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by PanMan 13y ago
I used their payments to buy something in the Apple store last week. It really feels like stealing: You walk in, take the product, scan it with your phone, and walk out. If they enable this for other merchants, it would be a huge business.
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by PanMan 13y ago
I have once developped this myself, by having a Linux machine with a tv card and some software scrape close captioning, and sending it to a webserver. Few years ago tho, and not running anymore. And you need one per tv channel you want to
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by PanMan 13y ago
For computing. For delivery they use various CDN's. delivery is the expensive part, for them
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by PanMan 13y ago
This is one of the first public numbers I have come across on salaries in SF startups: $ 1,168,710. This is for a team of (in the end) 7 people, in about 2 years (started with 3 people). Let's say an average of 5 people. That comes do
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by PanMan 13y ago
Thanks for sharing this, interesting. However, why don't you mention Google Docs and Dropbox as competitors? Google docs already does this, and Dropbox seems to be clearly heading this way.
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by PanMan 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that's actually not the case. If so, why does my kindle switch itself 'off' after not using it for a few minutes? While the screen might take no energy to keep an image, I think it keeps other parts activ
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by PanMan 13y ago
How could the Segway panned out differently? (Serious question). I was quite exited to see it at first, but realistically it doesn't have many advantages over a bicycle, and a lot of disadvantages (biggest one is price).
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by PanMan 13y ago
The link to the resulting press (in the article) is broken. It's http://bitly.com/bundles/justinwi/1
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by PanMan 13y ago
Interesting! I saw the book a few weeks ago and wondered who put it together. I assume the letters are public? How did you get the extra material? And do you share any income with Buffet? (That would feel strange, but would also make sense)
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Apache Foundation embraces real time big data cruncher 'Storm'(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by PanMan 13y ago|0 comments
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Posthaven Reaches Profitability(techcrunch.com)
2 points by PanMan 13y ago|0 comments
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by PanMan 13y ago
In this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc he explains the series itself doesn't work well in a pilot: He wanted long story lines, and multiple complex characters, both of which are impossible in a pilot.
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by PanMan 13y ago
When I was in a local electronics shop a few weeks ago, they already had x86 chromebooks (along with the ARM Samsung version). So what's the news here?
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by PanMan 13y ago
Why replace the control box, instead of controlling that? In the article it says: " but the power has to be off for more than a second to have an effect. Not quite as simple as simulating a momentary switch. " With an arduino and
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by PanMan 13y ago
Then all the counterfeiters have to have is one valid serial number, and print it on all their products. The online lookup says it is real!
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by PanMan 13y ago
While theoretically true, I think for most accounts the risk is fairly small: I'm sure it's hard to come up with something to tweet from my account that moves any stock exchange even a penny.
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by PanMan 13y ago
That's good news, but with their production version, the pricing also changed. I believe before they had more of an AWS/S3 model paying per GB stored and transferred. Now I need to pick a tier, and pay monthly.
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by PanMan 13y ago
Looks Nice, does it work in europe, or is it US only?
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by PanMan 13y ago
Interesting, but is it really true 'normal' open rates are also only 13%? Or is this how it's measured, e.g. only including people who click 'show images', and thus load the tracking pixels?
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by PanMan 13y ago
Great article. I also like Dereck Sivers post on manual work: http://sivers.org/hi doing things that don't scale
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by PanMan 13y ago
Hmm, I quite liked their term extraction API and used it in some hacks. If I recall they were planning to shut it down before, but didn't after many complaints. It seems I'll need to look into YQL now.
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Why Tipping Should Be Outlawed(esquire.com)
38 points by PanMan 13y ago|23 comments
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by PanMan 13y ago
I was quite disappointed to see that after the latest upgrade the air still doesn't support more then 8 gb. If I buy a machine for the next few years, I want more ram than the current 2008 MacBook Pro I have...
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by PanMan 13y ago
On the other hand, if there is an issue with a train, it can break. Stopping a plane when there is an issue is a lot more hassle.
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by PanMan 13y ago
Do you quote companies, or people? When I quote companies, I never include VAT (I guess you are also Dutch). Including VAT makes you sound more expensive, and the client can deduct the VAT anyway. So quote without VAT for companies.
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by PanMan 13y ago
Nice example, but not all are insecure. For example, the second one here is: $result = mysql_query('DELETE FROM saves WHERE id = '.(int)$_GET['delete']);
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by PanMan 13y ago
While from the blogpost it isn't 100% clear to me how far their management goes (do they restart apache if needed? Do they do security updates?), I think this fills a huge need! Fully managed servers are really expensive and often inflexibl
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by PanMan 13y ago
That's just not true (on iOS). Your phone has one connection to the (apple) server, the amount of messages send has very little influence. Only apps that run in the background (mostly location and voice) can drain your battery when not runn
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by PanMan 13y ago
And you think allowing all pushes will fix this? I assume it will only make it worse. Not for your app, but by all the other apps that will send a million pushes.
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by PanMan 13y ago
I don't agree Push shouldn't need access and "– if a user doesn’t like their notificaitons, they know they can delete the app" . There is some apps that I like to use, but don't want to allow to wake me at 3AM because they think something

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