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by pinaceae 15y ago
particularly in leadership, why would you single that one out? squad leaders, platoon leaders, up to officers - they all lead people. all they rely on is their people. if you are out there in afghanistan all that can save your life is your
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by pinaceae 15y ago
yes. the army of today has progressed a lot. lead by objective, after action reviews - most companies do not implement these techniques as they are too disruptive. even better: maneuvers. exactly which companies 'train' things? a roll out?
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by pinaceae 15y ago
while these horrible boss threads are always enjoyable (hey, scott adams' career is built on it), how about switching perspective for a moment. the majority of programmers are employees. what makes a horrible employee? - disregard of commun
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by pinaceae 15y ago
gives the phrase "those who can't, teach" a whole new meaning...
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by pinaceae 15y ago
I think iOS is (again) the game changer here. The iPad is making serious inroads as a gaming platform, and not just for casual games. The recent release of Max Payne for iPad shows how fast this platform is evolving. Valve is not present on
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by pinaceae 15y ago
exactly, that's why all the macbook air competitors are half the price of...wait a sec...
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by pinaceae 15y ago
even more impressive that I could watch it from Austria - by now so much content is region-restricted that this was a pleasant surprise.
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by pinaceae 15y ago
caveat being that sharepoint is a huge pile of steaming shit. just talk to the poor souls who actually have to configure/customize it.
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by pinaceae 15y ago
or maybe, just maybe this points to the fact that the people who appreciate good design and stuff that just works use Apple products and see the latest changes by Google as unfavorable. i do. new layout? search clutter? play in my google br
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by pinaceae 15y ago
oh come on, enough with that pc bullcrap already. can man and woman be friends? sure, if at least one side sees the other as sexually unattractive, undesirable. that could be plain ugliness, sexual orientation or status/wealth. but man and
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by pinaceae 15y ago
i don't get the anger or argument. xslt is a templating language, nothing more, nothing less. it is awesome as a cross platform solution for transforming xml into some other stuff. for anything else - why on earth would you use it?! i reall
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by pinaceae 15y ago
Shadowrun is such a great universe, that mixture of classic fantasy elements like elfs, orcs, magic with cyberpunk ala neuromancer really hit a nerve. wonder why there never was a movie or tv series in such a setting, seems way cooler than
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by pinaceae 15y ago
THIS. As someone from Europe that clunky check-based system of the US is simply dumbfounding. What exactly is the purpose of it? Is there no e-banking available? Over here people rarely even use banks , as in physical entities, anymore.
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by pinaceae 15y ago
ah, but who do you show a concept to? an investor? cool, this makes sense, as you invest in an idea most often, not a fully realized product. but goolge just released that video into the public space, into the realm of consumers. which is a
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by pinaceae 15y ago
interesting that a lot of people don't get why this is bad news. it is all about expectations, this is still about a product that google wants to make money of. this video now tickles the fancy of nerds all around. read the comments and you
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by pinaceae 15y ago
play, circles - google is pushing those things onto me, hereby cluttering up the rest of their products. yahoo, for me, always was the definition of clutter, whereas google had focused clarity. that clarity is gone, under the helm of larry
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by pinaceae 15y ago
fuck the new google. seriously. i am not an android user. google, you know that. why, oh why, do i suddenly have a google play link in my now even more so useless google menu/top bar?! why are my picasa albums suddenly less relevant than ci
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by pinaceae 15y ago
because you were a foreigner, a guest, an attraction. i went to iceland and only found nice, cheerful people. i am from austria, so did blend in a bit. if you're nordic and visiting uganda your appearance alone makes you something special a
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by pinaceae 15y ago
time.is does it better in their "here & there" function. choose a few cities, shows a tabular comparison of all timeslots. this is what you need to determine the best time slot for a telco with multiple international participants.
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by pinaceae 15y ago
the users are not the target group for enterprise software. expenses is a great example, it needs to accomodate so many different regulations, compliance issues, legacy compatibility needs within an implementation, that it can't be more tha
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by pinaceae 15y ago
Software sucking is a direct outcome of future user's involvement in the design process. as in: if you're writing software for a client and the client drives the specs directly, the outcome will suck balls. evidence: all enterprise software
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by pinaceae 15y ago
the broader is issue is that learning has been replaced by hiring. the assumption now is that you already need to bring all the required skills to the job, to be productive from day one. the concept of apprenticeship has been completely era
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by pinaceae 15y ago
this is why android will not succeed in the corporate space. might not be their target anyhow, but who knows. IT departments in big companies love stable, homogenous platforms. buy an iphone anywhere on this world, it is exactly the same. s
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by pinaceae 15y ago
now this is interesting - it removes google ads. how long until google blocks this? it defeats the purpose of their free gmail service after all...
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by pinaceae 15y ago
well, what do you want to be? a narrow-minded, ignorant human or civilized man? seriously. the world, life, is much more than work, work, work. understanding broader contexts, understanding where we are going and why is important. even as a
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by pinaceae 15y ago
I'd write a novel, fiction. If I fail midway, I'd write a non-fiction book about a historic event. Writing soothes me.
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by pinaceae 15y ago
i understand your ethical argument, but i still fail to see the practical usefulness. easy beats free. piracy/copyright infringement means free. you want to get people pay for something - you can't do this by optimizing the payment method.
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by pinaceae 15y ago
so you want iCloud for Android?
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by pinaceae 15y ago
As an European, I seem to have a different stance on the morality of customers. So your first user buys the link. Say to a mp3 or a pdf. Now has the link in plain text. What's stopping the user from posting that very link all over twitter,
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by pinaceae 15y ago
lessons learned: 1., There is no such thing as a loss leader. If it doesn't make money, cut it. Apple TV is considered a hobby - but it is profitable. Yes, there is a grey area, but at Apple it is very small. 2., Your company runs on money,

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