Sven7

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by Sven7 11y ago
This has been Oracle's (i.e. Larry Ellison's) sales and marketing M.O. since forever. Read up on why Raymond Lane left the company. And sad part is it works.
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by Sven7 11y ago
The article is not about whether programmers are doing well for themselves. It's about what happens to the rest of society when only one section (tech\finance) do well for themselves at the expense of everyone else?
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by Sven7 11y ago
I fully agree with this piece. I am sick of the Larry Ellison type role model of leadership that is encouraged and celebrated. Mindless ambition is not a bad thing if you want to climb a mountain or walk to the north pole in winter on your
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by Sven7 11y ago
My favorite kind of cranky old geezer. Inspired.
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by Sven7 11y ago
I'd like to believe there is a secret rag tag bunch of 60-70 year old, retired Engineers out there working on some cool tech. If we have 60-70 year old's running for president, moving the markets on wall st and robbing diamonds th
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by Sven7 11y ago
Interesting. Could explain why the different wiring produces the same computation.
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by Sven7 11y ago
I am just curious to see what, this generation of 20-40 year old's who get lucky, end up doing with their cash. They do seem a bit more worldly wise than the last gen (who I blame for funding all the BS tech we see today).
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by Sven7 11y ago
Agree and also Investors have a bias towards the student crowd as they are much easier to impress and deal with, than an experienced Academic or Engineer.
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by Sven7 11y ago
I agree with you. Let's just give thanks that Larry Page doesn't run Wikipedia. At this point Google is way past the point of no return. They are more bothered about empire defense than information.
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by Sven7 11y ago
In so many ways. You can find the pattern everywhere once you start looking. On a recent trip I saw the after effects of a Nokia factory closing. Now one would think given the boom in phones it wouldn't be an issue for the employees to
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by Sven7 11y ago
Since the crowd around here can't exist without an increase in poverty, the real question is how many poor people do we need to produce one Zuckerberg. If we want more Zuckerbergs we need more poor people, just as if we want more whale
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by Sven7 11y ago
"Computers" were actually clerks in the census office that spent their days manually adding up and multiplying things. They got replaced by IBM's tabulators well before the 30's. But you are right IBM's inventory at
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by Sven7 11y ago
Also well worth reading about T.J Watson. IBM was one of the few American companies that had no layoffs during the depression in the 30's. Inventories built up. No sales. And he was almost fired. Once the recovery started every company
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by Sven7 11y ago
Amen. It's an unfortunate effect of social media and the information overload. People get flooded with info. They spot hypocrisy. They think they are doing gods works by pointing it out. They get encouraged by the likes and retweets. A
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by Sven7 11y ago
Well...the conservative nature is mostly cause they haven't discovered the internet yet. Zuckerberg is working on it with drones over the Serengeti and such.
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by Sven7 11y ago
DARPA's SyNAPSE and then the self powered brain of an ant. That's computing. Everything else could find place on what's next in consumerist garbage.
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by Sven7 11y ago
True. Which is why I approve the activist shareholder plans at Microsoft and Google to move their CEO's and global HQ's to India.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Well said.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Sounds like the American economy.
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by Sven7 11y ago
If you know the experimental drug\treatment you want to try check overseas. Don't wait for local (I'm assuming) docs to give you the info. Contact centers with a known rep. Good luck!
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by Sven7 11y ago
:) +1 for carrot breaks
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by Sven7 11y ago
This has been like watching one form of misinformation battling another form of misinformation. One set of misguided people battling another set of misguided people. NetNeutrality is a concept that makes sense in a western context where car
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by Sven7 11y ago
I have a lot of respect for Wael Ghonim for standing up and saying he had no idea what he unleashed via social networks. I'd like to see Facebook and Twitter do the same. Take responsibility for the costs of an "open and connected
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Took 4 years for a Google Engineer to realize consequences of his actions(youtube.com)
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by Sven7 11y ago
President...well...they don't really do much these days other than provide Reality TV style entertainment. The office should be just phased out imho or used like the Queen for tourism purposes. Since Google\FB\Twitter\Amazon etc are al
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by Sven7 11y ago
Google's problem in search has never been a lack of good engineering, its been a lack of vision for search. The fact that someone from the search team isn't leading the company says everything. I think the IBM's Watson, Wolfr
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by Sven7 11y ago
I see. Sorry to hear that. I can imagine the day to day complications, but I hope other stuff in Japan more than makes up for it. Like the food :)
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by Sven7 11y ago
How did you end up in Japan, if I may ask? I would assume daily life could be a little more complicated because of the foreign language. But thinking about it a bit maybe that helps when deaf. The local population I guess automatically make
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by Sven7 11y ago
For the deaf developers around, how many of you use ASL? How often have you been able to use it in at work?
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by Sven7 11y ago
We are currently studying Facebook and Wall Street to answer that.

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