andreyf

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by andreyf 16y ago
Basically, it looks like there's no pleasing this guy. I think some people are just wired this way. As much as I love most technologies I use, I could rattle off a dozen flaws in any one I use extensively. Of course, it's a waste of time
902.
by andreyf 16y ago
Strong experience in a specific language isn't necessary. I know it's anecdotal, but reddit started out being written in Lisp, then switched to Python pretty early on. Many great tech people I know have no problem moving from language to la
903.
by andreyf 16y ago
I wonder what their profit angle on this is. I'd imagine it would be to integrate voice into Gmail and Gmail into your cell phone.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Is there a name for this kind of game? I think the most common example I've heard is "you cut the pie, I pick who gets which slice (assuming everyone wants the largest one)".
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by andreyf 16y ago
Shit, sorry. I really tried to phrase it in a way to avoid trolling, but it looks like sometimes it's just in my blood. I'm sure Kurzweil is a deeply honest and righteous man. I'm just conflicted at how the medical establishment (that is, a
906.
by andreyf 16y ago
Sorry, didn't mean that as criticism. I just meant you can't really compare the two products/audiences/business models/etc, because they're different (Atlas never targeted "people with no programming background creating complex applications
907.
by andreyf 16y ago
I think it's indicative of either (a) Apple's willingness to quickly realize they were wrong, or (b) their willingness mislead to downplay a delayed but vital feature. Personally, I enjoy the latter.
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by andreyf 16y ago
There are plenty of other awesome tools out there. The valley has a tendency to idolize certain people unnecessarily, this leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. No offense dude, but I've tried using both noloh and Atlas, and you really can
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by andreyf 16y ago
which is what I fear will happen here I have little doubt that it will. Will Motorola ever care as much about their platform as Apple does?
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by andreyf 16y ago
I don't get why Apple didn't buy them. Read point six in Steve's "Thoughts on Flash". Apple isn't interested in actively developing web platforms because, as Jobs said, We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of
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by andreyf 16y ago
No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them. I don't get it: what could they do with them? 280North's main product is Atlas, a development platform that creates applications that run on Motorola's Droids, but on an OS that's n
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Chefs and Editors(dilbert.com)
1 points by andreyf 16y ago|0 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
If you like this line of reasoning, Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" [1] is a great academic approach to the same epistemological questions, applied to the academic community, and with some very bold conclusions about
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by andreyf 16y ago
I think Kurzweil, not unlike Chomsky, seems like a generally fascinating figure to discuss (early success, strong opinions). His popularity (both positive and negative) can be attributed to a fascination with the character more so than his
915.
by andreyf 16y ago
Hah, something like that. Also wondering why there is no automated way of making such a list. It seems like the information should be out there on various documentation pages, etc.
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Ask YC: full-screen keyboard shortcut by browser/OS?
1 points by andreyf 16y ago|2 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
To save some state of your JS application which can be saved to bookmarks (or copy-pasted to someone else). For example, Gmail adds "#sent/12aa04feebaac50e" when I open an e-mail I just sent. Also, to get the "back" button to work properly
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by andreyf 16y ago
Reddit memes go on reddit.
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by andreyf 16y ago
There's either some really good or really bad duplicate entry prevention going on. Probably IP + User Agent.
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by andreyf 16y ago
fb connect video game trailers ?
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by andreyf 16y ago
The original point was that transparent government ownership of information is better than corporate ownership of information, because votes in government are relatively free/equally split, while voting in a corporation isn't.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Schmidt could have phrased it much better as "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, Don't tell anyone." Great point, in hindsight. It's much harder to know these things when you spend a lot of your time in front of rep
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by andreyf 16y ago
It's probably a mistake Nah, it was probably just developed for internal Google consumption.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Looks nigh-identical to a talk they gave, what? A few months / a year ago? Yup, Google does this a lot.
925.
by andreyf 16y ago
There's an even bigger opportunity cost to spending 3-4 years of your life on something and have it come to nothing. It's certainly possible to make the kind of startup that lets you walk away with significant value regardless of how the
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by andreyf 16y ago
Getting rid of terrenting is what net neutrality is about for a lot of players: it's a significant part of backbone traffic that can be eliminated (de-prioritized to the point of being useless) overnight, given the right legal setting. Fran
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by andreyf 16y ago
There's Felix Dennis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyefDseVCZk I'm not sure how many luxury goods he consumes, but he does write good startup poetry: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/404957/money.txt
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by andreyf 16y ago
And has been for decades... so?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Commercial etc Well, if the opposite had been proven, P = NP, there would be titanic commercial opportunities, but it seems to be the opposite (as most people suspected).
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by andreyf 16y ago
there's only one thing it has done that I consider really evil. And no, the Net Neutrality proposal isn't it. Curious: what is it? Android? ;)

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