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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Awesome article, especially regarding your relationship with food. Way to go zt. If you haven't seen this TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/sandra_aamodt_why_dieting_doesn_t_u... ) about why dieting doesn't
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
That reflects popular sentiment, but it's not correct: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/23/a-list-of-the-bigg...
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
It's not clear how much Yahoo is investing at that valuation, but I hope that the stated reason of re-creating an Alibaba type investment is not the primary driver. Despite the success of Alibaba, a single data point is not a trend (e
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
My recommendations when checking in a new feature or substantial change: 1. Meet in person 2. The coder should print out copies of the diffed code for each attendee 3. Have roles in the meeting - someone to read the code, someone to ca
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Older models become collectible, like other luxury watches?
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
This is great. Someday if/when the lectures are streamed real-time, consider a reddit group for remote students to ask good (upvoted) questions to the lecturer.
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New Requests for Startups(ycombinator.com)
716 points by comatose_kid 12y ago|390 comments
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
"Between big phones (even the small iphone 6 is bigger!), the watch and NFC, Apple is clearly repositioning themselves as fast followers and letting Samsung et. al. foot the bill on R&D" Just like Apple let Creative Labs foot
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
David gave a nice lecture on RAID over a decade ago when I was taking a computer architecture class at Stanford. Perhaps the next edition of his textbook (bible for computer architecture) should use RISC-V, it would probably help as a learn
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Amazing group of people. Manjul is my wife's cousin so I have heard of a few examples of his brilliance (like the time he corrected his mom, a Math prof, during one of her lectures - he was a middle-schooler at the time). Here's
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
I believe Mu Sigma qualifies.
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Multiple cameras are interesting. It would be neat if the phone could use eye-tracking to auto-scroll content as your eyes reach the bottom of the screen (books would be good use-case - perhaps they are already doing this)
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
I wonder if you can draw meaningful conclusions about the reliability of a given brand of SSD with such a small sample size?
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
First game that I bought for my Amiga 2000. Single disc drive was torture
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Just to be clear, I am now in Silicon Valley after spending a couple of years in Ottawa. Miss: 1) Close to friends & family 2) Really great activities/camps for younger kids 3) Lots of parks, green space 4) Canadians are really
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Ottawa finally makes Hacker News. Too bad poop-drones are the reason. Some day I have to write a blog post on why I left Ottawa for Silicon Valley.
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
I would read this article but I am busily typing my name over and over into a word document.
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Woohoo - that was me, except it was the Atari 600xl that a really nice uncle shipped to me :). Far too much time spent pounding out basic programs on that crap keyboard and learning about the intricacies of the hardware (GTIA chip!)
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Why I care so much about your plan – even though I know it’s wrong.(heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 13y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I like this - it reminds me of advice when creating an early stage prototype: the higher the fidelity of the prototype, the more chance that your audience will think it is a final (hence set-in-stone) product.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
The parent comment is helpful. If it was my product, I would wAnt to know if I was losing people over messaging.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I am now waiting for the Zen of Oculus Programming.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Very nice work, really great to see how it's improved as a result of your sustained effort. Also - I remember that Nova Logic game (Commanche?).
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I worked on a VLIW processor long ago and it had a theoretical peak of 700 MIPS (iirc) back in 2000. It was a neat architecture but required fairly low level knowledge to get the most out of it.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
FB gets a lot of hate on HN, but I think this is a really important strategic deal for them. Consider: * No one really knows how wearables will play out yet * It is within the realm of possibility that as headsets get better (end goal: sty
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Okay, thanks for the clarification. Definitely agree that research institutions have an important role (alongside VCs) in fostering innovation.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Would you care to add a little more detail to your opinion?
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Wozniak's genius might never have been exposed to the broader world had he not paired with a Steve Jobs.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Reminds me of Amiga which funded development of its PC by first bringing to market an Atari 2600 peripheral called the Joyboard.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Anecdote: the head of a 3000 person tech company that I chatted with for over an hour thinks of Europe as a flyover continent because most of the disruptive change is happening in Asia and America.

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