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by blrgeek 14y ago
The few people who have bought it have quickly gotten over the embarrassment that prevents the rest of us from buying it, and love the Note. And they claim they can never go back. I believe that given that 95%+ of what we use a smart phone
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Finally Android tablets have caught up to (and even surpassed on some things) the iPad. [Of course iOS vs Android is a big choice.] It's taken just 4 years! Nexus 10 - clearly better than the iPad on price, display (resolution, size, aspect
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by blrgeek 14y ago
The Japanese closer to the Chinese, that the USA. The vast difference is 'Uncertainty Avoidance' - while Chines go with the flow and are able to accept Uncertainty, the Japanese will do nearly anything to avoid uncertainty. [J:92, C:30] The
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Interestingly India and China are pretty close on PDI, MAS and UAI, with some differences in Individualism [India 48, China 20, USA 91], and Long Term Orientation [India 61, China 118, USA 29]. But cutting off freedom of information like th
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by blrgeek 14y ago
One of the differences between India and China seems to be that in India at least, there's a free 4th estate, and there is no way a Government would be able to block articles like this. As a matter of fact, through the Right To Information
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Interestingly tptacek commented on this saying - 'Matasano' ==> 'Last doctor you would go to'. And they were sad for a few minutes and then were 'very happy' with the name. The implication being that 'Matasano' is the last doc you go to
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Presumably video packets have the advantage of being fixed in size, and repeating in regular intervals. Dealing with irregular sized packets at irregular intervals is a more interesting problem :)
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by blrgeek 14y ago
This is very interesting. There are already Error Correcting Codes used widely from ECC RAM, to HDDs, to CDs. These are generally statically generated, ie the data is not streaming - you know up front the data that is going to be written an
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Please consider the following two points. What's the difference between them? 1. The US pushed free-market + lower tariffs for imports of products into other countries. This lead to lower production in those countries, replaced by imports f
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by blrgeek 14y ago
They didn't get in trouble for merely including a free browser. They had an illegally acquired monopoly on the OS. Therefore they were not free to use this monopoly to reach into other areas. Essentially, it's their illegal actions - bundli
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by blrgeek 14y ago
This is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too. One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type. Second being able to pick the corpus being used for matching. might make it interest
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by blrgeek 14y ago
It depends on the question you are asking! You will need to estimate the conversion rate based on what you see in real life, when you go from alpha to closed beta, how many people who said they'd take, actually take it. Formal LoI's are goo
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by blrgeek 14y ago
I very much like the 'Will you pay $X question' since it pushes them into whether they will really buy this. This question may be less useful in a B2C context where it's more of an impulse and less well thought out. But makes a LOT of sense
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Take a pinch of salt - you've crossed the first barrier - you're looking at something people want. Ask the magic question - 'Will you pay $X for this per month?' That differentiates ppl who find it 'nice' vs people who are desperate for it.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
And that's the part that Google Spanner gets around with Atomic clocks and GPS clocks.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Actually it's not that hard in this case since it's not 'jury tampering' in this case - merely 'juror misconduct'. They don't need to show motive even, just that it happened. The jury is not supposed to deliberate on matters of law - they a
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by blrgeek 14y ago
It's out of the way - at best there's an extra notification, or it's one card in Google Now - when/if you go there. Extra information when presented unobtrusively is not annoying. a. Do you know how long it's going to take today? If there'r
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Earlier browsers had one address box, and one search box. Chrome moved both together - and many people liked it. I'm sure you like Google Instant and Google Suggest - with the results/search terms showing up even as you type - allowing you
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Google Now is awesome. Search for a place on Google - card shows up with driving directions on phone. Morning and evening, shows up driving time/directions for work/home.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
I did that a while [two-city] - seems to keep a separate home/work per city. Also the home/work thing shows up in Google's information about you on Latitude - so you can approve/edit/delete - see http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/27740/androi
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Excellent news - congrats to the Twilio team! New Telecom meet Oldest Telecom. Only one can survive :) Twilio is in a space where few HN engineers dare to tread. More such companies will show why 'Software is eating the world'
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Unlike gas stations, electric charging stations can be trivially distributed anywhere there's a parking lot. Fast-food chains, Super markets, Offices, Malls, Any parking lot!! So if they tie up with a dine-in restaurant chain to offer 10
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by blrgeek 14y ago
The article actually breaks down the exact lacunae in Apple's approach - it's certainly has more map domain specific insight than all the other articles on iOS6 Maps put together. And it has recommendations which are very specific and not h
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by blrgeek 14y ago
> I think Apple could do more human QA if it was a priority. Only if they realized it. It took Google 3 years to realize that they couldn't solve it algorithmically.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Isn't the TomTom data really the Tele Atlas data set? Apple has no lack of hubris - in some things they succeed spectacularly beyond all expectations, and in others - well MobileMe, Ping, and now Maps...
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by blrgeek 14y ago
From what I've heard, Google had an army of around 1000+ contract workers in Hyderabad, India, cleaning up the data for about 5 years. If anything 400 man-years sounds low :) This is apart from MapMaker, and their dev teams, and their softw
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by blrgeek 14y ago
If you can get 14600 workers who can do this work and the software, you could do it in 10 days.
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The article has no mention of why this is a 400 year advantage - or how long it will take for Apple to get over this. He lays out very well that a human element is required to bring these streams of data together. And Apple is not a compa
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by blrgeek 14y ago
It's the story of my life - I got Apple initially because I wanted a 'Unix' laptop without the hassle of dealing with Linux drivers for laptops. The Powerbook G4 was awesome for this. Now if Linux drivers for laptops have finally settled

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