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by stuki 19y ago
Tooling and integration are definitely major points. I guess any time you get the whole app stack from a single vendor; you're likely to get a more integrated product (os/400, db2, RPG and green screens; ...maybe not.....:)), while at the
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by stuki 19y ago
The point I was trying to make is that since processors now almost exclusively gain performance by adding cores rather than by speeding up each individual core, a per socket license lets the customer continue to keep the gains from process
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by stuki 19y ago
Since no one else seems to be doing so, let me put in a plug for MSSQL. If you're using the Microsoft stack, it ought to be the default choice. The integration with the rest of the environment (LINQ, db process LCR, Visual Studio integrati
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by stuki 19y ago
I'm becoming more and more convinced that one of the keys to getting good software is to have it developed by a software company, not by the technical department of a non software company, or even by a multifaceted 'management consulting'
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by stuki 19y ago
Dayum, no wonder some of these venture guys want to see a 'business guy' on board. I somehow doubt I could get a check out of this one if he asked about my Revenue Recognition Policy, and I answered: Uhh! Dude! Wanna check out some really
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by stuki 19y ago
That is definitely true, and probably a big differentiator between Silicon Valley and Wall Street. In Silicon Valley, there are those who are rich 'accidentally', simply as a side effect of doing something they really wanted to do. You see
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by stuki 19y ago
Seems to me, people are either of the kind that's happy as long as they have a cold beer and someone to share it with, or the kind that will always be sufficiently unhappy with what they have to bust their ass in pursuit of more. I suspec
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by stuki 19y ago
It could very well be that, for most people working 'inside the bubble', this one may, in retrospect, have ended very similarly to the last one. A lot of people essentially spent a bunch of years working for chump, in widely shared anticip
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by stuki 19y ago
For the perhaps less hardcore, and less Blub averse, F# is a caml implementation/extension? on .net. Less/no need to write homegrown, production quality c/c++ interfaces, since it integrates with the rest of .net. It will compile some/most
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by stuki 19y ago
That was my point exactly. I would think anyone setting up a wide ranging electronic payment system must need some sort of funding, banking deals etc. Being US based, getting that with a prominent link for Online Casinos etc. to sign up as
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by stuki 19y ago
After the whole NETeller debacle, I would be wary of association with anyone providing service to online betting shops. http://www.wnbc.com/news/13656319/detail.html?subid=10101421
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by stuki 19y ago
It would be interesting to see how MS's kernel differs between client OS's and their servers. They have huge user camps both on the desktop and in enterprises, both of which are major, strategically important profit centers. The GPL prett
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by stuki 19y ago
Theoretically, as search engines and advertisers both get more and more sophisticated, the organic and paid for links should converge. The most 'relevant' results for (search term, searcher history, other relevant data) indicating someone
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by stuki 19y ago
Sounds like a nobleman griping about commoners' ability to crash the party with cash. Venture financing would be a strange animal indeed if there was one true best way to structure every deal for every venture. If there is a big demand fo
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by stuki 19y ago
Wow! And here I was thinking $3 billion for Doubleclick was rich! Whatever the merits of the acquisition on its own, deals like this is bound to send a strong signal to entrepreneurs and investors that the 'new' MS sometimes will buy rather
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by stuki 19y ago
Heck no. The runtime is state of the art. So are many/most of the important libraries. Until another environment available ex Windows get close to that, java is solid. Generally speaking, languages with 'nice' features are a dime a dozen.
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by stuki 19y ago
'Worlds most X' programming language, for programming what? The ideal language in which to express something kind of depends on what you are trying to express, doesn't it? ( maybe unless you are some kind of meta lisper ( or perl6'er :) )
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by stuki 19y ago
pg, whatever you read into this rant, please don't let it make you go soft and pull your punches in essays, posts, talks or interviews. Most of your audience prefer your straight talk to mealy mouthed, watered down, PC blandspeak, even wh
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by stuki 19y ago
Hopefully, this time the dispute will go all the way to the supreme court, and we will get a ruling that makes the whole IP environment more predictable. At least for startups and smaller players without huge legal resources, as well as f
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by stuki 19y ago
When Your immigration lawyer tells You You have had your green card long enough for it to 'vest' ( 18 months ) :)
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by stuki 19y ago
....And for the good of the poor schlubs who ask for nothing more than decent quality video and well performing, featurefull apps delivered to their computer or phone, I for one hope whoever can deliver an infrastructure capable of doing
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by stuki 19y ago
In my admittedly old fashioned view, the killer app for phones is talk, and the competition is too entrenched :).
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by stuki 19y ago
Dudes, unless the silverlight demos was pure smoke and mirrors, and all involved blatant liars, this is pretty cool stuff. Especially coming from a bunch of dead guys :). This is something I have been hoping for from MS for a decade:
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by stuki 19y ago
Ram disks (like www.texmemsys.com) for the log device are a way of speeding up traditional rdbms'. They cost a bit, but You get to keep all the 'cool' database features while minimizing the sync log write bottleneck. Such architecture