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by umjames 16y ago
I agree. Which type of story resonates more with would-be entrepreneurs? The "I want to help others via my business" story, or the "I hate my crappy job, and want to seek what I perceive to be happiness via my own business" story? I'm not
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by umjames 16y ago
Never underestimate a company's reluctance to change. Usually, the bigger they are (or the more clueless the decision-makers are), the greater the reluctance.
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by umjames 16y ago
My guess is that a lot of that 70% represents the OS these people use professionally at work. I'd be more interested in seeing the split between OS used professionally and OS used personally.
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by umjames 16y ago
Understood. Does anyone know what these IBM supercomputers ultimately are used for after they're done winning Jeopardy or beating Gary Kasparov? I'd imagine something top-secret for the US government, but it would be nice to know exactly w
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by umjames 16y ago
"I'm telling y'all, it's sabotage!" Literally.
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by umjames 16y ago
If Watson wins, it should have to keep coming back as defending champion until someone else beats it. It should also qualify to return in the Tournament of Champions if it gets that far. Now that would be a true test.
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by umjames 16y ago
Much of success on Jeopardy is not just deciphering clues in the answers, but your timing on ringing in to give the question. I'd imagine a machine could get really good at getting the timing down. Does Jeopardy have a way of varying who
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by umjames 16y ago
I'd be interested to know more details as to how you were able to accomplish this. Specifically: How long did it take you save up enough? How frugally did you have to live to stretch your savings for 9 months? Does your geographic location
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by umjames 16y ago
If that's the case, then why not stop hiring until more sufficient talent becomes available? Does this mean that Google's new hires are primarily there to increase headcount?
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by umjames 16y ago
No, it's more likely the idea of "you don't get rich by writing checks" at work. I think most programmers dislike the idea of what they see as kissing their boss's ass so much, that they'd rather start their own startup to get what they wan
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by umjames 16y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but wasn't Java designed initially for set-top boxes, when it was still called Oak, and was repeatedly re-purposed for running code in web pages (as applets) and then for enterprise-friendly server-side web apps (J2EE)
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by umjames 16y ago
Just curious, do you work in the same place as the people who produced the Dead Space series?
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by umjames 16y ago
So he's comparing a RoR web application with a Java portlet? Notice the portlet screen shots don't show the rest of the browser window like the Rails ones. That's because you'd see the rest of the portal chrome and the god-awful unfriendly
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by umjames 16y ago
Is it just me or is the text a little small and the color too light against the background?
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by umjames 16y ago
I agree with all of these, but I'm glad you brought up points 7 and 9. As a job applicant, you don't always know how bad things are or will be until after you start working there. Sometimes, the job starts out OK, but things get progressiv
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by umjames 16y ago
I buy TiVos when I can get a lifetime subscription. One price, no recurring monthly or yearly bills. This usually happens around Christmas and for older models (Series 3 TiVo and earlier nowadays). Also, the box is mine. I'm sure if I go
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by umjames 16y ago
I agree, but local TV and radio stations keep online services from streaming sports events to people in that area. Also, sports is somewhat unique in that the value is all in seeing it live. Personally speaking, once I know the final score
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by umjames 16y ago
So does Sega change their name when marketing in Italy?
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by umjames 16y ago
Would you really want your pee-ing prowess shared publicly? I can't imagine that would impress anyone worth impressing.
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by umjames 16y ago
Disney owns ABC and ESPN. I vaguely remember plugs on TV in the mid-90s that mentioned go.com when referring to ABC or ESPN. I think this was the time period when most people were used to hearing AOL keywords instead of actual URLs and do
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by umjames 16y ago
That's because most companies are not technology companies. They purchase all of their IT infrastructure instead of building anything in-house. So if the vendors they buy from only support IE6, their customers will be stuck with IE6 until
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by umjames 16y ago
I have, although I was looking for mobile web frontend frameworks rather than building native mobile apps using web technologies. I'll keep it in mind though.
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Ask HN: Preferred mobile web frontend framework?
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by umjames 16y ago
Well there goes months' (nights & weekends) worth of iOS side project work down the drain. I have a very large delicious bookmark collection that I was still posting to as of this week. Does anyone know if delicious' demise affects pin
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by umjames 16y ago
No, the former usually works at a company whose profit doesn't come from software or computers. They usually work on internal-facing systems that other members of the company are forced/required to use to get their work done. The latter is
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by umjames 16y ago
I don't know of any American companies that pay employees to eat lunch. 9-5, I think is just an American colloquialism at this point. If you get an hour for lunch, then it's really 9-6.
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by umjames 16y ago
Yeah, you can give any answer when you know you'll never need to actually be put through any of the options. If everyone who flies, and I do mean everyone (regardless of whether you'll be boarding a personal plane), had to go through this e
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by umjames 16y ago
I should have figured as much, but part of me was hoping it was something like the official release of iOS 4.2. I figured it was November, and we already knew what the features were going to be, so no need for Jobs to give a presentation.
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by umjames 16y ago
OK, I'll bite (and show my ignorance regarding security). What should we use in place of SHA1?
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by umjames 16y ago
Here are photos from the conference: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1558264@N23/pool/

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