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by asafira 12y ago
Other android phones: Moto phones are <= $300, Nexus 5 is at $350. So you would say this competes with nothing though?
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by asafira 12y ago
I agree with you that Amazon will probably feed back on the data they receive from Mayday, and I would also assume that Apple considers that data when it designs products and considers improvements. I hope that this means that the customer
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by asafira 12y ago
I could argue in the same manner about things that Amazon's phone has but the iPhone doesn't --- I just think that the people that are considering an iPhone vs. something else will consider Amazon's phone (along with the high
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by asafira 12y ago
Why does this seem to be targeted at Android? If anything, I would say the price differential between this and good android phones reflects that it might be more an iphone competitor if anything, and so it seems to be more targeted at Apple
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by asafira 12y ago
Continuing on that train of thought, I'd guess the "Amazon experts" basically just know the UI pretty well, but they won't help much with questions the hackernews community might have.
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by asafira 12y ago
I'm convinced it's actually a very hard problem. Cameras on android have been subpar across the board for years now, but it's a feature everyone looks for in a smartphone. There's no way manufacturers aren't dedicat
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by asafira 12y ago
I agree with you in regard to the software on the Kindle fire, but I actually felt the hardware wasn't so bad. Anandtech did a review of the screen and found it to be the best screen (if not, close to the best screen) on any android ta
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by asafira 12y ago
As someone who spent a couple of weeks with a Kindle Fire tablet, I want to mention that the Amazon ecosystem is frustratingly closed. There are many apps that I use and prefer on my nexus phone that I just can't get in the Amazon apps
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by asafira 12y ago
My two cents: First, I'm actually surprised as to how much they are selling the dynamic perspective, and I think I'm actually more interested in how well firefly works. Dynamic perspective may be very "cool", but I'
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by asafira 12y ago
Has anyone been able to find a link to the original paper? The link on The Verge is broken, and I couldn't quite find it with a quick google search.
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by asafira 12y ago
I also feel the post resonates with me, but I've found drawbacks to these things. In particular, I find that this attitude always makes me busy. Busy watching online lectures, busy doing household maintenance, busy thinking about wheth
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by asafira 13y ago
I stress this, too, when I privately tutor. One interesting problem (albeit not directly relevant problem) that came up was "How would you determine the average radius of a hair given the number of hairs on your head?". This actua
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by asafira 13y ago
I am going to respectfully disagree. Just because the company can do it doesn't mean a weekend is plenty . You are given a weekend to decide where you might spend months of your life, potentially in a place you've never been. On
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Latest Google Voice Extension update has huge memory leak(chrome.google.com)
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Michael Nielson's Neural Networks Book Project Indiegogo Campaign(indiegogo.com)
3 points by asafira 13y ago|0 comments
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by asafira 13y ago
A lot of universities are definitely trying to push more and more of these sorts of courses though; check out, for example, cs229r at Harvard: http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~minilek/cs229r/index.html , along with
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by asafira 13y ago
As a current physics PhD student, I'd like to mention that this is exactly how I've gone through my educational career. In physics, such simple terms go a long long way, and to this day I still fall back on very simple ideas to un
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by asafira 13y ago
This isn't directly related to the question, but I wanted to share my story anyway: I successfully used Twitter when I had some issues with Expedia. Long story short, one leg of my flight was cancelled and I instead took a bus. I was p
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by asafira 13y ago
I agree with the general consensus here regarding how computers in general have been aging better now. Especially with different computing devices available today, it's hard for the average person to justify buying a new computer withi
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by asafira 13y ago
Any chance this thread will stay high until the morning? (Meh, I guess probably not...)
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by asafira 13y ago
This. There is certainly going to be a lot of noise when they read applications and watch peoples' pitches, and they definitely have far from having 0 false negatives --- that goes for both the selection and interview round. Just push
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by asafira 13y ago
Just a heads up: f.lux is a great tool, but remember to turn it off during video games. Your experience with some games can be affected by the temperature of your screen. For me, that was definitely true when playing left4dead2.
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by asafira 13y ago
To his credit, he may have tried searching for it with reddit's search feature, which isn't great. I still agree with you though --- a simple google search is really often better than using a given website's search functional
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by asafira 13y ago
Just so I understand, you actually did a software engineering internship, but ended up in a more data science role, right? I'm curious just so I better understand if even the standard software engineering role internship helps for more
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by asafira 13y ago
I hear it's actually not that uncommon for physicists to become data scientists. More importantly though, I was successful in physics as an undergraduate, and it's sort of the academic culture to continue onto to grad school (as w
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by asafira 13y ago
Part of the reason I'm doing a PhD in physics is, of course, because I enjoy the work. Everyday I come in and I always feel like I have something to learn from the people I work with. I feel like I grow as a person because I'm con
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by asafira 13y ago
Hi everyone, So I am actually a PhD student in physics, but I've been in love with tech for as long as I remember. I am actually doing a master's degree in CS along the way, both because I'm incredibly interested and because
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by asafira 13y ago
Anandtech has really stellar reviews, and this review is just one example. I'm sure the number of charts and plots loses the people with shorter attention spans, but the alternative really is a far more vague review. I remember The Ver
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by asafira 13y ago
This might not be the best place to mention this, but here goes anyway: I started reading The Design of Everyday Things, but I've been disappointed so far. To be fair, I'm only 50 pages in, but I haven't read anything mind bl
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Are Startups Too Busy to be Creative?(priceonomics.com)
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