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by wanorris 19y ago
I certainly don't want to defend SAP, but when enterprise software sucks, how much is the fault of the software and how much is simply the enterprise? If you started out with good software, could it survive an enterprise deployment -- and a
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by wanorris 19y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if someone inside Amazon was working on a full relational database appliance as well.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Good points. I've run into this problem a lot, and generally handle it in one of 2 ways: 1. Make it easy for semi-technical project managers who are not coders to extend the schema. This is the 95% solution for us, and the core of our syste
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by wanorris 19y ago
Is there just the one feed for the whole site, or are there user and per-article comment feeds and a newest article feed somewhere non-obvious?
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by wanorris 19y ago
There's also an aspect that goes beyond a new technology simply being irrelevant or less useful than an an old technology beyond simple ego and fear of irrelevance. Consider an example from the original post. For the world of computing at l
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by wanorris 19y ago
No question. But ultimately the underlying value of the service is what determines whether it matters or not. If you wanted to win a significant share of the search engine market, which would help you more, owning search.com, or designing a
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by wanorris 19y ago
> But the underlying psychological framework is really a fear of irrelevancy. If you make things too simple my expertise will be less important. I will be less important. Not necessarily. People generally become experts in technology
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by wanorris 19y ago
Does showing up the most on FriendFeed mean "winning"? I use Pandora even more than I use Twitter -- I have it open all day long on many days. But I have a few stations I'm pretty happy with, and I don't update it much anymore, so it barely
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by wanorris 19y ago
> It makes me uneasy too. Boy, did I cringe reading those bits. Not meaning any offense, but boy am I glad to hear you say that.
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by wanorris 19y ago
I apologize if I'm putting a damper on the congratulations, but it sounds exactly backwards: it seems like the reason to start a shopping site in a vertical should be because you have insight or value-add in that vertical , not because you
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by wanorris 19y ago
That's why I thought this was an interesting post. If I were doing live video switching or something it would have been obvious that an Air might not get the job done. But I would have expected the kinds of things he describes doing -- some
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by wanorris 19y ago
> It's also possible to create lots of wealth without making money Habitat for Humanity comes to mind.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Of course people's parents can do all sorts of things to create a poor environment for a child to grow up in. Maybe their parents did the same thing. But at some point, regardless of what your parents did, you have to take responsibility fo
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by wanorris 19y ago
Maybe I'm focusing on minor details, but Arial has never seemed like a dead ringer for Helvetica to me. Or at least no more than, say, Franklin Gothic and Helvetica are the same font. There are some clear differences in letterforms that giv
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by wanorris 19y ago
Scheme is awesome as long as you are mathematically fearless enough to learn from square one using books like How to Design Programs and The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs . They provide a great foundation if you feel
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by wanorris 19y ago
Agriculture is not exactly the reason for technological advances; rather, progress became possible (but not guaranteed!) thanks to agriculture. While a few hunter-gatherer societies lived in a place so abundant that they can settle in a
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by wanorris 19y ago
Actually, in traditional agricultural societies, almost everyone is a farmer. There's a reason that the vast majority of people in the middle ages were serfs -- it took that many people to feed themselves plus everyone else. You can actua
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by wanorris 20y ago
How can you build an application without data structures anyway? If you ever load data from a database, it's loaded into a data structure of some kind. Of course, if you're using a bunch of elaborate ORM stuff, I suppose it might build your