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by tx 18y ago
I am hoping for a quick and widespread adoption of various mobile devices without Flash and Silverlight support with embedded Opera/Mozila/WebKit as primary web runtimes. I hope Adobe will lead the way and refuse to include Flash support in
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by tx 18y ago
Stop bringing up non-web products. This is getting idiotic. Indeed. You still don't get it.
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by tx 18y ago
Well, don't build easily reproducible shit then. Become a Photoshop, not Gimp. There isn't anything "as good in every way" as Flickr. And if you give me a crappy toaster as a gift, I'll throw it away and pay for a better one. I don't unders
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by tx 18y ago
Again, don't compare non-web products to web based. It is vastly different. No they aren't. Flickr Pro, Quicken, Mac OSX and the toaster in my kitchen are all exactly the same: I saw them, liked them and paid money to get them. Stop think
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by tx 18y ago
"There will always be another startup that will be willing to give your product away for free" If you're product is so easy to copy that another company will be able to give customer the exact your product for free, then yes - lame st
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First look: KDE 4.1 alpha looks promising(arstechnica.com)
2 points by tx 18y ago|2 comments
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by tx 18y ago
Yep, the replacement for ASCII art...
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Homer Simpson 100% in CSS :)(romancortes.com)
23 points by tx 18y ago|6 comments
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by tx 18y ago
Good companies can create fanboys and not-so-good can lose them seemingly overnight. Believe it or not, there were quite a few Microsoft fanboys just 10 years ago, I was one of them: it was a great place to work in early 90s and they kicked
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by tx 18y ago
I wonder how did .NET thing worked out? Someone decided to bring Anders Hejlsberg on board and give him absolute freedom. It was quite impressive for a company of Microsoft's size to create something like that from scratch.
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by tx 18y ago
IE-only... I understand the motivation behind it and take my hat off to their pains (I did lots of IE BHOs/Sidebars in the past - what a miserable job to have), but don't they have to tackle early adopters first? Even among business users,
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Get Yourself Some Ubuntu 8.04(kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
2 points by tx 18y ago|0 comments
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by tx 18y ago
Also I don't quite get his desire to "live in" some giant all-in-one software package. I think it should be obvious now that Unix philosophy of many little specialized tools proved to be more flexible than uber-environments. I am not sure i
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by tx 18y ago
I just found myself, an avid vim fan, reading that whole thing to the end for some reason. Stevey got me again! :)
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by tx 18y ago
You don't get it because you haven't lived there. How can you "consider operations" in places that don't have a reliable banking system? Just imagine how it's like (i've seen it first hand: natural exchange + cash in envelopes). How can you
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by tx 18y ago
Wheels, I adore your enthusiasm but I don't share it. Companies (not just startups, but any businesses in general) need markets, financial system, basic infrastructure and favorable legal environment just like fish needs water: they are liv
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by tx 18y ago
Ubuntu starting with version 7.10 kicks OSX butt when it comes to font rendering. The default setting is not-so-awesome (I suspect to cater to folks transitioning from Windows, since it's a bit Windows-like) but if you configure it to sligh
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by tx 18y ago
Are there any online printing services where you can send a PDF like that and they send you a nicely printed soft-cover? I realize that it may be expensive, but still.
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by tx 18y ago
I can't believe you put Portland and Austin in the same sentence. Nothing wrong with Portland, but Austin is simply in another league: I don't believe there is another place in US with such combination of technology, nightlife and dating sc
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by tx 18y ago
That is why I can't stand California. Everybody is trying to "sit next to interesting people" looking for an opportunity to "break into circles". Quotes from here: http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/02/how_... I especia
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by tx 18y ago
If Microsoft cared about users, they'd recommend they switch to OSX. If Microsoft cared about programmers, they'd recommend they switch to Debian-based Linux. For $500 I'd rather be working on 1 year old ThinkPad T60 (2MB of RAM, Core Duo 2
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by tx 18y ago
I don't want to bash something I personally not very familiar with, especially on this podium. But I don't know what the appeal of SimpleDB-like services is. I know why Google/Amazon needed them, but those reasons don't apply to 99.9% of st
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by tx 18y ago
Finally, someone took time and said it. Moreover, I'd recommend for someone who didn't have exposure to "big iron databases" to look up performance benchmarks for Oracle, Microsoft and DB2, they're very popular not only among these companie
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by tx 18y ago
I didn't care about social aspect at all, there were two absolutely crucial features in Xobni that I absolutely loved: 1. Ability to instantly see all attachments sent by a given person. 2. Outlook's own search is unusable, I never mastered
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by tx 18y ago
I disagree. "Web" part is usually just the UI, exactly how the author views it himself. 10 years ago people did that in Visual Basic (yes, it existed for those who don't know and was even more popular), but "heavy lifting in the back end" h
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by tx 18y ago
I am slow... I should have dropped you a line before I had gotten there. What a pity. I'm out of SV already, heading to Boston.
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by tx 18y ago
No, I don't think that was you :) That guy simply kept moving his finger on the touchpad and jerk that for around throughout the entire talk, I tried not to look at it but it was right in front of my nose :)))
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Startup School 2008: Impressions.(kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
16 points by tx 18y ago|5 comments
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by tx 18y ago
Am I the only one who feels that problem they're trying to solve does not exist? Perhaps I read too many books or perhaps my googling skills are bad ass, but finding information on programming issues is not hard and nothing, and I mean it
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by tx 18y ago
Hm... what about web-based RSS readers? Technically speaking, if you're running one, you are copying someone else's content and putting it on your site, even though the application belongs to a user and he picks what he wants to see up the

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