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by RK 17y ago
At our startup one of the main customers is a big Japanese company. They sent over a group of engineers for about a month once and the majority of the day they would just sit around the conference table, seemingly staring at their laptops i
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by RK 17y ago
Try getting the copyright to wedding (or similar) photos. If the photographer doesn't flat-out refuse, that will be be an extra x% charge (somewhere around 50-100%) to make up for the lost gouge they normally charge for "reprints". And even
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by RK 17y ago
How bout SlugBot, that runs on the garden slugs it catches? (from Wired 2001): http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/4715...
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by RK 17y ago
A response to criticisms of astroturfing by the Microspotting writer: http://www.codexon.com/posts/the-sad-state-of-microsoft-adve...
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by RK 17y ago
Interesting. I had recently been thinking about if it would possible to hack original songs into Rock Band/Guitar Hero. I guess this will enable it to happen officially for Rock Band at least (with required approval...). http://creators.ro
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by RK 17y ago
Also: Short feedback cycles are good.
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Is Jolicloud OS an existing precursor to Chrome OS on netbooks?(jolicloud.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
From the Microspotting About page (which is a Microsoft page): Oh and PS: You might notice that I use all manner of social media sites like Flickr and YouTube on Microspotting. You might notice that I publish the site using an open source
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by RK 17y ago
Autism encompasses a whole spectrum of possible symptoms. Only a small subset of people with autism are ones that might be suited to computer related work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum
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by RK 17y ago
I think that saying that genetically engineered organisms are bad is kind of like saying "chemicals" are bad. "Chemicals" is an incredible broad category as is/will be GMO.
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by RK 17y ago
They do a couple things (that I know of). 1. Sell seeds that will produce plants that don't reproduce, thus requiring the farmers to buy new seeds each year. 2. Sell stock that is resistant to their herbicide, so they make money on the seed
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by RK 17y ago
I wonder what they were supposed to be doing when they wrote this paper instead...
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by RK 17y ago
That's how my friend's service-based startup died before it even got out of the gate. He tried to outsource way too much overseas, not realizing the extremely low quality of work he would get (e.g. copy writing). He had to have a lot of it
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by RK 17y ago
Why do you think Office Web is more feature complete than Google Docs? Has anyone even had a chance to review it yet? I honestly have no idea.
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by RK 17y ago
Radio stations don't get to play copyrighted music for free. Traditional radio stations have to pay license fees that go to the copyright holder of the songs (writers and composers or whoever has acquired those rights), but not performers.
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by RK 17y ago
After reading this about 10 times, I have no idea if this is a pro desktop Linux remark or an anti desktop Linux remark.
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by RK 17y ago
We're German so most of you won't understand the lyrics. That's also one of the reasons it's on a much smaller scale than you would expect. It's really amazing how there is zero market for German music in the US. Germany is something like
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by RK 17y ago
It seems that a more appropriate title might have been "Effective Learning". It's an excellent essay.
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Write Your Own Linux Twitter Client In Less Time Than It Takes To Find One(linuxplanet.com)
11 points by RK 17y ago|2 comments
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Chrome OS Could Offend the Open Source Community(computerworld.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
One thing you can search is closed captioning, like SnapStream does: http://www.snapstream.com/tvtrends/
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by RK 17y ago
What is the relationship between Makerbot and RepRap?
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by RK 17y ago
Possibly better driver support.
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Google OS Could Put Squeeze on Other Flavors of Linux(pcworld.com)
9 points by RK 17y ago|18 comments
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by RK 17y ago
So why is the bump necessary, vs just both people turning the app on and being in proximity to each other? Or is that just the gimmick?
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by RK 17y ago
What no ChrunchPad?
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Google Chrome OS and Splashtop(splashtop.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
I know that Google says that GCOS is "aimed at Netbooks", but I'm sure that that's supposed to be just the initial target platform. So I think that the criticism that the netbook market is so small as to be meaningless will turn out to be
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by RK 17y ago
People definitely love Tufte's books about information graphic design. Then of course for the actual data processing and visualization you'll need software such as Matlab, R, Processing, or Python (with Scipy + Matplotlib).
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A second order virtual machine with Falcon(freesoftwaremagazine.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments

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