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by 10ren 16y ago
On the positive side, although google has no customer service or email for feedback, there's a chance that someone from google will see this comment here, and do something about it. A chance is better than nothing. In this context, Steve Jo
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by 10ren 16y ago
Thanks, I'm surprised it wasn't in the first version. I bet that UI came with the the Android acquisition. Though gmail is very good. All of their other good examples of UI's that I can think of also come from acquisitions: it's an opportun
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by 10ren 16y ago
The RAM/CPU specs are close to my netbook. I'm surprised that JIT compilation isn't standard for a Java-related language, it's pretty old now. The fragmentation is a concern, for market size (for apps), though it will sill be massively larg
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Gillard elected: rural Australia broadband(automatedtrader.net)
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by 10ren 16y ago
Google App Engine seems pretty cool. 1 GB per day free (outgoing) http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Requests - there are other quotas for other resources, like datastore etc.
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by 10ren 16y ago
very recent mixergy interview with their founder: http://mixergy.com/runkeeper-jason-jacobs-interview/ HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1641802
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm not in the valley, but Steve Blank is, and he suggests "business models" instead of business plans. They are a set of questions that your business needs to find answers to as it goes along: http://steveblank.com/2010/05/17/no-one-wins-
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by 10ren 16y ago
Coincidentally, brain scans often show around 10% activation (random google eg. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/impaired-brain-act... ) Only a fraction of a CPU is active during a given time period (eg if no floating point arithm
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by 10ren 16y ago
Ironically, that page doesn't have the "Print/export" box on the left hand side , which made it a bit confusing for me to get started... and made me wonder how easy the rest of it would be to use if this (first) usability issue hadn't yet
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by 10ren 16y ago
[You probably won't believe me but] you misspelled faze http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faze http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phase
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by 10ren 16y ago
"View source" renders it with wraparound.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Just some thoughts I've had on USA vs. Europe R&D. I've noticed that computer science research/development in Europe tends to be more theory-based, as if the goal is to create a little world where everything makes sense; like the courtl
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by 10ren 16y ago
> "Sajeonogi," or "Knocked down four times, rising up five." Is Korean really that much more efficient than English, or is that word a label? The instructors started to teach her after 949 tries - 949 tries, of watching this poor woman
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by 10ren 16y ago
I wouldn't have expected horses to be as intelligent as dogs. Probably because I have more experience with dogs. EDIT google's only giving me informal discussions: http://www.petqna.com/other/1014-1-other-petqna.html It seems while they
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by 10ren 16y ago
I see what you mean, but my experience is quite often that I have to hunt a lot to get answers to straightforward questions. After a fair bit of effort (if I keep going, sometimes for a considerable time...) I'll get the answer - but not al
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by 10ren 16y ago
> The instant gratification provided by being able to have almost any question answered immediately is a tiny pony. Apart from reference questions (like dictionary meanings, map look up, programming syntax, wikipedia), we are an awfully
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by 10ren 16y ago
The psychosis assistance-parrot sounds farcical, but the explanation is utterly logical.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Wow, I think that's actually true (about followers making you the leader). I had a competitor (following, though not cloning), and it freaked me out (like, seriously), and for this reason (and others) I ended up stepping back somewhat from
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by 10ren 16y ago
So he has a marketing message: "we purchase on features", and we "equate apparent [...] complexity with power'. His solution is spot on: give the appearance of power (for purchase), but make it actually simple-to-use (for use.) He also ment
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by 10ren 16y ago
Almost half the weight (380g vs 730g), but smaller screen (7" vs. 9.7"). Maybe this makes it even more squarely a "big iPhone", neither fish nor phone.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Talk to a rubber duck - it's not just for technical problems. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking I take a walk and observe nature, the smallness of myself and how little control I have over the rest of the world - yet everything keeps g
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by 10ren 16y ago
This was years ago. I must have had bad luck to have wanted to edit 'special' pages, that don't supply the code. I assumed that was the general rule, which the help page seemed to confirm: > When no code word is given, you may use an al
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by 10ren 16y ago
I've found c2 wiki very interesting, mainly for XP related stuff (eg criticism of the Visitor pattern; do the simplest thing that could possibly work) - but it's not a public wiki, because you can't contribute without a password, which only
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by 10ren 16y ago
The quote for #2 What's the simplest thing that could possibly work? http://c2.com/xp/DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork.htm...
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by 10ren 16y ago
Sun was a phenomenally successful business - but not at selling software. Software was their way to sell hardware. A few years back, I wanted to buy stock in a software company, because I was in the software business, knew something about
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by 10ren 16y ago
Just on that advice: 1. try to find less ambitious tasks that still have some excitement for you - that is, the right level of challenge for you; and 2. try to learn how to break down tasks. 1. I always find it exciting to see something hap
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by 10ren 16y ago
Doesn't YC target people like us, as opposed to the mainstream?
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The name has a cool sound, but I think "grep" is only meaningful to people like us, not the mainstream that it targets. Still, create something useful, and the name doesn't matter as long as it's memorable and distinctive, as this is on all
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by 10ren 16y ago
There were several comments on it here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613137 I think it's a neat idea. Technically easy, but some of the best ideas are. I'm not using OhLife, but I coded a version (mainly to see if Google apps could
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by 10ren 16y ago
I've heard it described as basically the aveage of recent comments, with the highest and lowest outliers thrown out. (I guess the formula's in the source if you really want to know).

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