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by foliovision 2y ago
Good article but it doesn't fit in with American thinking. In search of a unicorn. The only very visible company in the United States I can remember following the profitability and measured growth path was 37signals. Even they have occ
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by foliovision 2y ago
Where did you share the code? You didn't include a link. Great job with Pushpin. It was the only extension which worked semi-reliably on iOS. Sad that it wasn't viable.
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by foliovision 2y ago
Based on the average diet in North America (fast food, oversized portions, GMO vegetables which look good but are nutrition free, hormone overloaded beef, chlorinated chicken, this is the short list), I would argue the system (North America
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by foliovision 2y ago
Lots of money for bombs for Gaza, bombs for Ukraine, bombs all over the world. Very little motivation it seems to settle foreign policy issues diplomatically. Which would save trillions of dollars (for us) and millions of lives (for them).
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by foliovision 2y ago
Breakdancing should never had made it into the Olympics. Breakdancing is art or it's not. It's certainly not sport. Cf. Rhythmic gymnastics free routine is borderline but there's a whole bunch more set pieces the young women
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by foliovision 2y ago
One doesn't start with the marketing. One starts with the great game. This is the one of the biggest issue now in culture – one is taught to promote one's awful films, music novels, games, paintings. Instead the creators should te
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by foliovision 3y ago
Between them Reddit and Macrumors have almost all the useful public information for macOS users, music producers, video creators, colourists. Handing Google the keys to Reddit will be trouble. I'm not quite sure what kind of trouble, b
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by foliovision 7y ago
If you're not on Mark's newsletter, Weekly Axis Of Easy, you owe it to yourself to subscribe. It's funny, to the point, covers most of the really important tech news with a focus on infrastructure and privacy and is pretty mu
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by foliovision 9y ago
Exactly. Based on their track record, IBM clearly knew what was going to happen and even anticipated the extra income as the project spiralled around the drain.
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by foliovision 9y ago
IBM has failed to build these state level systems successfully around the world (Canada, Australia, Pennsylvania, Slovenia, New Zealand). IBM should know how to go about building them right or IBM should not be in this business. The first $
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by foliovision 9y ago
A responsible vendor then declines to take the project (smart decision) or executes anyway. We've been in the situation a few times where what started as an attractive project with a reasonable budget turned out to be an underestimate
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by foliovision 9y ago
Exactly. Based on IBM's track record around the world (I know of IBM payroll projects for Canada, Australia, Pennsylvania which have failed while New Zealand and Slovenia have been mentioned in comments), I'd say failing on low ba
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by foliovision 9y ago
Thanks for the input. Personally my own bugbear in terms of web readability is contrast ratios in "modern" web design. I didn't realise that font-weight could give people such issues. I'll think about changing font-weigh
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by foliovision 9y ago
Freshbooks has built from scratch two SAAS which have handled over $60 billion worth of invoices and expenses for over 10 million users. I'm suggesting that Mike McDerment could build and lead a team who would successfully build a payr