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by pinaceae 14y ago
just to add a counterpoint to this classic everything sucks on the internet thread: no issues at all with a 13" 2012 MBAir. best machine I've ever owned, had Lenovos in the past. Last Thinkpad bluescreened sometimes when connecting a USB he
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by pinaceae 14y ago
a kick in the ass by your master for being a smartass usually.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
You want to know what they should teach at school? The basics. Programming is the application of basic skills, it in itself is a secondary skill. Which basic skills do I need for programming? Reading, Writing (as in Grammar,etc), Math,
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by pinaceae 14y ago
interesting as this again was done by a deeply disturbed individual, a paranoid schizophrenic. society since then has not gotten better at identifying threats coming from sick people. down to sandy hook, the completely insane individual is
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by pinaceae 14y ago
true, don't use it for priority myself though, only to group unread items out of the rest of the inbox. which is indeed awesome.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
the big question is though, can Google also be awesome in Services going forward? i am loyal user of chrome, gmail, search, youtube, maps, picasa - in this order. none of which is younger than what, 5 years? innovation in those items? gmail
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by pinaceae 14y ago
survivor bias. you just don't see all the other people "sticking to it" and never making it. you're discounting luck, chance, etc. one bad decision or just bad luck moment and you're toast. and for female singers - if your genes made you bu
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by pinaceae 14y ago
we are targeting life sciences.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
we are successful in SMB in our space with a SaaS product line. - it is a highly regulated industry - we can prove compliance and prove ongoing compliance efforts - we can prove better uptime and security then in-house, on premise solutio
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by pinaceae 14y ago
this tweet by Kontra sums it up: WebOS has been targeted to mini-phones, larger smartphones, tablets, printers & now TVs. Won't stop until you see it on a LG refrigerator. https://twitter.com/counternotions/status/306014344876023808
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by pinaceae 14y ago
brilliant essay. the spidey sense is something i have referenced recently, it is so hard to explain. a good pm simply looks at a design and knows if it will work or if it somethings wrong and a more thorough drill down is necessary. i do
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by pinaceae 14y ago
not just Japan, the German-speaking countries in EU are the same. A signature on a fax is legally binding, a sig on a scanned and emailed doc is not. Tax authorities 'prefer' paper trails as well, going fully electronic is not allowed - and
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Excel is an incredible product, especially if you look at its UI. - Performance is astounding. Sorting thousands of rows by color? No problem. - The formula Editor. I edit the cell which holds the formula and it highlights, in color, the
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by pinaceae 14y ago
I am holding out for Office on iOS, which current rumors point to March 2013. The current Office on OSX is quite nice, Excel performs really well and in Powerpoint there is this nice 3d layer editor. Office on Tablets needs to be re-thought
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by pinaceae 14y ago
one could argue that the UK and Ireland are Europe, but I fully agree - the Commonwealth countries are second best. don't underestimate timezones though. UK has a way better fit than Australia when it comes to covering US and Europe.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
you're absolutely right. but, scaling up is difficult. start in the wrong country and you have a big barrier. you need to start in the US, no way around it. single biggest homogenic market (language, culture, legal). your 3 sales people can
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Barrier of entry is a different in enterprise than in consumer (aka social) space. In enterprise, the customer is the customer and pays for something. Contracts, SLAs are in play. Who is the customer for Facebook? In enterprise, the purch
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by pinaceae 14y ago
well, to inject a little bit of pragmatism here: most big enterprise companies (banking, finance, pharma, manufacturing, etc) have, regardless of their HQ, an office in the US. so, to be "protected", they would need to cut those office off
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by pinaceae 14y ago
i don't get what MS is trying to achieve. the market isn't there anymore. so why prop up a business with outside money? dell for consumers is done. low margin commodities can be done without that kind of overhead. a race to the bottom is pr
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by pinaceae 14y ago
interesting definition of gaming and its platforms. as if console-makers are the only players in town. let's see here: http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screen-Shot... xbox360, ps3, wii ... all child's play. a niche industr
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by pinaceae 14y ago
this won't be seen anymore, euro-timezone for the win, but anyway: 1., google did produce google search. i don't think there is a more important product in the last 20 years when it comes to the knowledge of the world. 2., apple's iphone is
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by pinaceae 14y ago
you should tell that to Microsoft then, because they themselves position RT for consumers. source: we are working with MS on building a Win8 app. i am quoting MS themselves here. RT does not connect to AD. it is not enterprise ready in any
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by pinaceae 14y ago
awesome, the if-by-whiskey tactic in play. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey good job on not getting caught immediately. :)
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by pinaceae 14y ago
i wonder how this relates to the numbers behind the peak oil predictions? but, i agree completely that simply burning off excess is amazingly shortsighted and stupid. they could use the natural gas to power their own operations, right there
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by pinaceae 14y ago
huh? still need a monitor and peripherals, this is just a USB stick. what makes people's brains shut off whenever such PR is posted?
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by pinaceae 14y ago
i seriously don't get it. myself and around me, people (early 30ies now) all use FB primarily to "stay in touch" with people that are not really close anymore. old colleagues from school, uni, whatever. co-workers? not so much, for that you
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by pinaceae 14y ago
well, you need to kill yourself first to get this kind of support over here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484 the top commentator in this topic, edw519, back then wasn't that reflective. hindsight is 20/20.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
by responding to a 'my god i am so special, no one is like me' post with a simple webcomic that succinctly points out that this is laughably wrong I am myself exhibiting the same behavior? interesting piece of logic.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
oh aren't you special. http://xkcd.com/610/
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Why is it unthinkable that not everything new is also better? 3D is pretty much the same thing. In animation you have the same issue with the uncanny valley - people accept a certain realism, but once you cross a realism threshold, you sudd

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