angstrom

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by angstrom 15y ago
An overflowing warchest is probably one of the most dangerous enablers of complacency. Screw ups and missed targets get glossed over as "There's money to cover it." Eventually, it becomes business as usual.
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by angstrom 15y ago
Basically they got it cheap, put a half ass hardware effort behind it, and now are cutting their losses. I wonder if that's how it went over in the board meeting?
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by angstrom 15y ago
Obviously not a legal prof. :)
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by angstrom 15y ago
I really wish this wasn't considered ground breaking. The same has been spoken of CEO compensation vesting rather than guaranteed compensation packages. The idea of separating measured performance from compensation is a joke.
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by angstrom 15y ago
I met him in NYC at the Union Square Barnes and Noble when he was promoting his book. He has a more whimsical tone to his charisma than Sagan. Sagan's was more reflective and focused. Both passionate about science and Cosmology. I think Sag
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by angstrom 15y ago
Having used Thrift and PB I find myself partial to Avro because it's very similar to what I worked with in the past. Key points about Avro: Schema is separate from data. Network bandwidth is expensive, there is no reason to transfer the sc
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by angstrom 15y ago
It seemed to be a common thread among the founders that the unencumbered sharing of discoveries was a greater good. Patents serve as roadblocks creating a temporary dead end in the process of discovery. It's better to share and have everyon
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by angstrom 15y ago
And that doesn't even get into the problem of the DST dates changing at the whim of legislation like it did recently in the US about 5 years ago. If you are attempting to track timezone instead of UTC you've now have to check date ranges wh
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by angstrom 15y ago
It's a failure in interface design and there's no reason to innovate the interface because it strikes at the core of their revenue stream which is all about hyper connectedness when the real value is in the type of the relationships. It rem
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by angstrom 15y ago
I still prefer binary IDL over json/bson/xml. Keep the schema off the wire and out of storage. People tend to not get as crazy when they stick to lists.
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Nook Dethrones Kindle according to Consumer Reports(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by angstrom 15y ago|1 comments
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Consumer Reports: Nook dethrones Kindle(businessinsider.com)
1 points by angstrom 15y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 15y ago
Ironically, the cohesion has little to do with technical knowhow or marketing. Microsoft effectively lost a decade due to their anti-competitive practices and maneuvering in the late 90s. They were maneuvering to unify the desktop/Internet
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by angstrom 15y ago
Head of Title Inflation I don't care what my title is, just compensate my fair market worth. Granting a title increase is just another cheap and easy way to keep wages down. "But, you just got promoted, we can't jump your pay much further o
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by angstrom 15y ago
In effect you may be owning a very small sliver of the loan the person renting the apartment to you is paying off. By giving them a tax break, their ability to repay the loan improves and as one of the many people who has invested in their
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by angstrom 15y ago
One thing to always consider is that even when the housing market makes money there are ways to benefit from it without owning a house. For instance, buy an index with a low maintenance fee that tracks the REIT. It's also a lot quicker (and
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by angstrom 15y ago
Perspectives obviously vary by market and circumstance. In mine I'm fine with renting. I tend to stick around the 1700/mo range in NYC. For that, I don't have to own a car or the maintenance and depreciation associated with it. I still pay
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by angstrom 15y ago
Those numbers are bleak. I think it has more to do with "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." than with any sort of corporate respect. It's really more about the freemium vs direct payment models competing with each other. Though I would sa
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by angstrom 15y ago
I think all you have to do is look at predictions from 1900 to answer that a resounding "No".
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by angstrom 15y ago
Agree that it's likely the endgame for human manufacturing in most cases. Humans will probably remain in specialized niche cases, but they'll be where either human dexterity or flexibility is still faster/cheaper than deploying robots. Even
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by angstrom 16y ago
If that's not a reminder of fleeting importance.
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by angstrom 16y ago
I'd be surprised if places with active geothermal vents would even notice the human induced heating. In that case Iceland seems like an excellent choice. The main problem is when it comes to active fisheries being located near the effluence
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Lane detection using Clojure and OpenCV(nakkaya.com)
2 points by angstrom 16y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 16y ago
I think the line of thought is that a jury is not as easily bought, harder to threaten, and better at ironing out the moral ambiguities that can be the failings of a single person. However, a judge and no jury is certainly more expedient, n
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by angstrom 16y ago
Seems to crop up whenever process is substituted for accountability. I'm not sure more training is the answer so much as accountability.
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by angstrom 16y ago
Noticed...waiting.
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by angstrom 16y ago
That's great and all, but what I really wanted to know is how he used his napkin? Was it folded in a triangle in his lap or a rectangle...gasp, did he use one at all?! Superfluous information is superfluous information. That said, I still
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by angstrom 16y ago
An enormous failing if these 3 are islands unto themselves with no cultivation of successors. In all this time have they really been the visionaries with no bright stars beneath them? I find it hard to fathom that they haven't imbued the sa
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by angstrom 16y ago
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy I expect that is more likely to make a bigger difference since it has buy-in from the publishers, BN effectively runs most the college bookstores, you can type faster with a keyboard, and most stude
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by angstrom 16y ago
I think for certain use cases it will still be a game changer. It fills the role of a 'more mobile' laptop. The form is not offensive. If someone handed you a tablet to: Fill out a form in a waiting room. Select your order at a restaurant.

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