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by ddlatham 15y ago
This only applies when the opportunities you want pursue will still be available when you have time to pursue them. Sometimes that's not the case, and you simply have to give up on one to pursue another.
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San Francisco Bay Bridge Becomes iPad Game(mashable.com)
2 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments
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Apple's trying to build the best integrated product, and they're willing to give up some standard parts and interfaces to get there. If you want to be able to swap out components, an iMac may not be the best choice for you.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
There are other Android identifiers, one of which does not require the READ_PHONE_STATE permission. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-a...
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by ddlatham 15y ago
People often recommend contributing to open source projects as a good way to learn and to build your resume and reputation. In that case you're not necessarily motivated by an existing product need.
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The GDrive is here.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
They're probably using the local ephemeral drives for Cassandra storage rather than S3. I'm guessing they're then moving snapshots into S3 or elsewhere. http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg110...
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Previous discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491686
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by ddlatham 16y ago
These guys really need to bring it to mobile: http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;ws=31587
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by ddlatham 16y ago
I agree, but the comment was turning the table around and looking at it from the employer's perspective. If enough employees continue to be willing to commute for a mere 5-15% more in salary, then employers will continue to, quite rationall
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by ddlatham 16y ago
I see several comments saying more companies should be hiring remote workers, building their culture to support it, and why aren't they doing it? It's interesting to see the numbers in this article. What's remarkable is that, even after tw
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by ddlatham 16y ago
You’re probably familiar with patents, copyrights, and trademarks, the three main types of intellectual property. Trade dress is the wonky red-headed step-cousin of the family that fills the gaps between the three; you might think of it as
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Next time you’re in a conversation with a friend or stranger, try imagining that you’re carrying the ace card, act with a matching confidence, imagine everyone else holding the same card, and treat them with the respect that other aces des
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Is Lisp a tool or a religion?
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48÷2(9+3) => 48(1/2)(9+3) => 288
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i.e. 10 ways to make iOS 5 more like Android.
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Can anyone compare it to the Dolphin browser?
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Incredible weather information UI(weatherspark.com)
12 points by ddlatham 16y ago|1 comments
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If your natural unit is radians, then you're arguing for tau rather than against it. How many radians in the circle? Tau How many in half a circle? Tau / 2 How many in a quarter turn? Tau / 4 Much better than mentally switching from a qu
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Previous discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426429 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1584200
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-- Even complex operations could be expressed more simply
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Agreed. I wonder out of the cases where both human and Watson had an answer ahead of time and were waiting for the buzzer light, what percentage did Watson win? If it's much higher than 50%, I would say that a significant portion of Watson
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by ddlatham 16y ago
It wouldn't make much difference. OCR on the text on the screen would be fine. If it had to do speech recognition for Alex Trebek, that would make it more difficult.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Copyright is not about 'if it makes money for the rights holder, it should be allowed'. It's about the freedom of the holder to decide what they think is the 'best', be it in monetary form, or artistic integrity, or whatever. I disagree.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
This is an example of creative, derived work that should be enriching the public commons, when the original is quite old, by a long dead author, yet is still troubled by potential copyright claims.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
"It's minus 40 (Celsius) outside," Turkeyev said. Celsius, Fahrenheit, what's the difference?
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by ddlatham 16y ago
There are many advantages of being "open", but being "open" is not a good substitute for having the manufacturer keep the phone up to date.
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Being open means that someone technically proficient could then update it themselves. Gruber is arguing that most users aren't that proficient, so being open doesn't compensate well for a manufacturer, like Motorola, failing to update thei
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So are iPhone users. The difference being that Apple has shown a track record of updating their older phones, while Motorola is developing a track record of the opposite. There's nothing stopping a manufacturer from developing a good track

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