joseph_cooney

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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Ted Turner?
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I had to drill into the PDF linked from the article to learn that SA (in this case) refers to the Republic of South Africa.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
> All the people from the article seem to be carefully selected socialists big time who just couldn't wait to give up on the US citizenship no matter what "survivor" bias? Maybe those are the only kind of people who want t
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
This is how it played out in Australia too. Pre-iPhone data was expensive. My pre-iphone "smart" phones were hobbled by a lack of data which the iphone didn't suffer from.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
According to the fairly suspect Alexa they are in the top 100, world wide (regardless of technology). So by traffic I guess yes, they are in the top 100.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
adding a meta tag with name="generator" content="Google Web Designer 1.0.0.924" was enough for it to open for me.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I'd be surprised if StackExchange was in the top 100 largest .NET web applications (I guess it depends how you define size, but I've seen apps with much larger code bases, bigger infrastructure, and bigger data sets, and I live in
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Some games re pretty nice....and Windows can run games.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
While I mostly agree with you, she is learning one very valuable thing - how to game the system, which should see her in good stead for the rest of her life.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
So you should be happy with the work the Gates Foundation is doing. It's good to see different technologists tacking a similar problem from different ends of the spectrum.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
If you find this article interesting, you should check out the book 'designing and engineering time'. Aside from having a great title it is filled with interesting tips regarding perception and user interface design.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
...If you happen to live in the United States, and the tax laws there don't change.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
It is a long road between becoming a parent, and having a kid in high-school. Parenthood sometimes doesn't play out exactly how you thought it would.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
It sounds like your situation is a difficult one, and you've been set up to fail (not necessarily by Microsoft) if you have to support unreleased versions of Windows.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
How is the presence of a father relevant? The mother was away at a conference, possibly in a different time-zone or otherwise not contactable. Email seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I can understand some awkwardness, but surely the software is sold as working under certain versions and configurations of windows. If a customer is using it on a version that isn't supported you can point that out to them. If you plan
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Perhaps I was misinformed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Divisions
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I thought Exchange was part of Microsoft Platform Products and Services Division, whereas office is part of Microsoft Business Division.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I dunno...I think Exchange and Office (outlook) work OK together, but that is probably the exception that proves the rule.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Maybe Dalvik will compile down to run on top of ChromeOS.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Try telling that to enterprise IT.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I'm guessing there is an element of 'you don't know what you're going to find until you start digging' aspect to it.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I guess everyone's mileage varies, but I've had a nexus 4 almost since launch, without a cover, and have only had one small 'accident' that didn't result in any damage.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
By the time they were active in the east, their western border was "The English Channel". This was the one they built before the outbreak of WWII.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
I was amused to learn the Germans had built a similar line on THEIR side of the river, called the Siegfried line.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
With centuries of regulatory capture, powerful, politically-connected vested interests with huge war-chests, and a deck full of trump-cards like 'safety' they can play, they might need more than just good wishes.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
Also lots of people from all nations will be travelling to Brazil soon for the Olympics, and more importantly, the World Cup.
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by joseph_cooney 13y ago
From memory the departure time scales on the shinkansen are smaller than this...about 90 seconds IIRR.

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