btian

43 ms·

451.
by btian 13y ago
Why should OS sales numbers be on increasing trend when PC shipment is on decreasing trend?
452.
by btian 13y ago
Grossly misleading title. The title on Reuters is "Google to own $750 million Lenovo stake after Motorola deal closes: HK exchange", which is what it is.
453.
by btian 13y ago
You'll need to keep in mind that Google is optimized for the average user, not power user.
454.
by btian 13y ago
How do you know it's a bug in AOSP. It could well be a driver issue.
455.
by btian 13y ago
Not surprising. BSkyB owns Sky TV.
456.
by btian 13y ago
Have you even visited Google's campus in Mountain View? There is no such thing as closed-off prison-like campus...
457.
by btian 13y ago
1) It happened 3 months ago. 2) There were posts on the same topic on HN. Adding [2013] in the title removes possible confusion that there's another course.
458.
by btian 13y ago
Please add [2013] to the title. It's old news.
459.
by btian 13y ago
Do you mind explaining what's wrong with having advertising budgets? Remember that investment into marketing is tested with the same yardstick as R&D investments - revenue generated per dollar invested. If marketing isn't effe
460.
by btian 13y ago
Ok. You do realize that each stage of the drug development process is very expensive right? You'll need money for lab mice, clinical trials etc. How do you suggest intellectual curiosity be fulfilled with no money? Drug development is
461.
by btian 13y ago
Finding the chemical is a very small part of the cost. Try setting up animal tests, phase I clinical trial, phase II clinical trial, phase III clinical trial, years of follow up, hiring people to put together documents to get regulatory app
462.
by btian 13y ago
If you think profits are high, why don't you set up shop and develop your own drugs and undercut your competitors? After all, profits attract competition.
463.
by btian 13y ago
And governments have to pay compensation at market price for your land. Look, I don't think Bayer will complain at all if India (the country) pays for the drug used by patients in India, like the health systems in UK and Canada. Bayer&
464.
by btian 13y ago
You must be kidding. Developing a new drug can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Also note that majority of drug development efforts (>90%) fail, thus each successful drug has to pay for its own development cost as well as the
465.
by btian 13y ago
You can only sue if you incur any loss due to lack of the free 3G service subjected to terms and conditions of the service. In this case, it's not worth it. Just return the chromebook back to Amazon. You can probably sue Amazon for fal
466.
by btian 13y ago
Do you mind explaining why? Providing contraception (especially condoms) can prevent STDs in addition to preventing unwanted child birth.
467.
by btian 13y ago
They should learn skills that are desirable in the current economy. Not just programming, but also nursing, chemical engineering etc.
468.
by btian 13y ago
Tell the interviewer that the program is a remote learning program. What's wrong with that?
469.
by btian 13y ago
I won't call Georgia Tech second tier.
470.
by btian 13y ago
Still unsafe because I'll reveal it if they (e.g., NSA, CIA) torture me, threaten to kill my family etc.
471.
by btian 13y ago
Speedtest results are completely irrelevant because Netflix uses Level 3 as CDN and bandwidth between Level 3 and Comcast is always 100% utilized at prime time.
472.
by btian 13y ago
Input your answer as number. There are people who solve problems by hand.
473.
by btian 13y ago
Except it's not. China has reached the stage in economic development that people are moving to higher skilled and higher paying jobs. Infrastructure in Vietnam has improved to the extent that is ready for large manufacturing plants. Wh
474.
by btian 13y ago
You didn't mention that all the "cool R&D shit" didn't work very well, and were considered inferior to competitors at that time.
475.
by btian 13y ago
Mac Pro supports three 4k monitors.
476.
by btian 13y ago
Changing naive recursion to tail recursion is a very common optimization in functional language compilers.
477.
by btian 13y ago
And you realize that machine code has to be translated to how electrons are routed right? Do you have a good understanding of how that works? Embrace abstraction folks.
478.
by btian 13y ago
Strangely I found myself struggling to pick up Standard ML despite having experience in C++ compared to my peers with no programming experience. It seems that they just treated it as math, while I had trouble changing my imperative programm
479.
by btian 13y ago
I disagree. The whole point of abstraction is that you don't have to care about the underlying mechanisms (although most non-trivial abstractions are leaky as Joel Spolsky has written about). For instance, someone who writes assembly s
480.
by btian 13y ago
No. Google is a tech company. Ad is a way to sustain the company. Just like News Corp is a media company, not an ad company.

More ›