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by teyc 15y ago
Bezos has the same canny business sense as Jobs. He made a lot of long incremental bets. This guy now runs a book store, a compute cloud and a tablet company.
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by teyc 15y ago
The video should talk about the results rather than the process. Imagine if I wanted to set up a deal site, would you tell me how to set it up as an introductory video, or do the feature tour? For example, you have a tab where people can cu
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by teyc 15y ago
By the results.
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by teyc 15y ago
yes, the person can sue you. But if you can demonstrate that you have already been practising it before their patent lodgement date, then this is known as "prior art". However, it will still cost you money to defend yourself in court.
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by teyc 15y ago
Having lived there for a couple of years, I'd say the problem in Singapore is a having a muzzled press. However, this is balanced by Singapore having relatively clean politicians.
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by teyc 15y ago
I wouldn't worry about spamming as long as the team admin couldn't modify the outgoing email message. Furthermore, you can add in rate limiting, or limit the number of unactivated users a team admin can have.
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by teyc 15y ago
Incidentally, I went over to Myer's in Australia to have a look at the Mac line up. Someone in their wisdom has decided that every iMac, MBP and Air needs to play Justin Bieber's music video at the loudest volume. Looped. This is how Apple
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by teyc 15y ago
The reason the button is there is for ease of discoverability. Actually I watched the MS tablet demo with the same horror that I don't think my dad will be able to operate this.
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by teyc 15y ago
even resellers have nice standard apple desks to present Apple products. The iPads have range of demo applications pre-installed to showcase what it is capable of. Meanwhile, Honeycomb tablets just feel like a chunk of metal.
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by teyc 15y ago
I went to the shops to have a look at the various non Apple slates. All of them were badly presented. The applications were dull, the email client wouldn't start because it needed an account, the marketplace was blocked because you have to
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by teyc 15y ago
I'm still very interested in these fraud cases. The main reason being that one person has effectively social engineered/hacked their way past bank internal controls. Imagine if UBS had inadvertently hired a crew of Anonymous, they would be
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by teyc 15y ago
It is good looking. The easing should accelerate towards the end, in order to feel more like rollerblinds coiling up. When you select the individual items around 00:40 to 00:43 you should also work in a subtle animation so that it is just a
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by teyc 15y ago
A fraud, electronic or not, is a hack on a system. It gets interesting when the monetary costs are so high and quantifiable. Perhaps someone who knows how investment banks work could tell us how they do threat modelling against fraud. Wha
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by teyc 15y ago
Microsoft has been losing its Windows franchise since two key events: 1. Netscape introducing navigator 2. Microsoft stopping development post IE6 This has actually given the web browsers a modicum of stability and people were able to devel
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by teyc 15y ago
See this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2994328
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by teyc 15y ago
What they say is true, but there will be no further investment in Silverlight. All technologies eventually hit this stage where there is no further investment slated. e.g. DOS. If your app is built on this particular platform, consider that
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by teyc 15y ago
The comparison isn't valid. I can compile "hello.c" and run it on multiple platforms. But will it work with existing production code? There are Silverlight specific libraries, for example.
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by teyc 15y ago
MS years ago was getting worried Adobe was inching into the cross platform space (remember Netscape Navigator?), putting a final nail into its Windows franchise. Therefore it launched its own plugin initially called WPFe, which runs a tiny
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by teyc 15y ago
Why is the one year yield even higher? I thought two year is higher risk? Opportunity for arbitrage here? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GGGB1YR:IND
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by teyc 15y ago
This is not necessarily true though. You might be better off writing code than figuring out how to use somebody else's half written library. Productivity should strictly be number of hours between problem and solution.
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by teyc 15y ago
Windows 8 desktop to be 'just another app,' says Microsoft exec http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219680/Windows_8_des...
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by teyc 15y ago
incidentally this has been done in Australia under the auspices of NEIS apparently over the past 20 years (link to monthly success story here: http://www.nna.asn.au/success-stories ) On top of it, there is a layer of mentoring as well:
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by teyc 15y ago
meanwhile Windows8 wouldn't even load the desktop until it is required. The Windows as we know it is turning into legacy OS just to run old apps.
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by teyc 15y ago
Hi Phil, I've been following your blog about US taxes, but didn't know you post at HN. Small world. I also have my doubts about this program. Employers are humans, and humans never associate "quality" with "discount". Right now, the people
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by teyc 15y ago
There are two ways to read this. 1. Google is getting overconfident that it can out-execute HTML+JS developers and get traction. 2. Google is still in a startup mode, dabbling with new ideas.
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by teyc 15y ago
Kudos to KickStarter and the two projects for getting a mention on Whitehouse.gov
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by teyc 15y ago
Reduce the attack surface area. The less features the more secure. Since you are already RESTful, isolate the nice-to-have functionality from the main application.
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by teyc 15y ago
Cute and clever. Browsing the web at 140 characters at a time.
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by teyc 15y ago
I wonder if structured web programming is to conventional web programming as structured programming is to GOTO-style programming. If this is the case, it is more or less like Hacker News, or Seaside using continuations in web programming. I
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by teyc 15y ago
Yahoo was always a technology company trying to be a media company, when being a media company is no longer respectable. At a time when there is so much opportunity, why isn't Yahoo even wading into mobile or social? A CEO's job isn't only

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