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   by zandorg 18y ago

   A friend of mine agrees: Awful. So why did the first capital 'G' favicon work? Simple - it's the first (large) letter on the search page!
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   by zandorg 18y ago

   Argh, everything will look blue after wearing those.
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   by zandorg 18y ago

   My guess is they'll dump it and delete everyone's data as soon as the share price tanks. Google is apparently not so rich and powerful that they can't shut down an (!) online notepad.
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   by zandorg 18y ago

   I made that my sound in Trillian too. Except, I had to edit it in audio editor Cooledit to compress it, etc.
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   by zandorg 18y ago

   There's a certain irony when you consider that Xanadu (funded by Autodesk) could have been the entire Web, now she's picking up scraps of that in Yahoo.
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   by zandorg 18y ago

   But as far as I can tell, there were more junk bond successes than failures. But I admit, when Michael Milken was arrested, it all came tumbling down for Drexel, and I can't remember any book saying exactly who failed with Milken's attentio
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   by zandorg 18y ago

   My god, that's such fun! I posted 'I Love you Steve Jobs'
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   by zandorg 18y ago

   I've read a few books on junk bonds, and if they were a Martingale / pyramid, how come Nelson Peltz, Carl Icahn, MCI, et al, became (and still are) billionaires? They made out like bandits.
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   New computing history book out by Ted Nelson, hypertext guru and personal computing legend(hyperland.com)

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    by zandorg 18y ago

    I agree, especially about the 'private' part. Going public (I think) tends to have value by having a lot of employees. Staying private won't affect the market cap if they lay people off. I'm not saying slash and burn, just that the lowest l
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    It's a shame SpaceX has so many employees. They're offering a 4x saving on a rocket trip, but I think it could be 10x by cutting out dead wood from mission control (eg, more automation) while it's still possible.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Living room - not garage! Explains what eBAyISAPI.dll means. Uses Oracle soon after, not MySQL. Hit compiler limits (don't we all?) They keep hacking it without a proper overview. Descends into gibberish in about 2002.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Audioscrobbler made sense, but now I look at Last.fm, search for bands that were quite popular there in 2006, but now are in the low single digits of playbacks. I think Last.fm has lost the plot, no matter how many gigabytes its market cap
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    I learned SQL at University, but that was 5 years ago so I'm a bit rusty. There's 1 table with a primary key (a string ID), which is used for rows with duplicate ID's, so in theory MySQL should be quick with it. Thanks for the info, I'll ha
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    I only just starting using MySQL to store tables of around 100,000 entries. But MySQL would take literally > 30 seconds (sometimes taking minutes) for a query that PostgreSQL (which I installed after it) can handle in 10 seconds. It see
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    What about exploding iPods and mobile phones?
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    I meant SAP, but that or SAS is about 'business intelligence', which means running an organisation - staffing, payroll, etc, but certainly not jet engines. My Aunt programs in SAP for a University. So SAP determines how businesses are run,
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet." - Ugh, SAS isn't about science, it's about administration.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Let's not forget Richard P.Gabriel (Lisp meister)'s view of this 'square' behaviour: http://www.dreamsongs.com/MobSoftware.html
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Yeah, my guess is it looks domains up on Google.com, and points to the Google cache...
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    This is a good time for me to point out the RIP Human Intelligence Sources Code of Practi(c/s)e. This is a PDF which details the secret police who have the power to do a lot of stuff. You can find it on Google. It's atrocious, and nobody kn
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Also, the designer of the C64's SID chip, Bob Yannes, co-founded Ensoniq, which is a very cool synth/sampler company.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Eolas and Microsoft? Eolas was part owned by a University.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Back to On Lisp (printed out) this year.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    It doesn't have anything to do with Java. They just added that to increase the Netscape stock ticker.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Same here - 4 weeks in Thailand and I saw a Tesco on a Southern island. I'm from the UK so it was a surprise.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Or a Children's Film Foundation film?
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    I have a thing for second-hand 2001-era HP Omnibook 6100's, which fail after about 2 years (screen hinge, etc), but are QUIET. A recent favourite is Thinkpad T23's, which are titanium cased.
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    Do tech jobs discriminate against mental illness? By saying they couldn't possibly be competent? I think some jobs discriminate by default, by looking at someone's CV, which could be tainted by periods in hospital. Myself, I have a mental i
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    by zandorg 18y ago

    As far as I'm concerned, Michael Chabon lost it after Wonderboys in a big way.