tseabrooks

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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   I like it - it's software the encourages you, maybe even forces you, to share the experience with someone else turning every user into evangelist. It also seems like it would make financial transactions very simple. My only concern would be
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   Disclaimer: I'm don't do any web software at all, I work on embedded devices. We use IDs and I've not seen too many of the problems you mention. I will, however, agree that the string length can cause serious problems for a layout. We tend
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   Why doesn't this scale to any number of languages? Assuming you are using the existing practice of not hard coding strings in your software but rather referring to them with some sort of IDs then I see no reason not to use 3000 languages wi
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   My companies product supports about 35 languages and 25 countries. I think 'just use Unicode' is fairly accurate. The problem may be how you go about doing it. I'm reminded of a professor that used to tell his students to use libraries and
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   This is a serious problem but I don't think this is as easily solved by face to face, or telephone, communication as the author seems to think. I used to have a professor that claimed interpersonal communication fails 95% of the time. I now
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   I think this is clearly a response to StackOverflow. If I can get a lot of high quality content on the sorts of things O'Reilly publishes books about in a free online place (StackOverflow) why would I waste money on purchasing their books?
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   I think you are being a bit pedantic here. While he may not have made the purchase with his own finances he is the one making the decision and coming up with the strategy... and THAT is what people are interested in. People will be interest
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   I didn't see mention of what the degrees these young people's degrees are in. Are these degrees in areas with little to no demand, "I'm majoring in Latin American Art history", or are these people getting degrees in highly in demand areas?
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   by tseabrooks 17y ago

   Agreed. It is currently there in Preview, but they stated immediately they'd offer a method to disable it.
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    by tseabrooks 17y ago

    I haven't used Wave yet. My good friend nominated me (or whatever they are calling it) and I'm just waiting. But, I can't help but feel the backlash at the instant typing is just the anti-Google backlash that happens with their new releases
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    by tseabrooks 17y ago

    This is completely absurd. People should not be given rights that require someone provide something for them. Surely, the problem with believing someone has a 'right' to broadband internet access they should also have a right to a computer,
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    by tseabrooks 17y ago

    I don't see how this is in the same vane as zappos. They appear to be really interested in great customer service but ultimately zappos provided a specialized store that sold ANY kind of shoes you needed in ANY sizes in the most friction fr
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    by tseabrooks 17y ago

    I think the Google Book initiative is great. I'm no conspiracy theorist but It seems the biggest problem with this type of service is verifiability. If Google has digitally transcribed some very rare work that is later destroyed it will be