edster

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by edster 14y ago
The stack ranking system is really known as the "GE Way" and is one of the reasons Jack Welsh is famous and made a ton of money selling management books. IBM also employed the 20/70/10% concept to employee reviews in the 90s.
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by edster 14y ago
For some reason there is always common confusion between legally having a monopoly/monopoly power and abusing a monopoly/monopoly power. The problem wasn't that MS was bundling a free browser. The problem was when Microsoft forced PC builde
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by edster 15y ago
I'm looking at this as an iOS developer and not a Mac App developer, but I think this is overblown a bit. In this case, the APIs are the iCloud related features. There are many reasons to allow only approved apps access. First, to some exte
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by edster 16y ago
Just a completely bogus story by someone who must not be a Mac user. I put my MacBook to sleep and it wakes up instantly. I shut down my MacBook and it takes a min to boot. I put my iPad to sleep and it wakes up instantly. I shut down my iP
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by edster 16y ago
Asking how much you should pay to develop a game is pretty much like asking how much does a car cost. I think the old adage that it takes money to make money is mostly true and applies here as well. Trying to put an app, especially a game,
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by edster 16y ago
Here is the direct link to the video: http://www.1938media.com/windows-mobile-will-be-a-fail/ More time is spent talking about Twitter never being profitable than Windows Phone 7 being a failure. I do actually agree with both of his point
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by edster 16y ago
I've used this before and it's also available in XML format by using the KML format. What's not mentioned and is an extra bonus is that this doesn't require a Google API key. This is just calling a public URL. NSString startingLoc = [NSStr
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by edster 16y ago
how do you get out from under the bus? Do they have exits that dive under the guard rail? I wish the story had a little more useful info.
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by edster 16y ago
Good fix. My MacBook plastic is chipping apart and I just fixed that using a leftover invisible shield I had for my Newton screen that was sitting in my desk drawer. I never even used a shield on the Newton, I preferred to ride it bare back
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by edster 16y ago
Uggg, horrible font for a blog or any type of extended reading. However, interesting moral decision we all face at various points in time. It's discussed like an economics decision, but I see it more as a gambler's decision. To me it's abou
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by edster 16y ago
I waited to jailbreak my original iPhone until I got my new 3GS. I wonder why that is? Should we automatically believe the author of the post that he didn't try overclocking the CPU while tinkering with it? That the jailbreak didn't exploit
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by edster 16y ago
point? <sorry, inside joke to one of grandalf other comments>
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by edster 16y ago
The point is the single data point you are providing. Finding iPhone 4 users with this same data point of not having a problem point to the fact the you entirely missed the point.
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by edster 16y ago
This video is out of date and should not be referenced. Mainly, the cross compile approach he is mentioning is now not permitted under the "Flash Fix" in the developer agreement that Apple came up with, which requires apps to be written usi
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by edster 16y ago
I would say it's pretty much accurate minus the sex with Jennifer Aniston.
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by edster 16y ago
I'll save you 90 min of your time. Instead send me two dollars and I'll tell you the secret is to put up a web site that convinces people to drop money on some video you probably stole from somewhere else. Oops, just gave it away without co
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by edster 16y ago
The study was interesting, yet by the author's own words incomplete with only something like 24 participants. Even then, I wasn't clear if each of the 24 read three different stories, one per device, or how the breakdown went. Also, a sensa
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by edster 16y ago
I was just going to comment on that very same thing. The guy is only a day into the job, so what does he know, but didn't offer anything that would lead one to conclude they Nokia is changing anything. He didn't address the problems brought
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by edster 16y ago
Interesting information as always from useit. However, the conclusion of the test, which was that there wasn't a conclusion was chuckle inducing. Too bad they didn't throw the Kindle iPad app into the mix.
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by edster 16y ago
Who cares if the product is hyped or not. Who cares if the guy next door already has one. I don't use google for search because everyone else does, I use it because it works for me. If I start to find that Bing works better, I'll switch to
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by edster 16y ago
I can't reply as a funded person since I'm also a bootstrapper, but having done work for some startups they typically have directors which work for the funding group that sit around and make sure their money is working hard. So I imagine th
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by edster 16y ago
You can look at it that way, but not so much true. The great thing about being a self employed is that it doesn't matter where you work. I take my computer with me everywhere I go, even on vacation. I've had conference calls in the morning
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by edster 16y ago
If we assume that the person is a real recruiter, then I would say it probably won't be a real problem. For the most part, the recruiting game can be fragile. The recruiter has to carefully cultivate the hiring managers they work with and m
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by edster 16y ago
In some big companies, the first company to get a person into the system "owns" that person. So it's in the recruiting companies interest to get as many people submitted as quickly as possible. Another thing with big companies, they sometim
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by edster 16y ago
Kind of a fluff article, but I'll take the bait. 1. Fragmentation: Given Nokia's "Strong" 44% marketshare, even splitting up the share into three different OS equally would mean 15% each, or about the size of iPhone and Android share. Big e
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by edster 16y ago
Great post. I agree he was a bit unprofessional. Gates' awareness probably did fall off as his earlier emails were buried under the mountain of new stuff. Rather than shouting "Hey look at me" he should have sent a gentle reminder about imp
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by edster 16y ago
"Time to stop butting into other peoples business," edster tells the super-rich
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by edster 16y ago
used to be that there were 12 or 13 DNS root servers. I don't know if that is still the case. I don't know if the president could shut down the internet or not, but I'd like to see him try. That would be all kinds of crazy fun.
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by edster 16y ago
hmmm, for some reason I can't reply directly to @gaius' comment. I find the I love my BB argument interesting. While he's right, I don't understand the attraction for these people. I've been doing some BB development lately using a Storm II
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by edster 16y ago
The SuperAMOLED display is supposed to mitigate the sun factor, so it will be interesting to see how it works. I'm sure Apple has evaluated that tech, but chooses not to use it for some reason whether it's cost, availability or simply the f

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