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571.
by adw 16y ago
What you said, plus it looks really, really nice.
572.
by adw 16y ago
Reeder on the iPad is spectacularly good.
573.
by adw 16y ago
This is the Apple Store on Regent Street, London. It's massive, and it does £60m sales per annum - over £2k per square foot ( http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2010/05/apples-regent-st... ). It's the single most profitable store per squar
574.
by adw 16y ago
The thing that's being missed here is that it's a chemistry total synthesis group. Organic chemistry's pretty bad, but total synthesis is evil. Total synthesis (designing programs to build molecules from scratch) is a global never-ending fo
575.
by adw 16y ago
Organic chemistry - particularly total synthesis - is the Marines only without the warm and fuzzy personal development. It's full of the bad crazy. (My background's theoretical solid-state which is a lot less savage.)
576.
by adw 16y ago
http://withpretext.com/post/673179066/on-canaries-and-the-jo... If you're forward-thinking and flexible, the voluntary redundancy packages are going to look way more attractive than if you aren't.
577.
by adw 16y ago
That's the formal codification of football - Association Football, Rugby Football (both League and Union). The games themselves have been around for hundreds of years. Really, though, it's a cultural thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
578.
by adw 16y ago
Steve Nash (admittedly: Canadian). His dad was a professional footballer.
579.
by adw 16y ago
Broadly speaking, European sports evolved before the spectator-sports industry and, as a result, are primarily for playing; American sports evolved afterwards and have been shaped (to a greater extent) by needing to be good to watch.
580.
by adw 16y ago
The guys behind it'll be the dealers. And given their record - basically-irreversible Parkinsonism from one tainted shot of a designer drug ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPPP , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP ), you first .
581.
by adw 16y ago
Most of the companies at White Bear Yard ( http://whitebearyard.com/ , the East End, London, UK) are looking for interns. Market spaces; real-time social sports gaming (Picklive), gambling and prediction markets (Smarkets), reactive/generat
582.
by adw 16y ago
It depends what you call success, really. If you want anarchy, ChatRoulette's got it. If you want genuine mass appeal, then you need to meet the mainstream halfway. Look at the career trajectory of most bands. If you insist, you can call th
583.
by adw 16y ago
(Posted in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414193 , which is a really on-the-money comment.)
584.
by adw 16y ago
This +lots. http://marcreeves.blogspot.com/2010/06/speaking-truth-to-pow... (excellent post I stumbled across the other day.)
585.
On canaries and the journalist coalface(withpretext.com)
1 points by adw 16y ago|1 comments
586.
by adw 16y ago
The one I worked in (in Scotland) did.
587.
by adw 16y ago
Microsoft are really strong in office software and in developer tools. Those are businesses which are actually reasonably weakly coupled to the OS business and barely coupled at all to their devices business units. I'm suspicious of the ide
588.
by adw 16y ago
I'd pay to see that. (Seriously; VS2010. If you assume it's about new-developer mindshare then at the moment Android has one huge advantage - you don't need to buy a Mac.)
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Will Steve Ballmer show up at the WWDC keynote?(blogs.barrons.com)
14 points by adw 16y ago|23 comments
590.
by adw 16y ago
But when do you actually want to do that? There are really only, I think, two use cases: a) media b) source code. Apple solve the first of these with libraries: your music library, your photo library, your film library. Any program can talk
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General election: the aftermath(blog.timetric.com)
1 points by adw 16y ago|0 comments
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by adw 16y ago
We're livetweeting the stats behind the election too - @timetric, #electimetric.
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Fifty-one percent (on hiring strategy)(withpretext.com)
1 points by adw 16y ago|0 comments
594.
by adw 16y ago
As one of a handful of mineralogists on Hacker News (and I suspect that Timetric's pretty much cornered that market), I'm delighted to see phase diagrams on here! This stuff is utterly fascinating. OK, I'm biased, I did my doctoral thesis
595.
by adw 16y ago
The converse, negative thermal expansion ceramics like zirconium tungstate, are fascinating materials; they shrink when you heat them. It's all to do with low-frequency vibrational modes, but if I started talking about mode Gruneisen parame
596.
by adw 17y ago
Because they shouldn't - at least not in the early stages. Once you know what you're making, shipping product comes first through about fiftieth. If tools get you on the shortest path to shipping product then do that, but ship . It's Jobs'
597.
by adw 17y ago
There are a bunch of HN startups in the same building as these guys, including us at Timetric ( http://timetric.com/ ), Smarkets ( http://smarkets.com/ ) and Rjdj ( http://rjdj.me/ ). London is coming. :)
598.
by adw 17y ago
Auctioned: I believe so. I don't do HFT, but with what our company does, I've spoken to a few people who do. So take all of this with a pinch of salt, but as I understand it, your execution and autonomous trading systems live in the same ra
599.
by adw 17y ago
The network latency will kill you. You want to be in the same rack, not just the same colo, as the exchange's endpoints.
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by adw 17y ago
They're not doing much that's dramatically new - check out the M-PESA system, which is massive in North Africa...

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