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by zandorg 18y ago
What I can't crack is how this ended up in Wired magazine twice!
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by zandorg 18y ago
I just use Kdevelop.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Given that list, if I was as successful as they require for this, I wouldn't want to sell!
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by zandorg 18y ago
I recently emailed Oracle to give me a quote for Berkeley DB, so I could use it commercially. The response? Absolutely None!
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by zandorg 18y ago
And there's a subtle joke at the end - that he's given a MARKETING position rather than a programming one!
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by zandorg 18y ago
I want to clarify that this is a reference to the TV show Boston Legal, where William Shatner's named partner in a law firm, says his own name frequently, as if to say 'I'm Denny Crane and I'm the best'.
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by zandorg 18y ago
As I keep saying on HN, if people hosted 9mb clips on their own webserver, with Flash video streaming technology, there would be no way of censoring it. Not quite off-topic, but related is: Can you currently stream Flash video off an Apache
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by zandorg 18y ago
If I'd have got an office in January 2007, I would have met the Queen (of England) at the opening of a new office block (built by the same company). But I didn't for health reasons. Still, there's worse things than not meeting the Queen.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I sold my copy on Amazon when I realised I'd get all my money back.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Ah! In that case... "Denny Crane!"
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by zandorg 18y ago
I know Elizier's name from Novamente, which is no small achievement.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I once slept in a guest room in an Oxford flat where Doug had previously slept, as we both know Ted Nelson. Ted told me that was a valid anecdote, so who am I to argue?
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by zandorg 18y ago
I'm staying here in the UK until I hit it big with desktop software, then to Los Angeles to produce films.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I just finished reading a book about David Geffen (The Operator by Tom King). Apparently DreamWorks-SKG's burn rate for the first few years was $400 million a year, which is actually less than YouTube is costing Google.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Isn't Twitter's role to do with subsidising the cost of sending thousands of SMS messages? Rather than the actual software that sends them...
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by zandorg 18y ago
"only 3 great universities have emerged." Do you mean Oxford, Cambridge, UCL? Oxford & Cambridge are not 1 university, there are a lot of different colleges.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Interesting interview, but not as good as http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10118
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by zandorg 18y ago
I recently discovered that you can pay freelancers for 2 hours work on a small problem [an edge case], and save yourself 10 hours. You don't even have to pay stock, as people are pleased to be paid $80 for an hour's work. EDIT: However, kno
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by zandorg 18y ago
Compared to my cosy abode with a Linux/Windows laptop, I'd have to say writing Java on a Sun workstation at University in 2003...
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by zandorg 18y ago
The 2000-year old language? A Victorian Arc!
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by zandorg 18y ago
I previously mentioned that if video was just a 9mb file on someone's website, like a HTML page or GIF, it would kill YouTube. I'm not sure about the bandwidth requirements for the more popular sites, though.
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by zandorg 18y ago
In the UK, there's 1 limited company for every 10 people.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I guess they said "Holy cow, we started a phone company with zero overheads and sold it for less than Verizon!"
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by zandorg 18y ago
Hmm, somewhat heavy reading for a morning's news gathering!
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by zandorg 18y ago
I'd buy that for a dollar! (sorry for the Robocop / iPhone joke). But I would buy it.
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by zandorg 18y ago
What confuses me about YouTube is... The Web was designed to be hosted anarchically, by anyone. What is needed is a standardised video tag like HTML, ported to all browsers, so people can host their own videos . See a video as a HTML docum
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by zandorg 18y ago
Don't cloud the issue by juggling words to say it's not a menace. It says amoral menace , which means regardless of morals, is a menace.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Maybe it's not in anticipation, but to say "Behave, or else! :-P"
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by zandorg 18y ago
Don't forget those excellent Macs where the (instant-off) power button looked like the floppy drive eject! Oh what fun!
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by zandorg 18y ago
It depends on volatility. I'd guess Facebook stock would shoot high and take months to come down. Google's hasn't come down. Your downside is unlimited. Just a warning!

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