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by notauser 19y ago
As a project manager I usually don't care about when something happens, what I do care about is predictability. Knowing (with fair warning) that something is going to be late lets me set the right expectations. With a month to go I can usua
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by notauser 19y ago
FTA: We simply do not believe our employees have an interest in coming in late, leaving early, and doing as little as possible for as much money as their union can wheedle out of us. This one (and delegating in general) is really, really ha
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by notauser 19y ago
You still need to get the same weight (or possibly more) of raw materials to people, offsetting the cost of transporting finished goods. There would be some savings, and these same forces are bringing some manufacturing work back onshore, b
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by notauser 19y ago
Prior to P2P, which made individual copyright violation easy and fun, no one ever sued over individual non-commercial copyright violation either. Tape trading mostly went untouched; P2P is being fought. Making stuff in your basement no prob
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by notauser 19y ago
Total replacement of manufacturing in the near and medium term is _very_ unlikely, because of the efficiency gains of high volume manufacturing. Things like casting require much less energy per unit of output when you can use a high thermal
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by notauser 19y ago
Alt-Tab always brings the selected to the front, which is annoying. Sometimes you just want to type into the bit of the window you can already see, without reordering the stack.
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by notauser 19y ago
Your first point is essentially meaningless. It makes no difference if it is a division, a child company, or part of the core business. Someone has to think about it, manage it and execute it. All this costs money which you could use elsewh
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by notauser 19y ago
Whoops, are a few basic errors here. He has two assumptions: - You can make a profit in the industry of your advertisers. This is a huge if, and is impacted by scale, expertise, management focus, time/maturity, branding and many other facto
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by notauser 19y ago
Say you are working on a pair of spreadsheets, both of which require the same supporting data from a variety of places. That is when window tabbing becomes really outstanding, since you can tab together the two spreadsheets. The advantage o
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by notauser 19y ago
Window tabbing started out in (I think) Fluxbox, where you can group a bunch of application windows together and switch between them with Firefox-like tabs. So you can have, say, all your windows related to one task grouped together. Suppor
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by notauser 19y ago
It does come down almost entirely to personal preference in the end. Because of window shading, tabbing together groups of windows, focus on mouse and vastly better terminal support (including Yakuake, a terminal that behaves like the doom
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by notauser 19y ago
If you are going to learn something, then why not learn something that will scale? If you can already make SVN dance, sing and bring you dinner then the economics might be different of course :) Personally I wanted to learn Git as a couple
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by notauser 19y ago
Just tell them it's like a highway, for information, oh yes... http://www.acme.com/jef/netgems/superhighway.html "...A highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A
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by notauser 19y ago
Serving adverts from your own servers, especially as plain text, is a good way to make sure they don't get blocked. At the least it will probably require positive user intervention. It is more work though as you won't be able to deal with a
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by notauser 19y ago
Except that there was (at that point) no option to learn Oracle because... it cost money. I was also using Postgres to do very similar things to Access. This is in a way part of my point about value. You wouldn't get very far proposing to u
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by notauser 19y ago
Time spent learning (and possible improving) an open source tool is time _invested_. I will be able to carry on getting a return probably forever. Time I spend learning commercial software, even if it is shorter, is more often wasted or tim
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by notauser 19y ago
I have a MBP running Linux, following a PowerBook running Linux, and would now recommend against Mac hardware. Apple have a nasty habit of changing out parts in the middle of a production run. That is fine if you are running OS X, but very
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by notauser 19y ago
Slashcode (Slashdot's engine) has been open source for so long it's written in perl :). There is also MediaWiki (Wikipedia).
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by notauser 19y ago
I'm not convinced yet that it is flawed. If you are distributing a medium complexity application then you get several choices including. - Web app. Online only but cross platform and low pain to 'install'. - Binary. Hard work to make multi
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by notauser 19y ago
It is one of the major disadvantages of a common law system (as opposed to statutory law, like the French legal system). Because things are so heavily influenced by precedent, until there has been a legal opinion it is very unclear what the
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by notauser 19y ago
On the plus side I rather like the fact that in the US the person with the cell phone is charged for the mobile part of the cost. E.g. the call cost is made up of core+wireless component. The caller pays for the core cost regardless of numb
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by notauser 19y ago
Making sure you tell them why your site is relevant to their audience would be a good start. For example mention the occasions in the past when they have covered similar products or services. That will also help them be certain that they ar
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by notauser 19y ago
I'm waiting for a 9" ASUS Eee instead. Dirt cheap so it won't matter when the TSA drops it (my PowerBook got a nice dent the corner), small enough to unfold in economy seats, and all the hardware works with Linux out of the box :)
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by notauser 19y ago
Rough summary of the argument: When you need to make a decision, use the data you have available to make the one most consistent with achieving your goal. Also, the plural of anecdote is not data. ...however... He misses the fact that it ca
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by notauser 19y ago
(Based on the OP's comment I assume that he is not starting his own company, but rather partnering with someone.) A rewrite is probably best, but it might hinder negotiation of terms. -Pro: Wrote the original, lessons learned and experience
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by notauser 19y ago
Logging IM isn't that difficult. If you use something like Pidgin then you get all of your logs neatly organized in one place regardless of protocol. Equally most corporate IM servers support logging. I expect that with a very small amount
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by notauser 19y ago
(In agreement, just to express it another way): Patents on implementations can and do effectively limit idea reuse. E.g. if the idea is "a web 2.0 flower box" making a second implementation is fine. If the idea is a "web 2.0 flower box usin
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by notauser 19y ago
Crypto is a special case problem. I have a pretty good level of education (formal and personal) but I would still avoid rolling my own solution for anything non-trivial. This is not so much because I expect to make a mistake, but more becau
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by notauser 19y ago
Sometimes the fastest education comes from working for a bad boss. I know I have picked up responsibility and skills quickly when work has been dumped on me by a superior who wanted his afternoons free to nap :)
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by notauser 19y ago
Current US hiring practices don't help. Job descriptions are well specified and exactly followed. That can be good, but it means you get what you ask for instead of something great but unknown. Over here in the UK I see a little more flexib

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