amartya916

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by amartya916 14y ago
They are over-hyped for sure, but I am curious about your take on computers, and their upgrade cycles.
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by amartya916 14y ago
It's a good book, but I am not sure if it's the book to read if you want to know even a little bit of the technical marvels he came up with. I found the book to be good enough to know the names of Tesla's inventions and who he was day-to-da
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by amartya916 14y ago
Really enjoyed reading the article (though the criticism by kineticflow about using "Fact", seems valid to me), thanks. For me, the two stellar points were: "The Starbucks Craftsmanship Is On Full Display" + "App Craftsmanship Is Hidden Awa
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by amartya916 14y ago
I agree with the rationality part and enjoyed the 'digital snake oil' statement. However, I'd be happy if Ouya just creates a buzz for Android gaming. I couldn't care 2-shits for the box itself, but if playing Android games on the TV (throu
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Visualizing the racial divide(vallandingham.me)
2 points by amartya916 14y ago|0 comments
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by amartya916 14y ago
"The iPad and iPhone are not, in any significant way, unique. They are more marginal variations on existing technology and design than not. Capturing popular attention and leveraging inherent human desires is what garnered the devices and A
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by amartya916 14y ago
I think the comment was supposed to point out that Monier is supposed to be one of the principle inventors of reinforced concrete and that he passed away in 1906 ... hence trying to figure out how the gentleman in the story fit in.
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by amartya916 14y ago
If I understand your point correctly, you are referring to the fact that some products by being first-to-market or by popularity start to define a category of products. For example, vacuum cleaners in the UK are mostly called "Hoovers", or
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by amartya916 14y ago
I also read that Best Buy had people returning the Galaxy Tab because they had originally thought that it was the iPad. Link: http://allthingsd.com/20120726/documents-in-apple-v-samsung-... Now, of course one can say that the consumer sho
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AnandTech: The Google Nexus 7 review(anandtech.com)
5 points by amartya916 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple: Google Warned Samsung Against Copying Us.(allthingsd.com)
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by amartya916 14y ago
Do read the main letter by Jeff Bezos on the Amazon.com homepage. The link I have posted contains more details.
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Amazon career choice program(amazon.com)
2 points by amartya916 14y ago|1 comments
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by amartya916 14y ago
The problem is with the pricing. As someone else mentioned, they wanted to take the fight to the Kindle Fire and hence started at $200. I get that. However, I still think that Google could have taken control, and released it's own hardware
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by amartya916 14y ago
While I love the Nexus 7 tablet's pricing, ultimately I think it's going to hurt the Android tablet ecosystem. With wafer-thin (non-existent?) profit margins on the hardware, only companies like Amazon and Google, which have content to sell
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AnandTech 2012 Macbook Air (11" and 13") review(anandtech.com)
6 points by amartya916 14y ago|0 comments
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Multiple Quadrotors with mirrors in a light and sound show (from 3min to 9mins).(canneslions.com)
2 points by amartya916 14y ago|0 comments
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by amartya916 14y ago
I would love to know what version of Firefox (and what platform) you are on. Firefox's total memory usage is in my personal experience better than Chrome right now (OS X 10.7 and Windows 7). As someone mentioned below, Firefox doesn't get d
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by amartya916 14y ago
Congratulations to the Product design team at Mozilla. I loved what they've done with 'Junior', the browser on the iPad. For people who want to dive into the video for the demo, go to approx. 31mins.; otherwise, here's a summary of the stan
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by amartya916 14y ago
Off-topic: By all means, charge the $99 for distributing on the App Store, but I am not really sure why Apple doesn't allow for Apple ID level verification for personal apps. Something similar to the mobile provision they use right now, e.g
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by amartya916 14y ago
" It could easily scoop up an infirm company like Research in Motion, which is valued at less than $6 billion, and drop a beautifully designed Facebook operating system on top of RIM’s phones. " I find this to be an affront to engineers and
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by amartya916 14y ago
Absolutely correct, the wiggle does make it happen. One of those "Why didn't I think of it" interaction technique. Kudos to the developer. Just a (very) minor change will make it better for me: slightly less opacity for the pop up window. O
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by amartya916 14y ago
The Verge did a piece about privacy policies: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms... Not very conclusive but Nilay highlighted the fact that while Dropbox's terms seem friendlier, in legalese, it's perhaps has mor
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by amartya916 15y ago
Exactly, and the review nails it when it says that "It's a bridge to 22nm, warming the seat before Haswell arrives". Intel is being fairly conservative (later in the review, the real estate on chip to push the graphics further is mentioned)
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The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review: AnandTech(anandtech.com)
50 points by amartya916 15y ago|26 comments
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by amartya916 15y ago
I should have clarified; yes indeed, Silk does perform like a pig currently , but I like the idea behind it, and I believe that Amazon has the engineering chops to pull it off. Immediate access to the mobile phone market along with a huge
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by amartya916 15y ago
For RIM to come back, just having a new OS (BB 10) and shiny hardware is not going to be enough. As an aside, Nokia, a company with similar brand recognition - albeit in a different market segment - is trying to claw back into the game is u
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by amartya916 15y ago
Also according to their release schedule, the updates are soon going to be background (silent) updates. So version numbers will matter less and less. Mozilla has upped it's game and I have started to see that memory usage is now quite comp
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by amartya916 15y ago
While I think this a a worthy suggestion, I also believe that "hidden" gestures that have low "discoverability" should be dealt with extreme caution. For example, in a reading app, a pinch gesture can also be assigned to changing font sizes
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by amartya916 15y ago
Absolutely. Respect for the competitor and open acknowledgement where it's due. Also, Instapaper is a one man show, and this piece made me have greater respect for him . The article also links to his earlier post on Readability, which too w

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