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I was hoping someone else felt this way.

In my view, it's never worth risking your life to protect your belongings. Be like Roger Sterling in Mad Men and give up your money & your jewelry.

He's talking about using Spotlight as a way to launch applications…

Does anything like this exist (that's actually helpful/usable)?

Quick question: is the service meant to work in the latest DEV release of Chrome? I just get a blank screen: http://cl.ly/92a3f95975927920868b

Here's a quick explanation, but I'm sure some googling will find you more details explaining why they chose to break backward compatibility.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/12/python-3-0-s...

I don't think we're necessarily disagreeing. I'm not saying technical details are going to make a sale (almost ever), but if one of the members of the sales team (note that I'm classifying the "sales engineer" as a salesman) can grant credibility & real world experience to the lofty promises that the typical salesman makes, it adds a level of differentiation that can—in some instances—make or break a sale.

Also, to clarify, it also really depends on the nature of the industry, the product, and even what we're considering technical details.

I just switched from a more technical position to this type of role for this exact reason. Your 10% comment is only partially true, though. I think it depends on both the product, industry, as well as the client; some sales are inherently more driven by technical expertise & experience.

Another similar app for the iPhone just came out called TakeMySpot. Seems that there's a building market for this space. It'd be nice to see something like this actually catch on.

I can see this. For example, the message might be: "Please don't talk to me if you're not technical."

…which is why they don't want another closed system as a layer between their products and their users.

http://cl.ly/UA5 (Finder Preferences)

I'm pretty sure you can disable this behavior with a checkbox.

I think that's the first time I've heard someone described as a “manual transmission fanboy.” As a fanboy myself, I love it.

Any confirmation on this?

Not to downplay the value of this comment—it truly is a victory for open source software—but I first read it as:

  I remember in the late 90s being excited to root Apache every month...

Upon purchasing the Artwork, Collector may establish a new value for the Artwork. The new value may not exceed current market expectations for the Artwork based on the current value of work by the Artist. This value may be reassessed quarterly.

The #1 result on Google for "mockups"—that is impressive!

They've truly found a great niche and carved it out themselves.

Also, from http://smallcore.org

honing drupal into a viable web framework, one patch at a time: fewer dependencies, fewer required modules, and a robust packaging system for tailored, targeted distributions.

why? because the only thing between us and world domination is blog module.

This article is nothing more than weakly supported anti-Drupal propaganda. Don't waste your time. It's almost as if an editor asked the writer for a piece to counter all the positive press the switch to Drupal has been getting.

Could this be a possible counter-argument to the recent anti-Google Bing ads? Maybe it's good for you after all... I can only hope.

That's just not right...

Hadn't seen this before. Pretty cool. This tears down a huge barrier to entry in the online video space.

This is a very cool use of EC2: essentially a customizable map server as an appliance.

These are all good points, but I don't think anyone is suggesting a universal platform that competes across industries. The point being that there are a breadth of these types of niches in which to compete.

Aeron at the office. My company is so 2000.

Is it a portal? Does it integrate with existing systems? If not, is it an integration engine? Is it still in development, or is the system ready? Sorry for all the questions, but it's still not clear what need you intend to fill from looking at the site.

See what I mean?

Agreed. That definitely takes a lot of balls, considering how typically averse to hip-hop this community is.

Just imagine all those lost profits...

Our software works on IE6-7 & Firefox, but yes, it can be a nightmare to support newer browsers.