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by peterb 15y ago
It doesn't just happen to athletes. I saw the same thing happen in the high tech world during the dot-com bubble.
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by peterb 15y ago
ITerm2 combined with zsh and oh-my-zsh gives you super powers.
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by peterb 15y ago
Apple needs applications clients want/need to use. Facetime is a direct competitor to Skype. Twitter integration will help on their social front. This is a 3-way war.
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by peterb 15y ago
Google vs. Microsoft+Facebook vs. Apple+Twitter. This is fun.
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by peterb 15y ago
The reason it is not "done right" is because it is really hard to do right with the existing tools. Diabetes is a bitch. 5+ blood samples a day, 4+ insulin injections per day, every day. You can't ever miss one. Hungover? Too bad. Sick?
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by peterb 15y ago
Design is more than that. It is what users really want, but it is also how they feel when they use it, how it works, how it looks, etc. PMs are great at getting projects done. They herd cats. But very few have studied design, industrial des
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by peterb 15y ago
The difference is more nuanced than sales. At Apple designers rule, and because Steve understands design, they higher excellent designers. At Microsoft program manager's rule, and a PM is neither a technologist nor a designer. They represe
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by peterb 15y ago
To move your data you will need to sync to a mac and then manually move your data. Copying from a iOS device is problematic, but that is true today.
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by peterb 15y ago
"Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" by Kent Beck (240 pages). K&R weighs in at 274 pages.
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by peterb 15y ago
I agree 100%. K&R is the standard all authors should strive for. The length of these books is also our fault. Bigger books sell better. I hope there is a backlash brewing. K&R, Little Schemer, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, were
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by peterb 15y ago
Competition is a good thing, hopefully it will push Apple to lower prices and offer more selection. I've used both stores and I strongly prefer Apple's. I prefer the design and I find it easier to discover apps I would consider buying.
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by peterb 15y ago
I think this is interesting from a DJ or live mix-tape perspective. I have several friends who's taste in music I like. I would love it if they set aside an hour of "dj'ing" live. It is also interesting during a "chat" session.
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Good Overview of Oh My Zsh(intridea.com)
1 points by peterb 15y ago|0 comments
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Abstractions at Scale, Our Experiences at Twitter (presentation by marius)(infoq.com)
2 points by peterb 15y ago|0 comments
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Plex Media Server Now on Linux.(elan.plexapp.com)
5 points by peterb 15y ago|2 comments
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by peterb 15y ago
If he had started his graph at 1986, when MSFT first went public, it would be more of a fair comparison.
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by peterb 15y ago
This is a project to watch. Language agnostic web server with a 0MQ back-end to automagically take advantage of multi-threading/multi-core on modern hardware. Nice. Plus he is running unit tests against code samples in the manual. Brilliant
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by peterb 15y ago
I learned what truly great leadership was at Microsoft in the mid-90s. My father passed away unexpectedly and I was devastated. My director at the time (who is now a VP), called me at my mother's home, and I was a mess. He told me how diffi
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by peterb 15y ago
I guess Amateur porn just got a lot less anonymous.
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More detailed thoughts on Jenkins, Hudson, Eclipse, etc.(andrewbayer.blogspot.com)
1 points by peterb 15y ago|0 comments
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Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers(floatingsun.net)
108 points by peterb 15y ago|24 comments
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by peterb 15y ago
I agree with you, but unfortunately lots of people trust the WSJ. Many people consider it an unbiased source of business information and would think its a good place to leak information. Many people cannot think beyond the brand.
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by peterb 15y ago
At scale, all components cause "bigger" problems: http server, app server, database/datastore, file system, load balancer, etc. Saying the database is a bigger problem is only true in specific situations.
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by peterb 15y ago
The runtime invocation is particularly nice for live debugging. You navigate in and out of program scope (using cd) and view variables in scope (using ls). It is all very smalltalk-ish.
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by peterb 15y ago
Fascists were very good at making money and owning private property. I think you are confusing capitalism with democracy and the rule of law.
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by peterb 15y ago
A similar thing has happened to Hudson/Jenkins.
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by peterb 15y ago
Nice. Avid must be nervous.
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James Hamilton on Facebook's Datacenter Design(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
2 points by peterb 16y ago|0 comments
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by peterb 16y ago
The margins in air travel are also slim. Google did a very smart thing here. There business model can support the ITA purchase, not many other businesses could do this. The kicker is they also just hired a lot of talent.
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by peterb 16y ago
I'm pretty sure Mr. Norvig will have a thing or two to say about this :-)

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