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by sunchild 15y ago
Indeed, as classic a pattern as you can find in contracts. Most of the time, when a big company dangles a big contract, the suppliers fall in line and agree to objective success criteria, a reasonable acceptance procedure, and reasonable o
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by sunchild 15y ago
No, I only negotiate the deal. Follow up is generally limited to answering questions, sending notice letters, change orders, etc. You don't hear anything about them (except maybe a press release that no one reads) because they're always hi
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by sunchild 15y ago
OpenBravo's demo video is a lesson in what not to do. When I open a software demo video, I want over-the-shoulder or screencast-style video of the software in action. I do not want the Comic Book Guy narrating Wikipedia's definition of 'ag
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by sunchild 15y ago
Failure is a very broad spectrum. Failed to deliver as promised is more accurate. Sometimes with spectacular results. There's very little I can do to help, since ERP vendors are very risk averse. I can assure you that by the time you own
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by sunchild 15y ago
What I got from this is that this guy does not have any passion for typography at all. It's a job title for him.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It might be anecdotal, but it isn't just a talking point. I told you – I've done these deals for a living for more than 10 years. It's about the difference between what was promised by the sales team, and what was delivered, and who's lef
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by sunchild 15y ago
For what? Glueing crummy old legacy systems together? Managing a workforce? GL? Performance metrics? Part of the problem is monolithic, kitchen-sink software. Most people are basically using SAP/Peoplesoft as a development framework an
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by sunchild 15y ago
I think you might be somewhat lonely in this good will campaign for SAP. In my decade-long career as a lawyer for customers who buy enterprise IT, the only company that I consider more obnoxious across the table than SAP is Oracle. If you
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by sunchild 15y ago
A huge part of the ERP business model is on-premises install/config. By leaving implementation to others, traditional ERP vendors avoid the risk of actually getting it to work properly. They're accustomed to selling a box of tools and poi
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by sunchild 15y ago
Me too. No issues after many years of namecheap.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You are correct. I was forgetting the distinction between GPL3 and AGPL3.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Under GPL3, if you make KendoUI components available via hosted solution, I think you'd have to release your app's entire source. I think GPL3/commercial dual licensing is a very unattractive licensing approach, but that's just my view. CO
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by sunchild 15y ago
Last time this was posted, I griped that it still failed to fill gaps that jQueryUI and other kits also lack. It's looking vastly improved since then, and looks like something people might want to pay for. Nice work!
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by sunchild 15y ago
Well, the U.S. has its own history of people who shoot at census takers, and so on. From a legal perspective, the EU and member state implementing laws are: (1) more protective of the individual over the corporation than US laws, and (2) f
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by sunchild 15y ago
Whatever trouble Facebook has with the FTC, it will face roughly 300 million times that trouble in Europe, where the rules are much more strict, and the data protection authorities have much greater power to act on behalf of the general pub
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by sunchild 15y ago
What you said is incorrect. They do need to follow their privacy policies. It is a legal requirement. Your comment confuses basic contract legal principles with privacy rules. This isn't a contract matter; it's a matter of public policy.
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by sunchild 15y ago
In the US, given that they're not in a regulated industry (except to the extent they qualify as a site aimed at children), they really only need to comply with their own stated privacy policies. The question is: will they?
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by sunchild 15y ago
Wrong. The FTC said very clearly that it thinks Facebook lured consumers in under false pretenses. That's punishable by criminal and civil penalties, in theory. The FTC usually settles these kind of cases, AFAIK. Sometimes there's money
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by sunchild 15y ago
The FTC seems to think that Facebook lured consumers in by misrepresenting how it uses consumer personal information. That would be a violation of the FTC Act.
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by sunchild 15y ago
There is a lot of nonsense legal interpretation in this thread. Did anyone actually read the settlement? You commit fraud if you make any intentional deception in order to benefit yourself, or to harm others. If you intentionally make pub
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by sunchild 15y ago
Just the usual offenders, esp. MS Word and Adobe apps. They love to generate false "windows" like that goddamn "smart copy" doo-dad and palettes, etc. Witch allows you to work around all of it, if you're patient.
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by sunchild 15y ago
The problem, in part, is that VCs want naive, unfettered young people. The VC model has sort of evolved into a kind of talent betting pool. If you're sophisticated enough to have a proven track record, you're probably also more sophisticat
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by sunchild 15y ago
I definitely don't dispute that – it probably depends on where you hang out online. I saw a lot of rah-rah on the "mainstream" media (CNN, etc.) and aggregators like techmeme.com, etc.
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by sunchild 15y ago
What's wrong with saying "I told you so"? I would say there were more people blindly championing Groupon in the lead-up to the IPO than contrarians. Let the contrarians enjoy their moment, and let the champions eat their crow. As long as
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by sunchild 15y ago
I think the question boils down to this: Who will be the first to offer merchants a more favorable cut than 50/50? Or who will offer to let the merchants hold the cash? It's an inevitable race to zero for the coupon providers.
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by sunchild 15y ago
If there's one thing I've learned about "the smartest guys on the planet", it's not to listen to what they say to the public. If you're on the front desk, you might get the real story behind the news.
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by sunchild 15y ago
When I took contracts law, they taught me via the case system. It wasn't until I was actually practicing law that I learned what a good contract actually looks like. I'm going 180 on you: law school is a barrier to entry, and a screening p
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by sunchild 15y ago
Also to be clear, I wasn't really laying into you. It's a top-down problem.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You need to clean up the homepage copy. Multiple errors inbound: "Pleasepoach.me is built to give people who don't like their job out an option to transition quicker and easier. It's also build with the belief that companies don't want peo
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I don't buy this line of argument at all. Some people are just inclined to stay between a rock and a hard place. They like it there. Why does your organization need IE6? I'm guessing because you've got old apps that were pushing the brow

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