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by akd 18y ago
Yes, but until they do this, it's very hard to compete with them, unless you have infinitely deep pockets.
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by akd 18y ago
Because nobody is willing to compete with a company that doesn't seem to want to make money. What would you do better than Craigslist? It's not clear that there is much (besides better search), and it's not clear that you could monetize it
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by akd 18y ago
That's because corporations seem to feel less and less responsibility about the employees they hire. When a company treats you only as good as they have to, you're only going to put in as much effort as it takes to not get fired.
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by akd 18y ago
price
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by akd 18y ago
"Heat" and "WALL-E" have a shorter edit distance between them than any Indiana Jones movies.
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by akd 18y ago
If I said "Nadia" would you know who I was talking about?
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by akd 18y ago
Yes, comparing raw medal counts across sports doesn't make too much sense. You can only win 1 medal in curling, 2 in volleyball (indoor and beach), a handful in gymnastics (individual events), and a crapload in swimming. Then again, looking
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by akd 18y ago
Bach was a pop star in his day. So was Joni Mitchell.
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by akd 18y ago
Sorry, I don't know much about the innards of routing hardware. I do know that doing all the routing in a time equal to the propagation delay of the light is pretty damn impressive to me.
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by akd 18y ago
I don't understand. If you have 300 notes, and 12 tones, the number of different melodies you can play is 12^300 (12 choices at each step). Why is it 300 factorial? You don't have 300 distinct entities to permute.
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by akd 18y ago
An interesting fact that we teach in 6.033 is that of the Boston<->San Francisco packet round trip time, half of that time is spent by light propagating through fiber, and half of it is spent in routers. Cisco makes some amazing pro
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by akd 18y ago
Use the money to buy freedom, not stuff. That's the secret.
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by akd 18y ago
Where do we send these forms once we fill them out? How do we make it "official"?
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by akd 18y ago
Where do you live? You can swim safely in almost any random pond.
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by akd 18y ago
Mercedes Benz SLK revived the concept of the hardtop convertible, and now almost every convertible make is shifting to a hardtop. The difference between a hardtop convertible and a soft top is basically the difference between a iPhone and a
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by akd 18y ago
Also, iPod stands for the same thing across its product range -- an MP3 like any other company might make, but more stylish, more trendy, and easier to use. In fact that's what the Apple brand stands for as a whole. What does Eee stand for
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by akd 18y ago
That must be some error in their number-of-pages estimator. Google does not control ~70% of content out there.
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by akd 18y ago
I run Tiger inside VMWare on my Dell.
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by akd 18y ago
Mailbox stuffing is a great idea for me actually. I walk every day past roughly 100 mailboxes and would stuff a sheet of paper in each for 1 cent if I could do it without slowing down.
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by akd 18y ago
Wow looks neat. We need to share other applications as well but we'll probably use this for Eclipse.
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by akd 18y ago
I've tried several of those and none of the ones I've used allow you to shrink the window and have it scale -- it will just show a small part of the other person's screen. I need to see a scaled-down picture of his screen while continuing t
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by akd 18y ago
Patrick Stewart? Doesn't David Attenborough narrate?
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Best tools for remote real-time development collaboration?
3 points by akd 18y ago|4 comments
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by akd 18y ago
Someone has to pay for it. The Olympics must be an expensive operation. What do you recommend?
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by akd 18y ago
Yes! You must never have anything in writing that proves you knew about the patent. Make sure of this. But don't worry about patents now. That's for lawyers to worry about.
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by akd 18y ago
Yes, that's why I still read the Britannica article for those topics which have entries.
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by akd 18y ago
$5.
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by akd 18y ago
Reading one of these "business books" will make your head hurt. The memoirs of successful entrepreneurs are often interesting reads (e.g. "Losing My Virginity" by Richard Branson) but things like this are a paragraph of content extended to
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by akd 18y ago
He was in Calcutta...
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by akd 18y ago
In India I once hailed an auto rickshaw and had him take me about half a kilometer in the rain. I asked him in American-accented English what the fare was, and he said 200 rupees. I started yelling at him in perfect Bengali that I wasn't bo

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