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by tx 18y ago
Whatever. Living with your parents in your 20s is disgusting, sir.
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by tx 18y ago
Death of Flash, mobile Java and Silverlight... this is so awesome, go Apple go!
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by tx 18y ago
Why don't they replace Finder with something that works at least on par with Explorer from Windows 95? Adding "move/cut" feature in 2009 will be a huge step forward. Or make iPhoto actually usable, so it will see and recognize JPEGs on your
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by tx 18y ago
To be honest "There’s no glamorous future for Mailmanagr, as well." pretty much sums up this article. It may be a good product, but its aim is not to be a high growth start-up and technically its just a component to an existing app. What?
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by tx 18y ago
It's not. Not easy - have you done anything else besides web development? VB6 is a far better tool for what you are saying. Just because 99% of people here dream of becoming .com-millionaires doesn't automatically turn these fashionable "
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by tx 18y ago
This will only teach them how ugly hacks were made, not how proper software should be. Even now, when we have strict HTML and CSS2 and some decent browsers, I still get chills sometimes at how fugly this whole "web-development" is... These
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by tx 18y ago
How about taking 60% of existing military budget and allocating that towards health care? How about forcing hospitals to buy directly from manufacturers avoiding multi-tier nets of middlemen? I am not even talking about private medical insu
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by tx 18y ago
WTF is "consulting" without development? What are you "consulting" them with? "Buy some computers and hire some programmers"? I can't comprehend your post, I'm sorry.
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by tx 18y ago
Flash sucks balls because it only works well where Adobe wants it to work well , as opposed to openly accepted standards like HTML/CSS that work good enough on nearly every computer in operation.
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by tx 18y ago
"He (Ballmer) restructured the company... ...and elevated people with general management experience into positions previously held by technology-focused executives." Bam! And it's all downhill from there...
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by tx 18y ago
While I am generally very skeptical of half-assed reimplementations of existing tools with a stamp "now in the browser!!!", 280 was probably the first case when I said to myself "this is damn nice!" Very well done. So much different from th
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by tx 18y ago
How can you cram your programming (i.e. creation process) into pre-defined hours every day? It's like saying "I am funny from 8 to 12, then I get creative from 1pm to 5pm and I get 'Eureka' moment usually around 7pm" I am honestly jealous.
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by tx 18y ago
This is illegal to do. Content comapnies aren't allowed to merge or enter agreements with "delivery providers", unless there is a loophole.
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by tx 18y ago
This industry is loaded with cash, they're transitioning from traditional analog video to IP-centric solutions and have no expertise. They all are looking for good software companies to buy. Drop me a line if you have a demo or something,
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by tx 18y ago
Matt, you're confusing IP with copyrights. I've dealt with IP lawyers in the past, and those two terms mean very different things. Copyright law is actually a very murky water and certain kind of fish (lawyers) feel pretty comfortable swimm
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by tx 18y ago
I would like to have a healthy discussion here but your post seems to be a set of randomly collected issues without a core point holding them together. I could respond with a similarly random bag of rants regarding OSX or Windows or anythin
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by tx 18y ago
Most folks don't realize, but desktop Linux has surpassed Windows and OSX in convenience, features and usability. Sure it still lacks some critical desktop applications and high quality UI design to truly shine. I've been alternating betw
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by tx 18y ago
Funny how things change. In mid 90s people were praising Microsoft for being so incredibly nice to developers: MSDN and Visual C++ were bargains compared to ridiculous amounts of license fees IBM wanted to for OS/2 development tools and (!)
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by tx 18y ago
I believe the effect of MagLev will be marginal. Gemstone/S is charging $7K/year and it's not the best license they've got. This isn't going to fly in 2008: I like those guys and I am sure they'll find enough banks and airlines to sell this
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by tx 18y ago
Yeah, he should have added "Part-2: Downloading Libraries". They actually exist, and can rival comprehensive library of Python, but it takes quite a lot of energy to discover. I remember asking here on HN "what is CL standard library? where
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by tx 18y ago
I didn't said it was. I just find it funny how history repeats itself: when I was a kid, doing something like this was a fun challenge, since most computers worked in text mode 80x25 characters, and after a while an application like that be
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by tx 18y ago
"If spending $1 trillion extra on medicine would save a thousand lives" "Medicine" is too vague of a term. You'll be spending your trillion dollars on Ducatis and BMWs of drug sales reps and medical equipment middlemen, plus thousand of oth
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by tx 18y ago
Why even mention this junk on HN?
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by tx 18y ago
You're forgetting JavaFX, Silverlight and Flex/AIR. It's going to be fun.
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by tx 18y ago
Startup? 15 years ago apps like this would be a nice weekend projects we'd do for fun or (mostly) to impress each other in high school: doing it under DOS using x86 assembly mixed up with some Pascal was comparable to JavaScript's capabilit
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by tx 18y ago
Did you watch the video of his presentation? (the link is at the bottom of the article). Very entertaining.
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by tx 18y ago
Funny thing how oil automatically translates to cars and SUVs in ears of most consumers, while in reality transportatino sector consumes only about 18% of oil, at least in US. And that includes (!) aviation. There was an edutorial on the su
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by tx 18y ago
SV != "rest of the world". Maroon seems to be more more in touch with outside-of-sv-reality on most issues. And majority of readers here aren't in Bay Area.
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by tx 18y ago
Guru, keeping Windows machine clean is trivial, I more than agree with you (in fact I've never used an anti-virus or a software firewall in my life, and never had any security issues). The issue isn't technical, it's a strange fusion of "

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