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by notauser 18y ago
"More importantly, netbooks need better operating systems - in particular, a very fast, mobile operating system that can download and install trusted applications on the fly, over the air." Dell netbooks _already_ ship with Ubuntu installed
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by notauser 18y ago
I agree that Apple probably sees the iPhone as their netbook competitor - because the netbook market is not one market (duh) but several. 'My' slice of the market is the working-on-a-plane set, who value a 7 hour battery life, a good keyboa
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by notauser 18y ago
On my machine (latest stable firefox shipped with Ubuntu, 2 year old MBP) it 'only' loads the CPU by about 5%, which isn't great but considering that: - The machine is still fully usable, and you buy a fast CPU in case you need to run deman
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by notauser 18y ago
Because in a larger team (anywhere that is hiring, as opposed to two people in a garage) comparative advantage starts to kick in. Even if there are only two of us, and I am slight better at A while you are slightly better at B, the most eff
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by notauser 18y ago
If you are writing python in vim then the following settings (in your .vimrc) might help you not hate the whitespace rules, plus having ctrl-space auto-complete is nice: autocmd FileType python set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete inoremap
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by notauser 18y ago
I'm writing something in Django at the moment, and it's really nice. However this bullet from the presentation scares me slightly: "No need to know any SQL". This seems very wrong to me. The Django data model is just a light abstraction ove
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by notauser 18y ago
That's how Truphone (iPhone VOIP in/out app) works - it's a free download, and when you have used up the initial credit you have to top up with a credit card.
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by notauser 18y ago
I fall into the 5%. If it's something I really want to try... I'll look harder for a temp e-mail domain that you haven't blocked yet. New ones spring up every day. Why make it harder for me, as you are just pissing me off? If I like it I'll
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by notauser 18y ago
Under an hour still works for 'who is in London for dinner tonight'.
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by notauser 18y ago
Copyright isn't for names, and trademarks usually only apply in one industry.
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by notauser 18y ago
As president he could have a totally isolated mail system with a staffer to transfer messages to it after verifying identity.
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by notauser 18y ago
Funnily enough investment is one of the things they teach you about when doing an MBA, so when you finish it you can work out if it was worth it :)
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by notauser 18y ago
There could be very short book in this! The ECD process methodology. Chapter 1: Core Principles. - Just build it. Chapter 2: Defect management. - Just fix it. Etc :)
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by notauser 18y ago
There aren't enough companies that know how and when to give up on projects. The two biggest mistakes are that people don't base their decision on relevant cash flows* and/or egos get involved. No one likes 'throwing away' money (/time) or
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by notauser 18y ago
Which port is better? A Qt/Gtk/Swing port or no port at all? Every time I use Inkscape on Windows I'm happy about the Gtk toolkit, because there was no chance at all of the software being ported to Win32 otherwise.
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by notauser 18y ago
If I wrote my out of office message in Lisp I'm not sure I would be able to blame someone else for any resulting screw ups.
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by notauser 18y ago
Similar to the T-Mobile G1, which currently has a cost somewhere between £180 and £720* despite the handset being 'free'. Nevertheless there are times when finance can be a great deal. Anyone who took out a cellphone contract in Zimbabwe ju
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by notauser 18y ago
The best application I saw in a recent round of hiring was in four parts: - Short cover letter in e-mail. - Longer cover letter signed and scanned as PDF. - 1 page concise CV. - 4 page detailed employment history. HR handed out the right bi
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by notauser 18y ago
They also have an awful browser. The bold I tried couldn't even load Slashdot - it just died. Even the S60 browser can manage to load it, albeit badly.
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by notauser 18y ago
Unless the American carriers have managed to screw up one more technology (which is entirely possible) SMS is asynchronous. When you turn the device on it receives all the messages queued in the network. If your device is off when your netw
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by notauser 18y ago
Prices got more expensive like-for-like in the UK (presumably to hedge against recent exchange rate movements).
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by notauser 18y ago
Assuming: - It takes two years for a start up to go from $20m to $200m - The two year startup failure rate is greater than 1 in 8. - The performance risks of independance are about equal to the performance risks of being owned (capital scar
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by notauser 18y ago
If your $600bn figure is correct... US incomplete health care is $600bn/305m people = $2,000 per person. UK national health service is $120bn/60m people = $2,000 per person. The US needs a really hard look at why it is getting such a bad de
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by notauser 18y ago
Indeed. One of the features he hypes most " If Apple can build a feature like this into the iPhone itself, it will be a smash hit feature, and, if it were something that only worked with Mac OS X, yet another impetus for iPhone/iPod users t
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by notauser 18y ago
I have a 250gb hard disk, and no spare minutes per day.
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by notauser 18y ago
I think it must be card dependent. My ATI card worked with dual screens and Conpiz, and didn't need an X restart.
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by notauser 18y ago
I just fired up the beta on my MacBook Pro (which hasn't had an upgrade since 7.10) and... wow. No hardware issues, everything installed itself, even my keys light up again. Multiple monitor support has gone from being a 3 hour configuratio
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by notauser 18y ago
In the UK you are insured up to £35k (soon £50k) per person per FSA registation. As multiple trading names operate under one registration (E.g. Lloyds & Scottish Widows) you have to be careful.
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by notauser 18y ago
Living and working in the US is a blast, and it is something that is very tough to do without company backing (even for educated Brits). Opportunities like this are pretty rare. The contacts you make will last a lifetime, so if you ever wan
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by notauser 18y ago
Really? What about the WoW patch downloader, which saves Blizzard a fortune and requires essentially no incremental management effort? (A modified version of BitTorrent.) Latency is high, and individual input is low, but for simple applicat

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