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by 0x12 15y ago
So, if I understand you correctly, the average error decreases but the best error actually increases?
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by 0x12 15y ago
Without Woz apple would have never happened, because he designed their first flagship product. What Woz did back then is highly relevant because it was the thing that eventually enabled Jobs to start Next and buy Pixar. Jobs and Woz to me a
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by 0x12 15y ago
I don't understand from your table how the combined use of GPS+GLONASS would have a worse 'best case', 2.00 for GPS alone vs 2.37 for GPS+GLONASS.
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's a 25% import duty on devices imported into the Russian federal territory.
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by 0x12 15y ago
The downsides to having no co-founder: - you get to deal with the stress on your own (or maybe you have a supportive spouse) - you can't have soundboard sessions with your co-founders - you can't divide the labor - you ha
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by 0x12 15y ago
I think you're missing the point here. How they parted does not matter much. What matters is that without the other they would have never made it to where they got.
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by 0x12 15y ago
At some point someone is going to look back through google's behavior to determine if an anti-trust case can be made to break up the company into several divisions. Decisions like this will come back to haunt them at that time. It's like th
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Unofficial Google Advanced Search(jwebnet.net)
161 points by 0x12 15y ago|15 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
Let's hope they start with the actual costs of manufacturing, and not tack on 24 years of research and the cost of large scale clinical trials. GSK has a mixed history when it comes to stuff like this, let's hope they do the right thing her
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by 0x12 15y ago
That all depends on the price. If the price is reasonable then fine. But typically big pharma that gets a lock-in on 'life' is anything but reasonable in their pricing, after all, what's the value of a human life. The 5% profits over costs
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by 0x12 15y ago
Just between you and me, I'm not a native English speaker, had never even heard of a dessert called Ice Cream Sandwich and only belatedly realized it was a piece of software. If they'd simply call it Android version x.xx there would be no p
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by 0x12 15y ago
For a second there I read that as a smartphone powered by icecream between two slices of bread. I was roughly halfway towards either peltier elements or Stirling engines, when I realized hat Ice Cream Sandwich is probably one of those silly
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by 0x12 15y ago
It depends. In countries with a lack of social security and pensions people tend to look on their children as providers. If infant mortality is high then they will likely decide to have many children to make their bet more safe. If they hav
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by 0x12 15y ago
Hm. This comment reads like something straight out of an SF novel and yet I can't shake the feeling that it is just around the corner. Interesting times indeed. Thank you for opening my eyes a bit further. Gargoyles seemed like a fun thing
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by 0x12 15y ago
Tough choice. Pay tax or better consumer laws.
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by 0x12 15y ago
It's a feature of a car when you buy it, it's a product when you upgrade the crappy unit that came with the car for something a bit nicer.
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by 0x12 15y ago
To make sure they stay in business? I think a lot of people are more than happy to pay for useful services just to keep them in business. As long as the utility is larger than the price charged transactions will be made. One website I'm fam
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by 0x12 15y ago
As long as enough people are willing to pay for the 'feature' I'm sure that the dropbox founders don't care too much what people call it :)
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by 0x12 15y ago
And that was before large scale facerecognition software that could be employed to determine not only how many people are walking by the device but also who. Now doing this in real time with a large crowd is still not technically feasible b
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by 0x12 15y ago
Where is that friend button when you need it? ;)
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by 0x12 15y ago
I wrote something about this in another thread. I don't think dropbox will die, and here is why: Dropbox is only a 'feature' if you already have everything else, an operating system, and an installed base of a large number of devices. But d
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by 0x12 15y ago
> Don't visit sites that use the Like button That's nice in theory, but of course you can't know which pages have the 'like' button on it until you hit them.
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by 0x12 15y ago
And besides that, it is not the manufacturer of the filesystem that is in control, but the person that installed it, likely the same person that is deleting the files. For web based services the rules change dramatically, because you are no
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'Take This Lollipop' And Get Your Very Own Creepy Facebook Stalker(forbes.com)
2 points by 0x12 15y ago|0 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
That application is a joy to read. One answer stands out for me, it probably was instrumental in the eventual success for dropbox: # Do any founders have other commitments between June and August 2007 inclusive? > No; I've given
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by 0x12 15y ago
You've earned it. I like to think of myself as being somewhat hardened against being marketed to and I found myself continuing to read right up to the payload. That's not easy.
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by 0x12 15y ago
What's very cool about this is that the page itself is actually a sample that will sell you on the book. Best marketing of the year award. Really awesome.
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Facebook data request, reference “Section 4 DPA + Art. 12 Directive 95/46/EG”(facebook.com)
3 points by 0x12 15y ago|0 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
You can't really contract out of these rights, they're yours to keep (if you're living in the EU, that is). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive Some countries go further than these pan-European rules and for instance re
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by 0x12 15y ago
I really hope that nobody here is actually surprised that that is the true purpose of the 'like' button. After all, the users get just about nothing out of it, if you like something that much an email will do just as well (to the select num

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