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by acaloiar 11y ago
What you said is as near the definition of "giving it straight" as one might expect to follow his preface. What he actually said is as near the definition of corporate speak as possible. There is no confusion on my part. Perhaps J
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by acaloiar 11y ago
> Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight. Well, since you said it that way, I should assume that what comes next will not sound like a steamy pile of meandering corporate sp
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by acaloiar 11y ago
My thoughts mirror @wfo's, but more simplistically. It is a negotiation tactic. When seller A wants to sell something for $20, it is initially offered for $30. When buyer B's $25 counter offer is accepted, B is pleased with the re
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I can only speak for myself, but when I spend $1,500 on an electronic device, I hope that "like a clipboard" is the least accurate analogy for its functionality.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
There's a resource on the page ( https://controls.account.microsoft-int.com/me?partner=surfac... ) precluding other resources from loading. Just wait it out.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
This looks like a great step in the right direction for Microsoft, but their marketing copy, "Use it like a clipboard" is profoundly jarring. Why is Microsoft afraid to use the word "tablet"? Clipboard is hardly a synony
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by acaloiar 11y ago
It's worth mentioning that while HSA specifically may or may not have lived up to its "hype", it did succeed in being on of the first technologies (to my knowledge) to provide hardware support for cache-coherent memory betwee
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I believe the salient claim here is the exploitability of smartphones via SMS, a la Stagefright. The Guardian article makes no such claim.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Yes, but Pocket is integrated with Firefox. Pocket and the Mozilla Foundation formed a partnership that almost certainly includes some sort of compensation or resources in exchange for Pocket's service.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Yesterday upon seeing the headline "Google Forms new Company" elsewhere, I assumed that Google spun their Google Forms product off into a company named Alphabet. I was profoundly confused as to how Google Forms necessitated an ent
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Agreed. To shed some more light on my strategy: * I planned to exit the company months in advance. * Signed two clients * I was a director of a small development team. I architected much of the company's critical infrastructure (most i
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by acaloiar 11y ago
As others have noted, the 4 months of living expenses requirement can be quite excessive. I've seen similar advice in the past and can't help but recall my personal anecdote of starting a company with barely enough money for one m
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Do you have a source for that information?
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Had that Jeep run into you or you ran into it as a result of this experiment, you may have found that you have a profoundly different threshold for what is, "necessary to get the attention of auto makers". Just because automakers
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by acaloiar 11y ago
It seems that the policy angle is being addressed in lieu of a technical solution. FTA: http://www.routingmanifesto.org/
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by acaloiar 11y ago
As someone who works in technology, but has only a cursory understanding of BGP, I find BGP's trust mechanism flabbergasting. Would anyone like to explain why it remains the preferred protocol and what improvements are in the works to
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by acaloiar 11y ago
How long of a shelf life might "Catch the Monkey" have had on any platform?
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by acaloiar 11y ago
"and made it more clickbait-y" As Business Insider is wont to do.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I'm having a hard time getting used to the idea of Microsoft embracing standards over proprietary solutions. This is such a welcome change from past decades. I wonder if these changes have anything to do with Sataya Nadella at the helm
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by acaloiar 11y ago
That is good news indeed! Thank you for letting me know. This is my first publicly funded work and I am not familiar with many of the policies. I will sleep better knowing that our work will not be holed up exclusively in the Elsevier-beast
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I'm currently co-authoring a paper that will be submitted to an Elsevier journal because it is a good fit for our work. All of my time and that of one other co-author is funded by an NIH grant which of course is funded by US tax dollar
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by acaloiar 11y ago
A 140 character web server would be mighty impressive.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Not to discount the OP's points, but this smells like the tech industry equivalent of your worst Facebook friend—the one with a penchant for selfies with Starbucks skinny vanilla lattes—hashtagging an inane event with "whitepeople
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by acaloiar 11y ago
In 2001 when I was 14, I had no idea what scalability was or how anyone scaled websites. I ran a site with 20k users on a single sever with a single Pentium IV (1.4? Ghz) processor from a garage with no climate control and the fastest cable
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by acaloiar 11y ago
You might not be familiar with the precepts of fair trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I suppose a defeatist might not drink coffee because it can be grown unsustainably and farmed with slave labor, while a pragmatist recognizes the merits of fair-trade and lives a java-full life.
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by acaloiar 11y ago
I agree that all factors should be taken into consideration. But to counter I ask, if great things can be done poorly, should they not be done at all? Not to suggest that palm oil is a "great thing"; I'm generalizing my count
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by acaloiar 11y ago
To select just one of their arguments--that palm oil's production results in deforestation/climate change--one can make the same sort of argument about nearly any industry. E.g. if solar power companies of the future were to defor
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by acaloiar 11y ago
If one must click-bait, go all-in: "The Shockingly Disturbing and Weirdly Beautiful Chinese Compromise of VPNs and Tor"
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by acaloiar 11y ago
Can anyone comment on the potential implications for Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, and Amazon Prime Music? Each of these services allow users to upload content from their personal libraries. As far as I know, these services make no techn

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