danielsoneg

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by danielsoneg 16y ago
His argument, though, isn't about the core technology or the viability of the 'cloud', it's about trust. He makes clear in the beginning that the primary reason he chose EMC was because he trusted them not to lose or do something stupid wit
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
This article was clearly written by someone who A) Doesn't live in a city and B) Never had to get anywhere by walking.
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Well of course - there's no libraries for Py3k.
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
First piece of good news Nokia's gotten all week.
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
That's not a terribly big limitation - ebooks are pretty small files, generally in the .5-1mb range. Conservatively, let's call it 20 active books on the app - if you do some decent database management or incorporate some streaming ability,
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
The CIA's always been antithetical to the "American spirit" - an intelligence organization is, by definition. Agreed, though - it would be nice if this had seen the light of day before now, moreso given the fact that we still can't figure o
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
That "empty gesture" was the spark that caught Tunisia and Egypt…
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
I think any industry that can show the kind of returns this industry does - "Two Guys in a Garage" Become "$200Bn Market Cap" in about a decade - is going to inspire mania. It's not necessarily a broken model - all farmville jokes aside, I'
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
>Why do all companies have to operate the way you want them to[?] Obviously they don't, but I'd like them to. I've no right to tell you you have to save energy (for example), but I'd rather you did. Your right to do something is in no w
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Golly, wherever will they find the money to pay for this error? Surprisingly, the CNBC headline is editorialized and overly-sensational, as is the rest of the article. At worst, they have a $120M problem, and that's if they just burn everyt
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Anecdotally, I've heard much negative and not much positive. My regular cafe tried them out and had basically the same reactions I've heard elsewhere: - 50% off coupon + 50% to Groupon = 75% off to the biz. - The customers using Groupon don
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Well, first, it's an imperfect system, which is all we'll ever get. We're still human, after all. I say "don't know enough" as a specific and non-judgmental quantifier, not an overall statement - in other words, while otherwise competent an
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Americans support a lot of crap they probably shouldn't and don't know a whole lot about. This is why we have a Republic, not a Democracy. Edit: To put this a bit less glibly, there's a whole range of things that the "average American" does
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Ok, a couple points here: First, he's talking about the total effect of the taxes, not the marginal effect of the new taxes. Aside from being against the economist's gospel, it's also disingenuous. His tax rate isn't Zero now, it's 36%. He
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
There was an article along these lines up here not too long ago. My favorite anecdote was about a tech support department that had a stuffed teddy bear outside the room - to get in, you had to explain exactly what the problem was to the ted
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Agreed - I was laughing as I was writing some of my code because it was so bad. These sort of questions are designed around algorithm design, but a one-off problem with these small of sample sets doesn't need an elegant solution - a hatchet
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Ah, ok - I don't know the history of the space that well. Either way it's a god-awful patent, but especially with clear prior art.
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
IA(ALSO)NAL, but it looks like the patent [1] was filed in Feb '07 - 4Sq didn't exist until '09. Doesn't mean I Like it - or software patents in general - any more, but it doesn't look like they were as late to this game as their actual lau
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
If this surprises you, I've got a fantastic investment opportunity I'd love to discuss...
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
School gives you three things: Exposure to a range of scenarios, a safe place to screw up, and someone who knows what they're doing to show you the right way to do it. Like everything else in life, though, you get out what you put in - you
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Ok, so from the link faramarz posted - Try putting this into the text box & hitting "Save": (1) Hello, world! [Go Home](2) [Go Elsewhere](3) (2) You went home! (3) You went elsewhere! I've also found it'll take html links
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
I have a theory on why his site is not complete yet. :-)
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Oh goody, combining my two favorite things in the world: Captchas and Advertising! It's good for the user: They get all the respect of a common parrot! It's good for the site: They piss off their users! It's good for the advertisers: They g
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
That's really a clever trick, though my initial reaction was horror at the idea of checking one's grammar against the Internet. Looks like Scribe is only looking one or two words ahead, though - it's not actually checking what you've writte
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Yes. Thank you. I was at an AR devcamp a bit ago and heard endless effusion over Android and the Maker movement and Open Source and all the ways the hacker community was seizing its own destiny - the problem is, the entire practice is built
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
But it doesn't dispute your original point - ads are annoying to the reader too, and longer content costs more.
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
I tend to take this approach with medicine too - the human body's a pretty complex machine.
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Yeah, but only once per 10min or so, and if you've just done an update or any of a range of other activities, that password is still valid. Once the password is in, no confirmation. And yeah, agreed, skipping the password box is just danger
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
I'm an android guy, but I bought an iPad recently, and I think the author's missing a huge chunk of the issue here: Design & Culture. There is a big, big difference between how Google & Apple handle paid-for purchases - on Android,
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by danielsoneg 16y ago
Seems to me like a lot of the furor over this announcement has to do with Verizon's involvement - there seems to be a de facto assumption that if Verizon has said it's good, it's bad for the consumer. I have my own opinions on that statemen

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