joseph_cooney

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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
This is the first thing I've read in this thread that explains the VC involvement in a way that makes sense.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
A friend of mine works in a trading company. He said all the traders want to become devs, because it is the only skill that they've seen up close that translates outside of the mad-house of trading, and they (the traders) all know even
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
And also the ability to run on Windows XP, where DirectWrite doesn't exist.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Yeah, it looks just like a nabaztag without ears.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I thought exactly the same thing. Those books are very educational, as well as entertaining. The main/only problem is it is sometimes hard to know where the fantasy starts and the facts stop. I suspect the non-titular/non-noble ch
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Because if there's one thing the MS ecosystem needs, it's more dev fragmentation....
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I heard a choir of discordant voices, and pictured something smooth, rectangular and black.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Depends on your demographic. 20% of our site visitors use IE8 :-(.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
So if I bought an extra 2 years of applecare for my MBP do I get half that credited back, since it is only one 'extra' year?
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Have you ever developed mobile UI? Sometimes there just isn't enough pixels.
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Extreme Programming, a Reflection(blog.8thlight.com)
99 points by joseph_cooney 13y ago|66 comments
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
You forgot the #firstworldproblems hashtag.
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Show HN: biztalklee.com
1 points by joseph_cooney 13y ago|0 comments
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How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years(io9.com)
3 points by joseph_cooney 13y ago|0 comments
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Yes. I read "The Master Switch" and being crowned "The New Bell Labs" to me was synonymous with incredible innovation, which is the buried for decades to protect and entrenched position, which I don't think is googl
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Who says I haven't.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I never realized until recently how the high mobility of goods, flexible trade system etc. brought about by the rise of the Mongol empire a few centuries before, allowed the Bubonic Plague to spread from south-east asia through to the middl
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Seems about right vis a vis the need for algorithms to be correct. Good enough is, by definition, good enough.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
There is a Japanese restaurant not far from me that uses a system like this. Your table/booth has an ipad you place orders on. Staff bring out the food to your table. You walk out at the end and pay. It worked really well.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Time to name and shame.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Your example worked fine for me, and returned a list of search results from HN for me with the words 'foo' 'bar' and 'baz'.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
My take on this. Not to say some people don't 'do' software engineering....but it is still nascent. http://jcooney.net/post/2012/02/27/What-Other-Engineering-Di...
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Yesterday when some apple users said their Macbook battery life had been impacted by the Mavericks upgrade the consensus on HN was that "people blame all kinds of problems on software upgrades". When some Dell users say their lapt
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
"by far the most benevolent hegemon in the history of the world" - I dunno....Great Britain/the commonwealth did a few good things. Pax Romana wasn't too bad. The mongols were pretty benevolent and accommodating.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
In the absence of any evidence in the article to the contrary, I think point #1 is pretty suspect. A friend of mine built a business that was very much aligned with his personality and interests, but he did so in his spare time, until it wa
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
really? how do you know?
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Drones.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
It's in TFA. You should probably read it before asking.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
re: The lean start-up - does it matter? I'm sure you can 'go deep' understanding the cognitive science behind why the smiling girl works, and that might give you some insights, but without perfect knowledge of the whole world
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
It's called a joke. There is probably a few TED talks that you can listen to to explain it.

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