ESchmidtSeesYou

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The new Stanford font is awful(tusb.stanford.edu)
3 points by ESchmidtSeesYou 14y ago|1 comments
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
I just wonder why they put out that joke of a controller for Google TV, when they could have made a PS Move-like controller with a slide-out keyboard or similar.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Exactly.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
automatic trading based on Black-Scholes acerbated the crash != the Black Scholes model contributed to the crash Unrelatedly, is there anything wrong with, say, a mortgage-backed security accurately priced according to a particular model, s
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
I really wouldn't take an article seriously if it partially blames the '87 stock market crash on Black-Scholes (basic model for pricing European options). That makes literally zero sense.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Also, rumors that Gingerbread will launch by December, and 4.0 towards the end of next year: http://phandroid.com/2010/10/19/android-3-0-should-be-ready-...
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
What leads you to believe that Verizon or any other carrier wants to become a dumb pipe?? A decade of contrary statements to the press suggests otherwise.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Original source: http://phandroid.com/2010/10/18/exclusive-first-android-ging... Remember that Google recently hired Matias Duarte from Palm, who headed the UI design of webOS. These subtle revisions aiming towards design consistency and
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Yes, but they're pushing this as an open browser standard for all web app stores. It'll be interesting to see Google's response to this, as well as how DRM potentially works in both implementations.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
I generally find anything like this to be very cheesy, but that genuinely moved me. Thanks for sharing.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
If you want to sell a Windows Phone 7 handset, you have to pay Microsoft. If you want to sell an Android handset... you have to pay Microsoft. They're pretty direct about their legal strategy.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Oh, really? You're actually making the opposite argument: divided technical leadership is what drove most progress in personal computing. Unless you yearn for the days of the IBM mainframe... The Economics of the Microsoft Case, by perhaps
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
You can blame people like Larry Summers, who advocated shock therapy when he was Chief Economist of the World Bank, devastating the economic potential of the former Soviet bloc.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
This is basically correct, but it still depends on one's values. Who do you value more, the current generation or future generations? Essentially the perpetual argument over the standard discounting problem.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
And convicted monopolist. Not all good, not all bad.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
I used to be big on microcredit, until I realized it isn't actually profitable (as is claimed). The vast majority of funding for microcredit organizations comes from government. It's still charity, even if it can often be fairly efficient c
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Microsoft brazenly, fiercely ignored antitrust law. There's endless evidence in court on their attempts to illegally block the adoption of Java and Netscape Navigator. They were found guilty in U.S. v. Microsoft. And every web developer kno
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
The best comment is definitely: "What about the Newton?? I actually bought one. I still can’t believe that I did."
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Well they do praise it, albeit it in an odd way. I know several developers who frequently complain about Android fragmentation, but then again they might just be spoiled by iOS. WP7 doesn't really allow for any oem/carrier skinning though..
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Will Windows Phone 7 be anywhere near as hacker friendly? Keep in mind xda-developers originally formed as a Windows Mobile community.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Yes, thank you kindly.
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Android's "Extreme Fragmentation," Colorfully Visualized by TweetDeck's Team(engadget.com)
23 points by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago|14 comments
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Wonderfully straightforward resource for the basics.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Fits.me is one company that's been working on the problem of buying clothes online that fit well, using a robot mannequin: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20018094-1.html
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
You already can publish changes by including them in the app description or in the update-install approval dialog box. They showed their cloud syncing online store at Google IO. Watch, starting around 31:10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
IO = Google's annual developer conference. Gingerbread = Android 3.0, coming by the end of the year. Honeycomb = Android 3.5, coming next year, with further optimizations for tablets.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Also, consider how Google just added Market support for buying and selling paid apps in ~20 countries: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-expands-paid-app-suppor... The improvements really are constantly coming.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
To anyone who thinks: that a very small team creating an entire, enormously complex operating system, with unending goals for platforms improvements, that has already been successfully iterating at an extreme pace, is up against enormous co
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
And if anyone genuinely IS interested in attempts by the dismal science to suck the soul out of romance, check out Gary Becker's 'A Theory of Marriage' papers.
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by ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Not serious statistics, but very cool visual nonetheless. Now, so long as everyone realizes the 'woman at the bar' scene in A Beautiful Mind isn't actual game theory, feel free to go nuts.

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