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by tobtoh 16y ago
You are being way to alarmist. I fail to see how this is bad. If Salesforces wants to access Google contact information, then it's only fair for Google to be able to access Salesforce contact info. And this access isn't some automated way f
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by tobtoh 16y ago
As a manager, I agree with this statement. However, I will add a small note to say that many employees often blame their managers for decisions which the manager has no control or influence. Which is okay, managers are the 'face' of the com
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by tobtoh 16y ago
But how exactly do you know for certain that a problem is transitory without the benefit of hindsight? Should Apple have never started with iphone development because Nokia/Ericson were rapidly innovating in the phone space? Iridium back in
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I think he is exactly criticising them for not following agile methods - it's the basis of his criticism for following the waterfall method. His criticizm for not changing their plans is pt 3 (which I agree with) And on your last point, usi
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Interesting article - but I can't help but feel it's written with a big dose of 20:20 hindsight. Obviously Iridium didn't succeed and if you were doing it again and knew what you know now, you would do things very differently (as the articl
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I think there is a big difference in an 'Ask HN' post and a 'Offer HN' post. In general terms, an 'Ask HN' post is the HN crowd helping an individual. Everyone can participate to help that individual. An 'Offer HN' post is one person helpin
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by tobtoh 16y ago
With the discussion on whether 'Offer HN' should be encouraged or not, it appears that within a couple of days, Offer HNs have 'jumped the shark'. Whilst a generous offer from the submitter, I fail to see how this thread 'gratifies one's in
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I think there is a big difference in an 'Ask HN' post and a 'Offer HN' post. In general terms, an 'Ask HN' post is the HN crowd helping an individual. Everyone can participate to help that individual. An 'Offer HN' post is one person helpin
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I actually had someone say something close to that in an interview for a sysadmin position. The guy claimed he had experience configuring Cisco routers. For this particular job configuring routers was not a primary task, but because I had a
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I'm a heavy FB users and always opt to create a separate login account rather than use FB Connect. My understanding of FB Connect is probably flawed, but I don't trust FB to use whatever linkage/info they get from the login with my best i
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by tobtoh 16y ago
In fact, here is a YouTube video of the lights in operation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFrEd8qSVCc
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by tobtoh 16y ago
In Melbourne, Australia, a similar concept was used to ease congestion entering freeways. We had a peak-hour problem where cars would flood the entry ramps, but struggle to merge with the existing freeway traffic - this caused people to bra
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Those stickers are derivative work - unsanctioned and thoroughly frowned upon derivative work.
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by tobtoh 16y ago
To split it even further, he only signed his strips as 'Watterson' and so a search for 'Bill Watterson' or 'Bill AND Watterson' should return zero results :P
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I also just noticed that Marcello's site is now unavailable. Marcello had downloaded the entire collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips from the gocomic site and made it available for download on his site. I've been surprised that it's
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Yup. I've actually been quite fascinated about the different ways to build my own C&H search engine and have implemented (but not publicly) it two ways - one of which was to do it the way you suggested. I think from a 'will the publishe
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Bill Watterson objected to derivative works - ie C&H baseball caps, cartoons, fridge magnets, bumper stickers, colouring in books etc. A search engine isn't a derivative work (at least in the way that Watterson dislikes). The objections
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Not really - the search engine is to search the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. The strips never make any mention of Bill Watterson, so the fact you got zero results is completely accurate.
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I run the Cool Calvin and Hobbes Collection - http://calvinandhobbes.me - and as one of the very early fan sites have seen many C&H fan sites come and go. For most of the past 15 years, the most popular C&H site was Martijn Reems
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I don't have a boat, but I find plane travel accomplishes the same thing for me. My parents live interstate, an hour plane trip away and I find when I go and visit them, that the hour plane trip is absolutely heavenly for the simple reason
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by tobtoh 16y ago
I believe so. For me, I'm always squashing stress balls (not because I'm stressed), twirling pens around my fingers, or playing with rubber bands (in addition to bouncing legs). I've always been on the thin side which people put down to hig
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Are you able to provide more detail? Digg -> X -> Netscape missed quite a bit at step X :)
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Back in 1995, I started dabbling with the web design in my final year of engineering. Back then, the web was a brand new world and I was having a lot of fun trying out new thing - as my first project, I created a fan site for the Calvin and
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Several years ago I read a biography on Rupert Murdoch and one thing that this book impressed upon me was how biased much of the world media is. Based on that, the approach I take is not how to find unbiased news sources (although I still d
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Dead pixel in Google Earth(helmutsmits.nl)
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Trying to figure out the best way to pitch an idea to Google Australia to create a new job role for me in Melbourne (the only Australian Google office is in Sydney) in an area they don't currently cover ... oh and I'm not currently a Google
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by tobtoh 16y ago
If they run late, or have a badly formatted resume, it shows their lack of attention to detail or poor planning/preparation. That is exactly the qualities I don't want in an employee. I've interviewed hundreds of people in my time as a
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by tobtoh 16y ago
Most major companies have these sort of guidelines. When I used to work at Ericsson, there was a huge manual with all the design guidelines that specified everything from the exact shade of blue for the Ericsson logo, the font, and to how f
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by tobtoh 17y ago
Good article. I wish more of those smug arrogant idiots who think everyone else is an idiot would read this :P
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by tobtoh 17y ago
I think one of the reasons for Apple's famed 'ease of use' is because they do put a lot of attention to the details. When I read stories like this one, it it reminds me of the story about Van Halen and the 'no brown M&Ms clause' in thei

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