"“Australia has nothing like San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. The tech culture there is insane. The demand for skilled workers is incredible. The creativity and innovation is incredible. It's infectious,” he says."
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"“Australia has nothing like San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. The tech culture there is insane. The demand for skilled workers is incredible. The creativity and innovation is incredible. It's infectious,” he says."
To say "facebook was full of junk" when comparing to twitter is a bit unfair.
I felt like I was using Windows 8 "wrong" because I was throwing away the start screen after boot and not coming back to it.
Can't believe I'd forgotten about it.
I guess it just frustrates me because I can't get around it.
With physical goods, if I don't like the AU price, I can easily shop online on another countries website and get the goods shipped. No problems.
With digital goods, there's mostly no way to legitimately purchase them from overseas. You can use a VPN and a fake address, but that breaks the terms & conditions.
Though, I do wish this guy could explain why real-world money Steam games in the US are often half the price of those in Australia/Europe.
"an absolutely-secure totally-reliable POSIX compliant operating system, such as INTEGRITY"
Then I wondered who makes INTEGRITY?
The author of the post: Dan O’Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software
oh dear.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dmknbldjfdgmfecaai...
edit: I'm having too much fun.