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by russell 15y ago
I agree. I used to be a read-the-manual-first type. Now I just want an overview, good help, a FAQ, an a lively user community.
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by russell 15y ago
Several decades ago I was a principal in a startup that produced a word processor. For the first release we included a brief manual that covered the features, less than 100 pages. Users liked it. For the second release we included a thor
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by russell 15y ago
The strategy that I have used when out of the job market for a while is to consider the first few interviews as throwaways that I use to learn what he market conditions, interview fads and the like are. If I get blown away, so what; it's a
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by russell 15y ago
I think the auction process is flawed. It fosters an oligarchy of corporations with deep pockets and consumers end up with absurdly expensive services like texting. Sure the government gets revenues, but it just gives the taxing authority
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by russell 15y ago
I can attest; it's easy to do, and quite fruitful if you are playing around with language design. The major pitfall is the libraries. Unless you find a set that magically fits your semantics, you will have to roll your own. Think garbage
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by russell 15y ago
Corporate labs are funny things. Where would the valley be without Xerox PARC or America without Bell Labs? But from the corporate view they are fairly inefficient. They are a very academic environment, working at a leisurely pace, not at a
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by russell 15y ago
Corporate labs are funny things. Where would the valley be without Xerox PARC or America without Bell Labs? But from the corporate view they are fairly inefficient. They are a very academic environment, working at a leisurely pace, not a
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by russell 15y ago
Cut way back on refined carbs, esp. french fries and sugar. Cut back on red meat. I'm doing all that. I'm not losing weight, but my diabetes needs substantially less insulin. Peanut butter is helpful or at least neutral. Yea. Fruits and
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by russell 15y ago
Good news. I personally use Software Doctor. It blocks things several time a day, most of which seem to be tracking sites. However I haven't been bitten by any malware such as fake anti-malware in more than a year. OTOH I would like to
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by russell 15y ago
I have a patent for collaborative filtering. When the company I worked for decided to apply for a patent on the work I had done, I told them it wasn't patentable because of prior art. They told me to go along or be left off the applicatio
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by russell 15y ago
The article concludes that SF beats NYC, which surprised me. SF has an even bigger advantage if you locate on the Peninsula south of SF: no local payroll tax, cheaper office space. Northern San Mateo County has Bart service, so the commut
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by russell 15y ago
Jefferson: "other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful de
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by russell 15y ago
Her strategy is quite reasonable for someone with a rare or hard to diagnose disease which most doctors have never seen or even know about. There is a decent chance that there is someone out there who has the disease and give useful diseas
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by russell 15y ago
Who among Oracle, Google, and VMWare is going to pick up the mantle of Java leadership (no mention of IBM)? I get the feeling that none has any real interest in leadership, so Java will drift along with microfeatures being added, but with
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Out-Of-State Online Retailers Flee California’s New Tax Law(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
1 points by russell 15y ago|0 comments
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Amazon files petition for referendum on sales-tax collection rule (newser.com)
1 points by russell 15y ago|0 comments
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by russell 15y ago
Kind of the inverse of rule 43. If you search for porn long enough on the internet, you will end up with software.
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by russell 15y ago
I stand corrected. Wow. Best to avoid slang in a language you dont understand very well.
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by russell 15y ago
I bet you never spent 5 minutes watching a 404 page. Well I have now. I am probably going to get even by passing it on, like a chain letter. You know, bad karma if you don watch it and pass it on.
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by russell 15y ago
This is interesting on multiple levels. There was the Python Software Foundation's decision to be reactive rather than proactive. Then why give it such a name? Esp. since the author was a woman. Who didnt speak English, and used a name s
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by russell 15y ago
This is not rocket science.* I did a Pascal to C translator back in the 80s. It was something like a two week project back then, with another month or so when we decided to make it a commercial product. Most of the effort was not the tra
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by russell 15y ago
Perhaps some of the confusion comes from stories at the time that shuttle crews started carrying 486 (IIRC) laptops to "augment" the guidance computers. I dont think they were used in flight control, more likely for other routine tasks.
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by russell 15y ago
Which made for hellishly long compile times. Core-rope memory was used because of the weight and volume savings. On Apollo every pound counted. If you look at the Wikipedia article you find a link to HAL/S which used to program the shuttl
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by russell 15y ago
Funny thing about that. Bob Taylor ran ARPA and then Xerox PARC. May be that he was his own golden age.
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by russell 15y ago
I am astounded! It appears that the issue of corporate personhood was not established by the Supremes but rather by a court REPORTER. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._S
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The 44 Chromosome Man(thetech.org)
134 points by russell 15y ago|32 comments
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by russell 15y ago
The bully in question is Arrington (TechCrunch). She says avoid him because, if you cross him, he will get even. She calls him unethical.
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by russell 15y ago
Under the law Amazon has a CA presence because it has wholly owned subsidiaries like a9.com and Alexia in CA. I know that the corporate veil is not impervious, but can CA pierce it in this instance, or can only the Feds do it? Has it been
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by russell 15y ago
Why government regulation? To prevent price gouging, favoritism to particular customers, killing off rivals. Prior to the Carterphone Decision you could not attach any third party equipment to the phone lines, including phones and modems.
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by russell 15y ago
Are you trying to say that unregulated monopolies like US Steel, Standard Oil, the railroads, AT&T, American Tobacco didnt have the best interests of the public in mind? After all Carnegie gave us lots of libraries and without Rockefel

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