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by pinaceae 14y ago
so how do you keep trying new environments and after validating them return to your preferred one? asking cause 28 years is an eternity in regards of IT - or at least that's what we hear day in, day out.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
but isn't it questionable that you're (seemingly) writing the same stuff, from scratch, for 28 years now? shouldn't there be a work order processing standard solution for aerospace by now? like an engineer re-inventing the process to build
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by pinaceae 14y ago
1., This is Scoble. He hypes professionally, literally anything. Try following him on Twitter or G+ and say goodbye to your newsfeed. 2., Valid critique - wearing Google Glass is like wearing Bluetooth headset all the time. Which guys like
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by pinaceae 14y ago
fully agree. dogfooding makes especially a lot of sense if your company has more than one product. my team, which is working on a commercial app, just started using the rDMS built by our second team - and it's great as we act as beta tester
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by pinaceae 14y ago
but if you actually go to spain, it does not look like somalia. nasty secret - all those unemployed? work anyhow, "black" as we say in austria - unofficial, tax free. 50% youth unemployment? if all that were real, there would be open war. y
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by pinaceae 14y ago
holy crap, Orkut still exists. just logged in, saw that I got some badges inlcuding the 'early user' one for having an account that's older than 5 years. my oh my, what a waste. anyone outside of brazil using this? why is LP keeping this ar
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Now, could SFDC please do the same - not having a datacenter in EU is so bad. Performance is measurably worse. And Safe Harbor is nice, but having a DC in EU would make the discussions around it even easier.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Can this please be taken down? AP just confirmed the name of the second suspect and it's not one of those above. You're smearing innocents.
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Andy Grove's prediction on wireless personal communicators in every pocket, 1992(nytimes.com)
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by pinaceae 14y ago
No new products in sight, so numbers will be bad. This is all the investors getting out/shorting before the Q numbers roll in. The best thing? Has nothing to do with actual performance of the company right now. Gambling.
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AppGratis Was Charging Developers Lots Of Money To Game The App Store Charts(cultofmac.com)
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by pinaceae 14y ago
well, this is indeed a tricky subject. 1., we don't know if it is terrorism (well, is a loner like breivik a terrorist or "just" running amok?) 2., it might not be over yet. mumbai took 60hours. 3., lots of people nowadays have someone the
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by pinaceae 14y ago
vine vid of the explosion: https://vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ :(
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by pinaceae 14y ago
https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/323874395632328706/... this looks really bad.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
great "article" shilling for his own book. news is bad for you. everything is bad for you. every single thing will kill you in the long term. should write a book about that. is it important to know about current events in politics? what t
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Speaking as someone who is currently in the process of getting L1 visa status to switch to the US HQ of a startup, I applaud this move. I hear the arguments about well-skilled US workers who could do the same job. (Money is not a factor, I
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by pinaceae 14y ago
bold prediction on my part: nexus phones and tablets soon will only be able to access the official play store. and launcher replacements will get kicked out.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
good luck with the play store then: http://unleashthephones.com/2013/04/09/google-removed-60000-... "Google removed 60,000 Low-Quality Apps from Play Store in February" how does Google define low-quality again?
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by pinaceae 14y ago
i am sorry, but this is the largest density of drivel in a while posted here. android, linux, suing samsung, lack of innovation - it's like reading an Engadget comment. apple's business model around the app store is to protect users from CR
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by pinaceae 14y ago
observation: companies get big and successful if the founder is not driven by money, but by the desire to be right (and prove it to others). however, this does not mean that every companies main goal needs to be to get big. if you're driven
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by pinaceae 14y ago
see, and this is why nerd-news is so frustrating. one article, plus one cool term 'evergreening'. super, let's hit wikipedia and whoa i can spout internal sounding knowledge. problem being that here we have a larger pattern in india's behav
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by pinaceae 14y ago
right, India recognizes patents just like anywhere else. which is why all big pharma-cos get their patents denied, pure coincidence. especially as Indian generics are a big business spreading into Europe and US. just compare to China(!) of
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by pinaceae 14y ago
this is India playing with fire. and it is not about securing access to important drugs to Indian patients - it is about boosting the native Indian generic pharma industry. while India itself does not provide any significant output in R&#38
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by pinaceae 14y ago
? if you give something away that a loss because it actually costs money to produce/provide, like Google did with the Reader service - it doesn't fit the definition? what a crazy piece of logic. google destroyed the market for smaller RSS-
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by pinaceae 14y ago
just posted this in the other thread (the economist one): BCG Study, September 2011: Back to Mesopotamia? The Looming Threat of Debt Restructuring http://www.scribd.com/doc/130778664/BCG-Back-to-Mesopotamia The concepts and numbers are a
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Funny thing is - this is likely just a test run. BCG wrote the scenario up back in September 2011: Back to Mesopotamia? The Looming Threat of Debt Restructuring http://www.scribd.com/doc/130778664/BCG-Back-to-Mesopotamia It describes exac
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by pinaceae 14y ago
is Google X something real or the retirement community within Google?
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by pinaceae 14y ago
http://ben-evans.com/ thanks for clearing this up, hard to find the real org chart of google.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
another factor might be Google's focus on PhDs.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Observation by Benedict Evans: almost all key divisional leads at Google were born in India. Android, Engineering, Advertising, Youtube… Polar opposite to Apple, which is a white boys club.

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