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by anxrn 13y ago
I don't understand what makes this particular service tout 'realtime' as its primary selling point. Don't all search engines (and other hosted search services) aim for fast (100s of milliseconds) retrieval, show-as-you-t
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by anxrn 13y ago
Speculation on pricing: "Most deliveries are expected in 2015, and the base price is expected to range from $70,000 to $90,000" [1] [1] http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24297493/classic-sili...
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by anxrn 13y ago
A Fourier transform is not merely another graphical representation of data (although, it could be used as such). Among other things, it lends itself to generating features and analysis that can be used for detecting patterns by computer, no
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by anxrn 13y ago
Keep in mind when the first iPhone released, there was no App Store. And no plan for one, supposedly [1]. Apple had as much control over your phone as the other carriers did. And much more than it does now. My comment was more about the lev
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by anxrn 13y ago
I see. Yes, I misread your comment. Apologies. We are, as another commenter eloquently put it, 'in violent agreement'.
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by anxrn 13y ago
wrt "Most don't", how do you know this? Is there a study or a poll you could point to? I'm genuinely curious about this.
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by anxrn 13y ago
#1. A commenter is not a website. #2. There are a lot of considerations apart from bandwidth when it comes to disseminating information. For eg., having to use speakers or even reach for a set of headphones is reason enough for me to skip t
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by anxrn 13y ago
T-Mobile is shaking up the industry like Apple should have (and could have) done with the launch of the iPhone in 2007.
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by anxrn 13y ago
Really? I did the same, my bill went down 50% (this is on top of a sweet discount I had on AT&T). But I see your point, I'd switch even if the savings weren't as good, they treat you like real customers, not sheep.
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by anxrn 13y ago
A Google Maps collection of these. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=gplus-ogsb&ie=UTF8&oe...
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Amazon EMR on Github(github.com)
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by anxrn 13y ago
Prop 8 goes down as well. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf
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Barnes & Noble to stop making Nook tablet(paidcontent.org)
2 points by anxrn 13y ago|1 comments
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by anxrn 14y ago
Agreed. In the process of sponsoring green cards for prospective candidates, we go through the process of trying to find US citizens that could fill the role. This is a requirement of the labor certification process. We rarely, if ever, fin
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by anxrn 14y ago
This assumes your spouse is a citizen. For the employer case, this is true for prospective immigrants of all national origins except India and China, which also make up the bulk of potential engineers looking to become permanent residents.
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The decreasing need for new words(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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by anxrn 14y ago
Very neat. Is there a way to only do plain text?
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by anxrn 14y ago
You're right. http://www.bart.gov/about/planning/sanmateo_santaclara.aspx
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by anxrn 14y ago
Op-Ed in The Hindu discussion the issue: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3391109.ece
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by anxrn 14y ago
Hadoop is popular not (only?) because of some PR-driven mania around big data. It is popular because it is an organic, evolving open source project that solves hard but common problems faced by a lot of companies in a variety of industries
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Book Review: Eight Amazing Engineering Stories(hackaday.com)
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346 tech companies ask Congress to repeal per-country green card caps(marketwatch.com)
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by anxrn 14y ago
Also, for anyone interested in an academic, objective, inclusive and yet thoroughly fascinating summary of Indian history, I highly recommend "India: A History" by John Keay ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keay )
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Asians Become Fastest-Growing Immigrant Class(online.wsj.com)
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by anxrn 14y ago
They made it easier to do this. You can send a public link to any file anywhere in Dropbox now.
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by anxrn 14y ago
This is worse, its wrong. And IMO, parent couldn't be clearer.
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by anxrn 14y ago
I believe this is exactly how LastPass is implemented.
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by anxrn 15y ago
Sorting descending by time makes this a meta post: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+dont+m... It also makes this comment a meta^2 post.
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by anxrn 15y ago
This, very much so. "At every point in the last forty years, wealth, health, and happiness in our economy has been built on the freedom to disrupt the entrenched powers, not the preservation of their rent-seeking monopolies." I would extrap
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by anxrn 15y ago
This post hit me with a serious case of deja vu. And then I dug this up: http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/03/google-made-my-...

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