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by GCA10 10y ago
Actually, these aren't simple devices at all. Good food-sorting machines can cost $30,000 or more. They are loaded up with optical sensors, intelligent paddle ejectors and other goodies. Lots of software in them, too! Distinguishing be
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Let's transpose the difficult/easier dilemma to other areas, where you might be the newbie: - Prepackaged food. Why should lettuce leaves be separated, cleaned and packaged in handy sizes? People should be totally okay with tearin
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But bear in mind that anyone can have a cloud-computing initiative. Hewlett Packard Enterprises has one. Executing well and building momentum in the face of AWS is the hard part. If Microsoft is making headway, that's interesting.
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Elements of Style hasn't always aged well, and Pullum's objections all touch on valid points. But I'll rally to EoS's defense in two crucial areas: 1. Strunk & White got it right when they declared: "Good writin
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What the WSJ Got Right (and Wrong) in 1989 Predictions(wsj.com)
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It plays a bit better at the supposed ELO 1900 level, but it still stumbles into some very avoidable pins, etc.
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This isn't as much fun as I thought. The engine pursues a primitive attacking strategy, often missing the best moves. I got the first five right, not because I did deep analysis of the position, but because I simply started picking whi
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Snap's IPO Riff on Kindness (and Dental Hygiene)(forbes.com)
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New Book Is Truth Serum for Uber, Airbnb(forbes.com)
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Bravo to Sam Altman for focusing on a way to talk about immigration that will resonate outside Silicon Valley. The full-strength SV mindset plays very well in the 650 area code ... but it's less effective and sometimes downright counte
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Clocks by Zeno -- helping atomic scientists on their journey for the past 111.1111 meters.
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I've taken vague note of the Doomsday Clock for a long time -- and it's a clever concept without a coherent calibration mechanism. No quarrel with their directional moves ... now or at any other time. But they've ended up in
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The Firefox team assumed that Android would be an expensive, bulky OS that wouldn't fit into sub-$120 phones -- leaving lots of room for spartan little Firefox OS to own the low end. Not so. Android decided to do cheap and lean, too. I
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by GCA10 10y ago
This domain could be the current-day equivalent of the famous Red Paperclip of a decade ago. The opportunities for "value creation" are the stuff of movies. I'll watch with interest what happens to it. https://en.w
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by GCA10 10y ago
He's a senior editor at Super Evil Megacorp, the mobile-games site, according to his LinkedIn profile. To my astonishment, http://womenwhowanttosleepwithchrisholt.com/ is an unclaimed domain name. At least that's
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by GCA10 10y ago
If we get only one chance to be a "new customer," then it would be a reasonably fair system. But most of these churn-inducing systems are run in such a way that the Customer Acquisition Teams are quite willing to book you at the n
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Echoes of Comcast ... the NYT is constantly promoting 50% off the posted rates for new subscribers, without ever offering such terms to existing customers. But if you're a "frustrated" long-time customer who's on the ver
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by GCA10 10y ago
Agreed, and that's speaking as a stubborn amateur. In tournaments, the escalating blinds point you toward pretty straightforward strategies at different junctures. You're in the shallow end of the pool. In a cash game, you're
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I'd be so much happier if paragraph six didn't call for "putting every symbol in allocated sluts."
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Full-fledged failure is genuinely unpleasant, and Silicon Valley plays deceptive word games to hide this. Most of what's cheerfully dubbed "failure" should be called "short-lived experiments that didn't work out.&qu
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by GCA10 10y ago
My general sense is that academic superstars who decide to opine on world events generally do slightly better than their Hollywood counterparts ... but not much On team academia, Linus Pauling, Edward Teller, Bertrand Russell, Paul Krugman,
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Two islands, actually. More than 30 if you count all the outlying ones.
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Baseline United service is deplorable. But they've become quite clever at providing better variants for people who fly them a lot. It's almost like being a party member in the old Soviet Union. You get the equivalent of your own,
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Ah, but my point was that they don't operate like startups. They may adopt a lot of startups' superficial trappings, but in their first three years, they aren't sharpening their objective by being cash-constrained and exposed
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Big companies seem to step in the same puddle, every time they try to set up one of these "breakthrough incubator" projects. They pick fascinating projects. They hire lots of smart people and give them great autonomy. But they ina
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I wish this piece had spent more time on the art of "Making Sure They Work Well Together." This is huge -- and underappreciated by 95% of founders. Here are four dimensions that would be worth exploring in a subsequent post: Who d
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Udacity Launches Blitz, Helping Grads Win Jobs(forbes.com)
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Fake News from the Left: A Data-Defying Headline(politico.com)
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Our Future Protein May Come from Insects(forbes.com)
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Well said re: secrecy. If you aren't testing your ideas in the marketplace, you run a huge risk of keeping your business's best iteration a total secret from yourself.

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