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by ibsulon 18y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned economies of scale so far. Enterprise applications are highly customized systems with deployments of 1 in many cases. We talk about the outrageous cost, but consider an 500,000 dollar application. That's a
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by ibsulon 18y ago
I believe the point was he did this in his spare time for fun, with no expectations of anyone using it. There is no novel work in this, which would be consistent with a hobby project rather than doing brain-draining work in one's spare time
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by ibsulon 18y ago
These numbers aren't counting the contractors.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
d2l is awful in its own right - the University of Arizona uses it and I'm absolutely boggled as to how this software was ever sold. It's not terrible from the student's perspective, but the professor/TA interface is abysmal. It reminds me o
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Perhaps. I don't blame the bankers in general. However, these banks received government money because they had liquidity problems, then promptly handed out that same government money to its employees in the form of bonuses in numbers that s
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by ibsulon 18y ago
That was what the star was for. Look at the end of my comment for the link. That's one of many that I could have chosen.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
The original example had a top and bottom spanning all three columns, making the problem fundamentally different than you describe. I would be more interested if you could take that original example in the original post and show how CSS doe
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Education certainly can make a difference. However, let's consider the problems that you have in lower income school districts. * Increased child abuse * Poorer nutrition. * Lower chance of a safety net. My parents helped me out with colleg
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by ibsulon 18y ago
So, no great teacher would choose to work in poor school districts. We already have to give incentives to experienced teachers to work there. Good teachers would concentrate in wealthy districts, because the best teachers would have an ampl
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by ibsulon 18y ago
If you haven't noticed, there were 70,000 layoffs this week. In Tucson, people are scrambling for jobs. I'm in a position where my employment is ending in March and the jobs I see are extremely competitive. I'm in a good position relatively
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by ibsulon 18y ago
The author qualified this list as designs he has used for himself in enterprise software. I don't believe that he was suggesting that these were a list Set In Stone.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Wasn't the whole reason that Microsoft wanted Yahoo was its patent portfolio?
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by ibsulon 18y ago
The fundamental problem with many of these blogs is there's only so much information one person has stored up in their life. After that, there's only so much we can say. This is likely why Steve Yegge still has interesting things to say - h
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by ibsulon 18y ago
That presumes you know more about the domain than the customer. Frankly, I find this an arrogant position for many places.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
It reminds me of many of the insights I had on life at 18. :)
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by ibsulon 18y ago
I have lights behind me at home that can't always be turned off. (IE, if someone's in the kitchen.) It's annoying.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
There are many people who take the GRE for math and science who have English as a second language. This is less true for the humanities and social sciences (besides Anthropology, a major exception.)
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by ibsulon 18y ago
I've been using the beta for a while. It's changed a lot from the original implementation. I still hate how the two pulldown menus are right next to each other - try reaching "nfl" on the list of sports with the mouse coming from the top of
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Because it was bad, and the studio knew it?
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by ibsulon 18y ago
This is what I don't get. Why should I have to retrain my fingers to justify Microsoft's UI designers' salaries? I don't mind for myself, but I dread having to teach my parents every time, especially when I don't use the operating system
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Not to mention there were only two ads completely out of the way. One was a google ad way at the bottom. The other was a flash ad that I wouldn't have noticed unless I clicked on it via flashblock. Who came up with that scheme?
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by ibsulon 18y ago
When you're selling the same content to others, perhaps it doesn't make much sense, especially when these others repurpose this content into RSS feeds with their own advertisments.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Not everyone posts their picture, and not everyone posts their own. Most of the time, people swap emails and that's where their real picture goes.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Judging by the number of adultery stories I've heard here and there, I'd imagine it's a few more than we'd expect. Females seem to use it for hooking up, not for any sort of relationship, and it seems to be used especially if one is already
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Well, the bad news (for me) is that you beat me to a very similar idea that I was planning to do. :)
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by ibsulon 18y ago
If it was anything like my school, the teachers had very little choice in curriculum. The English teachers were told what books to teach. The math teachers had the books picked out for them. The AP teachers had a strict test for which to pr
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Easier than that - http://www.reddit.com/r/all That's how I usually view.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
To someone making ten dollars an hour, a 2000 dollar medical expense is devastating. The problem I have is that I have seen people with this same health insurance end up 50k or more in debt and worse because the provider fights you at eve
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Stallman sold copies of Emacs for a pretty penny above reproduction costs. It just so happens that he give the source alongside. Freedom 0-4 does not say you cannot sell your product.
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by ibsulon 18y ago
Forgot one thing -- don't forget about the iPod touch market. Webapps are useless for those in many cases.

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