spongefrob

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by spongefrob 17y ago
Hosting and rackspace matter a WHOLE lot if computers are central to your business. Would a bank get started without a vault? Can you build a house without a foundation? The point is as cheap as possible... not as cheap as cheap... If you
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by spongefrob 17y ago
Quite. As I said, Apple, in terms of quality, is in the top three. I would rate Samsung in the top one...
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by spongefrob 17y ago
Also, if you're not permanently ensconced in your present office space, having space in a data center means a move without moving your servers (except, of course, for the network portion) It is as close to painless move as you can get...
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by spongefrob 17y ago
I've been at jobs with small monitors and crappy chairs and I've been at jobs with small monitors and good chairs. I've also been at jobs with good large monitors and crappy chairs. If you offered me the choice of an Aeron Chair and a 30"
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by spongefrob 17y ago
If you are going to have servers, backups and other items that are both mission critical and environmentally sensitive then you need space that is air conditioned, expandable, properly sized for power and lockable. Unless you are both a li
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by spongefrob 18y ago
<blockquote>If we say we're looking for x, we'll get applications proposing x, certainly. But then it actually becomes harder to judge them: is this group proposing x because they were already thinking about it, or because they know
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by spongefrob 19y ago
" A comment like The author is a self-important dilettante. is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag." Well, such a comment is only " a pretension version " if it is not true... and in fact becomes trenchant if, in fa
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by spongefrob 19y ago
You weren't meant to program computers either... ... nor, I daresay, were any of us meant for great wealth; which, as Graham may yet demonstrate, is just a much a corruptor of character and insight as poverty (if not more so...) Just as la