amirmc

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901.
by amirmc 13y ago
Indeed. Doing away with the 'formal' structure doesn't mean the function of that structure also goes away (if that makes sense). This is true for many things e.g even if you don't have a sales team in your company y
902.
by amirmc 13y ago
I think the article you're referring to is called The Tyranny of Structurelessness. Article: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyrann
903.
by amirmc 13y ago
> "But that's not the world we live in, now is it?" Neither is it the world we aspire to. Taking an attitude of 'Well, what did you expect?' Is never going to improve anything.
904.
by amirmc 13y ago
Let's flip that around. The key point would be "everyone's location ... No exceptions". Then you'd know if that abusive partner was approaching you (and call relevant authorities). The dealers would probably also
905.
by amirmc 13y ago
Sounds like someone got confused between 'dark matter' and 'dark net'.
906.
by amirmc 13y ago
To the author: The section on 'Caml and Objective Caml' should be renamed to 'OCaml' as that's the official name of language in recent years. Also, the ordering of books is best done in reverse chronological order.
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Are Cloud Operating Systems the Next Big Thing?(linux.com)
2 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
908.
by amirmc 13y ago
They used to post stuff on Posterous and when that was shut down, they moved to Posthaven (set up by one of the partners, Gary Tan, who was cofounder of Posterous). It's not really a blog as such but more a collection of press/new
909.
by amirmc 13y ago
> "... by dropping them on my porch and hoping my neighbors are honest." You wouldn't even need to do this. If you have a garden (even a communal one) then the drone could simply land there instead. Or perhaps a balcony,
910.
'Memories' pass between generations.(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
911.
by amirmc 13y ago
You're still assuming way too much (and also over-generalising). Grad students leave their studies all the time, sometimes to start companies based on their work (some of my friends have done this). Others may leave academia and joi
912.
by amirmc 13y ago
You're assuming too much about academia and the people in it. We're not all automatons driven by the need to write papers. Plenty of people (eg grad students) are willing to commercialise research work given the opportunity. Also,
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Mobile interaction models(ben-evans.com)
4 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
from the BBC faq: We have an unusual requirement when it comes to developing the BBC website - it carries advertising internationally but not in the UK, and we have to build and design for both these situations simultaneously. The site car
915.
by amirmc 13y ago
There are ways for those companies to reduce costs (and pass on savings) which still support low prices. Primark [1] is a case where they have no advertising spend and rely on low prices and word of mouth. Makes me wonder about the marketin
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by amirmc 13y ago
If you can take a laptop through (or in fact any electronics) then in principle, this should be no problem.
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An engineer's emergency kit business card(boldport.blogspot.co.uk)
173 points by amirmc 13y ago|75 comments
918.
by amirmc 13y ago
> I would like to have a "container" for each instance of an untrusted application. You might like to look at Bromium (bromium.com), founded by a bunch of ex-Xen folks. I think they were doing something like this for the ent
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by amirmc 13y ago
How about OSs that target the hypervisors? With hypervisors getting everywhere, it becomes a viable platform on which we can re-evaluate the assumptions we make about OSs. For example, I'm working with a bunch of other people on Mirag
920.
by amirmc 13y ago
> "If merit correlates with the ability to make money and merit is heritable..." In the UK this was called being of 'good breeding'. It's no more true now than it was back then. Bear in mind that money is also h
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by amirmc 13y ago
Some items from the video that were not mentioned in the article: One to many interactions, Record and replay experiences, Pre-recorded games/videos. Of course, none of the above should really be a surprise but they still caught me of
922.
by amirmc 13y ago
It even has a Wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
923.
by amirmc 13y ago
It may have been breaking but they did well to state that it would be breaking and was in development long enough (with RCs) that no-one should be caught by surprise. I say this as someone who launched a site based on 2.3 as 3.0 entered R
924.
by amirmc 13y ago
> "The best advice I can offer is to have the utmost respect for your developers, since they are your prized assets." Not just devs. Employers should have utmost respect for all their employees.
925.
by amirmc 13y ago
There's something in your comment that confuses me. "I'm actively making money from my equity right now." How does that work? Also, you say "… that's assuming your equity is actually worth anything"
926.
by amirmc 13y ago
You joke but I can totally imagine a future where there are embedded sensors in the bread that transmit local conditions and (after ingestion) health/medical data. Such a loaf could be given away free if the data collected could be r
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by amirmc 13y ago
They're not quite raising an objection, but rather using the opportunity to draw attention (and support) to their cause. "...That's why we hope police officers will join us in demanding that the state legislature pass forwar
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by amirmc 13y ago
You're assuming people outside Facebook would perceive value the same way. This isn't necessarily the case.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "All/most of that gets extinguished immediately, or, eventually after, an acquisition by Facebook." We think that because we follow the tech news and are savvy about the consequences of an acquisition. However, I&#x27
930.
by amirmc 13y ago
Thanks, this is a helpful explanation. The site came from a template and I didn't think too long about the issue you mention (but I agree it's important [1]). Regarding your final para, please be assured that the folks working on

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