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by Sven7 13y ago
True. I have been through something very similar with two family members. So I know how tough it gets, both for the patient and the family. If finances are becoming an issue look into going abroad. For eg, India's Apollo group has world cl
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by Sven7 13y ago
Was she on Avastin for the tumor? There were a lot of stories about fake stuff on the market last year.
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by Sven7 13y ago
Barrier to entry makes all the difference. You are not going to see a 20 year old Woz or a Torvalds today build an NLP system of any serious utility. They just do not have access to the kind of infrastructure required to do it. So compariso
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by Sven7 13y ago
Simple answer - Google has no competition. And the competition has no chance given the scale required to just match, let alone surpass "google quality". This isn't going to change any time soon, unless they create a search market place by o
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by Sven7 13y ago
Elsevier $2.7 billion revenue comes from tens of people? Any company that runs an R&D dept would be happy to advertise.
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by Sven7 13y ago
Ad supported? I really don't understand why advertising supports so much superficial BS when at the same time their customers want better targeting. The fact that so much worthless stuff gets supported to me implies there is huge scope for
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by Sven7 13y ago
Compared to the other ongoing social networking experiments that generate constantly exploding datasets of worthless noise, LinkedIn is a very different story. Their data is the most interesting. Today the focus is on individuals. Tomorrow
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by Sven7 13y ago
Or he could just wait for something like this to happen to someone within Google. I am pretty sure policies will change quick. I like how they can hide behind some nuanced BS when someone's life is getting ruined.
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by Sven7 13y ago
I always wonder what happens to all these honest Americans once they get into Wall Street. Or these days Silicon Valley where keeping people addicted to social feeds and video streams is making an honest living. Let not even talk about the
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by Sven7 13y ago
Your comment highlights the problem. When people think search they think Google. Search is bigger than that and Google is in a way through its success and utility, limiting people's imagination when they think about search. Just look at the
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More than a couple work at Apple too. But the 50 billion app downloads came from an ecosystem of millions of developers around the world.
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by Sven7 13y ago
Google needs to create a search market place around that index of theirs. They need to open it up. Search is too big a problem for just a couple people at Mountain View to be working on. And at this stage with the amount of data being gener
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by Sven7 13y ago
I can't believe no one has linked to this yet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vTsKdysoo
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by Sven7 13y ago
Not very familiar with Go, could someone please elaborate on what "Go: no dependencies" mean? Thanks
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true...if you talk to telecom hardware guys who have been around long enough, they will tell you most of the innovation that supports a whole lot of PBX/BPO/call center infrastructure happened thanks to the initial market created by those p
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Facebook needs to be asking candidates just 2 questions. (1)Can you increase the number of minutes per hour your mom spends on Facebook? (2)How much do we need to pay you to feel comfortable doing that?
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by Sven7 14y ago
Apple has reminded everyone in tech, that there are better routes to mountains of profit than "free" products. When the Scoble's of the world are willing to drop 2000+ dollars (including cost of phone) for the ability to take a picture fast
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by Sven7 14y ago
Now replace LIBOR with google page rank. OMG! people who can "fix" things actually "fix" things! This isn't a conversation about banking. It's a conversation about human nature.