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Check Out Library Books On Your Kindle(engadget.com)
1 points by dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by dean 16y ago
"What you've done there is called taking a comment out of context." It's not out of context at all. I'm not misleading anyone with my comment, or putting words into the OP's mouth. My comment fairly represents what the OP said about the c
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PBS Delivering Over One Petabyte Of Video Monthly With Amazon CloudFront(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by dean 16y ago
SAT preparation may be a "Super-competitive category, and it was going to be hard to differentiate." But you could say the same thing about online storage. I guess differentiating, and building something special, comes down to the ability
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Microsoft Emphasizes HTML5 Over Silverlight(news.cnet.com)
24 points by dean 16y ago|8 comments
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by dean 16y ago
"They make far more money pretending that video conferencing is difficult. N flip phones + N laptops (which people already have) + wifi = 2, 3, or 4 way videoconferencing on the cheap." You're probably right. Maybe Cisco realized they wer
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by dean 16y ago
Yes, but most people don't have smart phones. From the article: "Of the one billion cellphones sold annually, a few million are iPhones. The masses still have regular cellphones that don’t capture video, let alone hi-def video. They’re the
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by dean 16y ago
"pros' endowments on these are four or five standard deviations from the population norm. They were likely selected for those endowments prior to most of their practice." In the Outliers book, Gladwell also talks about the topic of how kids
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by dean 16y ago
" Golf, beyond mental and physical, requires great feel. To be able to know that in 15 mile an hour wind, with your ball half buried by sand, and water in front of the green, how would one hit that shot? There are millions of variations of
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by dean 16y ago
" I think computer science students who've spent a lot of time doing research (particularly Ph.D.s) gain something that can't be self-taught. " Isn't research the very definition of self-taught? You're learning as you go -- no one has defin
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by dean 16y ago
"algorithm that best predicts which patients will be hospitalized and for how many days over the course of a year." The cynic in me wonders whether such an algorithm would be used to deny insurance to those most likely to get sick.
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$3 Million Prize To Develop Algorithm(slate.com)
2 points by dean 16y ago|2 comments
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by dean 16y ago
" You don’t need permission. " I think that says it all.
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by dean 16y ago
"... does this mean whatever I create is an extension of their creations? ..." Yes it does. Everything ever created is an extension of what someone else created. And someone may create something new based partly on learning from you. Don'
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RIM's PlayBook to run Android apps(theregister.co.uk)
7 points by dean 16y ago|3 comments
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Khan Academy Video: Raising money for a startup(khanacademy.org)
5 points by dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by dean 16y ago
"I don't see the price tag having any impact in the iOS/OSX software ecosystem, so, why are they bothering to charge for it?" My guess is that the price is low as a way to introduce people to the idea of paying at all. The small price pre
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by dean 16y ago
I find the same sort of result with coding on little sleep. While it feels like I'm "high functioning" while coding at 4:00AM, a code review in the light of day after a good night's sleep often reveals that I wasn't.
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by dean 16y ago
He didn't make a future claim. He presented the information as if it was already fact. The slide in question said that the iPad2 was "The first dual core tablet to ship in volume". It didn't say the iPad2 " Will be the first dual core to s
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by dean 16y ago
That post is not well written. It's hard to tell what they mean. This may be inaccurate, but all I got from it was: "Chrome Web apps,failed to gain a lot of popularity,because it functions more like a website than a web app" ... "It fail
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by dean 16y ago
Yes, I have to agree. I like my Kindle, but I wouldn't call it tablet. The Kindle is the equivalent of a single app on an iPad.
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by dean 16y ago
none of the dual-core are really shipping over 100 000 a month (threshold for volume considering iPad ships 1,000,000 per month) No one is shipping over 100,000 month. And Apple has shipped zero dual-cores. Jobs should wait til it happe
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by dean 16y ago
It's not technically true just yet, but it almost certainly will be in a month's time. Well, let him say it in a month's time. Until then, it's not true -- technically or otherwise.
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by dean 16y ago
"this cover looks like it could solve the ergonomic problem of typing on your iPad or watching a movie/TV show while you're not sitting on a couch." This is just another way of saying that tablets are a horrible form factor.
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by dean 16y ago
This is surprising. Does anyone know if Google can actually do this? Maybe provide a reference.
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by dean 16y ago
Hey, if you want to chill out instead of studying, that's your call. Don't blame it on the country.
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by dean 16y ago
That first graph is interesting. I would like to see their definition of "wait time when sick". Since the article separately mentions waiting to see specialists, and elective surgery, I'm going to assume wait times in the graph do not inclu
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Supposed change in Apple policy has e-book fans worried about their apps(arstechnica.com)
16 points by dean 16y ago|12 comments
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by dean 16y ago
By collecting email addresses and verifying them, users are explicitly _not_ anonymous. If it was truly anonymous, even you wouldn't know who they are. Anyway, it's the easiest thing in the world to create a throwaway email account, so the
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by dean 16y ago
I should build something so shitty.

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