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by lurker19 15y ago
How does a mechanical dryer handle wrinkle-free mode, where the dryer runs for one minute every ten to avoid letting wrinkles settle? Or handle a mode where the heat is on high for 15 minutes to evaporate water, and then switches to low or
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by lurker19 15y ago
The problem is that new features and improvements are not forthcoming, and when software is closed source it is impossible to take business elsewhere if the copyright holder loses interest.
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by lurker19 15y ago
It cuts both ways. Google smothered Urchin and pissed off customers, but they brought GA to a much wider audience and integrated with the rest of Google system. Similar for Writely and Grand Central and many more I would bet. It would be re
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by lurker19 15y ago
Is Jeltsin the same as Yeltsin? Was he in the same league as the other two? He seemed OK from the news I read, not much worse than, say, Reagan, in terms of leadership and mental stability.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Thing is, share dilution is not much different from giving an employee or vendor a huge pile of money in exchange for labor that turns out not to generate much revenue. It is bad for business (and will be reflected in a share value drop), b
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by lurker19 15y ago
The proper technique is ridiculously subtle. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1630 That support article is a spiritual ancestor of the Antennagate defense press event.
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by lurker19 15y ago
But the blingy solution breaks anyway, and is also ugly, beyond being dangerous. Parent's point was that if we assume Apple is optimizing for showroom appearance, better to put the bling over the function bits and let the going break after
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by lurker19 15y ago
There are still many approaches to teaching mathematics, of varying and debating quality, so many of these concerns still apply. Math teaching is not a commodity we can simply stockpile using contributions from whoever tosses a bit in the k
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by lurker19 15y ago
This is freaking brilliant. Instead of carpet bombing prospective users with whitepaper sales bullshit (hello, Pentaho!) put out a good freemium or open source product with a straightforward pricing model, and lace the software or web site
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by lurker19 15y ago
It is a 15-minute video. That leaves approximately 99.995% of a viewer's life free to dig a little deeper into the subject matter. The quality contest is not Khan vs a Ph.D program in history, it is Khan vs Insane Clown Posse. Khan wins.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Then you can make your own better video and YouTube or Khan itself will host if for free and show that what you were afraid of is not actually possible and the social networking analogy does not hold up under cursory analysis.
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by lurker19 15y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse
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by lurker19 15y ago
That is what Amazon did last year, on a rolling basis as leases expired.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Is Seattle different? Amazon 2011? Does Microsoft's 20-year-long campus expansion count?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Salespeople are marginal costs, not fixed costs, and that is why they do not scale. (Unless those salespeople are converting prospects into long-term renewal sales) Engineering and design is a fixed cost.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Perhaps you should set out to prove or disprove that conjecture, instead of writing an uninteresting post that is just senseless symbol manipulation linked to the base-26 representation of English.
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by lurker19 15y ago
OK for PC users. What if you have a Mac and therefore a tiny hard drive that is full because you use iApps that refuse to read from external media?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Amazon hasn't taken on notable investment or debt in a long time, and vendors and employees still get paid every month. Amazon maybe be making some small fraction of what they claim, but it is certainly a positive fraction, which is the mos
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by lurker19 15y ago
Adapting a Stroustrup quote: There are two types of CRM/ERP software: the ones everyone complains about and the ones nobody uses. By all means, please build a competitor that does not suck. Thousands of small/medium businesses will make you
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by lurker19 15y ago
Sites can feed new content to Googlebot before publishing to a broader audience. This is commonly done in Google News... you will sometimes click on a link to an article that claims to be not yet published. It is annoying usually, but helpf
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by lurker19 15y ago
I dunno. Redditblue.com sounds like something that could finally make Reddit a really profitable enterprise.
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by lurker19 15y ago
I'd think you were in Seattle and were very picky about your coffee. I don't get the bit about "drive", though. :-)
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by lurker19 15y ago
If they are investing in growth, good. If they are just buying top-line revenue, no.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Particularly, the CEO pay reports. Why should I donate money to pay someone richer than me? Lead by example, charity CEO.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Remember BountyQuest? Everything old is new again. Has it been 10 years already? http://oreilly.com/news/patent_archive.html
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by lurker19 15y ago
Incorrect. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_...
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by lurker19 15y ago
Headlines that quote false statement should use quotation marks for clarity. It is impossible to "admit" something that in one's self interest and is not a proven fact. A defendant in court can admit guilt, but can only claim innocence.
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by lurker19 15y ago
After a roaring success bringing mail order catalogs online, and then bringing books themselves online, the followup is... ValuPak online? USA needs more interesting problems to solve.
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by lurker19 15y ago
How does C's version compare to the approach in C++ of using composition (instead of inheritance) to combine several objects into one? I guess C allows finer-grained "monkey patching" of one function pointer?
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by lurker19 15y ago
That is not entirely fair. Median income is the position of low-skilled labor, not work that requires a college degree and a position of trust and responsibility for children. Income is closer a power law distribution, not a normal distribu

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