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by 6ren 14y ago
Also a forensic tool, a personal blackbox.
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by 6ren 14y ago
The 1850-1880 campaign to abolish patents: > Abolitionist lobby faded away mid-1870s, as most European countries retreated to tariff protection (prompted by influx of cheap N. American grain and severe economic downturn). https://docs.
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Google mobile app predicts what you want(huffingtonpost.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
I've been looking for a rich text editor for linux - I got sick of OpenOffice's load times (47sec) and seeing Oracle's logo. It was inconceivable to me that MS has a webapp version of Word. Unfortunately, it takes 27sec to load a document (
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by 6ren 14y ago
Is there a running demo of DrEdit? Edit there's one on the chrome appstore
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by 6ren 14y ago
Not yet - but x2 in power annually, how long til they're fast enough?
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by 6ren 14y ago
> The likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Roger Ailes have had no problem showing Brilliant Jerks the door Any examples of that?
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by 6ren 14y ago
A user once told me my product had no geek cred because it was too easy to use.
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by 6ren 14y ago
With a crontab email, you get notified every time it runs. Their value proposition is to notify you when it doesn't run. Part of this value is that their service keeps running. That is, you could set-up their service yourself (a process w
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by 6ren 14y ago
Yep, people buy benefits, not features. But getting greater CPU power than, and equivalent GPU power to the iPad 3, into a tiny, smaller, lighter phone, is a pretty impressive feature. Because the CPU power isn't spread over 4 cores, it's
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by 6ren 14y ago
"Get paid for your hobby, and you no longer have a hobby". If you have to do some task, you should do it, it stops being play; it stops being fun. One thing I find undermining about HN is the focus on finding a market, getting users, me
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Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity(celandine13.livejournal.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
A subtle advantage of static typing is documentation: you can see what kinds of arguments are required. This can also be used in auto-generated documentation, creating hyper-links to the type and implementations. (I noticed this in python
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by 6ren 14y ago
I see a program as a theory , a theory of the problem it solves. You can see how well it generalises, if it is needlessly complicated (Occam)... and in some magical moments, you'll find it predicting phenomena you hadn't explicitly antici
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by 6ren 14y ago
I really like extended metaphors. When done well, they tell you more about something, in terms of what you already know. They can also be affecting (a pedagogically oft-quoted example: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171781 ). Anothe
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's x7 earth mass. The reason we've only discovering huge planets is because that's all our equipment can detect, so far (by wobbling/obscuring their sun). For our solar system, only Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus would be massive en
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by 6ren 14y ago
> [if you follow] Google’s attempts at developing a quality mapping service, you will notice that they initially tried to automate the entire process and failed miserably, as Apple has. And they can improve, as Google did. But customer
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by 6ren 14y ago
That makes sense. Consumer protection law (Trade Practices Act) in Australia was designed for consumers to use - but it turned out it was always competitors who used them.
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by 6ren 14y ago
For the tractor and five-way circular pistons (at 2:17) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6pcbhylmQ&t=2m17s are we yet at the point where they are printed as-is (i.e. pre-assembled)? Or are their parts printed separately and then hand
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by 6ren 14y ago
I do this too. Enables me to note up, underline etc. Printing is also surprisingly helpful for getting an overview of my code. But I am curious if it's primarily eye strain - and therefore the iPad 3 retina large display might help.
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by 6ren 14y ago
If it's precision-milled to the micron, why do they need "725 unique inlays"? Serious question - I think there's something I don't understand here.
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by 6ren 14y ago
The screen size of the S4 is expected to reach 5-inch from the current 4.8 Bigger isn't necessarily better. The iPhone 5 went with decreased volume and weight. I own neither, but it's an interesting case-study of features vs. bene
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by 6ren 14y ago
They could have said "completely redesigned* - the closest they came to that was calling it "A6". They are right to sell the benefits, because that's what sells. Even Woz chastised them for saying "quad-core" graphics for the iPad 3. This
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SymbolHound is a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters(symbolhound.com)
1 points by 6ren 14y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 14y ago
We could not find the page you requested. That's what I'm getting from clicking that link. (They have "China" left of the search bar at the top - maybe because I'm in Australia, they think I'm in China, and so don't show the /about.
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New Google calculator GUI(google.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
More success has come from cooperation. Families, tribes and civilisations that cannot harness the contributions of its members are defeated (or out-competed) by those that can. In cynical terms, good wins because it is stronger. Note tha
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by 6ren 14y ago
> a hunch that it [Java] won't be a very successful language He lists COBOL as a bad language - but it's been very successful. So I think he's not really writing about "success", but about what hackers like. Interpreted this wa
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by 6ren 14y ago
> the one thing you can measure is dangerously misleading [Demo Day fundraising] That this is misleading follows from the thesis that the best ideas look like bad ideas . But - historically - didn't the best ideas (dropbox and
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by 6ren 14y ago
Not backlit, it's "front-lit" http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Paperwhite-Resolution-Display-B... They say it's "25% better contrast", but is this with the display lit or unlit? It's easy to increase contrast by adding more light, but not gr

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