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by wanorris 18y ago
Yeah, that's the most interesting disconnect I've seen working in enterprise software. Your customers have never heard of Twitter, but they might still use a fax machine on a regular basis. Our market is nonprofits and state and local gover
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I think the point is that Steve Jobs does a good job of making Apple seem like Santa's Workshop or something, which leads to a lot of people who drink the Kool-Aid wanting to come on board. You're certainly allowed to think that Apple is si
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> First dibs on Ning IPO in a couple year! How do they make enough revenue to justify their valuation? In the current climate, you need a rock-solid revenue model to actually go public. If Ning has that, I've managed to completely miss
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Depends on whether Yahoo is ready to grovel to get Microsoft back to the table. After all the cheap shots they've taken, I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to wash their hands of the whole thing and move on. Edited to add: on further revie
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After years of underperforming, the shareholders saw a chance to take a stock that was selling for under $20 not that long ago and turn it into $33 or $34 a share. If you're scoring at home, that's a 65% or better increase in the value of t
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Microsoft has made some missteps, but in the end, they really just have two problems they need to address now, and two they need to address over the next couple of years. Ballmer has the potential to handle them, but if he doesn't get them
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by wanorris 18y ago
Yes, but Blu-Ray sales are actually down, even since they won. They're getting beaten by upscaling DVD players and conventional DVDs. The high player prices, high disc prices, and player incompatibilities have created a situation where mo
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> Right now we are seeing (more) simple desktop apps (Word/Excel) getting competition from web apps like google docs. The core profit center for Office is businesses, especially large ones. My guess is that Google Apps is having negligi
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> The job market here in NYC for financial techies is not as you described. I suspect that this will be a short term effect based on so much upheaval due to the mortgate securities collapse. Then again, if I were in your position right
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Don't you worry about them getting rusty or having an insufficient understanding of the code base? As an architect, I relinquish the bulk of the coding to our other programmers, but if I didn't do some of it, I would lose touch with the rea
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by wanorris 18y ago
I don't buy the QuickTime + Flash = video monopoly thing, but there are some good reasons. If Apple owned CS3, Flash, and Reader, they would have enough control over the Mac app market that they would have the leverage to start an app purch
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Has anyone ever advanced a plausible argument for how you can be an effective architect without also coding? This seems like the same conclusion everyone comes to when giving it even a modicum of thought.
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1. There's a good chance that at that multiple the VCs get the bulk of the money. 2. A deal with Microsoft almost certainly requires them to come on board at Microsoft for some period of time. 3. A deal might include a noncompete for after
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by wanorris 18y ago
I think it's valid up to a point. But the playing while injured metaphor has some parallels as well. Not only is this a badge of honor, but it's flatly expected of you once you get past a certain level of competition. This is generally good
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It is utterly reasonable to argue that past returns are no guarantee of future returns, but if that is the argument he meant to make, he did it exceedingly poorly.
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Structured procrastination? Is that where you give yourself x minutes to surf the web or whatever, but when the timer goes off, you go back to work, or is it something else?
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Maybe we just need to put all our data in git or mercurial and forget about all this other nonsense.
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> However:; I think that it's easier to contribute in a big, serious way to charity if you've already made your pile of cash elsewhere. That, or if you're really committed, go work for a relief organization in the third world yourself.
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by wanorris 18y ago
My main takeaway on this is that if you build something that is naturally viral, chalk it up in the pluses column for that idea. Having an idea that is inherently viral is awfully nice, especially if you're a guerilla underdog. However, bol
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Engadget is playing around with theirs, as well. http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/psystar-open-computer-not... Edited to add: includes benchmarks, and the important proviso that iLife isn't bundled.
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> At least faulting the customer makes more sense than blaming the startups that are just doing what makes the most money. The whole idea that you should blame anyone for a startup doing something that makes money is thoroughly pointl
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The article references three different posts about how startups need to aim higher and try to change the world, then conflates it with "trying to do something really useful like making things that people actually want to pay for," before
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I really doubt most people hate McCain.
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The set of things that will change the world is not at all the same thing as the set of things that people will pay for. Linux has come a long way toward changing the world (especially on the server side), and it's free. People happily pay
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Wow, I didn't know anyone was so paranoid about their own employees that they went out of their way to block network storage. Do you work for the DoD or something?
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Thanks for making it clear that you have nothing to contribute to the substance of the matter except for snide remarks.
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Congratulations on spotting a single keyword and otherwise failing to read the entire post! Throwing your fucking "credentials" around and writing your own assembler out of Ruby or whatever doesn't excuse you from exercising some basic fuck
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Your view of how this works wouldn't be all bad. However, the original article was talking about standardized testing modeled after the test used in primary and secondary schools. This includes the government setting minimal, uniform standa
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> The advantage of consoles are standardized hardware One central part of this is that any given console has a particular GPU that you can optimize the crap out of. Even Apple has many more than that over a 2-3 year period. Honestly, I
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Actually, I think Scala and F# are good incremental solutions that can use existing infrastructure and approaches to scaling. The risks of moving to a language that can perform better static checks but retain the rest of an existing deploym

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