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by jksmith 19y ago
Reader's comment number 5 represents the purest example of "seed" funding I've ever heard of.
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by jksmith 19y ago
Lots of good comments. Why not add to the list "is a MSFT MVP" or "is Java certified," or some other certificate? This list is a checklist of the mediocrity that the programmer has been reduced to. Everybody is a great programmer now, and e
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by jksmith 19y ago
Legend has it that as Descartes had exhausted himself meditating on the notion of "thinking and being" one day, he saw a fly on the wall in the room he had cloistered himself in. It occurred to him that he could map the position of that fly
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by jksmith 19y ago
Way back in the 80's I doubled in CS and Philosophy. I had a philosophy professor who was a noted expert in symbolic logic. After my last course with him, Dr Aycock was hired by an AI company to do pure research. He left behind a tenured po
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by jksmith 19y ago
I think I've discovered a sure indicator when the singularity has been fully realized: when every geek story posted on this board on April 1st is actually is real.
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by jksmith 19y ago
Here's the issue with these kinds of studies: They take examples of building apps using build 0 of a toolkit or technology, then by the time the study comes out, that same toolkit or technology is on build 100. The usability of web apps (sp
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by jksmith 19y ago
This entry termed as "traditional" venture capital is accurate as I these SaaS dev environments are still incubators of sorts, and still require a piece of the profit. Problem is, the product is not as free-standing - your product is very d
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by jksmith 19y ago
You got it. DI serves up good stuff. If I hadn't been listening to DI, I probably would have never heard the collection by Shulman - OMG. It's outrageous.
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by jksmith 19y ago
Indeed. What a great site also. The F104 was like the aircraft version of the Venus de Milo - you just can't stop looking at it. A great example where a solution to a need (at that time, need for a high-speed interceptor) transcended the so
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by jksmith 19y ago
This is huge, because it confirms what I've always thought about the Air and Silverlight technologies - that they're prime for being obsolesced before they ever even get a foothold. As time passes, they become more and more of crutch for de
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by jksmith 19y ago
Recently my son and I sat through a combo-presentation given by Stanford, Penn, Harvard, Columbia, and Duke. The presentations were all good of course, with the presenters from Harvard, Penn, and Duke being the best. One point glaringly stu
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by jksmith 19y ago
This does come off as a bit of boo-hoo by Opera, but the sadder truth is that the browser should be providing the most advanced ui available right now, but the technology has been dragged down by a company which has a greater interest in se
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by jksmith 19y ago
What I'm referring to is the bigger picture where DbC has a positive effect on the value and accountability of applications. Imagine taking the traditional desktop software license and trying to use it for a web application - your target au
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by jksmith 19y ago
DbC is one of the linchpins of future software development. The traditional desktop license "use at your own risk" simply won't be acceptable as computing power becomes more centralized in the future. The corporate world expects us to provi
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by jksmith 19y ago
What strikes me about sql is that new programmers think even the smallest shrinkwrapped desktop app that persists data has to ship with a db engine with a sql interface. The ultimate result is all this modelling that's done to generate SQL
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by jksmith 19y ago
As I recall back in the day, I got more from anything written by Michael Abrash, a serious gearhead back in the 80's who eventually joined Id Software.
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Po Bronson btw wrote a classic called "The First 20 Million Is Always The Hardest." Great quick read.
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Response seemed a little slow to me, but I don't know what the quality of the staging was by the time it got to my browser so I'll reserve judgement. I hope this framework does not make the mistake of that other Windows-look framework has d
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by jksmith 19y ago
No, you can computer more for less because of utility computing examples like Google. And I didn't say that having something that provides computing power in the home will go away, just that the value of you sitting down with your IBM PC-AT
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You're not seeing the potential of the web anymore than the original writer does. The web provides utility computing, the box on your desk does not. As soon as we lose this horse/buggy mindset and start noodling on the issues of 1) proof of