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by awa 17y ago
The article was published on Jan 4th 2010. According to the article, they were suppose to demo it during the CES which has already come and gone and since I didn't see any headlines regarding the $199 tablet from Freescale, I would assume t
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by awa 17y ago
$499 unlocked... cheaper than the unlocked iphone.. I say possibly wow!
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by awa 17y ago
I would have liked a touch+stylus screen, if wacom can do it apple should be able to do it too
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by awa 17y ago
AAPL is down about 2% since the event started... apparently the market doesn't like what it sees
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by awa 17y ago
Why is writing with a stylus imperfect... I have been using a tablet for a year and used it exclusively for note taking during my last semester in school last year... I was on Vista and onenote and it worked out great! The handwriting recog
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by awa 17y ago
Only the 4th one seems negative to me... 1) is neutral (since hack has atleast 1 +ve meaning), is positive and 2) is as similar to inexperienced/unskilled whose connotation is context dependent(imho)
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by awa 17y ago
I never complain, I simply go to another site which offers the same product or take the risk if that's the only site selling the item... I haven't had much luck (meaning got a positive reply) with giving constructive feedback even on small
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by awa 17y ago
As a buyer mostly, I would recommend having paypal/google checkout along with an alternate method so your site is still usable if paypal blocks you or goes down... I don't feel safe while handing out my credit/bank details to a new website.
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by awa 17y ago
Be careful... from the buy link "Zoomable street map + Greater London map. Patented folding. Comes with an information leaflet, containing an index for streets, stations and places of interest, useful numbers, official tube map. Street map
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by awa 17y ago
Clickable: http://www.workaholicwives.com
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by awa 17y ago
In my current trip to India, I decided to pick up a pack of Chyawanprash because of good things I have heard about it. Nothing like a couple of studies to help me gulp down that pretty bad tasting stuff. I posted this here as I was wonderin
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by awa 17y ago
CLRS is the classic textbook for Algorithms... For some topics Klienberg and Tardos is good, I will suggest to read the CLRS text and keep K&T for topics you want to read more on, also the K&T problems are much harder (usually) than
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by awa 17y ago
I stumbled upon this today... The page has a link to everything.pdf ( http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/every... ) which is an 765 page pdf & covers all the material from the course. It can also be a good reference/
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Algorithms course material(compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu)
58 points by awa 17y ago|17 comments
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by awa 17y ago
> Now, if a girl wrote, "I prefer to find a guy who is quality that other women might overlook, I reckon you can always teach a man how to dress better" would you have batted an eyelid? I doubt it. I dunno whether my girl friend thought
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by awa 17y ago
Clickable: http://www.wizifi.com
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by awa 17y ago
Agreed with the sentiment. The worse part is the post has 5 points which is more than some of the good posts/articles out there. Also, to give some leeway to the OP he might have been trying to point out the fact that the code had errors (
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by awa 17y ago
They mention in the article that they had to move since his wife got a new job. So, they may not have the roots in the community. Also the local economy seems much worse than rest of the country (with unemployment being higher) and raising
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Working with an old code base(felix-cat.com)
8 points by awa 17y ago|3 comments
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How To Use Time Boxing for Getting Results(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by awa 17y ago|0 comments
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by awa 17y ago
Regarding 1) the interview questions and a little research/verification on the CV should be able to flush that out.
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by awa 17y ago
Microsoft does gives out source code for some of its software (including parts of windows) to various universities for research purposes. Ofcourse, there are NDAs involved but that shows they aren't shy to share the code in certain. situati
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Start-Up Gambles With Free Texting in India (online.wsj.com)
2 points by awa 17y ago|0 comments
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by awa 17y ago
I think they should go after 3) if this gains traction. They already do 1) BUT it requires considerable amount of effort from their side and the authors are not always interested. However, getting a cut from each rental would be quite lucra
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by awa 17y ago
Vmware buying Zimbra intrigues me more than yahoo selling it. It would be interesting to see what they want to do with it since they dont really have any products currently in this space.
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by awa 17y ago
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/%5Ccng-conversio... CNG conversion kits costs about Rs 20000 (approx $400) according to the above article
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by awa 17y ago
Uhmm.. so developer productivity was measured using size/number of checkins and not based on number of bugs fixed, work items done etc.?
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by awa 17y ago
In India, a hack conversion (not approved by government) costs about $200 in parts + labor (not including the tank). And yes they use a domestic gas tank (similar to barbeque grill tank) kept in the trunk.
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by awa 17y ago
Well, I think the combination of Natal + XBox360 would effectively be the next generation for Xbox
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by awa 17y ago
Clickable: http://Newsley.com

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