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by xirium 19y ago
"What could be a better mark of irreversible acceptance [of the Internet] than adoption by the Amish? I was visiting some Amish farmers recently. They fit the archetype perfectly: straw hats, scraggly beards, wives with bonnets, no electric
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by xirium 19y ago
HFS has some cruft from pre-Unix implementations. However, this cruft allows you use the filing system on older versions of MocOS. HFS implements swap space as a hidden file. HFS+ implements journalling in same way. If you boot an older ver
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by xirium 19y ago
IPv6 is a great opportunity for vendors to sell new routers and new operating systems. However, we should fully evaluate RFC1365 before proceeding. It is possible to use IPv4 extension blocks to expand the IPv4 address space in a manner whi
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by xirium 19y ago
I like it. It encourages people to participate in something active, or at least fulfilling. I'd definitely organise stuff geographically. I can bake a cake anywhere but I can only visit an attraction if I'm in that part of the world.
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by xirium 19y ago
Running IE precludes an operating system and hardware on which it runs. If you asked about developing for Firefox only then I'd strongly recommend it. This browser can be run on many operating systems. Most importantly, early adopters who a
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by xirium 19y ago
It may be unfair to change the platform just before the deadline. Likewise, it is unfair to change the deadline. It looks unco-ordinated and it could run afoul of some contest laws. It would have been best provide a stable platform during t
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by xirium 19y ago
@0% affiliate fees on US$100 niche videos sounds really good. However, if the management doesn't understand their market then you'd be a fool to associate with this venture.
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by xirium 19y ago
Charging compound interest on debt could lead to loansharking. Allowing payment between accounts could lead to money laundering. For these reasons, such activities generally require financial regulation. However, you probably don't want to
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by xirium 19y ago
You can outsource design work to students and foreign workers for approximately US$2 per hour. Indeed, you're spoiled for forum that will bid for you work ( http://freelanceswitch.com/finding/the-monster-list-of-freel... , http://dir.yah
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by xirium 19y ago
If you look at the acquisition of Hotmail by Microsoft then you see a large amount of software implemented on open source software re-implemented on closed source software. Along the way, there were a few service outages and a notable secur
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by xirium 19y ago
"ecommerce sites are making it as difficult to buy products as humanly possible." If my credit card has a number as four blocks of four digits then I expect to type four blocks of four digits. A webpage with <input limit=16> is wro
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by xirium 19y ago
The article is a very good a practical explanation of how to abstract third party, organically grown web services. Thanks for sharing.
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by xirium 19y ago
Look for core technology that can be re-purposed. It gives the company shots at different markets before it folds. It also demonstrates modularity which will make your role easier and more productive.
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by xirium 19y ago
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, said that business is a game, money is the way we keep score. There is no better validation of your ideas than market validation. Your traffic statistics are a proxy of value but you have to make some final
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by xirium 19y ago
Eric Raymond suggests that hackers prefer cats rather than dogs ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/miscellaneous.html ). Do you agree? I do.
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by xirium 19y ago
Don't forget the evil femmebots: http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54
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by xirium 19y ago
If the Google founders have agreed to work together for the next 20 years ( http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/18/news/companies/google.fortun... ) and 1/3 of the first 500 Google employees have left ( http://www.news.com/Life-after-Google%2C-
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by xirium 19y ago
This phenomena is mentioned in The Mythical Man Month. An interactive debug session is three times more productive than batch submissions. However, when access to computational power becomes too easy, people fiddle aimlessly without a direc
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Is Google Censoring The Word "Evil"?
1 points by xirium 19y ago|1 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
"By signing up as a new user once a week and observing your own user id you can measure the rate of growth of a competitor." I've done similar with cheques. In a previous job, I was paid by cheque. Each month, I logged the cheque number. Fr
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by xirium 19y ago
I wasn't able to login using elinks. The error to the POST submission was "Post request without Content-Length." You might want to have a look at that.