Kaya

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by Kaya 15y ago
I wouldn't say it's ridiculous, given that: - It may not possible to produce an LTE iPhone 5 for either Verizon or AT&T right how (or for any other country), as the LTE chipsets are not ready and LTE deployments are limited. However, i
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by Kaya 15y ago
I'm a bit pessimistic; if the hardware is old and rushed, why would the software or overall experience be any better? I suspect Lab126 is cooking up something much better--but, unfortunately, it's not yet ready for prime time.
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by Kaya 15y ago
tl;dr: company denigrates a new technology which could disrupt their business
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AmaZune: Amazon's Zune tablet(raysun.blogspot.com)
7 points by Kaya 15y ago|0 comments
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by Kaya 16y ago
In their quest to copy Apple, of course this feature is only implemented after it appears in OS X Lion. It's as if the developers lack self-confidence or imagination, or both.
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by Kaya 16y ago
How many of these "missing workers" are simply mothers, homemakers, and students? The article does not mention these classes.
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by Kaya 16y ago
How do you handle the case where file X uses file Y, and you commit file Y? You could run the test for X when Y is committed in case Y broke X.
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by Kaya 16y ago
The author claims unequivocally that global warming is a hoax. Submitted as evidence is a page which one-sidedly discusses troubling, suspicious, and unseemly behavior by some climate scientists. That is bad, but not proof of a hoax--not b
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by Kaya 16y ago
Jinx can help verify mutex implementations themselves, although the example code that ships with the product is a little more advanced (lock-free stack). Some of the underlying technology is described here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/corensi
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by Kaya 16y ago
This project looks great. VirtualBox runs on Solaris, an OS which supports writable snapshots and deduplication in the ZFS filesystem. Is there support for filesystem snapshots in Vagrant? It would be nice to spawn a new virtual machine fr
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Why Facebook badly needs Steve Jobs(raysun.blogspot.com)
76 points by Kaya 16y ago|71 comments
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TurKit lets programmers use input from an army of online humans (technologyreview.com)
2 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market(technologyreview.com)
2 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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Ron Conway Anecdotes about Early Days with Google, Napster, Facebook Founders (readwriteweb.com)
2 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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"Yet where is it written that driven entrepreneurs are also good guys?"(nytimes.com)
3 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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by Kaya 16y ago
Unfortunately the article does not mention the standard deviation of the distribution of mathematical ability after controlling for other factors. As mentioned here: http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm , Larry Summers got in a lot
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Lessons from Silicon Valley VC Legend Don Valentine(nytimes.com)
2 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention(nytimes.com)
2 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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Turn your iPod into an iPhone(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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Consumer Spending and the Economy(fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by Kaya 16y ago|0 comments
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Kindle found to be worse than paper textbooks(npr.org)
42 points by Kaya 16y ago|41 comments
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Jinx: a novel Linux deterministic multiprocessing debugger(corensic.com)
20 points by Kaya 16y ago|17 comments
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by Kaya 16y ago
As someone who used a setup like this (Perfect Chair + Ergoquest reclining workstation) at work for several years, allow me to share my experience: One's head and neck are pushed slightly more forward than normal and don't have their normal
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by Kaya 17y ago
www.isilon.com makes the best clustered filesystem around. It's not open source, however.
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Making sense of multithreading crashes with SmartStop(petravm.com)
2 points by Kaya 17y ago|0 comments
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by Kaya 17y ago
For a comparison with PetraVM's Jinx, see: http://petravm.com/blog/2009/11/comparing-cuzz-and-jinx/
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Jinx: finding and reproducing multithreaded bugs more quickly(petravm.com)
14 points by Kaya 17y ago|2 comments
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by Kaya 17y ago
For the past decade I have been using (faux) leather bound, grid ruled scientific notebooks, first from BookFactory ( http://www.bookfactory.com/ ) and then from Scientific Notebook Company ( http://snco.com/ ). These lab books are designed
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by Kaya 18y ago
There's really nothing new under the sun, but success has as much to do with timing and luck than with skill and perseverance. When I was 17 I founded soc.college.admissions for a related purpose. For those of you who don't remember USENE