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by jsankey 17y ago
Or import less. If the transit was more energy efficient, or just less reliant on oil, it could have some impact.
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What I know how to do best is the app store, but I want other type of things that do not require much time investment, but give as good returns as that. What do I do with the money? How do I invest it in making more money quickly? Little
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It helps to think of how poorly "real" companies perform. I mean, which software vendor ships bug free products? It's a fantasy: and the difference is that startups (that care) can turn around fixes in the blink of an eye. This leads int
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by jsankey 17y ago
Also: Employees using IE6, inside Google, in 2010. Why weren't they using Chrome? I guess they were testing something in IE6. Perhaps one of their own sites. Perhaps how some other site renders in it compared to Chrome. Who knows.
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They might if they tried it! It's quite like poultry, the flavour is not at all challenging to anyone that eats chicken. It was once common to eat them in Sydney; in fact my dad tells of a rabbit man that would sell them door-to-door when
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by jsankey 17y ago
There are at least two: 1) The Maven Ant tasks: http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/index.html 2) Ivy (now part of the Ant project): http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ We use Ant+Ivy, and although it has some quirks Ivy works well enough for depe
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by jsankey 17y ago
This sounds interesting, but unfortunately I was unable to find any more significant information about the tests. It seems that it's mentioned in a few of Sugarman's books but that's it. In particular I'm interested in how controlled the
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O'Reilly Android Apps Gaining Ground on iPhone(radar.oreilly.com)
12 points by jsankey 17y ago|8 comments
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by jsankey 17y ago
Your comment might be more constructive if your offered the OP a solution to their actual problem of tiling two windows (or perhaps the underlying need to compare the contents of two windows easily). What affordances does OSX offer in this
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It's an interesting idea but I think the major problem is many people are in jobs too far from what they are really interested in or enjoy. They've made safe choices based on the fact that they need money to live. Although pouring all the
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The best part is that you don't have to look at the tower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDi%C5%BEkov_Television_Tow... A communist-era classic.
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Not necessarily: maybe Google also wants to use some of the acquired technology, which they now can in its open source form. They're just not stopping anyone else from using it.
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Yes - it strikes me that this is not so much navigating like someone in India , but navigating more like many (most?) people do in practice. I tend to like knowing which way is north, and using that, but I've found explaining things using
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by jsankey 17y ago
But this doesn't seem to be their target market. The simplicity of installation, and the website, point to home users. If you're running a data center you probably already have more sophisticated systems in place.
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by jsankey 17y ago
First: you need good test coverage, so that you can refactor and restructure with confidence. Then, I would look into dividing up the code base a bit. Usually once you get to a certain size you'll be able to identify useful bits and pieces
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> always feeling guilty when I'm not working This I can relate to as a big problem when you start working on your own company. It took me a long time to realise how counter-productive this is, and to free myself to start saying "yes" m
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It's one counter example of many, though (indeed you neglected a second in the original comment). Most people don't enjoy their jobs, but many do, and in a huge variety of fields. People that aren't happy shouldn't be told that there is n
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by jsankey 17y ago
I think the key part is to not worry too much about the actual number. Seek out the right job, and the right people to work with. From experience I can say if you find yourself around smart people you'll learn more in the first 3 weeks
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Where the key word is correct . It would be very easy to spread a bogus story via, e.g. Twitter. It would be debunked quite quickly too -- but the fact that it can happen devalues the speed with which things are reported. Those in the p
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by jsankey 17y ago
You can get by without having to learn much directly about Java - just by picking bits and pieces up as you need them. But the value in learning the underlying platform, and indeed a key reason why these languages target the platform, is t
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More importantly, you might not need those features ever...
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This is even more glaring in the flawed movie analogy. Consumers of movies are not just paying for the experience of the movie. The movie itself is the main distinguishing factor. There is no "perfect competition" across all movies as th
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by jsankey 17y ago
"People should not have to be slick and commercial sounding to get a chance at your attention." In a perfect world, I agree. But when you're marketing a product, you need to deal in the real world, and the first impression counts. Persona
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Opening the platform doesn't necessarily imply opening the app store. Just let other people run stores (or simply host apps for download). Re: the impact on Apple's brand, see the original article for reasons why the current model doesn't
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I think the difference between the best practices for "lean startups" vs "enterprise" is overstated. The benefits of fast feedback still apply to large projects - the only real difference is that big companies won't necessarily die from in
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Josh Harris: The Warhol of the web(guardian.co.uk)
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It's too expensive to optimize for every device. Agreed. The "solution" I suggest just allows you to avoid the lowest common denominator - it doesn't make it cheap, or even viable for all devices. But for the most popular devices it s
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You avoid this problem by not restricting APIs to what works on every phone, but providing optional APIs for the more capable devices. Good apps will be well integrated with multiple devices - where those devices have enough market share
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Probably because if Jira works for them between $10 and $8000 is really not "lots of money"? It takes hardly any employee time to rack up that amount. I more often wonder why people value their time so little. Disclaimer: Atlassian are ac
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by jsankey 17y ago
This appears to completely ignore the fact that money gives you power, privilege and opportunity - and that can be used to make more money. It's not impossible to get rich from nothing, but you start with a huge disadvantage.

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