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by chaz 13y ago
You'd probably have a car that is so incredibly fast that a driver could stay conscious driving it, and so expensive that no team could afford to build it, and a league so lopsided that no viewers would watch it. At the end of the day,
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by chaz 13y ago
A bus in San Francisco, too. Claims of it being an Apple bus. http://www.businessinsider.com/protesters-an-apple-bus-2013-...
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by chaz 13y ago
I have no idea. If I had to guess, I'd say the problems are that it's not cost effective and it could cause eBay to hold the bag in the case of fraud. I'm not sure that it would be as little as $20 to process shipments, and p
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by chaz 13y ago
Shouldn't the objective be to get the lowest score if it's called "golf?"
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by chaz 13y ago
I was a consultant at eBay for a few years, and one thing I learned was that it's big, hairy, complex problem to run a marketplace. Every policy change is fraught with vitriol because there are always two sides -- the buyers and the se
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by chaz 13y ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear. PINs have not been confirmed compromised in any reports I've read so far, but it's been mentioned as a possibility. If magstripes were transmitted/stored by Target to perform the authoriz
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by chaz 13y ago
This article had a little more info: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigat... The type of data stolen — also known as “track data” — allows crooks to create counterfeit cards by encodi
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Gave $990 Million To Charity(businessinsider.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
Secret Service is now investigating: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/secret-service-inves... This could turn out to be a big deal, especially if debit cards and PINs were compromised.
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by chaz 13y ago
Marketing Strategy #724: Create Controversy (regardless of the product, they succeeded in a cheap way to get launched, very likely at a cost of $0)
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by chaz 13y ago
Gasoline is still way ahead. It still has ~40x the density of batteries. Even at 16%, it's still going to be about 6x as efficient as batteries, even if batteries + electric motors are at 100% efficiency. A Toyota Camry car carries 17
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by chaz 13y ago
Gasoline has tremendous energy density compared to other forms of storage. If you need that energy to be portable (like in a car or truck), you may still want to use petroleum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_densit
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by chaz 13y ago
"This guy" has been here for years. :) https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22thi...
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by chaz 13y ago
I don't know anything about graphics and simulation, but I'm always impressed with these SIGGRAPH demos. Here's the demo trailer for the papers from this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFhkdGtHck (3 mi
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by chaz 13y ago
> Developers must keep up with new SDK and new iOS. It's also a great way for Apple to defend against companies spending time and money building/updating for Android and other platforms. They'll continue to get priority.
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by chaz 13y ago
BoltBus to Boston was moved last month from its Penn Station location (at the request of NYC DOT & a community board) to 33rd St between 11th and 12th -- a dead block pretty far away from anything. They sent out an email two weeks ago a
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by chaz 13y ago
More generally, tech workers who enjoy healthy six-figure salaries want to live and raise families in nice places. Even if they don't have ocean views, the SF Bay Area offers excellent beaches, skiing, biking, hiking, sailing, surfing,
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by chaz 13y ago
I'm hoping they'll be able to provide more than just video ads, though. Small businesses tend to not have video creative ready, and compared to the better produced and more entertaining ads that will probably work best on FB, they
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by chaz 13y ago
It's actually "Top 100 [Trending] Searches." They could have been more clear about that. http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?date=2013
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by chaz 13y ago
In the northeast US, too. If I wanted to go from Manhattan to Boston this afternoon: $200 by plane, $75-100 by train, $15 by Boltbus. All take about 4 hours. Plane is going to cost more because it's a bit of a haul to get to JFK or New
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by chaz 13y ago
An alternate opinion: Facebook is heading toward the Trough of Disillusionment of the Hype Cycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle Facebook was so ridiculously hot a few years ago that it couldn't possibly
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by chaz 13y ago
> Finally, we implemented another pipeline to load data into our key-value store for serving results. This mundane data copying ended up being one of the dominate items for the original development. I'm always amazed by how difficul
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by chaz 13y ago
When Ryan Carson's post made the rounds here not too long ago, I was really surprised by what got them thinking about removing their managers. http://ryancarson.com/post/61562761297/no-managers-why-we-re...
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by chaz 13y ago
Indeed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciajessop/2013/08/31/the-econ...
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by chaz 13y ago
This is very convenient on Heroku, but on my own servers, I have to use a post-deploy hook to copy a file that has all of my API keys to the server. That works great, except I now have a separate file to manage outside of source control, it
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by chaz 13y ago
I don't think this comment deserves its downvotes. Rights holders get 70% of the revenue and they pretty much set all of the terms. Disney in particular has arguably the most valuable content portfolio in the world and has tremendous i
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by chaz 13y ago
There's a lot of speculation that China intends to build several carriers. Their current carrier was purchased as a half-complete carrier from Russia, and towed to China, where it was finished in 10 years. It's almost as though it
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by chaz 13y ago
> I wrote a full disclosure post 5 minutes after finding the bug because twitter doesn't reward "bounty hunters". Companies without bug bounties don't deserve responsible disclosure? Twitter has a pretty clear way to
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by chaz 13y ago
I see it, too, and I haven't bought computer parts like that in years, so I doubt it's retargeting. If you are concerned about that kind of retargeting, then it's probably newegg and Amazon you should stop using.
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by chaz 13y ago
All the more reason to pause before ascribing malice as the motive.

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