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Willfully ignorant vs. aggressively skeptical(sethgodin.typepad.com)
2 points by wyday 17y ago|1 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
"Microsoft, just fix the unwieldy Control Panel interface, please." That screenshot is not accurate. You have to work to get it that ugly. (That is, he change the "View by" to large icons). The control panel is incredibly usable with its
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by wyday 17y ago
Right, and that's the entire point of the "expense questions" the reps are talking about. They now not only have to vet Firefox, they also have to find a 3rd party tool to vet & buy. Plus the cost of training IT people to install Firefo
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by wyday 17y ago
This is about the thousandth time I've seen this idiotic proclamation. There's a difference between screenshots and mockups. Screenshots are shots of what is actually on the screen (a.k.a. the program running). Mockups are created in Photos
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by wyday 17y ago
Satire is supposed to have wit. Plus, the "angry slacker" humor has been done many times (and better in every instance). This guy's writing is like a much less funny photocopy of Maddox. I can see tripe like this being on Digg, but why is t
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by wyday 17y ago
... could be modified, very simply, to read updates for additional software ... It's only so simple when you have a single binary file with no dependencies running only on the developer's machine. Beyond that, it's quite a complex proble
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by wyday 17y ago
Oops, typo. I meant "a few".
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by wyday 17y ago
My company develops an updater/patcher. The updater is open source (wyUpdate) and the update creator is commercial (wyBuild). You make a few good points in your post. We get a lot of customers trying to solve the very problems you describe.
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by wyday 17y ago
some whipped-sounding guy He owns the company. Does he also hold the whip?
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by wyday 17y ago
Sorry, I didn't catch it the first time. Thanks for the link to the original, it has quite a lively discussion.
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Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)(ericsink.com)
29 points by wyday 17y ago|12 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
This is a trend that all browsers are following (Firefox 3.0+, IE 7+, Opera). It has been going on for a while. Your best bet is to make your text large enough for everyone to read. Or add some JS to dynamically resize text. Choose your poi
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by wyday 17y ago
Wow, that's a needlessly snarky article. "Proofreading emails multiple times before sending" and having hand sanitizer are bad traits? All of these examples are vague rants on reasonable behavior. The best complaint he has is "parking their
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Steve Blank: Customer Development Fireside Chat(ravibelani.com)
2 points by wyday 17y ago|0 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
He has a point, but anyone who has ever built something non-trivial from start to finish already knows this. It's the subtleties, not the broad concept, that drains time.
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by wyday 17y ago
That's obviously not what I meant. Read my comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=688388
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by wyday 17y ago
Ideally, yes. And that's certainly how companies are marketing their free AVs. The reality is that before we started signing all of our software, the free AVs detected it as a virus. It's bad for business when you have to defend your produc
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by wyday 17y ago
You're right, it forks a couple more processes. It comes to a total of 8 megs, not 6. I should've checked that the first time. Still pretty tiny.
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by wyday 17y ago
Higher detection rates is not better. Higher detection rates just means more false positives. This is a very bad thing for small companies releasing desktop software. Plus, have you used Symantec Endpoint Protection? It uses 8 megabytes of
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by wyday 17y ago
But you don't get thousands of clicks if you title your article "Bad Programmers Create Shitty Programs".
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Steve Blank: Rocket Science 2, Drinking the Kool-Aid(steveblank.com)
14 points by wyday 17y ago|0 comments
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Friedman: Invent, Invent, Invent(nytimes.com)
51 points by wyday 17y ago|40 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
So Bill's comments are a translation of a translation? (English -> German -> English) Perhaps that's why they sound so unrealistic.
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by wyday 17y ago
I saw that too. But the question still stands. Is this real?
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by wyday 17y ago
Is this actually real? I couldn't find anything on the Focus Magazine website.
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by wyday 17y ago
> seem to only exist on the internet and nowhere else. Is this a metaphysics question? I exist outside of the internet. > dismissing everyone who doesn't like Vista I wasn't dismissing every argument against Vista. Just this guy
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by wyday 17y ago
Vista is a good operating system. Much better than XP. Windows 7 is better than both. This article is just another in a long line of "I heard Vista sucks (but never tried it) and 7 is good (but never tried it)" articles. It's a cliché argum
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Steve Blank: Selling with Sports Scores(steveblank.com)
55 points by wyday 17y ago|12 comments
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The iPhone Software Revolution(codinghorror.com)
93 points by wyday 17y ago|82 comments
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by wyday 17y ago
Usually this guy's observations are spot on, but this is just wrong. For instance, every time I give a presentation I usually have to login to a secure site. I'm almost always plugged into an overhead projector while I'm logging in. So, not

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