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by ratsbane 16y ago
Gratuitous and unnecessary use of Silverlight.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
You may be right about the Community Promise. There are dissenting views, though ( http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono ) I'm sure Google's lawyers considered the Java choice safe too. If the Oracle lawsuit is resolved in Google's fa
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by ratsbane 16y ago
It's really more about how long it's been since you learned new stuff. Lots of programmers in their 40s learned most of their skills writing Windows apps and, at least the ones I know, are very resistant to change. If you just looked at o
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by ratsbane 16y ago
As far as I know, despite vague and generous public announcements, there is no legally-binding obligation by Microsoft to not do with .Net what Oracle has done with Java in suing for patent infringement. ECMA standards do not require any re
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by ratsbane 16y ago
The CouchDB group is hosting CouchCamp September 8-10 in Petaluma, CA: http://www.couch.io/couchcamp It's quite cheap ($600, including room and meals) and should be a great chance to learn more about CouchDB from the original sources. I'v
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Browsing through the SFNightOwls Twitter followers... ( http://twitter.com/sfnightowls ) there are also London, Stockholm, Krakow, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, and Boston: http://www.meetup.com/BOS-Nightowls/
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Also San Francisco Night Owls: http://sfnightowls.com/ and LA Night Owls: http://lanightowls.com/ though these don't seem to have been active since May 26(?) If there were one near me I'd try it.
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Schmidt Sting Pain Index: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I do like the idea. They've taken something ordinary and thought beyond the conventional interpretation. Looking at those images, though, I did have the strange anthropomorphic concern that their arms would get tired. Couldn't they hold
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by ratsbane 16y ago
YouTube only represents a tiny portion (<1%) of Google's revenue. GMail, Google Docs, Google Earth, etc. only represent a tiny portion of Google's revenue. While your larger point may be correct (though I hope not) they've always show
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I remember reading somewhere that pilot accident rates are high for very low-time pilots, then begin to decrease around 100 hours and then increase again between 500 and 1000 hours, perhaps as pilots become more confident than their skills
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by ratsbane 16y ago
It is often recognized as bad design - though I don't think that's always fair. I thought of this because I was just reading some Java code that passed around a context object with all kinds of random things stuffed into it. It was, in ef
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Dynamic scope. Not really very strange but very unusual; not supported by many languages. AFAIK Perl and Lisp(ish) languages are the only ones. For example: sub foo {my $x='fish'; local $y='chips'; &bar;} sub bar {print "\$x
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I'd like to hear you talk more about what's happened to Yahoo stores. I worked with a Yahoo store (side consulting) for about five years now. Your Yahoo essay seems consistent with what I've noted. The Viaweb/Yahoo Store thing was very g
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Long-term best interest and short-term best interest aren't always the same. If they go back on "don't be evil" they're going to lose a lot of the good will they've built up and that will hurt them a lot in the long term.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Wow. Just think about how much burnout he suffered before finally succeeding.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Good observation. The decision to hire comes down to a very simple "will hiring this person cause us to make more money than the person costs us." He's blaming the cost side of the equation for all of the decision to not to hire. He coul
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Sounds a little like the line in Watson and Crick's first paper about DNA. They said "It has not escaped our notice..." to introduce the idea that the subject of the paper might be the secret to life, the universe, and everything.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
No, the Individual Plan with "Even More Plus (No Annual Contract)" is $79.99.: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/Cell-Phone-Plans.aspx?cat... The "Family Talk + Text + Web" with unlimited minutes and no contract is $139.99: http://www.t
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I have an N1 and T-Mobile also and totally agree. My T-Mobile no-contract unlimited everything (minutes + text + internet, including tethering) is $79, not $59. It's listed on my bill as "FPEvenMorePlusUnlTTW." T-Mobile coverage does hav
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Surfing the 4th Dimension: Slit-scan video(vimeo.com)
1 points by ratsbane 16y ago|0 comments
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by ratsbane 16y ago
A software system intended to store and manage a large portion of the data created and used by the members of an organization. Most of the comments I see here so far are funny, pejorative, and spot-on accurate but the original post asked fo
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by ratsbane 16y ago
At several bigcorps where I've worked (>1000 in IT, billions of dollars, lots of regulation) this has been a very big deal and cause of never-ending friction. 1) If the admins don't do at least minimal code reviews then it's meaningless
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Is there any other programming language that inspires the same sense of humor as Perl? (And please... no fair responding with "is there any other programming language that NEEDS a sense of humor like Perl inspires.") Self-deprecating humor
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Upvoted, seconded, and added to my CV. I was just thinking, in reading that article, that one of the biggest obstacles to selling the HART stack to management types are the names. Can you really, with a straight face, imagine standing bef
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by ratsbane 16y ago
All the radar and sonar in the world won't do the aircraft carrier any good if Captain Balmer ignores them and steers based on where he thinks the island ought to be instead of where it actually is.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
If the aircraft carrier suddenly notices a large island right in front of it then it might should consider a sharp turn anyway, even if a few F-14s get dinged up a bit.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Does anyone know if Bing Maps has started sending out teams to collect street view images? AFAIK they only have parts of Seattle and San Francisco and that is several years old. I have not installed Silverlight so perhaps it's already the
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Good point with #4. The last time I was involved in a Microsoft project the SQL Server licensing costs were more than $30k per box. $30k was not a big deal on that project but it would have worked a lot better if the data had been spread
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by ratsbane 16y ago
At the first Startup School at Harvard someone asked Chris Sacca (who worked for Google at the time) what languages/platforms would help to get you bought by Google. His answer was that pretty much anything was okay... EXCEPT for .Net.

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