I frequently want to flag messages Not-Funny. I have been using Redundant as a poor substitute. But it would really be much better if I could flag them as Not-Funny.
These statistics might be meaningless unless they excluded all the basketball players. Most of the really rich people I know are also really short. Also note that the Dilbertian PHB is short.
Extensive and very well argumented analisys of why this wouldn't be a good move did not help. Those two guys got sacked
I suspect the problem was that the sysadmins in this tale did not use powerpoint and visio extensively enough in their "analisys". Poor spelling also has a tendency to doom the business case being proposed.
Does anybody actually read the articles. They did not replace Windows with Linux: they replaced their Solaris boxes with Linux.
Cmdr Taco's post announces this as "another chapter in the Windows vs. Linux debate", which betrays a bias against Microsoft and an inability to read articles past head-lines.
The real conclusion to draw from the story is that Sun will die very soon, because Linux offers the same thing for zero cost. This will in fact make it even easier for Microsoft to take over the world.
So in a sick ironically twisted plot turn Linux helps Microsoft by taking out its main rival Sun.
Here are some reasons I dislike Google and like www.alltheweb.com:
1. In Google to search for phrase "Jim is dead" I have to type "+Jim +is +dead". This is unintuitive and annoying. On AllTheWeb I type "Jim is dead" which is natural and intuitive.
2. The image search on AllTheWeb works much better. The interface is much cleaner and much more usable.
3. Google is too mainstream to be cool.
Asim
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AllTheWeb.com has an image search engine feature that is just as good and in fact the interface is much cleaner.
Here is an interesting and mildly amusing implication of this license:
I know several Microsoft developers who use Vim and Emacs. Since they write Microsoft software the SDK is always included with their products. So this license would in effect forbid Microsoft from releasing software where some of its own developers used Vim or Emacs to create software that was to be shipped as a part of the SDK.
Perhaps someone should immediately sue Microsoft for violating its own license and then force it to pay huge damages to itself.
This company claims they are writing the new serach engine for Google. Click on clients and then #6.
In fact they seem to be claiming that they built most of Google. It's a pity their own web-site looks so bad though. Here is an excerpt: We also built a sophisticated server system to run the show and organized the site's starting database
Actually my experience has been the opposite of what has been reported here. I graduated out of a school in Wisconsin and I was having a hard time finding a job in Wisconsin or Illinois. So then I drove out to the West Coast and have been able to switch jobs twice, each time for roughly double my previous salary. Even if something happened to this job I should be able to get another one easily simply because there are so many more opportunities here (compared to the midwest).
Also I have my own shareware business so that is a nice little safety-net. And if nothing works out I can always go back to tutoring college students, which is how I paid my bills when I was in school.
Here is an easy way to find jobs: make contacts, go to programming user group meetings. You don't have to snivel and beg for jobs. Just say hello to people and have normal conversations. Next time they see an opening for which you might be appropriate they will call you. People prefer hiring people they have met before over people they have never met.
So the key element to success is to be resourceful. A job in Dell or Microsoft is not the only way to make a living. There are many other opportunities out there if you are only willing to look and try it out.
Salzberg bases his whole argument on a misapplied premise. If a proprietary company uses someone else's open source work it does not hurt the open source work. Parasitism implies that by benefiting from someone's altruism you are causing them harm. This does not happen with re-using someone else's source.
So his entire argument falls apart.
I suspect the GPL will not dominate open source. Non-GPL licenses will become dominant and GPL will be used only by open-source fanatics who will become increasingly irrelevant as the mainstream open-source community moves on.
Your post gives very little context about your firing of the "open source zealot", and what little there is seems to indicate that you fired him for daring to dissent publicly, rather than for any actual problem he may have been causing.
While not all open-source programmers are nut-cases, there is a size-able demographic that thinks that being pro-open-source can be a substitute for coding competence.
I have worked with people whose code smelled, and who were terrible programmers and people, and who also used open-source fanaticism as a substitute for real insight and ideas.
The only problem with an MBA is that it doesn't teach you how to react to things that aren't in figures. I am sure most successful entrapaneurs have a good grasp of the job they are doing and will take certain actions inspite of what the figures say.
This really depends on the program you are talking about.
Once you get away from the Ivy Leagues many smaller, not-as-well-known MBA programs actually give you real experience in business. You learn to make decisions which reduce risk even in situations where there are no numbers involved. For example, you learn to move in small-steps, which reduces risk. This is a general principle which has no requirement of numbers.
If you work in a large company then it is possible to get the company to pay for your MBA. In fact I am doing precisely this. They're even paying for my books. It's a pretty sweet deal. So my total expenditure is zero. The classes are interesting and a nice change from software design. After a couple of years when I finish I will get a promotion or a raise.
Surveys have shown that an MBA from anything other than the first tier schools (harvard, stanford, u chicago, etc) is not worth it as far as money is concerned.
If you work in a large company then it is possible to get the company to pay for your MBA. In fact I am doing precisely this. They're even paying for my books. It's a pretty sweet deal. So my total expenditure is zero. The classes are interesting and a nice change from software design. After a couple of years when I finish I will get a promotion or a raise.
Here is an idea that is better than eInk. By better I mean cheaper and so simple you can implement it right now. Create a tiny projector that is able to project images to a flat white sheet of paper. After use the sheet of paper can be folded up. The size of the computer powering the projector can be tiny.
Brento is correct, this experiment is essentially uninformative. Danny Yee basically posts his text ads, and when they prove ineffective he draws the conclusion that text ads in general are not as good as other types of internet advertisement.
Actually Danny Yee does something much smarter.
He uses some flimsy data to get slashdotted getting several thousand more hits than he got out of Google or the other place.
What Amazon really needs is a time machine. When an order for a slow-moving book appears they use the time machine to order it from their wholesaler a week earlier which would give them just enough time to ship it within 24 hours.
In fact they could send this book out in the past so that the customer got it a few days before he thought about ordering it.
Too bad this time machine paper didn't come out a year earlier. I could have used it to get VCs to give me millions of dollars.
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Shouldn't the tooth fairy be Linux's mother?
Unless he's a real fairy. Never mind.
Asim
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There is already a way to run Linux on Windows. Here are the steps:
1. Remove Windows.
2. Install Linux.
3. Run Linux.
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Are we there yet?
I frequently want to flag messages Not-Funny. I have been using Redundant as a poor substitute. But it would really be much better if I could flag them as Not-Funny.
These statistics might be meaningless unless they excluded all the basketball players. Most of the really rich people I know are also really short. Also note that the Dilbertian PHB is short.
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This sentence in the article triggered my bullshit alert.
How about Harlan Mills. For more details on his work and insights into the software process visit read an excerpt from his book.
I suspect the problem was that the sysadmins in this tale did not use powerpoint and visio extensively enough in their "analisys". Poor spelling also has a tendency to doom the business case being proposed.
Asim
www.asimjalis.com
Cmdr Taco's post announces this as "another chapter in the Windows vs. Linux debate", which betrays a bias against Microsoft and an inability to read articles past head-lines.
The real conclusion to draw from the story is that Sun will die very soon, because Linux offers the same thing for zero cost. This will in fact make it even easier for Microsoft to take over the world.
So in a sick ironically twisted plot turn Linux helps Microsoft by taking out its main rival Sun.
Asim
Here are some reasons I dislike Google and like www.alltheweb.com:
1. In Google to search for phrase "Jim is dead" I have to type "+Jim +is +dead". This is unintuitive and annoying. On AllTheWeb I type "Jim is dead" which is natural and intuitive.
2. The image search on AllTheWeb works much better. The interface is much cleaner and much more usable.
3. Google is too mainstream to be cool.
Asim
Asim
Google isn't that good. Try alltheweb, which is slightly better in searching capabilities and about a gazillion times faster.
I know several Microsoft developers who use Vim and Emacs. Since they write Microsoft software the SDK is always included with their products. So this license would in effect forbid Microsoft from releasing software where some of its own developers used Vim or Emacs to create software that was to be shipped as a part of the SDK.
Perhaps someone should immediately sue Microsoft for violating its own license and then force it to pay huge damages to itself.
In fact they seem to be claiming that they built most of Google. It's a pity their own web-site looks so bad though. Here is an excerpt: We also built a sophisticated server system to run the show and organized the site's starting database
Also I have my own shareware business so that is a nice little safety-net. And if nothing works out I can always go back to tutoring college students, which is how I paid my bills when I was in school.
Here is an easy way to find jobs: make contacts, go to programming user group meetings. You don't have to snivel and beg for jobs. Just say hello to people and have normal conversations. Next time they see an opening for which you might be appropriate they will call you. People prefer hiring people they have met before over people they have never met.
So the key element to success is to be resourceful. A job in Dell or Microsoft is not the only way to make a living. There are many other opportunities out there if you are only willing to look and try it out.
So his entire argument falls apart.
I suspect the GPL will not dominate open source. Non-GPL licenses will become dominant and GPL will be used only by open-source fanatics who will become increasingly irrelevant as the mainstream open-source community moves on.
While not all open-source programmers are nut-cases, there is a size-able demographic that thinks that being pro-open-source can be a substitute for coding competence.
I have worked with people whose code smelled, and who were terrible programmers and people, and who also used open-source fanaticism as a substitute for real insight and ideas.
Experience Dotcom Mayhem.
This really depends on the program you are talking about.
Once you get away from the Ivy Leagues many smaller, not-as-well-known MBA programs actually give you real experience in business. You learn to make decisions which reduce risk even in situations where there are no numbers involved. For example, you learn to move in small-steps, which reduces risk. This is a general principle which has no requirement of numbers.
Experience Dotcom Mayhem
If you work in a large company then it is possible to get the company to pay for your MBA. In fact I am doing precisely this. They're even paying for my books. It's a pretty sweet deal. So my total expenditure is zero. The classes are interesting and a nice change from software design. After a couple of years when I finish I will get a promotion or a raise.
If you work in a large company then it is possible to get the company to pay for your MBA. In fact I am doing precisely this. They're even paying for my books. It's a pretty sweet deal. So my total expenditure is zero. The classes are interesting and a nice change from software design. After a couple of years when I finish I will get a promotion or a raise.
Did you miss out on the Dotcom Bubble
Dotcom Nostalgia.
Go Pack Go!
Actually Danny Yee does something much smarter. He uses some flimsy data to get slashdotted getting several thousand more hits than he got out of Google or the other place.
And the Slashdot editors fell for it.
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In fact they could send this book out in the past so that the customer got it a few days before he thought about ordering it.
Too bad this time machine paper didn't come out a year earlier. I could have used it to get VCs to give me millions of dollars.
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