Maro

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   by Maro 15y ago

   Friends don't let friends use BerkeleyDB. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bdb+corruption
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   by Maro 15y ago

   iOS apps that I have that use splash screens: Facebook, Linkedin, Flickr, IMDB, Dropbox, Angry Birds, Skype, iGo, Quotes, PCalc Lite...
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   by Maro 15y ago

   This weekend the 3G mysteriously stopped working on my iPhone, so after months of use, I rebooted it. Rebooting the iPhone takes 1+ minute, and there _is_ a kind of splash screen shown during that time. The reason it appears instantenous du
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   by Maro 15y ago

   We're still using Xcode 3.x, one of the reasons is buggyness of 4.x.
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   by Maro 15y ago

   Buy? This costs money? (I just checked, and it does.) Wow, I'd never pay money for a todo app, especially since Evernote is free.
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   by Maro 15y ago

   Evernote already did that. This is a nifty UI feature that the Evernote guys can add to their iPhone app, if they want to...
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   by Maro 15y ago

   Just recently Science published, and NASA had a PR hoopla about a bogus paper about arsenic life, after it went through the usual Science peer "review" process. The paper was dicredited by numerous Comment papers for outrageously bad statis
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   by Maro 15y ago

   I'm not saying doctors doing research never learn this stuff, just that they come out of University without this knowledge. (I certainly don't know enough about medical research literature to make a statement like this.) Curiously, at one b
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   by Maro 15y ago

   One thing that comes up again and again is understanding significances, errors and such. This stuff is second nature to a good (and honest) physicist coming out of University, even before he becomes a "pro". In my experience, to a doctor, e
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    by Maro 15y ago

    My wife is a medical doctor doing a Phd right now. By her own admission, doctors are _not_ well-versed in the scientific method _by education_. The others in her lab are all biologists, and she spent the first year playing catch-up in terms
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    Apple now at $500/share, $466B market cap(google.com)

    1 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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    by Maro 15y ago

    Microsoft advertises Office 365 / Outlook by saying that unlike Gmail, they don't "peek" at your email for ads. The "Gmail man" ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqrTfOWx60
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    by Maro 15y ago

    Microsoft's Office 365 online office suite has an Outlook webmail client which was flawless well when I gave it a shot using Firefox. I think it costs $6/mo, no ads, no spying, because you pay for it. I don't know how well the search and sp
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    Amazon.com May Open Brick and Mortar Stores(consumergoods.edgl.com)

    1 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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    by Maro 15y ago

    I think Donald Knuth, who must be placed at the Mystery Level, never went through the functional phases. http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/m.j.bell1/blog/?p=49 DK on the subject of functional programming: “Out of the ~250 programs I wrote las
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    by Maro 15y ago

    So you're saying that Washington DC and Silicon Valley are different bubbles. @uberPhil: I'm in Hungary, so I'm not a bubble boy =)
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    by Maro 15y ago

    Thanks. The article's "GoCardless is also announcing a $1.5 million round led by Accel Partners, Passion Capital, SV Angel, Start Fund, and Y Combinator." line is really misleading then.
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    by Maro 15y ago

    So YC is also doing post-YC stage investment?
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    by Maro 15y ago

    The poster wrote "huge chunks", not "all". I can give an example very close to home about gov't influence here in Hungary, and that is the tech/IT sector. A huge chunk of tech/IT SMBs are directly or indirectly living off government contrac
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    by Maro 15y ago

    I'm not sure why your comment was downvoted, as it's pretty much spot on. I'm Hungarian.
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    by Maro 15y ago

    I used to be the guy who'd always ask how Facebook will make money and say it's overvalued. Today, given the hard revenue and profit numbers I no longer argue that Facebook is a real business and deserves a largish valuation. I also became
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    by Maro 15y ago

    I created an account, the whole thing looks pretty good and works from Firefox. Unfortunately I can't send inbound mail 10 minutes after creation of the account, it bounces, but I can send outbound mail. EDIT: works. This could be a real co
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    by Maro 15y ago

    This ad is for Office 365, whatever that is.
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    Details on DataScope, JHU's new Big Data instrument(highscalability.com)

    4 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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    by Maro 15y ago

    Why not just try to mine this data from Twitter?
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    by Maro 15y ago

    I think you should pivot. What your site allows users to do is one of the many things people can already do on Twitter and Facebook much simpler, without the use of dropdowns, just by typing whatever they feel like into the share box. You'r
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    by Maro 15y ago

    Narrated 15 min video: https://gcaptain.com/gcaptains-john-konrad-narrates-the-fina...
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    Analysis of the recent Costa Concordia ship's grounding(perspectives.mvdirona.com)

    1 points by Maro 15y ago|1 comments
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    by Maro 15y ago

    It does not invalidate my assertion at all.
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    by Maro 15y ago

    I have no direct experience with column oriented DBs, but I'd expect if you have a wide table and are getting all the columns in a query, then a column oriented DB's performance would suffer relative to a row oriented one's. So it's a trade