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811.
by zeruch 14y ago
I know this is typically poor form, but I would give as a resounding response: "get bent"
812.
by zeruch 14y ago
"do we need a dist'd protocol, not a central service?" Short answer: yes. The communication model/platform has viability, but implementation(s) would be what makes or breaks it. Obvious I know, but it bears repeating.
813.
by zeruch 14y ago
I may be biased* but have you looked at SugarCRM? * I am biased, as I do in fact, work at SugarCRM. That said, I used the product before I came to work here, so I actually think its pretty good.
814.
by zeruch 14y ago
At least the valuation sounds rational.
815.
by zeruch 14y ago
While that is a very interesting point, she'll have to leverage it soon and with some impressive finesse to make it have any practical effect. It's still going to be one hell of an uphill climb.
816.
by zeruch 14y ago
I have to admit my enthusiasm is near nil. It sounds like not only the trite reinforcement of the "user as marketable commodity audience" but it just smacks of mild desperation to monetize anything it can to support its now publicly trad
817.
by zeruch 14y ago
"Provacative" = a pretty good euphemism for "linkbait". "Aggressive SEO" is another. I am unapologetically from a view where that kind of PT Barnum grade nonsense didn't square well with real journalism. I still cringe at it.
818.
by zeruch 14y ago
Frankly, given how well they've managed every other FOSS element in their charge, I have no doubt that this is not only NOT a "better" alternative to CentOS (disclosure: I have no particular love for CentOS, but you do know what you are get
819.
by zeruch 14y ago
...except on price and on the broad software ecosphere Auttomatic/WP has (which for the self-hosted option pretty much crushes everyone else unless you are doing a full corporate CMS, where Drupal and Joomla might come into play). It's a ni
820.
by zeruch 14y ago
I didn't miss the point; I disagree with it. Yes, it "takes a village" to bring that technology to a marketable life, but ultimately the large part of that chain isn't doing the "innovative" part (the actual out the box conceptualizing to
821.
by zeruch 14y ago
We've been using them here at SugarCRM for a few months and they have been doing a pretty bangup job so far. Food selection has been pretty varied and the quality has been solid...and from what I hear from the folks who do the booking, the
822.
by zeruch 14y ago
Yes, then let's also dispense with the fiction that great product & packaging is as novel and actually innovative as creating new technology (whether that be a protocol, or languages or manufacturing processes, or complete past the hori
823.
by zeruch 14y ago
Yes they will, most likely. Or rather they will collide in various areas struggling for consumer mindshare (with MS in a very disadvantaged position right now). I still argue that Apple is far less "innovative" than it takes obsessive inte
824.
by zeruch 14y ago
"Little known..." ? Granted, Github isn't eBay, but its hardly obscure, especially within its domain space. The article is otherwise fairly flat about why it might be valued so high. I'm not saying it's fully justified, but the writer c
825.
by zeruch 14y ago
I remember being a kid and seeing this ship on one of the quadrillion PBS shows I watched religiously. It struck me as both totally insane and completely awesome (regardless of its purpose, the idea of what it did was just cool to an 7-10
826.
by zeruch 14y ago
The user "confusion" was caused by Facebook's actions, and the blowback is the only non-confused element; people don't like having things like that altered out from under them. It makes them "confused, or angry or litigious.
827.
by zeruch 14y ago
I worked in "anti-piracy" (read: a DMCA chop shop) for a long time. This is one more bit of idiocy that will continue to push people to seek alternative outlets than the big content guys. In the last twenty years we've seen the nominal ri
828.
by zeruch 14y ago
I've not been surprised that they have been on a downward slope, but this just seems to be the financial equivalent to a vertical nose dive. Its the speed and acceleration of the decline that just seems to boggle; between RIM and Nokia, its
829.
by zeruch 14y ago
This takes a decent sized set of stones, and is overall bold, but likely to work for someone of Louis CKs status. Its been done before unsuccessfully (i.e. Pearl Jame and Ticketmaster) but I think his pricepoint and approach looks more lik
830.
by zeruch 14y ago
I think in terms of it being a good platform to develop for with a large installed base; it will still be there for a while. That said, its management is so in a cascading spiral of incoherence, and its standing financially (it is bleeding
831.
by zeruch 14y ago
This is the one of the root reasons why sousveillance is starting to capture public interest. I'm personally irked at the lack of legislative oversight.
832.
by zeruch 14y ago
I am less concerned about the machinations of a bunch of second tier states trying to put the internet genie back in a bottle via largely toothless legislation, than I am concerned it will get used as a thin end of a wedge for those in the
833.
by zeruch 14y ago
The root issue isn't his fanaticism, but the manner in which he chooses to articulate it. He is so dogmatic about even the most inane minutae, that he turns much of his presentation into a self-satire (if it was not for the fact that his p
834.
by zeruch 14y ago
This is actually a small example of how Amazon keeps being aggressively competitive by making the pricepoint almost impossible for anyone else to match at scale.
835.
by zeruch 14y ago
I am biased (I've dealt with both ESR and RMS, and had a much more personable time with the former), but I think this is one of the better things ESR has written, and it nails all of my major issues with RMS (almost: I know it gets made fun
836.
by zeruch 14y ago
I know Bill, too (and I've been together with NSPs former managing editor for the last decade)...his taste in Scotch I'm not sold on, but his books are great :)
837.
by zeruch 15y ago
They are not VCs. They are opportunist/tech celebs with a pool of cash. I simply do not see the announcement of them "becoming VCs" as much more than PR. When they actually start investing and getting returns, THEN let's give them some a
838.
by zeruch 15y ago
I'm not sure it's even subtle. RIM is circling itself at this point with no one really even caring if they pull out, such have their string of bad decisions come to taint them).
839.
by zeruch 15y ago
At least they are integrating Patent Search into the core (which I think makes sense and happens to be something I like).
840.
by zeruch 15y ago
I'd agree with this. Ellison definitely seemed to have more of a steady hand when he had Ray Lane as COO; a textbook pragmatist, Lane was the diametric opposite of Ellison, and the balance between the two worked really well.

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