wildwood

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by wildwood 18y ago
Oh, my, yes. People have been wanting tablets for ages, and they've especially been wanting a tablet from Apple for ages. It's possible that they might be able to mass produce something like this in the $800-$1k range, given that the base
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by wildwood 18y ago
Anyone who works any kind of assembly line job can't just leave for a few minutes without causing problems. Bio breaks are usually taken at scheduled breaks. (based on my summer jobs at the mill, at least)
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by wildwood 18y ago
I think what he wants the data to show is that an app that's priced above a dollar can be at least as popular (and substantially more lucrative) as a 99 cent app. The distribution of popularity for >$1 looks indistinguishable from the
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by wildwood 18y ago
How high to you have to jack up a) the number of people who believe in this principle, and b) the number of simple ways to make money (possibly multiplied by the number of available markets), before this principle is no longer true?
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by wildwood 18y ago
Anything by Van Tharp. He trains traders at all levels for a living. My personal favorite is "Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom".
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by wildwood 18y ago
My team uses this as a screening question, so I won't give you the answer - but you forgot to mention that both the rand5 and rand7 should have a uniform distribution. :) I'll give you a hint, though - the solution is not elegant at all.
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by wildwood 18y ago
Boardwatch would be at the top of my list, though it's a bit more recently defunct than most of these.
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by wildwood 18y ago
Or the GI bill. If only we had known! :)
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by wildwood 18y ago
A developer who is self-aware and mature enough to answer "I don't know" is good to have around, and usually more valuable to a company than someone who freaks out or starts making stuff up once they're outside their current range of knowle
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by wildwood 18y ago
Aren't the first two points mutually contradictory? It seems to me that 'making decisions early' is roughly the same as 'planning'. Why not plunge ahead with a design approach, and give yourself permission to fail?
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by wildwood 18y ago
That's a good point, I often catch myself conflating TDD with general unit testing. I definitely ascribe to TDBF (Test-Driven Bug Fixing) more than TDD - if a bug shows up in my production code, adding a test to the suite to make sure that
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by wildwood 18y ago
Even within corporate installations, actually. Chrome installs entirely in user space on a XP machine, and doesn't need admin permissions to install. That should allow it to be installed on all but the most locked-down corporate boxes.
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by wildwood 18y ago
Well, these were old-timey bad guys. Maybe they all said something like "curses! foiled again!" when identified? :)
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by wildwood 18y ago
give me a way to apply filters to it (like only show what's currently in stock, let me filter by available sizes and widths), and I might find it useful. this seems like a fun way to drill down into categories and sub-categories, but I don'
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by wildwood 18y ago
This seems like a great short-term incentive, but impractical long-term, like in http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Defect-Black-Market.aspx He said that, in that week, the code base was reduced by 90%, which probably accounted for a fai
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by wildwood 18y ago
I've never understood how this sort of license requirement is supposed to be enforced. In GPL v2, if I get the binaries, that gives me the right to request and receive the source. Simple enough. With this kind of 'network sharing' license,
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by wildwood 18y ago
This seems like a prime example of the 'business metrics' startup idea from PG's 'startups we want to fund' list.
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by wildwood 18y ago
And if you limit the time-frame to the last 12 months, everything but CA disappears. I guess everybody in the northeast who's interested already has it bookmarked?
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by wildwood 18y ago
I assumed when I read it that "sales" meant units. Seems like a perfectly reasonable way to track this, and not a "lie" at all.