andreyf

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   by andreyf 16y ago

   I would have posted it if I thought there was one other who read thelastpsych :) Seriously, I highly recommend the rest of his posts (if you can forgive the ads and site layout).
2. 932.▲
   by andreyf 16y ago

   Bragging rights are directly correlated to budget, and maybe even vice versa ;)
3. 933.▲
   by andreyf 16y ago

   I have no idea what the majority of the population is going to do in the near-future. Some part of marketing and advertising? That seems to have been the trend for the last century or so...
4. 934.▲
   by andreyf 16y ago

   Ack. Just the size and variety of industries whose operations are defined by patent law (medical research, for example - both drugs and equipment) makes this kind of proposition a lot more complicated than we can comprehend, I think.
5. 935.▲
   by andreyf 16y ago

   The two aren't mutually exclusive. I think many people will want to both tweet and having deep conversations online.
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   by andreyf 16y ago

   To me it's ALSO about interaction and the group learning/creating dynamic, and that can't be parceled out through the web Agree with the first part. Hoping you're wrong about the second. Time will tell :)
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   by andreyf 16y ago

   Responding in reverse order: - "Communicating online" is in its infancy. The way people communicate online now (facebook, twitter) is wholly different than 10 years ago, and will be wholly different 10 years from now. - I agree that Univers
8. 938.▲
   by andreyf 16y ago

   But podcasts aren't that different of a medium from radio, or mailing out tapes, for that matter. The web is different.
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   by andreyf 16y ago

   Oops, I think we're talking past each other, or maybe I was projecting my own ideas on the article too much. I agree with you completely - actually, I can't think of any profession where video lectures alone would get you a real understan
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    Well this is true if you want to be a software developer. Or a mathematician, director, physicist, screen writer, journalist, accountant, statistician, historian, designer, botanist, cook, mechanic, etc. Now that I think of it, most profe
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    I agree with the title, but this seems short-sighted: Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world Lectures might be the optimal way of learning given the technology of the last millenium,
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    Don't underestimate kids. They've been battling parents for control for centuries. The average 13 year old will find 10 ways of cheating the system in the first day of having it. Three categories come to mind: 1. Stupid way: lie and give yo
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    (Back of the envelope calculation: Suppose a typical group spends 3 hours filling out investment-application paperwork per investor they're pitching; investors take 1 out of every 20 applicants; and a startup wants to take money from 5 inv
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    In my personal opinion, net neutrality is not best for Google, aside from the PR hit. They have the cash to pay for the premium bandwidth pipes, unlike hypothetical startups they're trying to compete with. Net neutrality lowers the barrier
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    There's some jujitsu going on in your justification of the accusations being waged against Google, but I think it's a little silly to think this is just a PR stunt.
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    Perseverance (i.imgur.com)

    7 points by andreyf 16y ago|0 comments
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    I think Apple realizes the importance of the jailbreaking community (at least, some people at Apple do - do you doubt that 20 year old Steve Jobs would have jailbroken his phone?). I imagine they're simply uninterested in an arms race on th
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    PDF exploit in iOS 4(daringfireball.net)

    79 points by andreyf 16y ago|47 comments
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    how can you sometimes have a little less than 1 person working on one of the most important parts of your runtime? You make sure that person knows a lot about garbage collectors? If he's implemented garbage collectors before and is up-to-
20. 950.▲
    by andreyf 16y ago

    This movie is not about attacking Zuckerberg, not even a little. I'd be very surprised if funding came from him or Facebook, but I wouldn't be surprised if the creators talked to Zuck about it quite a bit.
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    :)
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    The iPhone is a smartphone model. It should be compared to other smartphone models, not other mobile OSes. Err, the iPhone is a smartphone "family". iPhone 4 would be an smartphone model. I'm sure Android will overtake iOS at some point
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    I don't understand why people compare sales volume of iPhone to Android. Isn't that kind of like comparing MacBook Pro sales to Windows sales? People should either compare iPhones to Droids, or iOS devices to Android devices.
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    "Having received a number of queries about our evil scale, we present an explanation here": http://www.lot49.com/evil_scale.html
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    My public speaking skills were awful As are everyone's first time they lecture. At least from my experience, second time is a ton easier/better.
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    Just one example: let's say you want to save an image from a web page to your desktop. With the Apple's trackpad, you can start to drag the image, holding it with your thumb on the bottom of the trackpad, four-finger swipe-up to show the de
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    I'm not sure what kind of top-secret lives some of these HN-ers are living, but I enjoyed sharing that my grandma has learned to IM me on Gmail, etc., and I don't think you care enough to read it. :-P I think I might be likely to pay a year
28. 958.▲
    by andreyf 16y ago

    I think you're on to something. I look forward to the day when we are shocked by unencrypted private data accessible on the server as we do un-hashed passwords.
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    Here's an example: this back-and-forth between you and Paul was fascinating enough that I read every word, but now that I spent 5 minutes doing it, I realize I'd rather have been working on my startup idea. I didn't realize this as I was
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    by andreyf 16y ago

    Data entry: 300 forms take an average of X hours to do. After X hours reading Reddit and not entering forms, 0 forms have been entered. Simplistically, X hours have been 'lost'. X hours of data entry have been lost. X hours of participati