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How newspapers first reported the "World Wide Web"(news.com.au)
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Anyone who's done an engineering course will have heard about the metal fatigue in the Comet's overhead windows. What I didn't know was the comet originally was supposed to be equipped with rockets for take-off on short runways, and at hi
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Wow, that was truly awful. But I did learn something: the word "habitually" should never be used in speech, unless you want to encourage your listeners to think of the word "bitch".
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How to make your Rails tests run super-fast (using multiple cores)(giantrobots.thoughtbot.com)
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
There's been a bit of debate lately amongst a few Australian bloggers about how Twitter is viewed by marketers as just another place where they must impose themselves, to shout their message. Not a damned consideration that we might not wan
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Aside from the content, the presentation of this post deserves praise - it has to be one of the clearest presentations of data I've ever seen on the web. The text is concise and the graphs and other supporting graphics are unambiguous. Top
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Another good venue is the Silicon Beach drinks - every Friday at 5pm at Bar 77 in the Grace Hotel on York St. 2-for-1 drinks , and you usually get a good cross-section of the Sydney start-up "scene" there. (I hesitate to call it a start-up
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
I've seen Google Wave in action at a BarCamp here in Sydney, and while it seems ripe with technical possibilities, I think the bigger challenges by far with its adoption will be social and cultural. With email, there already existed norms w
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Perhaps it's unfortunate that the media even thinks that these conspiracy theorists even need to be debunked. They wouldn't waste the column-inches (or whatever the online equivalent is) debunking claims from people who think the earth flat
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
I now no longer even read the title when I see a "steveblank.com" url - I just click it, because I _know_ it's going to be good, and just overflowing with honest-to-goodness Wisdom (with a capital W). Not sure if Steve reads here, but I wan
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Short summary: if your business promises large returns, and requires lots of start-up capital, seek VC; if your business has not-so-large returns, and doesn't require lots of capital, boot-strap. Duh.
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Leaving aside how technically feasible this is (and I suspect you'll have a hard time miniturising the electronics enough to fit the form factor of the ring), it's not a bad idea. The only issue I'd have with it would be that it's not quite
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Actually, you can read Anderson's book "Free" online at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-full-book-by-Chris-A... (He explicitly mentions in the book that he's giving it away for free, so this is legit.)
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The end of the edge case? (37 signals)(37signals.com)
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Spoofed is probably the wrong word - through an irrelevant IP address is a better way to put it(perhaps someone's compromised computer on a botnet acting as a proxy).
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
I just had a browse through my auth.log, and there does seem to be a new sort of automated attack script in the wild - it opens a connection to SSH port 22, (through some spoofed IP address), but then disconnects before attempting to login.
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
The title is misleading - Luna 15 has long been known about, and it didn't land on the moon before the Americans, but in fact a few hours after they landed (as both the telegraph article and the Wikipedia entry on Luna 15 show). http://en.
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Potion, _why's experimental language. It's cool to play with something bleeding edge, though something about the language itself makes it feel like Python. Maybe the use of colons to define functions/blocks.
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
I think you over-estimate the creativity of the MBA class, particularly in public companies. While people with imagination and empathy for customers might see this as a worthwhile idea, which would actually positively benefit both the cust
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
There's plenty of very expensive software - for example some of the really high end engineering packages I've used, for things like 3D modelling and fluid simulation, can sell for upwards of $5K per _seat_. But again, the value this softwar
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
The thing to remember, is that unless you have _actually_ proven that people want to use it, and are doing so, then any value that might be attached to the software is hypothetical. If an investor had $100k, they could put it in the bank, a
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
There isn't anything better than a good beef stew - I've been experimenting on this theme for a few years now. Some tips: - Only add the onions about 30 minutes before the stew is cooked, otherwise they'll dominate the flavour - Add button
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Actually, that's a lousy summary of the article. The important point being made - and it's a very relevant one - is that by actually thinking about what risks can impact your business, you can work out what ones you need to do something abo
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
I have to say this captures my experience and thoughts on the matter almost perfectly. At Constrex, we launched the product around 8 weeks ago, and I'm now going through the hard, hard slog of raising awareness and educating the market as t
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
I think the thing that needs to be realised is that online collaboration is not merely the same as file sharing - particularly in the construction industry. It's only at certain small parts of the overall construction process (from design t
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
Book-keeping: Saasu Issue/Bug Tracking: Lighthouse SVN hosting: Beanstalk Backups: Amazon S3 Site Monitoring: Pingdom All of which I'd recommend - Saasu especially if you're based in Australia.
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by jlangenauer 17y ago
I'll add a 7th approach: Develop for other browsers, then do the bare minimum needed to make your site usable in IE6. And then explain why you are doing that. This achieves the dual goal of exerting pressure on users still using IE6 to upgr
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by jlangenauer 18y ago
It works for me in Google Chrome (though you hope it would). I'm continually astounded at what can be achieved in Javascript... Will have to have a look at the source tonight and see what I can learn.
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by jlangenauer 18y ago
The examples that 37 signals are relying on are ones where there is already the opportunity to outsource business processes - order fulfilment to Amazon etc. This is all well and good where you're doing something which is not too different