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tophat02
18y ago
Ever notice that Apple hardly ever uses the word "Innovate"? It seems like companies use this word when they haven't ACTUALLY done anything innovative, but would sure like to convince everyone (and themselves) that they did.
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I've never understood this argument. If an INTELLIGENT being produced the conscious entity, who or what was responsible for creating this intelligent being? And no, you can't side step this question. You can't say "well, it's god" because
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18y ago
Incoming instant messages almost always fall into the "urgent, but not important" category. This is a tripple whammy: a single IM can simultaneously destroy a developer's mental context, give him/her a "reason" to procrastinate, and accomp
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18y ago
I'd say you make a business like Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, whatever, but you find a way to implement "virtual virtual machines" using the idle resources of millions of computers, but you couldn't pay each user enough to overcome the sudden
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18y ago
Hehe, I actually had you in mind when I wrote that :)
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18y ago
The author's argument is a total non-sequitur. The whole "mental block" about sites like YouTube and Flickr was that DEVELOPERS couldn't imagine having to pay for such outrageous bandwidth usage (or that they'd even be able to find a place