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by sunchild 15y ago
"I was sitting in Jimmy Iovine's office; Jimmy personally called the GC of Universal" That's worth the price of admission alone. Sounds like fun!
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by sunchild 15y ago
I use Bootstrap in this way. I just pulled the components I wanted, and appreciate how self-contained it is.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It seems like the beginning of the end was the EDS integration. My guess is that the "Global IT Services" group is behind this "new" strategy (which is the same strategy IBM Global Services implemented more than a decade ago to great succ
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by sunchild 15y ago
I don't really understand Dropbox's strategy. As a service, Dropbox does one thing pretty well – syncing data so that users can get a more or less seamless online/offline experience using data that's shared on multiple devices. However, sh
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by sunchild 15y ago
On the flipside, you're more likely to be developing for a lot of different versions of that OS, and – over time – you'll be developing for the lowest common denominator among them.
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by sunchild 15y ago
That's 85% market share of the legacy platform.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Apple has also been shipping iPads for the past 17 months.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I might be confusing this video with the one on This Is My Next. I watched them both today.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It's hard to relate to the excitement when the demo was chock-full of usability failure. How many times did the presenters struggle to register their gestures? Someone will no doubt say "it's a developer release – we'll fix all that". My
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm the last one to hold his breath for fear of vaporware, but I have high hopes for a new Sproutcore UI kit. I want robust client-side UI elements that bind easily to a REST API. I feel like we're right on the cusp of that revolution.
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by sunchild 15y ago
From my grumpy old man perspective, Foursquare and Farmville are the top-most "noise generators" in the social stream.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've learned from experience to run away from these kinds of UI kits. I always end up hacking around their shortcomings (e.g., tokenized inputs with autocomplete, etc.) This one does seem to have a nice, compact, intelligible stylesheet, t
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by sunchild 15y ago
Exactly. If you want a laugh, try going back to magazines in 1998 and see who they were putting their money on back then.
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by sunchild 15y ago
On the other hand, Dropbox has been stagnating despite its success. For example: how long will it take for Dropbox to allow read-only sharing on Dropbox volumes? Not to mention their facepalm-worthy security blunders this year.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I don't understand your swipe at Ruby. What's so terrible about: foo = object.method(:method_name) foo.call
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by sunchild 15y ago
They were mocking Apple openly ten years ago. One of many factors leading to Apple's success is the hubris of their competition.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Where do you get that info from? Isn't it a little early to extrapolate long-term uptime stats for a new service like O365? Maybe you were referring to the cloud infrastructure only, and not the app layer?
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Does Microsoft issue automatic downtime credits?
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by sunchild 15y ago
...on a blog by journalists covering the new media business.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Can you buy any of those today? No. Will they last more than six months on the market? Nobody knows. How many times have PC makers threatened some Apple Killer product that went no where. Too many to count.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It doesn't take much to send a fickle user base like Reddit's running for the next Internet hangout. There are plenty of examples from the recent past. Remember Digg?
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by sunchild 15y ago
Again, it's not that I can't grok it – it's that I shouldn't have to. I get no sense of pride from hacking a Windows upgrade into a clean installer. Empty victory, etc. Also, my benchmark is the Lion upgrade. That's how it's supposed t
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by sunchild 15y ago
Good to know. Looks like a pain, though.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Thanks for pointing me to that. I wasn't able to determine the real-world impact of the limited BIOS support. Anyway, I use Windows for exactly one thing: accessing (horrible) web apps that require IE. My original point was that the insta
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by sunchild 15y ago
>> Besides, you don't even need to install Vista to get an upgrade copy of Windows 7 working. A Google search would have told you that. Win 7 won't accept my product code because it is an upgrade code. I googled it.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I don't get it. If my boot drive is wiped clean, what are the hardware barriers that explain the differences that you point to? EDIT: Not sure why I'm downvoted for asking this. Can anyone advise as to what hardware issues would make a 2
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by sunchild 15y ago
Why? Are other Intel-based laptops better at installing Windows? FYI – I've had Vista/Win7 installed on this machine before. It's a question of how horrible the process is. Typing in product codes, inserting DVDs, activation codes, war
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by sunchild 15y ago
Having spent about 1 hour installing a clean copy of Snow Leopard and then Lion, followed by a seven hour SNAFU trying to get Vista > Win 7 upgrade to work on a Boot Camp partition, the misery of Windows is fresh in my mind. In the Appl
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by sunchild 15y ago
At this point, the "science" of nutrition is so muddled and tainted by commercial interests as to be essentially without any credibility whatsoever. Pop science articles like the the OP NYT.com link only add to the mess – using absurd meta
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by sunchild 15y ago
You're right: I re-read the original memo and I agree with you – he's addressing insolvency, not revenue. Leading up to an IPO, the key issue is solvency. I'm going to take my own advice and ignore the Groupon sideshow until it goes away.

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