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by Lewisham 14y ago
Exactly. Yahoo tried the "buy our way into being innovative" when they went on their Web 2.0 spending spree, picking up Delicious, Flickr and Upcoming. They systematically choked each one to death because the corporate structure/culture did
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Is there seriously a sex scene in the background?!
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Psstttt... don't tell anyone... but all of the conference dramas ever have been "tempests in a teapot."
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by Lewisham 14y ago
At the risk of getting into a conversation I really don't want to, I'll see if I can help (I'm British and live in the Bay Area). I think that there is a different cultural thing in the Valley that you don't find elsewhere due to the gigant
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by Lewisham 14y ago
My read is that Pichai is a really good at ops, and the experience stuff will be left to Duarte. It seems like a good partnership to have on the Android boat.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
This is a very good summation of why I'm heading to Google once I finish grad school this academic year.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Disclosure refers to the act of saying he's from MS. Disclaimer means that you should read what he says knowing that he might have a bias, because he's from MS. As they both result in the same thing (you need to read what he says understand
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Ask HN: What could possibly be wrong with SimCity?
11 points by Lewisham 14y ago|6 comments
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Well, I mean, that's your hang up, it's not the fault of the wearer. Your eyes have to go up and to the right to see the screen. It's clear you are looking at it to observers, in the same way it'll be clear when you are glancing your watc
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by Lewisham 14y ago
I use this, and it works awesomely on the Roku; much better than the 360 with the DNLP(?) support.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Agreed. CoffeeScript is a leaky abstraction of JS; the underlying paradigm of JS still peeks out even though it's papered over (see the fat arrow =>). Once you have a grasp of JS (and the things you might not like about it), you can the
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Given the furore that occurs whenever a Kickstarter doesn't actually produce the product that people had backed (and mistakenly read as "pre-ordered"), I can't imagine the fuss that will come from funding academic research. My own research
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by Lewisham 14y ago
I've been helping other people through the Google hiring process, as I'm about to graduate from my PhD and head off to Google (I went via the intern conversion, so my experience is atypical). I know a couple of talented undergrads, and some
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Yeah, I think this is the killer, and it's been my experience teaching Git to others. SVN does have a mental model that makes more sense: there's my copy, and there's the server copy. When I finish, I make the server copy look like mine. Do
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by Lewisham 14y ago
It's simply not feasible for a majority of countries and their broadband. Also, you would need to design games with lag in mind, otherwise there's a noticeable lag, even at 40 or so ms. You'd need the client to be doing some feedback work
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by Lewisham 14y ago
He's talking about the possibility that one or both may prevent used games sales by tying games to the console account they're first used on.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
> The first part does not imply the second. I know there are legal/licensing reasons for encryption but technology that is going to run the world of tomorrow should not be encumbered because of contractual obligations of today. And when
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by Lewisham 14y ago
> That does not make any sense either. Any kind of consumption will ultimately reduce the available range, you don't restore by removing joules from a pack. I think what is happening is that he thinks the battery actually does have the
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by Lewisham 14y ago
That's not how the open-source movement works. You can't start excluding people based on usage you don't like. If you do that, you're explicitly not following open-source ideals.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
The news of Google OS around that time was almost certainly conflated with Goobuntu, Google's custom Ubuntu LTS install. The assumption was Google was prepping its own Linux release, but there was never any hint it would be made public.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Apple has never shown itself to have the wherewithal to correctly interface with game development, and I doubt they have any appetite for doing so. They're already doing gangbusters on iOS without any particular help offered, but the market
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Because Chromebooks are zero administration, and easily replaceable. Having set up my Mac OS X environment for the umpteenth time, and wrestled with wireless backups flaking out again , Chrome OS is the new "it just works". And if your lap
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Yeah, as someone who has held an F1 in the past, the US authorities take a very dim view of getting income while you are here without authorization. I think actually committing misdemeanor crime is of less consequence to your legal status t
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Yes, it is worth reading this about how Tiger Style got their target market wrong: http://www.edge-online.com/features/success-on-greenlight-is...
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Simple also don't offer any interest (nor a savings account) which grates a bit. Using Simple loses you money. It's not a "hidden fee", but it's a cost that isn't that clear. EDIT: There's also no outgoing ACH transfers yet, which I really
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by Lewisham 14y ago
CalTrain at the weekend is the stuff of nightmares, stopping at every single stop . Then, because the Highway 17 bus to Santa Cruz is part-funded by Amtrak and not CalTrain, you get to see the bus at the stand as the CalTrain pulls in, the
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by Lewisham 14y ago
They have arrived: it's called a Retina Macbook Pro. You just have to stomach the price tag and putting your OS of choice on there.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Where in the East Bay do you live? I'm currently in Santa Cruz but thinking of relocating. I haven't spent any time in East Bay, but the view from the 680 is that it's essentially the same as South Bay. I hadn't considered looking there. Bu
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by Lewisham 14y ago
My guess is this message means Microsoft are looking to retire Skype accounts in favor of Live accounts only, which makes sense to me.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Validating email addresses via anything but verification links are a road to hell.

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