable. Had many years. Hadn't sat in for days on end until pandemic. Was killing my lower back. Ordered an Embody without having sat in one before. It
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by grantc 5y ago
TL;DR: the author is super committed to wearing a timepiece.
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by grantc 5y ago
Paw's great for figuring out someone else's poorly documented API. Sure I could code up the equivalent, but not going to waste cycles reinventing a tool that pays for itself in less than an hour of saved time
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by grantc 8y ago
Read his annual shareholder letters. I'm floored every year.
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by grantc 8y ago
Marking up documents with your notes and questions is a critical part of the process. It's ultimately why I end up preferring paper.
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by grantc 8y ago
It's notionally similar in that at b-school you read the case and then discuss in class, but in practice it's a very different activity. Real doc reviews at Amazon are far more rigorous.
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by grantc 11y ago
They're not mutually exclusive options.
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by grantc 11y ago
Mainframe Marty shows up.
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by grantc 11y ago
They're buying much of their selection from another retailer after you purchase at retail pricing. I can't find the article but someone figured out at launch that they were fufilling many orders at 2-5X the actual price sold (only
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by grantc 12y ago
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by grantc 12y ago
Oregon's case is that Oracle claimed their products worked together and could be merely configured to suit +95% of the state's requirements. That proved to be untrue. (It always does with COTS software, but it's the siren&#x2
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by grantc 15y ago
The article doesn't really explain this very well, but the Chinese consulate is in the middle of BFE in NYC -- it's out on the West Side Hwy in no man's land. This is as much about location as complexity/UX. To get to the business idea part
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by grantc 15y ago
Indeed -- I remember multiple firms trying to do the exact same thing on mothballed cruise ships during the height of the dotcom bubble (v1).
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by grantc 15y ago
I'd disagree. The OS's capabilities are actually pretty good imo. I used my wife's HTC Trophy for a few weeks and was a bit bummed to go back to my iPhone. The apps story is night and day though -- there just aren't as many high quality app
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by grantc 15y ago
It's not, but pointing to DC as an example that gun laws don't work ignores a number of significant factors; specifically, the fact that guns are easily purchased just outside of the District's small expanse. NYC's another interesting data
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by grantc 16y ago
The current version isn't browser-specific. You could add user-agent headers pretty easily. The existing C# code might compile with limited effort on Mono.
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by grantc 16y ago
Agree, very easy once I was able to git out of my own way. Haven't really done much with it yet, but this is what Azure should be in terms of a developer experience. I'll be interested to see the AH guys evolve the service and start to get
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by grantc 16y ago
Don't listen to the naysayers, this is a great idea and it is an industry primed for disruption. It's a total effing scam. But I agree with others. The DIY version is only one angle... we paid for ours (through the nostrils), but if there w
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by grantc 17y ago
We're just pinballing around looking for a silver bullet here. The reality is we save and invest too little and purchase too much from abroad. Like fnid says, the way to address the problem is a function of changing American behavior and in
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by grantc 18y ago
If I want to buy something development and execution architecture based, I'm happy to buy that from MSFT since they've done exceedingly well there. How many sites out there have been running on google and amzn's dev/exec arch's the past 10
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by grantc 18y ago
H/w vendors are only cut out if MSFT invents a replacement for metal. Granted, utility computing in the cloud is about squeezing more utilization and value out of a given piece of h/w, so it's not without impact. You might perceive this as
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by grantc 18y ago
Google can help your wonderment. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...
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by grantc 18y ago
Ditto. Terrible omission from the project page for a graphing lib.
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by grantc 18y ago
Not sure I follow you. Most desktops are some flavor of Windows, call it +90%. What piece of technology, not present previously, became ubiquitous on Windows once it was open sourced? Open sourcing java doesn't mean much for end users on t
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by grantc 18y ago
Read up for the part where we discussed Visual Studio Express being free. The amusing part about the free tools argument is that the cost of tools is such a non-concern in the professional world. I work for large customers on large projects
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by grantc 18y ago
My guess would be that if you've never had trouble keeping things running either they're not real complicated or you don't have a lot of users. And that statement applies to any technology/platform. If you build things long and big enough
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by grantc 18y ago
Skip Castle, it pulls along a lot of baggage with it and its not for beginners. ASP.NET MVC with LINQ + NHib is my pick as most productive .NET web stack right now. I think there's enough literature out there to get you started on MVC, NHib
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by grantc 18y ago
A.) 5 years ago B.) Only impacted unpatched servers C.) They said they were using MySQL anyway Two words: hanging chad
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by grantc 18y ago
Fact check in aisle zero. Microsoft's CLR profiler is freely downloadable, no linkage to IDE versions. Additionally, there are two tiers of VS above Express, Professional and Team Suite (VSTS). VSTS comes in different editions, it's a bit c
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by grantc 18y ago
Yahoo was in the headlights before. Now they're just roadkill. I think a MSFT+YHOO merger would have been massive fail, but it's Microsoft that ends up dodging the bullet here. Yahoo just takes one. Where exactly is Yahoo relevant anymore?

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