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by m104 15y ago
NoSQL has never meant "unreliable datastore for unimportant, throwaway data". If it did, there would be no need for the MongoDB rant because that poor level of at-scale reliability would have been understood from the beginning. MongoDB wasn
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by m104 15y ago
Also, unlike astrophysicists, climate science has some very vocal critics trying to keep current policy decisions intact. The result of these decisions can ensure billions in corporate profits over the coming years. And so, as you say, we d
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by m104 15y ago
Let's hope that what you're describing will, in fact, unfold! A shareholder-induced leadership/direction change would be preferable to an embarrassing acquisition, especially given RIM's prestigious history. For my money, I'll take the oppo
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by m104 15y ago
Right, the Gervais Principle is based on what employees know, think and expect, whereas the Iron Law of Bureaucracy is based on how employees act. Just two different ways of looking at the same fundamental principle: entitlement, while desi
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by m104 15y ago
RIM is now a textbook case of Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy ( http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html ) in action. Group one, the goal seekers, have been or are being forced out or converted to members of group t
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by m104 15y ago
Right, well the whole point to a "cure" is to not have to make lifestyle adjustments. Anyone who's looking to be rid of their diabetes without having to adjust their lifestyle is going to be disappointed by this research and it's conclusion
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by m104 15y ago
Just as there's nothing that gives conspiracy theorists more reinforcement than a government crackdown.
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by m104 15y ago
Read the whole article, but wanted to stop after the second paragraph. Choice quotation: "The real innovation Groupon brought ... was their ability to profit off of closing the attribution loop in online-to-offline commerce. And this is a h
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by m104 16y ago
The explosion was likely a containment failure of the previously reported (radioactive) steam that had been building up in the containment building. More info: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_ear...
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by m104 16y ago
My point is that your conclusion was solely based on what you "know" and not what's really going on. You've illustrated my point very clearly. You "know" three things: a) SSDs "need" TRIM support and driver support or the storage performa
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by m104 16y ago
No, this isn't Apple's business and if you think this is how they operate then you haven't been paying attention. An SSD degradation issue would destroy the trust they (Apple) have built into their brand in a way that the supposed "scandal
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by m104 16y ago
You really think that Apple would let their SSD-buying customers twist in the wind? The people paying a premium, or buying an MacBook Air? You're saying that Apple hasn't had or won't have a way to make OS X love the SSD? Apple, the com
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by m104 16y ago
No, sorry, you missed the point of the author's post. Read the last part again: "My stress level of fighting machines to do basic things just got lower. And for that, I’ll gladly pay Apple the premium over buying base hardware and doing i
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by m104 16y ago
This is going to sound trollish, but I'll take a shot anyway: in three to five years, you'll be able to replace "MySpace" in this article with "Facebook" and it'll make perfect sense. Making money is the key. MySpace wasn't able to do it w
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by m104 16y ago
I highly recommend (as I do to all interested family, friends, and coworkers) that you wait, just a few months, until Apple has launched the new iPhone. The worst case is that the iPhone 4 will be half the price of what it is today and you
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by m104 16y ago
D.) All of the above. It seems somewhat fitting when we imagine that Goldman Sachs' customers are the wealthy with "more money than sense," but it's not so funny when the investors turn out to be Universities, charities, pension funds, and
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by m104 16y ago
It's a scam of the pump-and-dump variety, plain and simple. Look forward a few investors and investment banks making out like bandits and the rest getting screwed.
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by m104 16y ago
I just spent an hour yesterday explaining to a coworker that correlation != causation, data and statistics can easily deceive, and that most published study findings are likely incorrect. It was a little soul-crushing, therefore, to run ac
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by m104 16y ago
I'm glad you elaborated on your original comment, but you're showing the fallacy of a zero-sum game perspective between Microsoft and Sony. I'd consider both companies to have lost, and lost greatly, to Apple. The battle over media format
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by m104 16y ago
Well you'll get no disagreement with me that "try it and see" is a good thing and needs to be funded. What the author is saying, and I take as a very insightful point, is that you're unlikely to efficiently find a project's make-or-break
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by m104 16y ago
One of the author's points is that things like Twitter are not being developed and released by Google and Microsoft, despite the massive R&D spending. Furthermore, the only reason why we have Twitter at all is because those founding
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by m104 16y ago
I believe you just inadvertently proved the author's point. The cash cow products allow the insanity to continue, which wastes the potential of the employees and resources. The "cognitive decline" that the author mentions is the rationa
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by m104 16y ago
Exactly. I read an article like this as implying that, "serious money is only for executives and rich people, not for workers . Workers are commodities, tools." From the article: "How many lives could be saved through research, aid, or v
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by m104 16y ago
One way to look at this failure to innovate is to see plain old leadership ignorance: Microsoft, despite all of their efforts and hired brainpower, just hasn't been able to connect these dots. The GP sees this failure as something else: co
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by m104 16y ago
What's particularly vexing to me is that Microsoft seems to have given up on giving developers the best experience, as well. Why would anyone want to develop a web app targeted for IE 7.5, especially given that the market share of this new
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by m104 16y ago
No plan B? Hah! Let's face it already: there will be no IPv6 transition. Eight years ago, I was in the "more effort needed" school of thought about IPv6. I figured we'd slowly update our programs and toolkits and libraries and reference
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by m104 16y ago
Seriously, Joel, Facebook just needs to "optimize" a bit and they'll be more profitable? Really? With a valuation of $33 billion, Facebook needs to make a bit more than a dime or two extra from their users. They need a ton of real dollar
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by m104 16y ago
You're right: completely invisible. Wave would have been so cool if Google had plopped it right on top of Gmail, like Gchat and Buzz. Our Wave-enabled contacts would have gotten their messages as waves, seamlessly, and non-Wave contacts w
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by m104 16y ago
I don't think the article was disputing the original work contracts or implying that any part of the contracts were illegal or deceptive. Instead, the programmers mentioned in the article were upset because they became aware of just how va
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by m104 16y ago
This step-by-step script building demonstration (with highlighted "new" lines!) is just awesome. I've seen this approach in a couple of programming books, but hardly ever on programming blogs.

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