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Fareed Zakaria: Why Silicon Valley is Losing its Luster(globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)
3 points by bishnu 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook testing Promoted Posts in the US(newsroom.fb.com)
1 points by bishnu 14y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 14y ago
Yeah right. Ask Steve Ballmer if he'd rather be beating Google in search or Apple in mobile. Latter pie is much, much bigger.
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by bishnu 14y ago
The double-tap home menu always brings up the weirdest menu. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to how the apps are arranged (or if you even get apps - sometimes you get iPod controls). One of the more irritating features of i
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by bishnu 14y ago
Build good schools. Send people to them.
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by bishnu 14y ago
Your first point is incorrect. Apple developed (and has always developed) the Maps app for iOS. The app is no longer using the Google Maps API - that is the difference in iOS 6.
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US Air Bomb Hoax Involves Lots of Stupidity All Around (loweringthebar.net)
1 points by bishnu 14y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 14y ago
It can't "kill" Siri because IBM will never be able to integrate it as tightly with iOS due to App Store restrictions. Sorry IBM! That's what you get for building a product instead of a platform.
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by bishnu 14y ago
"Unfortunately GooTube's dominant, almost monopoly incumbent position in short videos makes it hard for others to offer such a service with a competitive video selection." Complete bullshit. Google does not exclusively own the video on You
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by bishnu 14y ago
Any analysis of this issue that does NOT go into the number of science PhDs trapped in a protracted postdoc cycle or dead-end "adjunct" position is completely missing the problem science PhDs are facing. Yes, the percentage of unemployed i
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by bishnu 14y ago
So far all of Marissa Meyer's moves (at least the one's getting publicity) have made Yahoo! a bit more Google-like. While that's probably for the best, I will be real interested to see when/where she breaks with Google culture for the firs
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by bishnu 14y ago
Is there any evidence to go along with any of this dude's claims? He makes three points: Point 1 isn't about Google fiber. Point 2 has been self-evident since the day the product was announced. Point 3 is incorrect. Google's promise on wi
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Opensignalmaps: Who has the strongest signal in the areas you frequent?(opensignalmaps.com)
3 points by bishnu 14y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 14y ago
This would force a settlement. Which would be bad because no actual patent reform would actually be achieved and a few large tech companies would be able to lock-out new entrants into the field.
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by bishnu 14y ago
The source code for the Tarsnap client ( https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html ) is some of the best-written C I have ever seen. As far as I can tell it was 100% authored by cperciva.
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by bishnu 14y ago
Whether or not it was his fault, Jobs blamed Papermaster for antennagate [1]. Papermaster was also there during the white iPhone shipping delay which may have played a factor. [1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/07/papermaster
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by bishnu 14y ago
It doesn't seem likely to me at all. In fact I think it's much more likely that you'll see THIS permissions system end up on iOS than vice-versa. It's actually a fantastic security feature for the average user, so it doesn't worry me that
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by bishnu 14y ago
By default Mountain Lion can only run software from the App Store or by developers Apple has specifically certified. You can tune this restriction both up ("App Store only") and down ("any software can run").
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by bishnu 14y ago
This just means you can't lecture. One thing the digital, scalable lecture isn't going to take away is the importance of one-on-one instruction. In fact it may exacerbate it. To me this is the future of teaching for most teachers - wherea
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by bishnu 14y ago
Does this really matter? Hardly anyone bought the Lumia. For a device with practically zero traction, it makes sense for Microsoft to rapidly iterate the product until it's something consumers want (I don't think Windows Phone 8 will do tha
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by bishnu 14y ago
Women in this field who try to be more visible are prone to being labeled as superficial, attention-seeking, untalented (and much, much worse) terms [1]. Culture change is what is required. [1]: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawir
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by bishnu 14y ago
Nope they aren't. But for damn sure they know the difference between "Amazon" and "Google".
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by bishnu 14y ago
Hubris and complacency wasn't limited to RIM. The iPhone smoked Nokia, Palm, Sony's cell phone division, Microsoft, etc. To look at RIM's failure as symptomatic of the Canadian tech sector is inaccurate.
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by bishnu 14y ago
RIM is simply one of many companies that just got utterly smoked by the iPhone, and I wish people would stop equating its failure with the intrinsic problems of the Canadian software industry - which are real and numerous (and your point #2
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by bishnu 14y ago
For Gmail/Calendar integration, just use widgets on your Android phone :)
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by bishnu 14y ago
Citation needed? Apple's app store isn't a huge revenue source by any means [1], let alone profit. I've seen no evidence that App Stores can be any kind of profit center. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apple-revenu..
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by bishnu 14y ago
Is this kind of stuff not brought up in court? How can you possibly patent something that already existed?
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by bishnu 14y ago
Well kicking out current Google apps would be a huge blow to Google's mobile revenue, so they wouldn't really need to do anything else.
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by bishnu 14y ago
You can't sell a tablet without selling the ecosystem. Period. The availability of apps, content, etc - this is what matters to consumers.
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by bishnu 14y ago
Not necessarily. You're assuming the only difference between the women and the men is relative numbers. Let's say 15 women are on a dating website and 30 men. Taken in and of itself, this sounds great for women. But the distribution of ob

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