carterehsmith

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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Perhaps, Glassdoor could add company address to the title? So then, the reviewer that had bad experience with "XXX, Singapore", would not post it against "XXX, Austin, Texas".
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>> Conversely, if 1% of a thing is nothing, can I have 1% of your company's common stock? If you bought 80% of it, yeah, 1% would not make much of a difference. But you want it for free? Well, dream on.
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>> My suggestion is that not everyone says "oh, the lease is $800 a month, another $80 a year is fine." $80 is still enough that being charged $80 for a pencil, or a chicken sandwich, or whatever, would be outrageous. And le
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>> Then make it super easy to reflash them back to factory. Problem solved. Or, make it super hard to flash in the first place. Problem avoided.
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
>> obviously has some pretty good experience at running data stores in the real world, at scale. I missed that part. Did they mention it in the article? Perhaps they should mention that kind of stuff more prominently. Numbers... and s
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
>> it's getting more difficult to flash ROMs onto most phones, not easier Turns out, that is a niche use of a phone. Few people really need it. But, some of them post on Facebook and Twitter "here is how to flash your phone
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Paul Bocuse is considered a God among the chefs. What we have here is someone telling us they had a great meal there, 27 years ago, at the age of 12, and the most impressive thing was: some waiter picked up forks from the floor super-quickl
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Ok, so you want to get a new BMW. If it is a lease, that may be $500 or $1000 or whatever per month. That's after downpayment of $many, will be more without downpayment or trade-in or whatever you got. BMW throws in a cellular connecti
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>> Having carplay continue to work after they build the car requires bmw do exactly nothing. You seem to think that carplay can automagically connect to the internet without any cost involved. That cannot happen. It is a cell phone ba
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
I don't think you understand how this technology works, so I will try to help here. Briefly: some car manufacturers provide a car with a cellular connection. That is, the car can connect to the mobile network, just like your cell phone
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
According to HN, their claim to fame is.. they can get forks off the floor super fast. We are talking seconds here.
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>> At most restaurants they do not manage to pick your fork off the floor before you can take 1-2 seconds to do it yourself Where I live, local KFC can do it in 0.68 seconds. I saw it when I was 9, 25 years ago, so it is legit.
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>> so who knows Yes, these are the key words. "Who knows". I don't know who made these decisions, do you?
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Also, radio towers; because, the fiber (or whatever) cables usually zigzag following the roads or utility poles; meantime, the two radio towers can exchange radio waves traveling in a straight line.
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On the other hand, will you decide to not buy that 428 (and take your business to... whatever competitor) over $80/year? Btw it's not like the BMW is the only one charging for the mobile connection in the car... it's basicall
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
I mean, if you think that $80/year is "gouging" then you are not in their target demographics. To wit, over the price of a new car (whether BMW or Kia), the $80/year does not begin to register. >> I'm certainl
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>> for my twelfth birthday. Not sure if serious or trolling.
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>> and saw life-changing benefits. I do not see any "life-changing benefits" claimed in the article. Looks like the only improvement he got was reported by the very application that he was using. Quote: "Yet, after a co
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Lol, how did that go? I am thinking... something along these lines: Telemarketer: When you sign up with ShitWare, our Platinum partner, you get a free BigMac (tm) with a crumpet and a small drink! This exciting promotion is only available t
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Interesting. I wonder, what was the procedure when some random telemarketer dialed one of those Queen's unlisted numbers? Or, whatever unlisted numbers. Is that something that BT would intercept?
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"Building a Website with C++" "Is This Even Possible?" We can just "flag" articles like this one.
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Would that work in one those "secret courts" like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig... These seem to be kind of outside of the regular legal system.
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>> management is grossly incompetent They did build the big, succefull business in a super-competitive market that is grocery. You cannot possibly achieve that if you are incompetent.
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
That article looks like a bot-generated content. There are Facebook bots, Twitter, Amazon bots (like, bots that generate book contents), even Youtube bots with (sometimes super-weird) machine-generated videos. BTW they do get clicks, so thi
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>> Especially queries are insanely fast compared to other databases. Nice! Insanely fast? Awesome. What kind of queries compared to what databases?
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True. If the article is about someone promoting their business/product/solution, maybe it should be a "Show HN".
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There are different definitions of "summation". Also different definitions of "integration". I can see how overlapping notation can be confusing for laymen (me included). But that does not mean that people that came up w
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Good question, I guess I should have made that more clear. Terence Tao has a nice lecture published... trying to find it, brb. In any case, the gist of it was: long as we treat the numbers in the sum as integers (ie discrete), we will get i
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
>> The pages you're referencing are all crackpottery. So... I can trust Ramanujan and Abel, that published results on these things, and Terrence Tao that has a nice writeup, and a bunch of others, or I can trust HN user "Kaz
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>> Canadian economy is now slightly stronger than the US But... is it? That was kind of my point. It is not clear at all. So in Canada in particular, I remember big issues with the likes of GM and Ford. Here is what happens: 1/ G

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