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by _nedR 12y ago
I am talking about the Luxury market. At that price range you are competing with luxury watches, which will still retain their value 10, 20, 50 years from now. But with this smartwatch you're investing 10,000 usd in something that will
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by _nedR 12y ago
So the whole world (my office, friends, family, clients, colleagues) should change to suit my laptop? For a disruptive product to be successful it should not be behind its time (where others are already there) it should not be too far ahead
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I thought that the debut of smart-watches were supposed to transform the watch industry and consumer attitudes towards it (where a watch's useful life can be anywhere from 5 to 50+ years). Towards that goal, A 400$ watch with a life o
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by _nedR 12y ago
I dunno. In my personal experience having worked with a lot of projectors, televisions, monitors I find HDMI to be an incredibly buggy experience. VGA always just works. The only problem of VGA (and other newer digital standards) when comp
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What if i want to connect an external harddisk? or a pen drive having my work documents? or I want to connect a projector to do my presentation. Is Apple's logic "that's what you get for having friends or working with people
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The Certificate seems to be verified by a "Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd." Speaking as an Indian, I am not sure i would trust a CA run by a company that is close to the Indian govt. (whose record on corruption and
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by _nedR 12y ago
>>Money and low taxes More like no taxes. From what i heard, they have no sales tax, or income tax (including companies). And a flat 5% duty on all duty (with that even exempted on certain goods such as computers).
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Nice idea. This deserves a hacker news post on its own.
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I am more opposed to tracking than ads. Unless they devise a system that doesn't require a cookie or tracking id that persists across sessions and websites, I would like to excuse myself from this (still laudable) endeavour.
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English is context-sensitive language. When reading "Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free" it was pretty clear to me (and I assume most people here) from the phrasing and context that they weren't releasing
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The only reasonable explanation for me after years of slipping down the slope, and trying to rationalize and defend Google's actions such as : 0. Reading through all our email (We were so naive back then) 1. Google saying it would neve
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I was referring to the fact that neither coffee nor tobacco impairs a person's judgement, or ability to function in society. For example, Imagine a person who comes to work after smoking a cigarette versus a person who comes after smok
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by _nedR 12y ago
You're confusing intoxicants with stimulants. Noone accidentally ran over a kid or beat up his wife because he drank too many cups of coffee or smoked one too many cigarettes. Alcohol on the other hand... edit: If you are going to sa
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I am not saying that India should take all its money from education and sanitation and put it in rockets and r&d. I am not speaking against welfare programs either. I am saying that the whole attitude that "India shouldnt have a sp
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This is a great example of how investing in space can have returns for India. You often find comments in such articles saying that India should be focusing on poverty alleviation, healthcare, and infrastructure instead of investing in a spa
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by _nedR 12y ago
To me Github has become a social networking website for developers (bear with me). As a social networking website its sort of half-way between Instagram (instead of sharing pictures you share code) and LinkedIn (It serves as a programmer&#x
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by _nedR 12y ago
Having used Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio in some fashion over the past year, I personally prefer IntelliJ for its well thought-out interface, low footprint, numerous productivity-boosting shortcuts ( I love Help>Productivity gui
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by _nedR 12y ago
Sorry for the typo in the link in the comment above. Too late to edit it. Here's the link : http://stratechery.com/2013/understanding-google/
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by _nedR 12y ago
Microsoft is adopting the "Services, not devices" (or OSes) strategy envisaged two years ago ( http://stratechery.com/2013/services-not-devices/ ). Under Ballmer, Microsoft had a brief identity crisis, try
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by _nedR 12y ago
> they have always done it quite softly... That would be because they're a non-profit working for the benefit of said users.
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by _nedR 12y ago
Lately I find that if I am shopping for something through google, I do click on relevant ads (often for a listing on ebay, amazon or flipkart), along with other standard search results. Of recent, I have been finding that the ads being show
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Not rare per se. But getting rarer and rarer.
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Well. In many ways he's right. How many people still use an desktop email-client? or chat client? I personally use Google docs as my primary office suite. Lot of software in enterprise is also web-based. Web-based apps are also battlin
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by _nedR 12y ago
You couldn't possibly compare Gmail or Facebook with Whatsapp. For many people, their Gmail id is their sole or primary id on the internet, used to identify them to scores of websites. It is their official online point of contact for v
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by _nedR 12y ago
Isn't non-HTTPS traffic susceptible to snooping in Tor?
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Well. Then it no longer is criticism, is it? You are essentially taking away their right to do something.
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You Missed my point. I wasn't comparing the Linux ecosystem to Apple ecosystem. The Debian repo and Ubuntu software center is a fairly good source for 90% of the popular great apps available within the linux ecosystem. It is as or alm
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I wouldn't consider France the vanguard of free Speech - For example holocaust denial is a punishable offense there. So free speech hasn't taken precedence over political correctness. It's just that criticizing or offending m
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>> I think you're pretty free to criticize the more extremist aspects of Judaism, such as circumcision (yes, they scream "antisemitism", but nobody takes them seriously), Well I don't think many jews, or muslims fo
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Beg your pardon. I find the exact opposite as true. People today, are generally careful and sensitive about what they say about Jews or black people, because they don't want to be labelled as anti-semitic or racist. Muslims seems to be

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