arcticfox

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by arcticfox 12y ago
It was almost certainly just an embargo in exchange for exclusivity until launch.
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by arcticfox 12y ago
As far as I can tell, a big difference is that Google's concept video looks very little like actually using it, whereas Microsoft's is clearly just a better version of their live demo. The live demo was amazing.
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by arcticfox 12y ago
Looking at a different pivot to the question, Allen Downey gives a good theoretical reason for the decline in times and projects 2041 as the year for the 2-hr marathon. Also, his original projection was made in 2011, so there are three year
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by arcticfox 12y ago
"As part of that, the company has reiterated its commitment to creating a single app Store across all of its devices. Windows 10 will work across all form-factors and as such, developers will only need to code once but they’ll be able
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by arcticfox 12y ago
Putting the same Windows on all devices is a pretty amazing achievement. From a marketing point of view, it seems logical to stamp it with a milestone version number too. Particularly one with a little distance from 8...
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by arcticfox 12y ago
It IS extraordinarily unlikely that a drug, tested in animals, will cause a worse result than one of the worst diseases we've ever seen. Concern about "false hope" is bizarre to me - it's not like this is a long-term dis
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by arcticfox 12y ago
As far as I know, none of what you say is as cut-and-dried as you make it seem. The Anthropic Principle is a common sense explanation to why our universe has a paradoxically perfect ("fine-tuned" by 120 orders of magnitude off wha
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by arcticfox 12y ago
I was hoping that I could say: "Yes, I like Radiolab" and "No, I don't like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me", but that doesn't seem to be a feature. This would be perfect if they added it!
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by arcticfox 12y ago
Off topic - does the quantity matter to these disclaimers? I feel they unintentionally come off as a humblebrag sometimes.
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by arcticfox 13y ago
This is great, although it's too bad it requires such a clever twist to integrate with Siri. Cortana should shine in situations like these: http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/02/microsofts-cortana-siri-clone-...
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by arcticfox 13y ago
Is there an editor's rebuttal to this? If unintentional, at the very least a limited apology seems fitting.
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by arcticfox 13y ago
While these are almost certainly true, #1 seems like it would be a complaint of the subjects mentioned in #2. "Everyone is awesome." "Many of the engineers are arrogant."
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by arcticfox 13y ago
In 2013, a huge part of this is due to the flood of ASICs coming online. We've seen CPU -> GPU -> FPGAs -> ASICs in just a few years, but these improvements cannot keep coming at this rate. With ASICs, bitcoin mining has just ab
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by arcticfox 14y ago
The key to the technology seems to be https://ripple.com/wiki/Consensus , which is the problem Bitcoin elegantly solved. I like this solution as well. But Bitcoin is relatively battle hardened (both theoretically and in the field), and I t
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by arcticfox 14y ago
He easily could have discovered that during debugging or when he was actually trying to make progress on the project, not benchmarking. But I agree, he should be explicit about that variable.
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by arcticfox 14y ago
Hopefully you guys can get enough people to sign up to reach usefulness! I signed up. Seattle. :) FYI - Facebook login didn't work for me. Let me know if you can't repro it and I'll send details.
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by arcticfox 14y ago
"She said to shut off the cruise control to take advantage of battery regeneration from occasional braking and slowing down." There's either a fundamental misunderstanding here or Tesla just owned physics. Braking is never, ever a good idea
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by arcticfox 14y ago
I ended up reading your article on to land an airplane, it was really good. My palms were sweating the whole time ! Should've gotten upvotes for that.
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by arcticfox 14y ago
Over the past year, Apple has shown (slight) vulnerability, whereas Google has looked like an even more formidable competitor moving forward