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by bishnu 14y ago
Beyond saddened. In addition to his technical brilliance he had keen insights into CS as a field of study, and his blog posts about that had a great effect on career decisions I made.
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by bishnu 14y ago
Did Microsoft allow hardware companies to customize the OS interface? Did Microsoft assign hardware companies the responsibility of delivering OS updates to users? Did Microsoft let hardware companies ship 2-3-4 year old versions of Windo
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by bishnu 14y ago
18 months guaranteed updates? If you're not going to guarantee Apple-like longevity why would you even do it, period? I'm sure MS would like to get that level of support but if they don't want to bet on it why not just have everyone live
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by bishnu 14y ago
The problem with this is the people buying premium accounts are precisely the people advertisers are trying to target.
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Why Apple Is Going “Containment” Not “Thermonuclear” Against Google In iOS 6(searchengineland.com)
1 points by bishnu 14y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 14y ago
This is a good start, I'd be more interested if these chord patterns were compared against a database of UNpopular songs to see if the what sort of differences in chord distribution correlated with popular songs (although where you'd find t
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by bishnu 14y ago
That's fair. Yes, it seemed to me everything that came after what you wrote about the clock seemed to be there to support the overall point.
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by bishnu 14y ago
It worries you that people will read more? That people will read more varied things? That authors will get better compensation? That self-publishing will become a much more viable model for literally millions of authors? Man you worry ab
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by bishnu 14y ago
Wow, what a misleading article. The "she's dead, and how's the project?" quip wasn't to show the scientific, rational way Feynman dealt with death but rather the unhealthy manner in which he'd internalized his grief. The book goes on to d
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by bishnu 14y ago
Stupidity like this only hurts the long-term goal of making printed books something only hobbyists are interested in (like vinyl records), but what's the solution? Data integrity regulation from governments? Or will the markets take care
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by bishnu 14y ago
I think you guys should play up the "discovery" side of this product too. Initial impressions are good, wish there were some way to remove duplicate pictures at the selection page though (more control in filtering by resolution ought to co
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RIM board member scoffs at critics (Feb 2012 article)(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by bishnu 14y ago|1 comments
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by bishnu 14y ago
I don't have the Facebook app on my iPhone (I used to but I deleted it) yet Camera still dumped me into my FB account with no login. Odd.
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by bishnu 14y ago
FWIW, Apple's iPad home page features a "Watch the TV Ad" button, although admittedly it's not quite as prominent as this.
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by bishnu 14y ago
I have a fairly unique first name and managed to get it @gmail.com and the amount of legitimate, misaddressed email I get is staggering. 5-10 per week.
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by bishnu 14y ago
"Google buys a smartphone OS, competition already doing ok but probably tweaked some things." Android played a huge role in pushing the mobile web to consumers. How long was the iPhone exclusive to AT&T, like 3 years? Without Android
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by bishnu 14y ago
It's not that hard. I just did it and didn't have a problem. Bring proof of employment (offer letter) and be prepared to pay a higher deposit.
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by bishnu 14y ago
This potentially has to do with regulations in the US over access to rocket technology. I knew a Canadian who worked at Lockheed ~10 years ago who had to be shuffled off a certain project due to objections from the US State Department.
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by bishnu 14y ago
Turning away a qualified candidate isn't the bad outcome for a hiring process - hiring an unqualified worker is. So if the trade off for avoiding the latter is some of the former, it is arguably worth it (and Thiel is likely in a good posit
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India patents 1300 yoga poses(en.rian.ru)
4 points by bishnu 14y ago|1 comments
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by bishnu 14y ago
Sheryl Sandberg leaves work at 5:30; she doesn't stop working at 5:30 [1]. In that same article it goes to great lengths to talk about how late she stays up working and how early she would start to ensure people didn't think she was a slac
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by bishnu 15y ago
Is this being sold at a loss? An unlocked 16GB iPhone 4S is costs $650. If not, I'm impressed at the price point Samsung is able to achieve given the Galaxy Nexus's feature parity with the iPhone 4S. Which begs the question, why not spen
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by bishnu 15y ago
Every search engine did this, even Yahoo (search.yahoo.com).
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by bishnu 15y ago
"I am inclined to agree with the conspiracy theory that if these secondary stats were any good, we would be hearing about them." I don't think it's that simple. Google publishes very few figures that have to do with its core profitability.
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by bishnu 15y ago
What if your employer wants you to steal from your family? What if your employer wants to have sex with you? You either believe labor laws should exist or you don't. If you do, I don't think the answer need to be anything more than "commo
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by bishnu 15y ago
Disagree. If it's "bad" to provide incomplete or one-sided content to a reader, then we ought to get rid of 99% of the internet. Ask yourself this - if PandoDaily remained exactly as it was but financial backers weren't VCs then how damagin
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by bishnu 15y ago
It also doesn't work out for anyone working at tech startups that aren't funded by the VCs behind PandoDaily. That is the reason this is a Bad Thing, not "the reader is being poorly informed".
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by bishnu 15y ago
Perhaps. I considered this, but Bump data isn't exactly social. Apparently they licensed their technology to Paypal to build their money-exchanging app. Maybe that's the plan.
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by bishnu 15y ago
What is Bump's business model? The app is free. These services are free.
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by bishnu 15y ago
There's a difference between "no" and a "no + no economic coercion".

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