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by ja27 15y ago
Well, if every piece of enterprise software worked right out of the box, consultants would be out of business. I have to admit that I'm not a big user of ActiveMQ, but I've used a closed-source equivalent from a slightly bigger vendor (IBM)
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by ja27 15y ago
I think people had similar fun when Facebook introduced user names. Didn't someone register the user name "index.html"?
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by ja27 15y ago
Over the year I average $30 a month - but only with about 30 minutes of work a month. It's sad, but I bet I spend more time checking on that income than I do making it. These are mostly old learning experiences and playgrounds for me and I
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by ja27 15y ago
One of my favorite pieces from Merlin is his 'To Have Done List' podcast. The short version is to mentally transform that todo list that isn't getting done into a list that includes the benefit and your emotional relief once those items are
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by ja27 15y ago
And it has to be a system that you trust or you won't be able to let go of those mental reminders. Trust means not just that it won't get lost but that you know that you'll review it regularly enough to deal with the items.
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by ja27 15y ago
Really? Meet Mike Diana, convicted for drawing comics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana
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by ja27 15y ago
I'd like to see a quieter shutter (and mirror). There are a number of situations where I have to put away the DSLR and shoot with a good point-and-shoot just to avoid disturbing other audience members. I guess I need to try a mirrorless mic
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by ja27 16y ago
LaTeX was part of a class I had to take in my freshman year of college. This makes me feel even older than usual. See, it was a little different back then. You didn't run LaTeX and immediately look at the output in Ghostview or some other t
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by ja27 16y ago
IBM has 426,000. AT&T has 294,000. GE has 287,000. Those are big companies at least in the tech community.
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by ja27 16y ago
2015: YouTube Founders Acquire Tungle.me from RIM
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by ja27 16y ago
I've been frustrated over the years to see programmers rewarded for putting in extraordinary amounts of effort - often due to crises of their own making. The guy that designs and builds a service that's delivered on-time and works without m
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by ja27 16y ago
Interesting that they are (soon to be were) in Tampa, FL - not exactly a hotbed of tech startups. Definitely cheaper to be there, but is it easier or harder to draw talent?
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by ja27 16y ago
Yes, I tried to follow the citations too and got nowhere. I find it hard to believe that they "never" read another book after college. I suspect that wording has been twisted and we don't know the survey subjects. Did they survey a bunch of
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by ja27 16y ago
Netflix does have sub-accounts to allow for different family members. It works reasonably well, but you can only stream video using the primary account.
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by ja27 16y ago
Something interesting about the iStockPhoto revenue is that it's almost entirely from content that's between 2 and 5 years old. It's hard to imagine a mobile app built today still generating significant revenue 5 years from now - without si
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by ja27 16y ago
"Scott Adams defends his self-congratulatory commenting and weighs in on the Obama chimp controversy. Make it stop" For those that don't follow this stuff and for whom the article is TL;DR, Scott Adams had nothing to do with "the Obama chim
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by ja27 16y ago
Is the Android ad income growth just a result of more users/traffic? Or did you release more apps or do some more substantial marketing of your apps?
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by ja27 16y ago
And the new adage that the easiest camera to upload to Flickr from is one with 3G/'4G' built-in.
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by ja27 16y ago
It's the light show that causes the current copyright claim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_cl...
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by ja27 16y ago
I got through the Appsumo process and am about halfway through the (downloaded) video. It's great but there are some weird glitches, blank spots, etc. in the video. I'm not the only one seeing those, am I?
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by ja27 16y ago
Yes, for a nearly deserted airport the tower controller isn't as important as people would expect. The article doesn't mention it but I believe that the sleeping controller is also supposed to be handling ground control - planes taxiing and
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by ja27 16y ago
I competed then coached the ACM contest at my last university. Out of the really solid competitors I worked with, one is a pretty well-respected Microsoft MVP, consultant, speaker and author. Another founded an open-source company and regul
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by ja27 16y ago
I refer them to friends that do that for money. I've helped a few really broke friends though.
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by ja27 16y ago
I thought it would be actual opcodes and run - if you could save to a raw, headerless bitmap from Paint.
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by ja27 16y ago
Pretty tempted too. Having one of those Jobs & Sculley "sugar water" moments.
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by ja27 16y ago
I've worked with a few and some of the things I've noticed: No understanding of regular expressions / state machines / automata. Not understanding O() and algorithm complexity. Building kludged together language parsers. Not understanding p
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by ja27 16y ago
I was at a conference last week with 100 developers, at least 50 of which use mostly Microsoft development tools. A speaker from Microsoft asked who had a Windows Phone 7 device. He was the only one. Even gadget nuts like me that carry mult
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by ja27 16y ago
Well he did graduate from the Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) program at Norwich University in 2009.
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by ja27 16y ago
A quote from an Agile / Scrum talk I saw last week: "Agile delivers things sooner, not necessarily faster."
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by ja27 16y ago
Isn't that kind of like winning a race to give money to a panhandler? Especially if the two people you think you're racing aren't even trying? We've had dozens (I assume - I've only tried 2 or 3 myself) of startups in this space.

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