junklight

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by junklight 16y ago
I just do not get Microsoft. The place is full of smart people so how come the company acts so dumb. The ipad love it or loathe it works because it's not trying to be all things to all people. It has limitations, sure, but within those it d
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by junklight 16y ago
The word hacker does mean "people who break into computers" because that is what the vast majority of the people who use the word mean when they say it. It has two archaic uses - the older one is well known to this community and the sec
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by junklight 16y ago
While I have no problem with the OP down voting tl;dr I do think as a comment its an important pointed stick: First off to remind you that most people hardly read anything - either through lack of time, lack of attention span or just that t
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by junklight 16y ago
I'm afraid all this seems like pedantic nit-picking to me - attacking the letter of what I said rather than what I was trying to say. However I did want to comment on my favourite line in this: " if you properly learn C++, Haskell and Lisp
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by junklight 16y ago
I suspect this is becoming a bit fruitless because it seems like your tack is - "I can't imagine anything other than the way I want to use the web" But let me just mention one other view: The browser, despite the inconsistencies between dif
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by junklight 16y ago
That most of the web (and obviously Flash is the exception to this) is text based is not an accident. Browsers and people are not the only thing reading the web - there are crawlers and other tools doing this, that and the other. Search eng
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by junklight 16y ago
Oh dear. First of all - shipping binary code to browsers. Please. No. Flash is bad enough. Say good bye to all the grease monkey style hacks and remixes and lots of other interesting things about the web. Secondly - either you are a program
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by junklight 16y ago
I watched that yesterday (after reading the David Byrne article last week). Good documentary (apart from all the "show and tell" cut and paste video and one or two of the soundtrack choices - Schools out for a burned out school! ugh) Loved
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by junklight 16y ago
Indeed. If you can't even get it into an investible entity then i'd just walk away. Sure there is a slight risk what sounds like a miracle will happen but it doesn't sound like the others have the enegy to do this. You don't get to make a s
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by junklight 16y ago
Well I didn't find it annoying. So basically the cap table is a spreadsheet of who has what percentages of equity (and numbers of shares) in the company and then for any given dilution event (typically investment) shows how your percentages
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by junklight 16y ago
Perhaps the moral of that cartoon should be "why Entrepreneurs should reconsider having partners and children that can't tell the difference between play and work" My 4 year old daughter woke me up the other day saying "Wake up you've got t
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by junklight 16y ago
Yes. Sorry was assuming all that. You do need to become an investible entity which involves a valuation , cap tables and all that nonsense. We needed to do this early on as well - because we had some early people who we paid in stock and no
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by junklight 16y ago
So first of all - you kind of want it all ways. You think its going to fail but you want a piece of the action "just in case". First step - pick one. If you think its going to fail and your partners are just wasting their time. Sign it all
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by junklight 16y ago
The thing I find most disturbing about this is the lack of cultural awareness that people have been searching for sounds that act on the body for years. From Hawkwind trying to get the audience to crap themselves: http://www.youtube.com/wa
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by junklight 16y ago
The world sure needs more "analysis free" "light" news items provided largely by the PR industry. I wonder how those other organisations, like the Economist and the Wall street journal, manage to charge money. Oh yes that's it - they add v
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by junklight 16y ago
So start by crossing anything with windows 7 off of the list. The most interesting to my mind is the Cisco one. They seem to be targeting the enterprise - I can imagine office's full of people carrying these. RIM did awfully well in this ni
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by junklight 16y ago
heh heh - that was what I was trying to say. I think I need more coffee this morning....
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by junklight 16y ago
What I don't get is why a company like Microsoft - rich and no longer in the lead doesn't setup a couple of well funded skunk works companies. Drop the baggage (ie don't force them to use windows and allow a new culture to emerge) and give
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by junklight 16y ago
First of all you mentioned two "unrelated" examples - one of which sounds like exactly the same thing in a different environment. Being a film maker is not a job either - I assume its like most creative industries and that 90% of the people
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by junklight 16y ago
The current cuts are providing some incentive but I think you are right but there is another part of the picture: the lack of incentive to cut is one thing. The ability to see things that can be cut is the other piece of the jigsaw - and
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by junklight 16y ago
Ha ha ha ha. I can see you've never worked in the civil service. Promotion, possibly "sideways", is by far the more likely outcome for gross negligence. Sacking people for gross negligence is hard enough even in the private sector under uk
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by junklight 16y ago
So the first thing to understand is that value for money is only one of the check boxes in a procurement and the biggest one by far is accountability (which ironically just kills value for money even though I presume the accountability is t
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by junklight 16y ago
Given I sometimes work on these kinds of projects I could not possibly comment. To be fair though I think that the "its only taxpayers money" attitude is disappearing. But there are still so many other inefficiencies. As for your fix. You t
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by junklight 16y ago
ranges between £400 to over a grand in my experience depending on what kind of skill sets. Remember that scaling this kind of business is hard because you are selling peoples time - so for each salary you pay you can only sell it one time o
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by junklight 16y ago
The kind of company that can cope with doing business with the government is rarely the kind of company that attracts and retains decent programmers. In my experience most of the programmers in these kind of companies are people who just do
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by junklight 16y ago
So for a government project in the UK: You first of all need to go into the procurement process. This pretty much starts with the principle that you need to know whose fault it is when it all goes wrong which kind of sets the tone for every
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by junklight 16y ago
Depends on how many files you have. In my line of work (web archiving) I frequently have more files than '*' can cope with - so need to use find even for mundane tasks
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by junklight 16y ago
That isn't quite what I am saying. I am saying that buying something - or in this case having children - and expecting instant happiness is shallow and consumeristic. Proper happiness comes from deeper things and while this probably isn't
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by junklight 16y ago
I so agree with this. The whole "does it make my life happier" is such a shallow consumer thing. When I was younger I led an interesting life in many ways but I have never had the intensity of experience I have with and about my children. A
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by junklight 16y ago
I have a concept that I call "feeding my head" (guess what I was up to in the nineties) - which is reading, listening to and playing music, films , tv and not least spending time with the family. I know from direct experience that if I neg

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