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by HSO 15y ago
What will the world look like when not just the US but many other countries around the world operate fleets of drones; and when powerful, sophisticated drones are owned by lots of private individuals? […] Only when people start thinking th
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Fukuyama: Why we all need a drone of our own(ft.com)
4 points by HSO 15y ago|2 comments
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Why Dropbox Is A Major Disruption(abovethecrowd.com)
69 points by HSO 15y ago|27 comments
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by HSO 15y ago
+1 for Munich, preferably before April
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by HSO 15y ago
I agree about the structure. The thing about most technical, or how to call them, non-literary? books is that clearly you are not expected to read everything. In a sense, you start with the given structure but make the book your own as you
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by HSO 15y ago
I don't read lots of fiction lately but the one thing that bugs me is how clumsy sharing (of short passages, memorable quotes etc) is. Imagine you could just share a memorable sentence or passage to twitter or FB or whatever directly from w
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by HSO 15y ago
I totally know what you mean, I appreciate the craftsmanship too that went into such gems. It's like knowing you are in "good hands" ;-) Still, I would appreciate if the form would give me the option to "mess" with it sometimes, e.g. suppre
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by HSO 15y ago
Before I migrated my entire library to my computer, I sometimes made carbon copies and cut the theorems out just to reach this sort of effect. Then I could reshuffle and have what I want in front of me instead of flipping around in a book (
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by HSO 15y ago
Skimming is the least of it. Current ebooks, in their linear form, are essentially the equivalent of 19th century horse carriages with motors. "Books" need to be reimagined. While reading is and will remain a fundamentally linear activity,
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by HSO 15y ago
> medicines, cancer... http://www.forksoverknives.com
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by HSO 15y ago
I wrote this up for my non-technical friends. Is there anything I should add to this "consumer guide" to a better, cleaner internet experience? Anything new I'm not yet aware of?
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by HSO 15y ago
In an interview, Mr. Faida focused on the plight of those smaller Web sites that had suffered collateral damage from ad-blocking programs. […] “I just talked to a tech Web site here in Germany, they have seven employees and 40 percent of t
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Optimization of brain and life performance [by Didier Sornette](arxiv.org)
2 points by HSO 15y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 15y ago
> Co-founders are looking for competence and traction You could boil it down to this and scratch the "technical" in the title.
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by HSO 15y ago
Try holding down the Shift-key as well (i.e. Shift-Alt-drag) :-)
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by HSO 15y ago
Weder-noch (neither nor)! I'd take the "pompous" back if I could. But yeah, "RTFM" (Mac edition); it's a good idea to put in some minimal search effort before writing a long list of pseudo-issues. There are real issues that could have bee
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by HSO 15y ago
> I think your comments just highlight the user unfriendlyness. More like I invested some time to learn the system I use. But I'm curious, which system do you suggest is so "user friendly" that everything is instantly and intuitively di
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by HSO 15y ago
> You just proved his point. Granted, it's not candy-color obvious. But for a developer working on Linux , "hard" should represent a different barrier than for Joe Sixpack, yes?
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by HSO 15y ago
> And makes using multiple monitors even more pathetic on OS X (the menu for a window on a secondary monitor being displayed on the primary monitor, etc, etc)... Yes, that's one of my gripes too. Note that I didn't say OS X was perfect
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by HSO 15y ago
Suum cuique but some of your concerns really aren't: > In OSX you can only resize a window in the bottom right corner, in Ubuntu I can resize from any corner, or I can hold Alt and middle click anywhere near a corner of a window to st
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by HSO 15y ago
> what makes you think Zurich would be better? Zurich is just a personal preference because I studied and lived a long time in Switzerland. If you drew a cultural and demographic vector from Berlin through Munich to Zurich, you'd have a
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by HSO 15y ago
Good question. I'm a Berliner but am currently "stuck" (long story) in Munich. It's got everything: stuff just works, everything's clean, safe and pretty, lots of money around, and one of the best technical universities in Germany to boot.
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by HSO 15y ago
I may have strong tastes but I'm not stupid enough to presume I'm going to tell Google how to go about their business. I just can't help but notice that after all these years, they are still making the majority of their money on ads -- not
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by HSO 15y ago
So the biggest spam company on earth buys slots from the ad industry to attract "users" to sell back to the ad industry. Interesting business model. EDIT: Uhh, I'm getting downvotes. I assume it's because I called Google a spam company? Wel
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by HSO 15y ago
Mixed feelings about this article. > The potency of my solution lies in the idea that people do not consciously wish to harm themselves; I feel much safer on a plane because the pilot, and not a drone, is at the controls. What about myo
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by HSO 15y ago
> Yet how can you lead the developments of those technologies if you don't understand them. Why it didn't go the same way, of let say, Symbian. I think you may be framing the issue in the wrong way. Here's a little anecdote from my own
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If(kipling.org.uk)
18 points by HSO 15y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 15y ago
This is a very good point. Also, in my case, I know that there are some things I'd like to do that are almost impossible to do when you're small or it would be a complete waste to reinvent the wheel. Some biggies already have the technology
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by HSO 15y ago
I think you're looking for a different word here. Hypocritical, according to my dictionary, means "behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case".
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by HSO 15y ago
Haha, s/engineer/theoretical physicist/ and you sound like TBBT's Sheldon Cooper.

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