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by akbar501 12y ago
> Service like Taplytics allow developers to test variations of their app interface and code, and to make those changes without going through the App Store approval and update process. The ability to change the app without going through
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by akbar501 12y ago
This is purely from a 30 second look, but if I had to make the case for Netflix being richly valued I'd go with: 1. Very high P/E ratio. Thus strong future growth is baked into price. So, a buyer of the stock today is already payi
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Just an FYI, if you trade after hours remember to set your price (buy or sell). As it's after hours, there is no market price, and therefore if you offer to buy 100 shares another party can sell at any price they want. Same goes for th
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Microsoft handwriting keyboard for Android Wear(mobilesyrup.com)
3 points by akbar501 12y ago|0 comments
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It would be helpful for Go newbies if a 3rd column (description) was added to the table in the "Required Packages" section.
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I never said that it would be a popular war...just large scale. Just because something is not popular with the majority of a population (loss of FB) does not mean it cannot/will not happen. Even in a democracy. I must ask. > Large s
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> What's the advantage over existing spy satellites? The first nukes in a large scale war will be detonated in space to eliminate communication, spy, and other satellites. If an opposing force has a successful 1st strike then a rapi
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by akbar501 12y ago
This article is a good reminder of why writing documentation (and commenting code) is important. Often the reader of your docs is you.
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The list of Python libs is very helpful. Thanks for putting this together.
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The question is what is the current attendance? If attendance is a problem, then it makes perfect sense to measure it.
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> This is about toddlers I agree with the parent comment on this. Toddlers need to be given room to explore who they are even at a very young age. And yes, even at 2 you can see personality shining through. For anyone who has not experie
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The integration with existing BI tools is a big deal. This eliminates the need to export a subset of data into a relational DB for OLAP. Incremental refresh of cubes is super important especially when working with large data sets. The ACL s
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My guess would be that we'll see more of these shared/sync'd experience apps in the future. A phone is personal so experiencing the pictures on your phone makes it more personal.
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> The biggest difference that I noticed was my diminishing flexibility. This is definitely the biggest change I've noticed. There is no way I could skate now like I did in college and high school as my body simply won't allow
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by akbar501 12y ago
Kafka is a high performance, persistent message queue. Storm is distributed stream processing. The two work together very well. Often, a server will publish messages to Kafka (or another queue), which are then read and processed by Storm.
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by akbar501 12y ago
Adora's talk was very well done. Her use of metrics and graphs to explain various parts of a startup's life was valuable. Frankly, each type of company she discussed (B2B, consumer, etc) could be expanded into their own talks. One
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by akbar501 12y ago
The following was our road to P/M fit. Sorry for the long post... 0.) Identify market The short version is that one of our co-founders had very deep domain expertise in education and I had been developing a series of education apps for
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by akbar501 12y ago
Nice article. IMO, two of the key points are: 1. But you still need to figure out things by yourself: YC will never tell you what people want 2. If there is one thing that is true about YC partners, it’s that you can’t expect them to do the
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pg wrote, "Batch after batch, the YC partners warn founders about mistakes they're about to make..." My question would be "what are the mistakes"? It would be amazingly interesting if PG, Sam or someone else from YC
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The core of the issue is discrimination, threats of violence, and so on. A comic would not face discrimination, attacks, etc. while the people affected by this FB policy could/would be affected negatively. IMO, this is a key difference
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by akbar501 12y ago
To quote Guy Kawasaki, "Geography is destiny." Personally, I think living near the action is the way to go. And yes, moving to where a large tech culture already exists helps.
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> But the hopeless idealist in me asks if it isn't possible to get an MBA to actually try to theorize about customer behavior, economic structure, supply chains, what have you and build part of ones academic foundation around it? Ye
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Conceptually I love the idea. I have thought about this business idea for a long time, but never got over the issues with it to pursue it. The main insight I got when doing customer interviews was that many people don't like the idea o
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I'm only on chapter 8 but it is a very good book so far. The thoughts conveyed in the book are clear and integrate well into a larger world view. Even if you don't agree with Peter, at least you'll get a well articulated view
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That was poor communication on my part. I should have been explicit with the open content I was referring to. Specifically, I meant the content from Khan Academy, CK12, and the like. Not the for profit companies.
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I have mixed feelings about the MOOCs. On the positive side, the benefits are substantial. 1. Democratized access to the world's top educators, 2. Low cost distribution of education. On the negative side, the MOOCs are kind of the larg
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by akbar501 12y ago
> Why is it so bad to have a bad employee among the first employees? Bad employees are a cancer. They literally spread and infect otherwise healthy employees. When a bad employee is retained another employee who is at a similar level who
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Apple Throws Down Privacy Gauntlet(aclu.org)
1 points by akbar501 12y ago|0 comments
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It appears they are warning about using closures everywhere to avoid memory leaks. > are they suggesting that every function be exported? No. Just export the functions that are used outside of the module. Other functions can be private t
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The method for extracting data requires access to the phone and the user's laptop. When someone has physical access to a device, the vast majority of security goes out of the window (sans disk encryption). This is very different from r

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