hapless

79 ms·

841.
by hapless 17y ago
CPAN isn't just a collection of modules. It's the world's largest collaboration platform. Sourceforge.net, launchpad.net, and github.com are just puffs of smoke by comparison. CPAN is 16,000 interoperable modules, most of which have compr
842.
by hapless 17y ago
Just a few years ago, you had to buy an SGI to the tune of several million dollars to get six graphics heads. Now it's 2010's $500 video card. Which you install in commodity hardware. I could never have predicted that standing in 2000.
843.
by hapless 17y ago
Oracle already owned the most important component of MySQL: InnoDB. MySQL AB, the independent firm, never owned the core technology upon which their product depended. Oracle has had a death grip on MySQL for years. Sun also had a compe
844.
by hapless 17y ago
I just noticed the "Costco" label on his batteries, and that raised my suspicion. For me, specialized suppliers have been cheaper for this purpose. The important bit in my comment is unfortunately in the second part: Don't use consumer tra
845.
by hapless 17y ago
Auto batteries make terrible UPS cells. They're designed to survive very shallow cycling at very high currents, whereas the cells in your UPS will be very deeply cycled at very low currents. I don't know about the marine batteries he's
846.
by hapless 17y ago
I used to be able to google names and view their profiles. Now I can't. I think that's a change. (Maybe I just never found anyone I didn't have a 3rd degree relationship with?) Regardless, it's impressive that LinkedIn has found a way to
847.
LinkedIn charges $250 a year to view users' full profiles.(linkedin.com)
35 points by hapless 17y ago|36 comments
848.
by hapless 17y ago
The hidden gem is about halfway down the press release: springsource owned hyperic already. Hyperic has an obvious slot in VMware's portfolio. Some of SpringSource's other products are more confusing.
849.
by hapless 17y ago
Bandwidth for video is expensive. Bandwidth for text is not.
850.
by hapless 17y ago
This is fantastic. I'd heard of cutting a hole in the wall for this purpose, but I'd never considered using a doorway, which is both less permanent and more attractive. It's brilliantly simple. The best kind of brilliance.
851.
by hapless 17y ago
My favorite N. Korea travelogue is this fellow's, done by train: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ He's a train hobbyist, a touch obsessed with timetables. He noticed that Moscow-Pyongyang routes were hypothetically opened. He secur
852.
by hapless 17y ago
My experince with "cloud computing" has been that needs always grow to fill all available capacity. As your capabilities expand within a given budget, new needs arise. All of the marginal applications that were impossible to pitch under the
853.
by hapless 17y ago
We should be proud to live in a country where the average household can afford three TVs. They're big, complicated, expensive luxury items. Miracles of modern commerce, overlooked.
854.
by hapless 17y ago
This was the only piece of advice in the article that I really liked. It doesn't matter whether you work well with your spouse. It could be a truly great working relationship and still present a problem for your firm. The problem is tha
855.
by hapless 17y ago
Is there a PDF/PPT link anywhere? I am not in the mood to put up with a flash nightmare.
856.
by hapless 17y ago
Conspiracy theories on Pearl Harbor have been batted around and rejected, over and over, for decades. Why should I believe this third-hand crank account over any other? http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/center_crypt_h... I ha
857.
by hapless 17y ago
Why should I care? The article presents the fact that most of our food supply contains some genetically modified plants. The article mentions that some people "feel" this is a bad thing. I appear to have missed the point. Was there a poin
858.
by hapless 17y ago
If you discover that smart people will not recommend your application, the problem doesn't lie in the marketing. You're barking up the wrong tree.
859.
by hapless 17y ago
How does it work ?
860.
by hapless 17y ago
If the candidate tells you point blank he'd rather be working for himself than working for you, there are any number of problems at hand. Possibilities: a. He doesn't respect you enough to lie about it. b. He doesn't really want the job, or
861.
by hapless 17y ago
No, GTK+ is not the "real problem." GTK+ has a very fine C++ binding, gtkmm. It even has a pretty nice java binding: java-gnome. People just really, really like GTK#, the Mono/C#/CLR binding. The author even cites gnote, a C++ GTK app th
862.
by hapless 17y ago
My problem is that I was raised with the food pyramid. Grain as staff of life etc. I look at corn flakes or wonderbread, and my subconscious health barometer reads "all clear." I'll consume these products without thinking about it. It's r
863.
by hapless 17y ago
It's surely better enough to warrant an effort. The question is whether it's enough better to license their patent. :)
864.
by hapless 17y ago
Why wouldn't they work ? How would they need to differ from a regular plug or socket ?
865.
by hapless 17y ago
Germany.
866.
by hapless 17y ago
The article you cite describes the exact inverse phenomenon. The "shadow workforce" is people who want to work, but are not counted as unemployed. The "funemployed" are people who are counted, but aren't really unemployed, since they aren't
867.
by hapless 17y ago
weshould.com is a pretty promising name. I'd squat that for decades, considering but never implementing the many possibilities.
868.
by hapless 17y ago
Very Mao. Done grows from the barrel of a gun. The mass line represents the creative and productive energies of the masses of the Cult of Done, which are potentially inexhaustible. To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to
869.
by hapless 17y ago
Elephant in the room: The art market went through a massive, just staggering, boom. Prices and volume went through the roof on fine art. These guys showed up way too late to the party. No matter what their product was, it wasn't a good id
870.
by hapless 17y ago
Ironically, the "Readability" site uses text embedded in images. Needless to say, this is totally unreadable by many of the people most interested in the service.

More ›