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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Love it. Nice job Joe. Hey, listen, reading is not for everyone. You need to be smart, like Jeff Atwood. Can you believe that programmers look up to this guy? What does that say about programmers?
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
I like it. Much better than my suggestion.
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Interesting.
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
With Excel, I'm not sure. But if customers who are getting increasingly greater exposure to UNIX, through various channels, learn about UNIX alternatives to Active Directory and Exchange that work as well or better, but which cost less, it
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Imagine you have somethng to sell, I have the ability to place ads in people's homes via their electronic devices and I give you the choice of placing an ad for your product in one of two places. You can place the ad into everyone's photo a
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Finally a sensible analysis. Some people are just in a kind of Facebook daze. "Hey, they had income for 3 years in a row. One billion last year. This is a sure winner." They refuse to look at what Facebook actually does. People will proba
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
The thing is, people consider scripting to be "coding". Many people who write scripts in Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. call themselves coders. But if they were tasked with writing in assembly or C they could not do it. And how do we know Atwood
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Alsup: "How could you even make that argument?" Oracle: "Because Oracle is paying me to make losing arguments? Because I can't code, and I don't need to? I get paid to file lawsuits. Judge Alsup, I'm just a caveman lawyer..."
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Read the NYTimes blog post. "Revenue eXtraction Gateway" (RG) They tried calling the RG helpdesk, and the RG people hung up. Classic. Encrypting all internet traffic would put a swift end to this problem.
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Developers, developers, developers. OK, Steve, whatever you say. It's only a matter of time before they lose their business customers. Then they are really in trouble.
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
Google found a business model that works (keyword advertising) before they went public. Facebook still does not have a business model that works. Facebook is surviving on investment, not income. Mark Zuckerberg is billionaire because of Mic
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
It's sad that you would even think this way. Privacy is available, right now, for free. The cost, if there is one, is getting all your friends to stop using a single website started run by a sociopath who does not believe in the idea of pr
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by throwaway63-90 14y ago
This is a reasonably good blog post, especially the part about Google. However the title is inaccurate. It should be "Facebook's lack of a business model"