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by nwatson 17y ago
Don't know about others, but I need some noise and distraction to work. A library feels like a tomb, no life at all.
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by nwatson 17y ago
technically, helped build products http://www.sensage.com and http://www.zenprise.com ... two very good software development experiences with some great development (and business) teams.
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by nwatson 17y ago
Perhaps less well known are open-source reporting companies like Actuate (sponsors/main developers of the top-level Eclipse BIRT project), Pentaho, JasperSoft. Not sure about revenue models for others, but Actuate sells support for their o
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Dvorak on Microsoft: Party Over, MSFT distracted by shiny objects(marketwatch.com)
45 points by nwatson 17y ago|25 comments
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by nwatson 17y ago
Europe increasingly requires their ISPs to track "IP detail records" (IPDRs) summarizing network activities into/out-of/within their networks using products such as SenSage ( http://www.sensage.com/solutions/cdr.php ). A number of telcos/I
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by nwatson 17y ago
The author cites many studies and gives compelling evidence. That 10,000 years ago an average human stood between a 15% and 60% chance of dying a victim of murder or war, and that in modern Europe only ~1 in 10,000 people will face a simila
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by nwatson 17y ago
In my ideal world a software (or any other) team would agree that any decision, spec, design, procedure, etc., would all live in a wiki (e.g. download and install http://twiki.org ). It's structured but very flexible. The team would use I
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by nwatson 17y ago
Google has the O3D API, browser-based access to 3D graphics, presumably hardware-accelerated for machines that have it. http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/ . 3D in the browser will be viable in a few years.
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by nwatson 17y ago
How does this compare technically with Microsoft's Photosynth project? http://photosynth.net/ ... looks like they're already doing what Google proposes to do.
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by nwatson 17y ago
(Seems these notes did make it into posting ...) ============================== A recent HN posting referenced article http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=89508453919 where Facebook engineers discuss Hive and Map-Reduce. The descrip
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Map-Reduce implemented in year 2001 at SenSage (Addamark)(sensage.com)
1 points by nwatson 17y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 17y ago
Merging Wiki with e-mail, IM, and threaded discussions with fine-grained security already is powerful. I hate discussing an issue with 5 other people over a three-day e-mail/IM/phone thread and settling 7 or 8 decisions ... but nobody upda