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by czr80 14y ago
Two "clean room" implementations that achieve the same result is much, much stronger evidence than any degree of code reviews on one piece of code (or reviews of one experiment). Independent reproducibility is a cornerstone of science.
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Americans Under 50 Fare Poorly on Health Measures(nytimes.com)
1 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
He can sell his experience to companies looking to implement those standards? Companies get a solution to the coordination problem of creating standards in the first place?
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by czr80 14y ago
This is correct for the general case, but I think his argument is that for any specific file you can (almost certainly) find some redundancy and so find an algorithm to compress that specific file.
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Google promoting iOS team, encourages iOS developers to do work that ‘matters’(9to5mac.com)
4 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
Recognize that your position may have the following implication: if the producer cannot segment prices regionally, they may choose to charge the US price globally - in this case they lose the marginal sales in poorer countries, and customer
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by czr80 14y ago
"rage of advantages" - somehow this seems to perfectly capture TIMTOWDI ;-)
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by czr80 14y ago
Borges, not Sarte.
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Why Google Just Made iPhone King: Ads(wired.com)
2 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/12/13/ios_google_ma...
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by czr80 14y ago
The answer is clearly yes - this largely removes one reason why someone might prefer Android over iOS. Hard to say how big the effect is, though.
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A Great iOS Google Maps Product Vindicates Apple's Strategy(slate.com)
3 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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Camels and Rubber Duckies (2004)(joelonsoftware.com)
26 points by czr80 14y ago|2 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
Pricing is as much about emotion as it is about logical evaluations of value. You need to be sensitive about pricing situations where the customer will pay, but only begrudgingly, and so leaves the transaction feeling that they never want t
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People Will Pay To Support Creators, Even When Free Is An Option(techdirt.com)
8 points by czr80 14y ago|2 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
I think it's a result of how quickly the number of comparisons increase. If I have 3 options, A, B and C I need to make 3 comparisons. A vs B, A vs C, B vs C. If I have 4 options I need to make 6, for 5 options, 10 comparisons and so on. If
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by czr80 14y ago
Well, obviously. I meant in the sense of making worrying about pixels irrelevant. To paraphrase the old koan - if a pixel is too small to be seen, does it really exist?
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by czr80 14y ago
Aren't HiDPI displays killing pixels?
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Gaming Google Scholar Citations, Made Simple and Easy(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)
2 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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US 8th graders fail to score in global top 10 for math and science(theverge.com)
1 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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Foxconn begins replacing workers with robots ahead of US expansion(theverge.com)
1 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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The new age of Capital Intensity(asymco.com)
3 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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EU identifies 6 issues to modernize digital copyright(thenextweb.com)
2 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
Because people voted it up. If you want a deeper answer you might want to clarify what you don't like about the post.
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by czr80 14y ago
If it had zero value why would Google be interested in it?
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by czr80 14y ago
"Romney got less votes than McCain" Not true, the vote count just wasn't completed yet when people said that. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/12/03/romney_beats_mcc...
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by czr80 14y ago
Horse buggies went away because people switched to something else. If that was the case here then we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
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by czr80 14y ago
This is also an English expression.
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Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work?(paidcontent.org)
2 points by czr80 14y ago|3 comments
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Nasa to send new rover to Mars in 2020(bbc.co.uk)
55 points by czr80 14y ago|67 comments

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