SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL?
Not true, they are just aren't doing "NoSQL" specifically:
http://www.sap.com/press.epx?pressid=13293
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SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete
I was on Verizon for 5 years and never had any of these problems...then BAM got the iPhone and everything for voice calls went to shit.
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Freakonomics: How to Avoid a Bad Apartment in New York City
Oh god they're using Joomla (sobi2)...the usability of the site is really bad. For example, I searched "291 macdougal street" and it returns all of the listings...
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: MS Product (read-Marketing) Group responds to Reddits questions to IE9
I for one am VERY disappointed in MS on this. The corporate/marketing jargon in their responses is what will lead them to fail.
Honest question: Is this an age thing? After reading some of the "witty" things they tried to say it sounded like my 58 year old dad trying to spew out playful banter to my friends at a bar...it just doesnt work.
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: A product is not just about features. It's about experience.
"User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's still undervalued and under-invested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board." - Evan Williams CEO of Twitter
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Twitter Removes “via {client}” Attribution in #newTwitter. Buh-Bye Developers
Ok it's actually just moved a little bit, but more importantly...
Why really should Twitter care? Do they have any obligation to developers? No. Correct me if I'm wrong but legally what's stopping Twitter from shutting off its API and creating its own client?
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Will America’s universities go the way of its car companies?
Isn't California bankrupt?
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million
I love how people think they can just "calculate the value of their future cashflow"...isn't this what we are preached to stay away from now? (i.e. Steve Blank's idea on "business model > business plan")
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Choosing New York over San Francisco
As a single hetero male I have never seen a single episode of Sex and the City, but I can speak wonders on what it has done for the single man in NYC (and the world for that matter). Thank you SJP...I say the former (better).
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Choosing New York over San Francisco
Actually girls in NYC are attracted to success and most women here are very impressed by "I started my own company in NYC". Although this is where your ability to "massage" the truth comes into play.
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Choosing New York over San Francisco
As a Chicago native and a current Manhattan resident I'll have to respectively disagree. The amount of single women in Manhattan is staggering, noticeable and quite frankly of higher quality. For the record - I still love Midwest women.
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com
Good point. Dropbox does this very well.
SilianRail | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA?
If you are not EU, London is just as hard to immigrate to as the US. Especially with the recent changes in immigration policy.
SilianRail | 16 years ago | on: I am now homeless - living on Airbnb for months
I could be wrong but he also could legally expense this. If so then its a huge win, haha.
SilianRail | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it?
And having too many options is what is killing these companies compared to Apple. Quite frankly people don't care that you have XYZ mobo processor or graphics card inside. They just want the dam thing to work.
"Tyranny of Choice" at its best.
SilianRail | 16 years ago | on: Why is digital advertising so lousy? Industry is too smug to innovate.
Do you have evidence to support this?
SilianRail | 16 years ago | on: SAP to Buy Sybase for $5.25 Billion
Basically 90% of their customers are on Oracle, DB2, and MS SQL. Apparently they tried something with MySQL (http://www.sap.com/press.epx?pressid=2208) but never went anywhere.
SilianRail | 16 years ago | on: College for all? Experts say not necessarily
and "who you know" didn't matter?
SilianRail | 16 years ago | on: NY Pays 230 “Consultants” $722M For Project 7 Years Behind Schedule
I've always said that 2 smart people can get way more done than an army of consultants in a shorter amount of time. (for the record, I'm an ex-consultant)
But this is business and this is why these companies make as much money as they do. When you are in charge of such a project and your ass is on the line who better to blame than a large Fortune 500 type of company (i.e. Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, etc). You can't get fired for failing a project with a vendor that is considered the "best" but you can for using "Jim's Custom Development Shack".
SilianRail | 16 years ago | on: NY Pays 230 “Consultants” $722M For Project 7 Years Behind Schedule
I read Accenture (coughAccidenture*cough) and IBM and up-voted right away.
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