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by notauser 18y ago
It's a good example of why some of us don't trust cloud computing/storing your data online with any random company. If the very well funded Apple can screw up this badly, just think what most places could manage.
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by notauser 18y ago
It makes me laugh too. Here in the UK has cost more than $100 to fill up a Ford Focus for at least a year. God known how much a full fill up of a Hummer would cost.
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by notauser 18y ago
Trac (at least the way most projects have it set up) is pretty new user unfriendly. This is ok if your project is targetted at users who are developers, but if you want fresh blood and the less (initially) motivated to get drawn in a priori
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by notauser 18y ago
This is what credit card chargebacks are for. The punishment for failing to honour cancellations (which DO NOT have to be via the approved route, provided there is evidence that the company should have seen it - the reply from the CSR drone
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by notauser 18y ago
No - this guy actually put together some code.
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by notauser 18y ago
It's a real disaster that Adobe Reader sucks so much. PDF is a wonderful document format - other readers open it in seconds and it works on everything (including Linux, OS X and most phones). But thanks to Adobe if you ever send a PDF file
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by notauser 18y ago
One of the guys in the Techcruch thread pulled together a functional clone in a day on his own. So the other three days and eight people must have been for the drawings and the publicity :)
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by notauser 18y ago
Not yet, I was going to buy a 900 until I found out about the difference in battery life.
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by notauser 18y ago
You will lose one type of negotiating leverage and gain another. Once you have been there a while your true value will be obvious (especially when you produce, in a _nice way_, comprehensive documentation at your first performance review).
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by notauser 18y ago
I think that one of the major factors in the iMac selling well is that there is no cheaper box-only OS X offering* to canabalise it's sales. *Excluding the mini, which is too far below to really be a direct iMac competitor.
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by notauser 18y ago
That depends on your class of equity! Your terms might be different to the founders - in the UK you can read the memorandum and articles to understand the current equity structure and dilution rules for a company. (Changing the mem and arts
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by notauser 18y ago
If the salary is industry competative then the only thing you need the stock for is to compensate you for risk of losing your job. Given that any losses you have are likley to be limited to a few months salary (unless you work in a field wi
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by notauser 18y ago
The old 900: 2 hours battery life. The new 901: 5 hours battery life. With the same disk (SSD), battery and screen. The only significant component change is the processor. If the disk peaks at 2W/4W (SSD/SP) and is mostly idle then you woul
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by notauser 18y ago
A good enough rate of return is 10% - most companies operate on 10-15% IRR. What you need to rememeber is that this 10-15% is AFTER adjustment, ie write offs for risk, overheads etc. In government contracting (fairly low risk), with a targe
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by notauser 18y ago
This is a bit different to normal applications though. Normal apps: Developer writes application. Code is installed via user engagement with a package management or installation system. Comet apps: Developer writes application. Code is pull
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by notauser 18y ago
'Operating systems that aren't Windows' are already at 10% if you count Linux. (Which you probably should - the benefit is the end of monoculture, not the promotion of a new replacement monopoly.)
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by notauser 18y ago
The finance guys are buying operational experience by funding you. Their goal is a good rate of return. They have (or should have) no interest in running your business, because they already have a business of their own to manage.
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by notauser 18y ago
In eight generations time, about 200 years, your offspring will have 256 ancestors to learn about. Do you really think they will bother if you have no other achievements other than having kids? How much do you know about your ancestors from
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by notauser 18y ago
Because it's fun? Not everything you do has to be an achievement - in fact you would look pretty odd saying 'my greatest achievement was having a girlfriend'. There isn't really anything wrong with just having fun, but the human race would
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by notauser 18y ago
This one was good too - bomb squad called in over cardboard boxes painted like Mario ? blocks. http://www.bladediary.com/questionblocks/index.html
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by notauser 18y ago
Insisting that only parents can have opinions on the subject of kids is a bit odd. I would bet that you have an opinion on nuclear power, despite never having built a reactor in your back yard. Society pays quite a lot towards the cost of c
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by notauser 18y ago
Because if you tried it today you would be arrested for terrorism.
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by notauser 18y ago
It always amuses me when people point to their kids as their proudest achievement. It puts me in mind of this: function generation(input) { output = input + 0; generation(output); } Lots of activity, no progress. Your greatest achieveme
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by notauser 18y ago
For personal stuff I use Tektonic who are pretty good. The price is very competative, tech support exists, and they accomodate special requests with no particular hassle (e.g. please make sure my two VPSs are in different data centers). Las
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by notauser 18y ago
The hardest part about (A) is that if you aren't competent, you are not competent to judge if you are competent.
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Ask HN: What do you want in a software PM?
7 points by notauser 18y ago|9 comments
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by notauser 18y ago
Can you ask them to watch an episode from the first season, then straight away an episode from the most recent season? I hope that the shock from seeing how much the quality has gone down might prompt them to do something about it. The new
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by notauser 18y ago
The new unsigned SSL warnings are a massive overreaction - so much so that I think Mozilla must have a deal with some certificate root companies to match their Google deal. For a great deal of what goes on over the internet unsigned SSL is
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by notauser 18y ago
Money and power are (in most cases) synonyms though. Converting money into power isn't hard - if you had $100m you could direct a lot of people to your own ends. The fact that most people expend this power on making more money is a correlat
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by notauser 18y ago
Especially since a lot of the contractors seem to be turning around and seeking advice from usenet! One old professor of mine told us that he had seen one of his own final essay questions appear on a real time programming group, posted from

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