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by wanorris 15y ago
Motorola has 19,000 employees and can't consistently turn a profit. These two facts seem related in an obvious way, and this implies a way to turn a profit on it. Cherry pick all the best research and software folks and bring them into Goog
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by wanorris 15y ago
I self-taught myself programming for a while, discovered I liked it, and decided to go back to school in CS so that I could learn even more about it. (The first time through school, I was interested in different things and ended up with a p
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by wanorris 15y ago
I understand where this* is coming from, but I personally still wouldn't do business with them after this. Yes, these customers did lots of things wrong. But a provider that was more committed to customer service would have tried to be cons
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by wanorris 15y ago
Yes, and that guy (Vitaly Borker of DecorMyEyes.com) has now pled guilty to two federal counts of sending threatening communications, one federal count of mail fraud and one federal count of wire fraud. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/bu
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by wanorris 18y ago
Dell makes machines with limited design value add, Apple makes machines with substantial design value add. ThinkPads, for example, also have design value add -- not because they look pretty (most people think they don't) -- but because (lik
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by wanorris 18y ago
I'm sure there is some substitution between the categories, but I guess I still think of them as pretty separate. Pesonally, I have a phone that runs both ssh and vi (a Samsung i760 Windows Mobile 6 phone with a touchscreen and slideout key
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by wanorris 18y ago
If you can't run the software of your choice, it's not a computer, it's an appliance.
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by wanorris 18y ago
Apple hasn't shown the slightest interest in the market. Their idea of a lightweight computer starts at $1800. Meanwhile, Linux is eating their lunch in this segment.
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by wanorris 18y ago
Personally, I'd just remote desktop into a stray Windows machine unless I absolutely had to have it onboard. I don't know that I'd want the added load from Wine on a lightweight Linux laptop. Those forthcoming 9" Linux Eees for $500 with 20
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by wanorris 18y ago
Which open source stuff -- that's what I mean. I've used ActiveRecord in Rails and a few other open source data access technologies, but nothing I would consider to be a direct precursor to LINQ. There are a lot of things that Microsoft mak
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by wanorris 18y ago
Seconded. Also, if you want to save a buck a domain or so, do a Google search for the current coupon code before you check out.
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by wanorris 18y ago
The best keyboard I've every used is my ThinkPad keyboard -- great feedback, everything within easy reach including both pointing devices. If I ever went back to using a desktop again, I would probably buy one of these, which is a pretty aw
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by wanorris 18y ago
There are also a lot of more specialized communities where you can promote an idea for free amongst the appropriate target market by simply joining a particular corner of the blogosphere, joining certain forums, etc. So this idea may still
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by wanorris 18y ago
Often, actual cash in hand is more of a limiting reagent than your own time. Since the OP was about minimizing cost, it seems fair to assume that cash in hand is the appropriate limiting reagent.
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by wanorris 18y ago
Hypothetically speaking, if we develop a sufficient understanding of analogue information processing, couldn't we build either (a) some kind of analog co-processor that operates in this manner and interfaces with the computer, or even (b) a
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by wanorris 18y ago
It seems like FP is an ideal candidate for the Python Paradox. If, at this point, you draw in programmers who are genuinely fluent in a functional language, you know they're almost certainly smart, and you know they're almost certainly dedi
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by wanorris 18y ago
No doubt. Ebay does a form of resolution, but I don't know if it's really good enough. On the extreme end you could offer formal arbitration. I'm not sure what's in between.
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by wanorris 18y ago
A knockoff of what exactly?
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Why Apple is really more expensive than Amazon(listeningtoreason.blogspot.com)
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by wanorris 18y ago
ASP.NET MVC is pretty close to release, so I wouldn't be afraid of it. If you know Rails or Django, many of the same concepts will be applicable. Manning has an early access version of ASP.NET MVC in Action that may help you on the book f
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by wanorris 18y ago
Actually, some of Microsoft Research's Haskell experts have done work to take the concepts from LINQ and port them to Haskell, because it's a cool idea that didn't exist there. Taking monadic combinators and applying them to the problem of
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by wanorris 18y ago
It's not an escrow service. An escrow service holds money until conditions have been met.
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by wanorris 18y ago
One of the first pieces of great advice I got from my first real programming mentor was to never learn COBOL, or someone will make you write it. :-) After you learn first hand why no good hacker wants to write COBOL, you might want to heed
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by wanorris 18y ago
My guess would be that it has to do with the red tape involved in getting something authorized to go up on whatever.microsoft.com.
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by wanorris 18y ago
If you're leaving an enterprise job where you developed years of expertise in .Net technologies and wanted to start building on a stack in which you are already an expert.
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by wanorris 18y ago
> Anyway, it's worth a rethink along the lines of "can you redefine the problem?" What if you built an Ebay from scratch around a secure financial escrow service? Perhaps you could place a hold upon a credit card at the time a bid was p
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by wanorris 18y ago
Microsoft has done some good work in the last couple of years at making their tools suck a lot less for web development. ASP.NET MVC, a newer framework with a Rails-like approach, is also coming along nicely. Honestly, the main reason most
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by wanorris 18y ago
It sounds like you're not that far into the project, so if that's correct, I wouldn't even worry about what happens to the modest amounts of IP you've already written. If they can't do this project without you, all you have to do to regain
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by wanorris 18y ago
Yet another data point that agrees with you. I and a couple of friends of mine did the technical work for a startup on a contract basis 2-3 years ago. We were working in our spare time, and it seemed like a fun project, and a good occasion
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by wanorris 18y ago
> If we're going to impress people it's going to be with what we say, not with our cards. Good design is important, especially for a website. If your business card is ugly, what is your site going to look like? But exotic materials or o

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