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by brianstorms 11y ago
I'd rather see self-driving buses and trains that run on clean renewable energy than self-driving cars. But Google won't do that because there's no individual trackability with mass transportation. And remember, Google is an
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Game Center is a nasty piece of work by Apple. It's ruined iOS 9 and I regret installing that on my iPad and iPhone 6. Now, when I enter a very simple solitaire-like game called Midnight Mahjongg, I get slow-animating, built-in-delayed
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Given it's Jack, the guy who obsessively imitates Steve Jobs, I wonder if we'll see this "interim CEO" (gee, wasn't Jobs that for a while in the 90s at Apple?) who becomes full CEO, eventually get Twitter to introdu
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Model S owner here. Love the new X but two things disappoint, in terms of design: the new front-end is ugly, especially the white version of the car. And the long straight wire that runs from the top of the car to the auto-pilot hardware an
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Not bad, getting famed novelist Jonathan Franzen to write your book review! Sherry does noble work and it deserves wide recognition and readership. I can't say I am hopeful, but I do hope that society's current preoccupation wit
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A Response to Jeff Jarvis's Call for Reforming Advertising(brianstorms.com)
1 points by brianstorms 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianstorms 11y ago
I read today that the estimated valuation of Medium is $400 million. I find that astounding. Bear in mind that Bezos bought The Washington Post, no slouch in the journalism world, for $250 million not too long ago. How big is Medium's
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Dumb question probably, but here goes: Given the latest NASA news about water on Mars, as in, “flowing water on today’s Mars,” I am still trying to figure out how that would work. If water boils at 79ºF when the atmospheric pressure is lowe
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by brianstorms 11y ago
I think Jason's wrong about self-driving cars being so "refined" and different from the core Google ad business. I see Google eyeing Tesla not for its zero-emissions, electric vehicles, but for its always-on, always-connected
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Author says UI has "a rich history" with regard to startups. I am curious when the clock started ticking for "history" in this author's view -- last 10 years? 15? Startups were a very different story at UI in the la
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by brianstorms 11y ago
If only most venture capitalists were nice, or were looking for nice founders. In my experience, and I've met probably 250 VCs over 20 years, it's not the case. Especially if they've had a few drinks, when the truth is revea
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Your job as founder is to create customers.
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Can you imagine how pets are going to react to this? A real-world use-case involves this in a garage, and you pull into the garage (or tell the car to) and it parks and then this snake starts its dance and finds the chargeport and connects
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by brianstorms 11y ago
The code may be faster but the user experience continues to get slower, i.e., it takes more time than ever to find something worth watching. The recent UI changes simply disguise the fact that there are less titles available. Especially mov
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by brianstorms 11y ago
With all due respect, what a bunch of b.s. Goes to show that always being connected maybe isn't all it's hyped up to be. From the sound of it, it doesn't appear to produce any lasting insights. p.s. Whoever typed "exec&q
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Tesla's communications are so screwed up and have been for so long that, yeah, I blame the CEO. The not-rehearsing-for-events is just a sideshow compared to the trainwreck of communications at Tesla. I've been a customer for two
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by brianstorms 11y ago
It was a mediocre presentation, thanks to Musk's Muskifying it to the max. Stammering, mumbling, nervous, rushing here and there, not connected with the pace of the audience, assuming the audience understands certain terminology... oh,
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by brianstorms 11y ago
It's very cool, but the demo videos suggest that the tracking isn't ideal yet. Which susprises me, because we only have what, 50+ years of R&D with tracking moving targets. As in, if you can figure how how fast the target is
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by brianstorms 11y ago
And before Mondo 2000 there was ELECTRIC WORD [1], edited by WIRED's founder Louis Rossetto. How many of you remember that ? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Word
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Only 18 years, huh? Hmm, if that is ancient, what would 30-40 years be? Lots of people are still playing Avatar (release 1979), EMPIRE (1974), Oubliette (~1977) on PLATO. I still enjoy a good old game of Mahjongg (1983). You can see of th
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by brianstorms 11y ago
I've been firmly in the PLUTO IS A PLANET camp my whole life, and the 2006 decision to demote our distant neighbor to planetoid or worse I did not take lightly. But I have to admit, seeing how tiny the malformed rock is, smaller than t
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by brianstorms 11y ago
It's behind the WSJ firewall so simply go to google and type "Tesla Partners with Battery Researcher to Lower Costs" and click on the WSJ result and presto, WSJ lets you read it. I think this is a potentially excellent move o
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Tesla Partners with Battery Researcher to Lower Costs(wsj.com)
2 points by brianstorms 11y ago|1 comments
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by brianstorms 11y ago
What I don't understand is how Netflix seemingly ignores a user's incredibly valuable feedback regarding a given title. For example, you're browsing all the titles and you see some stupid animated movie you have no intention
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by brianstorms 11y ago
I just call it as I see it. And in every American city I have been in in the past ten years, I would say a good 95% of cyclists who come to a stop-sign intersection just run right through the stop sign never slowing down, regardless of whet
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Now if they'd only come up with some device to make sure cyclists stop at stop signs and red lights.
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by brianstorms 11y ago
At my most cynical I view Digital Humanities as the latest clever way of still getting grant funding for projects and explorations that probably otherwise in this day and age would not be able to obtain it. I follow some digital humanities
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Wondering if this was Left Bank Pictures [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Bank_Pictures
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by brianstorms 11y ago
This story reminded me of the Pink Ribbons [1] documentary, which exposes the money-making charities behind breast cancer. Worth finding and watching. [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2035599/
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by brianstorms 11y ago
This is such bullshit. I refuse to use any app that does this kind of snooping. Twitter ought to be ashamed of itself.

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