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by arscan 14y ago
You are equating money to happiness. I'm sure that there are plenty of very wealthy people out there that don't feel like they have anything to lose, and they might as well do something spectacular instead of continue to try to fill the vo
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by arscan 14y ago
Designing an electric car that people actually want to buy is a lot more than an engineering problem, too. Why would somebody want to pay 50k on a car that can only drive a few hundred miles before needing a couple hours to recharge? It a
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by arscan 14y ago
Dharmesh classifies himself as a "complete introvert". And his behavior with respect to phones is consistent with that. But I find it hard to believe that he has gotten to where he is today by taking this kind of hardline attitude w/all t
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by arscan 14y ago
Ah great, I look forward to checking it out. Unfortunately I have to work during the day -- but for those giving the contest a shot, I recommend starting your research here: http://www.a1k0n.net/2010/03/04/google-ai-postmortem.html
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by arscan 14y ago
Did you guys look at the AI Challenge that was done by the guys over at the University of Waterloo (aichallenge.org)? I thought those competitions were extremely well done, and have been disappointed that they haven't come out with any new
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by arscan 14y ago
Free? Free to whom? Twitter charges some users, but doesn't charge others. The same could be said about just about every platform out there. I don't think that's particularly useful advice, because I don't know what you mean by free (is
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by arscan 14y ago
Don't rely on someone else's API? That's like going through life never trusting anybody. Sure, you'll avoid getting burned, but I hardly think that's an optimal strategy. A better strategy is to trust somebody (/an API) until they give you
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by arscan 14y ago
It makes sense for NASA to avoid anything that would significantly decrease the public's opinion of them (as that would eventually lead to funding cuts). But I don't think their assumption that the death of astronauts/pilots would negative
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by arscan 14y ago
Personally I find this interesting from a marketing perspective... its not like cloning a DB is a new concept, but by calling it "forking your data" they make it seem quite a bit sexier. I'm not sure if technically its the best term to use,
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by arscan 14y ago
Its a little harder than simply setting a loftier goal and telling NASA to accomplish it in a shorter timeframe. I assume there was a certain amount of engineering due diligence done to come up with those dates. Have you ever had a manage
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by arscan 14y ago
It won't look red if you put that sheet of glass over a black piece of paper. Ink is semi-transparent. So think of white paper as a light source, and the red ink absorbs all colors but red coming off the paper before it reaches your eye. N
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by arscan 14y ago
I don't understand why news organizations haven't adopted this kind of visualization yet for hurricanes. This has been around for awhile, and I always pull it up when a hurricane hits the US. Its a far better way to display wind than the s
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by arscan 14y ago
Very cool. Personally I find animated maps to be the easiest way to digest this kind of data (like the animation of nuclear testing[1] or walmart proliferation[2]). Looks like it would only take a few lines of javascript to accomplish thi
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by arscan 14y ago
I assume 8:35am ET on Monday is the best time to submit, based on when this was submitted. No need to read the article ;-)
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by arscan 14y ago
If you are interested in gaining a more intuitive understanding of the forces in play (and have some time to kill), I recommend grabbing a copy of Kerbal Space Program. Its only in alpha right now, but its a heck of a lot of fun already an
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by arscan 14y ago
What sites, out of curiosity? Obviously all the like-like (likesque) buttons would no longer function, but I don't care about those. I was wondering what valid use case there is for 3rd party cookies that actually benefits the user and no
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by arscan 14y ago
Somebody wrote a book. A pdf copy of said book is being hosted illegally in a google code site. The author asked for it to be taken down via a bug report on that google code site. I think the point is that it is a fairly humorous method t
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by arscan 14y ago
It means to put on trial.
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by arscan 14y ago
I expected this to be a short, mainly fluff 1 pager based on the title. I was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't. In order to pass judgement on MS's design choices for WinRT you really need to understand the history of the technologies i
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by arscan 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing. From what I can tell though, animated gifs are more popular than ever. What they lack in image quality and compression, they make up in convenience... And having no sound is actually a feature. I'm sure there'
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by arscan 14y ago
I agree. I think that a very simple, single function service like this could be useful. You know exactly what you are sharing and who you are sharing it with. In the past, I've been known to take a screenshot of my open maps application (
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by arscan 14y ago
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong
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by arscan 14y ago
I would have thought that you'd have to be a lot higher up than Felix to experience the overview effect. Its one thing being able to see the curvature of the earth... its another matter altogether to be be in orbit and see the whole planet
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by arscan 14y ago
To be fair, the author does call it a product success (# of activations per day could be used as a metric to support that). But then he/she attempts to call it a business failure because of these Motorola losses. That's WAY off the mark.
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by arscan 14y ago
It is a stretch to call Android a "staggering business failure" based on losses incurred by Motorola. Android wasn't intended to make money directly -- it was intended to protect Google's real interests (remote services that drive adverti
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by arscan 14y ago
Urls don't become links in the text of the submission. They do become links in comments.
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by arscan 14y ago
Its interesting that nginx's ability to handle many connections was partially driven by the fact that it was developed to support sites that had dialup users. I thought it was built that way to support emerging web traffic patterns (high v
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by arscan 14y ago
Looks like it took investors about 30 minutes to figure out who made the mistake: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG+NASDAQ%3ARRD
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by arscan 14y ago
Very cool. I'm not sure that google would be thrilled about the words that ended up inside of their letters though... its like a subliminal message.
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by arscan 14y ago
No problem, I was just making sure people didn't misinterpret the title as I did. I think your new title is quite a bit more clear. Great site & concept though. I'll be sure to bookmark it and look around later. I'm curious to see ho

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