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by anactofgod 12y ago
Archimedes would approve.
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by anactofgod 13y ago
Sooner than you think. smile
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by anactofgod 13y ago
I enjoy Bukowski's work. But the insights he shares in this letter are tempered by the fact that he didn't quit his job at the Post Office until after a would-be patron "employed" him to write. Still... Some people nev
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by anactofgod 13y ago
I'll check into this later.
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by anactofgod 13y ago
Yes, please. ramcsingh-at-gmail-dot-com Thanks!
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by anactofgod 13y ago
Fast on the ground, agile in the air. It's a radio-controlled helicoupeter!
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by anactofgod 13y ago
The Terminator: The Watson project begins in 2005. The system competes on Jeopardy January 14th, 2011. Human contestants are removed as viable competition. Watson is set to task to learn a million more databases. It becomes self-aware at 2:
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by anactofgod 14y ago
Says a newspaper.
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by anactofgod 14y ago
It'll be interesting to see if the Republicans can hire high-quality talent required in sufficient numbers from as deep a pool. Meanwhile, though, the capabilities of third parties will fall even further behind those of the increasingly ent
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by anactofgod 14y ago
Wrt "...the E you use to calculate P/E should actually be the long term expected earnings"... You may be thinking of Forward P/E. But Forward P/E only attempts to project earnings out 12 months. The E in P/E is the measure of actual earning
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by anactofgod 14y ago
It would make sense for Apple to lower its prices to capture and lock in a bigger market share, but only if they were able to meet the resulting demand. But, if they are constrained by supply chain and manufacturing capacity, then maintaini
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by anactofgod 14y ago
Yup. Just noticed the extra post. Thanks.
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by anactofgod 14y ago
AAPL's P/E ratio is ~10x. For comparision, GOOG's is ~23x. AMZN's P/E is ~3,257x. At $13.1B AAPL made 4.5x what GOOG ($2.89B) did last quarter, And, in that one quarter, earned profits that are ~7x what AMZN has made during its entire exi
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by anactofgod 14y ago
Electronic medical records don't save money... yet. Mr Greenspun left of the trailing "yet" from the title.
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by anactofgod 14y ago
And, for those desiring augmentation/enhancement of their own self-directed text-based learning of OTP and Erlang, two of the "Erlang and OTP in Action" authors, Martin Logan and Eric Merrit, with Jordan Wilberding and Ram C Singh (full dis
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by anactofgod 14y ago
That's great! Darren gave a great talk at this year's SF Erlang Factory.
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by anactofgod 14y ago
(I'm a co-organizer, w Luc.) The bootcamp is being taught by "Erlang/OTP in Action" co-author, and ErlangCamp instructor, Eric B. Merritt. It is based on our "Erlang Essentials" material, which we use at ErlangCamp to get ErlangCampers up t
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by anactofgod 14y ago
Or,rather... "History of the World According to Western Civilization-centric Source Documentation." Still, pretty cool.
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by anactofgod 14y ago
<nit>It's a TIE Interceptor.</nit> And, it's nice work. <edit>Doh. I stand corrected. Vader did fly a TIE Fighter - technically the "TIE Advanced x1". Looks like I'm overdue to rewatch SW:ANH. smile </edit&#62
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by anactofgod 15y ago
An explanation of how they are different, and why creating Joxa was necessary, from the creator of Joxa, Eric Merritt. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610985 Full disclosure: Eric and I are co-founders of the company he references in
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The differences between Joxa & LFE (Lisps on the ErlangVM)(ericbmerritt.posterous.com)
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by anactofgod 15y ago
One thing the article hints at but doesn't state overtly (the book probably does), is that another key strategic structural advantage Apple has over other companies of scale is that all of the P&L responsibilities reside ONLY at the CFO
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This is how Apple’s top secret product development process works(thenextweb.com)
1 points by anactofgod 15y ago|1 comments
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"The Story of Fernforest & Petro Dale"-A fable on the life & death of Hollywood(asym.co)
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by anactofgod 15y ago
The original post ends by asking the wrong - and an extremely limiting - question. Technological innovations of camera/film/projectors (and later broadcast & receivers) made motion pictures possible . These came first. The current "Hol
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by anactofgod 15y ago
So, "Gattaca" had it right, then?
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Software that democratizes democracy? Sure, why not. Power to the People!
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by anactofgod 15y ago
People who like innovation, tech & startups gathering to talk innovation, tech & startups. In meatspace. Over beverages.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Cool. IBM finally has a CEO educated as an engineer running the company.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Interesting. And a Bloomberg Businessweek article has Scott Forstall as Jobs' heir-apparent at Apple. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/scott-forstall-the-sorc...

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