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by martin 19y ago
Is it just me , or does a genuinely useful product directed toward an under-served market with lots of money to spend provide no evidence of a bubble whatsoever? Xobni saves me time and makes my work life easier almost every day. No matter
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by martin 19y ago
Tandy 1000TX. 80286 @ 8MHz, 640K "should be enough for anybody" RAM, 20MB hard drive, both 360K 5.25" and 720K 3.5" floppy drives, MS-DOS 3.2. 1987.
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by martin 19y ago
The enterprise market is: (a) mind-blowingly huge; (b) totally accustomed to paying serious money for software; (c) almost universally dependent on the Microsoft stack for supporting end users, and that means Outlook for optimal integrati
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by martin 19y ago
"What does your organization do?" This is a terrible question. No sane employer would hire somebody who can't be bothered to spend two minutes skimming the company's web site before the interview.
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by martin 19y ago
Pretty cool, guys. Any future plans for integration for Exchange? For example, if I click "Schedule time with (person)" and that person is inside my company, I might expect to have the Outlook "New Meeting Request" window open. The existing
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Virtualization: good idea for startups?
20 points by martin 19y ago|24 comments
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by martin 19y ago
Another consideration is the availability of software. There aren't that many things the average home user does on the computer -- word processing, web browsing, music, digital photography -- and all of those needs are served quite well o
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by martin 19y ago
It may be worth noting that other well-established companies like Your Man In India have been offering remote personal assistant services for some time. Timothy Ferriss' "The 4-Hour Work Week" has an entire chapter on how to outsource your
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by martin 19y ago
FYI, GrandCentral's concept isn't at all original. Other companies, like uReach.com, have had similar offerings (often called "Follow Me") for many years. But they're probably the first to offer it for free, and definitely the first to offe
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by martin 19y ago
It could be done this way, but frankly, Abiword's Word importer isn't very good. OpenOffice's, while not perfect, is much better. Unfortunately, unlike Abiword, OOo doesn't come with a nice command-line utility for doing those conversions.
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by martin 19y ago
Of course, but just taking PPT and porting it to the web feature for feature would be pretty silly. The reason I always thought Zenter was a shoo-in was that there were obvious great, monetizable things they could do with presentations that
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by martin 19y ago
"For instance Zenter, which is obviously much more suited for integration with an online office suite like Google's than as a standalone business" If there's no potential for a business based around presentations, somebody'd better get on t
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by martin 19y ago
Right. I've always wondered about Apple's reasoning for releasing Safari to begin with. If their goal was to decrease IE's market share, I'd think they would've put their browser R&D dollars into Firefox and helped to build a single, truly
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by martin 19y ago
"In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun
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by martin 19y ago
1GB might be enough RAM if you don't use Parallels, but with Parallels, forget it. Running Windows XP with less than 1GB RAM while trying to do anything intensive is torture, and running Visual Studio certain qualifies. So you'd probably ne
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by martin 19y ago
No. The problem isn't that juwo is a "new concept." In my opinion, your response to the previous post is demonstrative of your problem: He said: "I don't understand what your product is." You said: "juwo has X functionalities and Y use case
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by martin 19y ago
And perhaps remove the religious info from the "Company" page ( http://juwo.com/company.html) -- it strikes me as unprofessional and out of place. You're entitled to your beliefs, but I can't see what you have to gain by advertising them o
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by martin 19y ago
15" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. 2.33GHz / 2GB RAM. Nice machine, although perhaps not the most durable (I handle it fairly carefully, but it's already pretty scratched up after ~6 months). Thinking about upgrading to 3GB RAM (the max), as I run
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by martin 19y ago
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." -J. Sibelius (composer)
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by martin 19y ago
"Ruby for Rails" by David A. Black is a good choice if you're new to Ruby as well as Rails. It spends a lot of time on Ruby fundamentals and only brings in the Rails stuff after having explained the necessary bits of the language so that it
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Cisco enters web software market with WebEx acquisition(money.cnn.com)
4 points by martin 20y ago|0 comments
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by martin 20y ago
Nicely done, Harj.