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consultSKI

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About consultSKI

Retired Marketing Mad Man™

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    Comment #43230362

    I only needed one: It is a Microsoft offering. Never used it, never will.

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    Comment #42147244

    Priceless! Well done Jan. Thank you for sharing this amazing project.

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    Comment #42089311

    >> BlackBerry reserves the right to change, modify, discontinue, or cancel any offer or program or any part thereof at any time and in its sole discretion, without notice to you. O…

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    Comment #42089269

    Awesome! I signed up for the BlackBerry PlayBook dev initiative at SXSW in 2012 and found the device and QNX to be amazing. It supported a bluetooth mouse YEARS before the iPad! Bu…

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    Comment #41521399

    Yep. Equifax got hacked a few years ago and the Government let them use ITS credit monitoring tool for those affected instead of reaching into its own pockets to pay for a third-pa…

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    Comment #41465054

    Great feedback IMNSHO. But the key is CSS (cascading STYLE sheets)... You and I are NOT designers if I may be so bold. In 1996 I was one of about 100 people on new and MAJOR websit…

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    Comment #41032867

    Term Limits. No real math is required. Senate: 1 Term. 6 years. Not able to then serve in the House. House: 2 Terms. 4 years. Not able to then serve in the Senate. 1 Term House + 1…

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    Comment #39780838

    Maybe this will get Tim Cook's attention? P.S. Tim, you have gone to far. Even if you win the case. #justSayin

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    Comment #38808803

    >> but the IDE was the best way to make GUIs that ever existed It was Lifted in spirit from NeXTstep's Interface Builder, so it was okay. But still a pale comparison. P.S. If you a…

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    Comment #38249249

    Yeah, I agree with others, not good. Recommending inline CSS is just wrong.

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    Comment #38084004

    "We have always done it this way" comes to mind.

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    Comment #36517455

    Okay, help me here... with Dockers why would I want to go back to VMs?

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    Comment #36370168

    Interesting insights... it is going to take me a couple of reads to comprehend all the value here. Thx JDAW P.S. Thx for the PDF version

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    Comment #36354691

    My 10 year old BlackBerry Playbook was light years ahead of the iPad in functionality with standard features like mouse support (which iPad only received a few years ago). The QNX-…

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    Comment #36354549

    Wrong. Never used them, probably never will. >> The programming use case died because, according to Hillell Wayne, “even most proponents of UML considered it a terrible idea.” When…

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    Comment #36243701

    Does anyone besides FAAM-sized entities care what Google thinks or does? There is a very real reason disruption matters. Can Google be disrupted? Absolutely. However, will they? I …

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    Comment #36202757

    Not happening. Where is my new iPhone like the AR units used in "The Expanse?" Oh yea, the great SciFy series about the future of outer space is on Amazon Prime. Tim Cook: Stop by …

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    Comment #35287310

    About time.

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    Comment #35287280

    This is a big deal. Huge.

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    Comment #35249983

    if true, one more reason i don't miss mailchimp... they have made it IMPOSSIBLE to take them seriously. #justSayin

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    Comment #35150042

    The ONLY reason I cared was it allowed others to think the RSS approach was somehow how "over" and no longer worthy. #sad P.S. I still use RSS Feeds and have a reader as a Chrome e…

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    Comment #35150017

    All three "services" are bought dogs. Only MUCH worse than the BBB.

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    Comment #33396070

    Cool. Where did the name Serenity come from?