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by rahoulb 13y ago
It was the sales cycle that killed my company off (many years ago). When three or four deals, with a 6 month lead time turned into an 18 month lead time, as things got pushed into next year, it meant we simply ran out of cash. And with such
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by rahoulb 13y ago
The key thing that worries me about it is even if no-one reads all those emails that are stored, what if they are mined for data and used to make predictions? Last.fm can guess the type of music I like about 25% of the time, Google can gues
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by rahoulb 13y ago
This is somewhere where android fragmentation is truly an issue. iOS didn't have granular switchable permissions a couple of versions ago but as the OS moved forward so did the apps.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
In the UK, business documents must be retained for six years.
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Interesting, given that the original article makes the point about Steve Jobs' advice. Apple is a company that famously suggests and pushes people into how it thinks things should be done. From what you are saying, Larry seems to have
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Maybe, but once trust starts to erode, the effects of it may not be seen for a few years. And once lost it's extremely difficult to get back. I certainly get the feeling that Google's halo is slipping.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I assume it means "zero with a line through it" which was used on older computers to distinguish zeroes from the letter O on low res screens.
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It's the same trade-off though - how much security can I provide versus how much security can they provide? The insurance is just an incentive to keep my stuff safe (and in the case of savings guarantees, an incentive to keep consumer-
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Why do you store your money with an external organisation that you don't control? Because they offer better security than I can build in to my own home (at least not without significant effort) and they offer guarantees should my money
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Why I've all but given up on Windows(zdnet.com)
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I don't get why people wouldn't see it. At the beginning it has a speech about the failure of democracy, how violence is the only legitimate force in the universe. Government by an elite, with restricted rights for civilians (wan
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Not relevant if your startup never deals with any other companies; a huge number of which work entirely in MS Office.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
My daughter has an email address. If I send anything to it I need to tell her (in person, text, twitter, facebook messenger, skype - pretty much anything but email) to check it. She has switched off notifications on her phone because all sh
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by rahoulb 13y ago
The Spatial Finder, showing which files and folders are open. sighs wistfully
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by rahoulb 13y ago
It sort of worked for me - after reading it I gave up smoking day-to-day - just like that. It was amazing. But I still smoked when I went to the pub and had a drink - I guess it's a deeper link between them. To stop that I went for h
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Task lists and measuring customer satisfaction?
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Aye, I've played with it. But, lovely as it is, it doesn't have the momentum that BeOS (briefly) had, before MS's OEM contracts crushed it.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
There are two sides to this. Firstly, there are rightly the concerns about interoperability. And from "our" (meaning people who use computers all day long) point of view, losing files is like losing a leg. But secondly, there are
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by rahoulb 13y ago
That's precisely the reason that the Financial Times cancelled their iOS app and went with a pure HTML edition a while back - they wanted the subscriber information and Apple refused to give it to them.
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I was always told to fileout my work and then filein into a blank image to remove any cruft that accumulates during development. That's pretty much the same?
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And yet people are talking about using VM images and the likes of Docker for deployment nowadays.
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The point is not to do it blind. "I don't know why this is here and I've tried to find out but hit a dead end so I'm getting rid anyway" is better than "I don't know why this is here so I'm just getti
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I've done the same (with autofill switched off in my password manager). Makes a real difference. I should delete the app from my phone too. Or at least switch off all notifications and move it into a folder far away from the home scr
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by rahoulb 13y ago
That's exactly what Microsoft was counting on with their UI for Windows Mobile (even down to a Start menu) and why they make such a big deal about Office being available across all their platforms. I'm sure that when the time come
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Genuine question: what advantage does Node give you over EventMachine?
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I think that's the key. I can't imagine much being better at Request/Response MVC-style CRUD apps than Rails (can't speak for Django). But the question how much demand will there be for that style of app in the future?
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Heh... almost as smooth as my 2-year old dual-core iPhone 4S, or the single-core WP7 HTC Mozart I had before that?
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I actually find 37s' Campfire works for both async and synchronous communication. It's obviously a chat-room for immediate talking, but the highlighting and ease of scrollback (without having to have irssi or similar running const
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Well this is why I'm not surprised that WP is growing in share. For my friends it seems to be if they want to spend money on a "quality" phone they go for apple, if they want a cheap phone then WP. The only people I know with
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I'd say half of my "non-technical" friends have old crappy androids (and generally dislike them) and the rest have iPhones or windows phones (and like them). Apart from one hold-out on a Nokia feature phone. I've not ask

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