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by alttag 15y ago
Was the information private? Autonomy is a public company, so a great deal of their financial information is public. (I haven't looked at the slide deck.)
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by alttag 15y ago
In my field (Information Systems), most papers are served as PDFs. My advisor has switched almost entirely to his iPad for most work, especially when reading/annotating articles. Most journals in my field require Word docs, and don't use La
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, he's complimentary, but as someone who often agrees with Gruber, even I found that part a little jarring. I think he's mostly right on this one, but if anything, too conservative about the potential for the Fire.
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by alttag 15y ago
Of the 10-or-so iPad users I know (all from different industries), about half of them use it as a replacement for a laptop, but not necessarily as a desktop replacement. Anecdotal, yes, but compelling in that those it's a replacement soluti
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by alttag 15y ago
I don't get it. Are random numbers really so special that curation improves their value? All I see when I open the page (whether a correct impression or not) is someone who is harvesting emails and offers no value in exchange.
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Ferroelectric transistor memory could run on 99 percent less power than flash(engadget.com)
2 points by alttag 15y ago|0 comments
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by alttag 15y ago
A great point. Some companies price in their very excellent support (Nordstrom comes to mind). At the other end of the spectrum, I worked with a guy who ran an wifi internet service on the side. His prices were so cheap that he refused to h
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by alttag 15y ago
> Objective Value: > (Hourly rate × Development time in hours) − Price = Value Um, no. This assumes the value of the product is based on the inputs, and is incorrectly modeled from the seller's perspective. Any product's v
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by alttag 15y ago
I think you're right that everyone shouldn't be charged because Marco and others think the product is worth it. Some bought it on the promise of a free upgrade. An upgrade to version 2 wasn't part of the "value" I attributed to TM when I
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by alttag 15y ago
Several commenters here, and on other threads and across the web have complained about no progress since forever ago. And while the core product may not have changed, bundles and plugins have continued to be created/updated, so it's not lik
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by alttag 15y ago
> I have a lot of trouble understanding this mentality. Like, say, tipping at a nice restaurant. You may not like the food, but it seems others did, and they want to demonstrate that to the chef.
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by alttag 15y ago
Neat. I came back 5 hours later, and the change was live. Thanks. (I was going to submit a change via Git when I got home, but you beat me to it!)
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by alttag 15y ago
I know Bubble sort is "bad", but there's no reason to make it worse than it needs to be. The current algorithm continues comparing the items that have already "bubbled" (or in this case, "sunk") by iterating the whole length on each pass, r
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by alttag 15y ago
I think the part that's missing from discussion here is: "First: Make sure you understand the problem". Sure, for strictly algorithmic questions, where there is one mathematically demonstrable optimal answer (or at least, a way to compare s
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by alttag 15y ago
Thanks for the support. I think GP is right to be cautious (and data is not necessarily equivalent to multiple anecdotes over more than a decade). However, I would assert that my experiences are not unique. You are correct that the symptoms
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by alttag 15y ago
Not to mention the fact that I can use the same text editor across multiple operating systems.
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by alttag 15y ago
While the causes of too much salt are debated, I see fairly regularly the effects to too little salt. In a hot climate (Southeastern U.S.), I'm often outdoors with sports teams or youth groups, and I see the effects of heat-related condit
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by alttag 15y ago
> ... clicking an up arrow on Hacker News submits a GET request For the curious, (from peeking at the source) it's a anchor tag with onclick Javascript that overrides default behavior if js is active. Before checking, I thought
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by alttag 15y ago
Dupe from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3028999 Same complaints on that thread. We as a community seem embarrassed to sign something which has such awful grammar.
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by alttag 15y ago
Not a surprise. To recap a hand-on preview [1]: * $250 * 7", backlit; 10" coming Q1 2012 * Android fork; Kindle app integrated * Tabbed browsing * 6 GB * No camera * May come w/ free Prime subscription 1: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/a
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NASA: low chance falling satellite will hit U.S.(reuters.com)
2 points by alttag 15y ago|0 comments
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by alttag 15y ago
Whether it's Amazon or not, the only sensible reason I could come up with for the split is a sale of one of the two pieces of Netflix. Whether it's to a content owner (Time/Warner?) looking for a distribution mechanism for their content, or
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Amazon wins "one-click" purchasing patent appeal(reuters.com)
5 points by alttag 15y ago|1 comments
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by alttag 15y ago
Wow. That took forever to load (the first time), then locked my browser for about 5 seconds. I can't help but think that one of the things that catapulted Google early on was the quick load times and simple entry point.
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by alttag 15y ago
I'm amused by the amount of "funny money" that gets passed around at these institutions. Departments charge each other for this and that, but it all eventually comes out of the same pool. (Yes, I understand the cost accounting aspects here,
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by alttag 15y ago
So, write a proper one, and submit it to HN.
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by alttag 15y ago
The lack of any proof reading drove me batty. I struggled get through it. Something this long shouldn't be written in a single draft. If it's worth nearly 10,000 words, it's worth doing properly. TL,DR: Guy realizes he was a jerk at the sta
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by alttag 15y ago
It's possible someone from Amazon, G.E., or Oracle would meet those criteria. The big thing HP was (is) lacking is a leader with experience manufacturing physical products. Putting that in place would settle some of the fears of procurement
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by alttag 15y ago
One of the problems I had was that the link to learn more about a project sends the email. I was curious, and there wasn't much (immediate) explanation of what the consequences of the link were, so I clicked. Yes, one of the pages that's li
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by alttag 15y ago
> ... what's with random incompetents ...? I think at least part of the answer is that research shows groups are, in some instances, shown to make worse decisions than individuals. In groups, individual biases are magnified, a

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