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+1 for Embody. Had an Aeron. Pretty comfortable. Broke. Steelcase Leap after that. Durable. Had many years. Hadn't sat in for days on end until pandemic. Was killing my lower back. Ordered an Embody without having sat in one before. It's an opinionated chair in terms of design and damn if it didn't save my back. Still good a year later. They're not for everyone, but , man, they're for me.

TL;DR: the author is super committed to wearing a timepiece.

Paw's great for figuring out someone else's poorly documented API. Sure I could code up the equivalent, but not going to waste cycles reinventing a tool that pays for itself in less than an hour of saved time

Read his annual shareholder letters. I'm floored every year.

Marking up documents with your notes and questions is a critical part of the process. It's ultimately why I end up preferring paper.

It's notionally similar in that at b-school you read the case and then discuss in class, but in practice it's a very different activity. Real doc reviews at Amazon are far more rigorous.

They're not mutually exclusive options.

Mainframe Marty shows up.

They're buying much of their selection from another retailer after you purchase at retail pricing. I can't find the article but someone figured out at launch that they were fufilling many orders at 2-5X the actual price sold (only cost of goods sold... not including shipping and logistics). They'll burn through half a unicorn in a year or so.

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Oregon's case is that Oracle claimed their products worked together and could be merely configured to suit +95% of the state's requirements. That proved to be untrue. (It always does with COTS software, but it's the siren's call.) On top of that, OCS was incompentent. It's not a staff-aug vs. fixed fee case (and there are many other commercial models in SI land) -- Oregon is alleging straight up fraud and a RICO case.

The article doesn't really explain this very well, but the Chinese consulate is in the middle of BFE in NYC -- it's out on the West Side Hwy in no man's land. This is as much about location as complexity/UX. To get to the business idea part, you'd stumble so hard over the importance of physical location, I'd like to think most HN readers would find it hard to miss.

It's a cute business, but there's no economic moat here. The principals acknowledge as much in the article. What would be more interesting is a business that challenged the status quo in the expediter side of the passport/visa business.

Indeed -- I remember multiple firms trying to do the exact same thing on mothballed cruise ships during the height of the dotcom bubble (v1).

I'd disagree. The OS's capabilities are actually pretty good imo. I used my wife's HTC Trophy for a few weeks and was a bit bummed to go back to my iPhone. The apps story is night and day though -- there just aren't as many high quality apps and that's where WP7 is hamstrung.

As far as developer experience, I don't do android, but it's so much easier writing and debugging WP7 apps than iOS, from the tools to the simple managed/unmanaged aspects.

That said, Mango isn't going to change things dramatically. It's a good update, but the apps and perception are the problem. Going to be a long haul for WP7, but I hope MSFT sticks to it because it is a good mobile OS.

It's not, but pointing to DC as an example that gun laws don't work ignores a number of significant factors; specifically, the fact that guns are easily purchased just outside of the District's small expanse.

NYC's another interesting data point (but merely that) -- violent crime rate is roughly the same as Phoenix's... one city with a heavily armed citizenry and one virtually defenseless, same results. Obviously, other factors matter more.

If you go down the list of US cities with violent crime problems in order, the unmistakable trend is they're all at the bottom end of the economic spectrum. Safe bet that the local unemployment rate has a lot more to do with crime than gun laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...

The current version isn't browser-specific. You could add user-agent headers pretty easily. The existing C# code might compile with limited effort on Mono.

Agree, very easy once I was able to git out of my own way. Haven't really done much with it yet, but this is what Azure should be in terms of a developer experience. I'll be interested to see the AH guys evolve the service and start to get some of the elasticity of heroku, Azure, et al. Great start though and great support as they build out docs.

Don't listen to the naysayers, this is a great idea and it is an industry primed for disruption. It's a total effing scam. But I agree with others. The DIY version is only one angle... we paid for ours (through the nostrils), but if there were a 4x6 or moo type option? Absolutely.

As far as referrals go: they matter. You won't get much repeat business so acquisition will be a concern (even with an growing divorce rate!). But people get a ton of advice from their friends when the go through the process. The same DJ that played at a friends wedding, played at ours, and now seems to show up at every wedding we go to. People ask my wife about our venue, go there and then call to find out which florists we down-selected to, etc. Point being word of mouth is probably a disproportionately large source of demand. I think that can help mitigate a low customer lifetime value.

We're just pinballing around looking for a silver bullet here. The reality is we save and invest too little and purchase too much from abroad.

Like fnid says, the way to address the problem is a function of changing American behavior and increasing the value of our exports while saving more. This requires us to put off consumption in this generation for the benefit of the next one--sadly, this is the last thing Americans are going to sign up to do, ergo the search for a magic quick fix.

The Chinese response to a "surcharge" seems pretty obvious. China does purchase a lot of US exports--they're financial products aka Treasuries. America needs China to keep buying this to keep its whole leveraged jenga-stack of an economy intact. Devaluing US debt would hurt China, but it would hurt the US a lot more.

Which Krugman is talking is usually an important distinction... brilliant economist Krugman or OpEd/best-selling author Krugman?

If I want to buy something development and execution architecture based, I'm happy to buy that from MSFT since they've done exceedingly well there. How many sites out there have been running on google and amzn's dev/exec arch's the past 10 years? A lot less than Microsoft's. As far as them getting the internet or not, who cares. There's more to life than the internet. Java and .NET run the enterprise, not sure who among MSFT, IBM and Sun really "gets the internet" in the sense you're probably working to define.

H/w vendors are only cut out if MSFT invents a replacement for metal. Granted, utility computing in the cloud is about squeezing more utilization and value out of a given piece of h/w, so it's not without impact. You might perceive this as a change, but I'd say it's a change in the paradigm moreso than a change in MSFT.

Also, people tend to overlook this but cloud isn't really about infrastructure or hosting. Sure those are the current analogs--cloud is about what happens next, and I think it's more about shifting architectural tenets so that we do what works well with cloud scale and lifecycle. When you do those things, other interesting things start to become possible (e.g., in the cloud, it's hard to have misaligned test and prod envs, not the rule like it is most everywhere else).

Google can help your wonderment.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

Ditto. Terrible omission from the project page for a graphing lib.

Not sure I follow you. Most desktops are some flavor of Windows, call it +90%. What piece of technology, not present previously, became ubiquitous on Windows once it was open sourced? Open sourcing java doesn't mean much for end users on the desktop, imo.

The commercial open sourcing of java will matter on the ecosystem and it's a good thing for java developers (which, despite HN demographics, there are still millions of). Particularly, when you consider the flaws of the JCP and Sun's control to this point.

Good going Sun indeed--stick to making awesome hardware.

Read up for the part where we discussed Visual Studio Express being free.

The amusing part about the free tools argument is that the cost of tools is such a non-concern in the professional world. I work for large customers on large projects and tools, whether they be Microsoft, Oracle or IBM, no one's worried about that.

Then again, you might be talking about little side projects, my frame of reference is mostly multi-million dollar systems.

My guess would be that if you've never had trouble keeping things running either they're not real complicated or you don't have a lot of users. And that statement applies to any technology/platform. If you build things long and big enough, you'll fight the technology at points.

That said, even if you have a ton more professional experience than your response suggests, I don't trust people who say never glibly, nor does your question seem genuine.

You're implying the guy's a newb and it's him not the technology--just say as much.

Skip Castle, it pulls along a lot of baggage with it and its not for beginners. ASP.NET MVC with LINQ + NHib is my pick as most productive .NET web stack right now. I think there's enough literature out there to get you started on MVC, NHib will increase your learning curve a bit, but it should be a good second stage.

You can build anything with anything. It's mainly about what personally works for you and what kinds of skills you want to end up with on the other side.

Good luck.

A.) 5 years ago B.) Only impacted unpatched servers C.) They said they were using MySQL anyway

Two words: hanging chad

Fact check in aisle zero. Microsoft's CLR profiler is freely downloadable, no linkage to IDE versions. Additionally, there are two tiers of VS above Express, Professional and Team Suite (VSTS). VSTS comes in different editions, it's a bit convoluted but mostly irrelevant because most folks doing this for a living have an MSDN subscription (or they should, as it pays for itself pretty quickly just for dev/test licences). Collectively, these tools are frequently used to build mission-critical software for large corporations, which is probably the largest difference between MSFT's developer stack and APPL's.

Yahoo was in the headlights before. Now they're just roadkill.

I think a MSFT+YHOO merger would have been massive fail, but it's Microsoft that ends up dodging the bullet here. Yahoo just takes one. Where exactly is Yahoo relevant anymore?