dstein

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   by dstein 16y ago

   Rather than adding new functionality I'd prefer some time be spent on making the site readable on mobile devices. Trying to read HN comments is ridiculous on the iPad let alone a smartphone screen.
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   by dstein 16y ago

   Start by thinking outside the box.
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   by dstein 16y ago

   This problem will not go away. Bell and Rogers need to be broken up. Precisely because internet services are going to destroy their TV and phone businesses. As a tactical maneuver to save their revenue streams they are aiming to raise th
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   by dstein 16y ago

   I've always thought that high school physics & algebra should be taught as computer game programming lessons.
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   by dstein 16y ago

   One downside would be that getting rejected by both might incorrectly convince you that your idea isn't good, when it might really end up being something wonderful. Don't let rejection stop you from pursuing a great idea.
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   by dstein 16y ago

   A bubble can describe anything that trades significantly above its net asset value. Investors are overvaluing (in the billions) tech companies with no revenue or business model. The bubble just isn't industry-wide yet.
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   by dstein 16y ago

   Google went public with a $25B market cap? That puts the absurd valuations you see thrown around today into perspective.
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   by dstein 16y ago

   It sounds like you want to find developers to solve your business problem. Isn't that what job boards are for?
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   by dstein 16y ago

   Selective bubble market. Zynga and GroupOn making tons of real physical money and being valued at something like 25X earnings isn't a bubble. But absurd valuations based purely on audience size with little revenue (Twitter and Facebook) s
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    by dstein 16y ago

    I quit my last position after a former coworker got sued by my employer for creating a very popular and profitable online game. The situation put a chill over all the whole company. And eventually I decided I couldn't continue to work for
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Police detectives might be interested in using Watson to assist them in solving murder mysteries.
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Firefox 4 beta is very noticeably faster than Chrome on my Mac in heavy JavaScript/Canvas experiments. Chrome is especially a dog when in fullscreen (2-3 times slower) for some reason.
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Steve Jobs: "The developer agreement has been altered. Pray I do not alter it further."
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    by dstein 16y ago

    We are entering what I call the "Orwellian Era" of computing. Google, Apple, and your data carriers (wired & wireless) are battling it out right now to become the one all-powerful big brother. Encryption will absolutely be outlawed in
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    by dstein 16y ago

    I see "rockstar coder wanted" job ads in Craigslist all the time. And they typically offer between 1.5 and 2 times the minimum wage. I guess there are lots of them to go around.
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    Ask HN: Do you keep a video journal?

    1 points by dstein 16y ago|1 comments
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    by dstein 16y ago

    No, not yet. But Ken Jennings is definitely out of a job.
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    by dstein 16y ago

    nVidia's Tegra 3 (due this year) is a quad-core ARM with a GPU capable of accelerated 3D, HD resolution, and 13800 MIPS which I believe is faster than a Core 2 Duo. http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/1/23/nvidia-thinks... The 64-bi
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Is this only for media/content subscriptions? If I have an SaaS app that I'd like to make an iPhone front-end to, can this subscription service be used?
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    by dstein 16y ago

    I fully expect Apple to begin doing this across their entire laptop line as a precursor to a full migration to an ARM-based MacOS/iOS hybrid.
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    Defying Gravity: just like "Firefly" this show was cancelled way too soon(imdb.com)

    1 points by dstein 16y ago|1 comments
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    by dstein 16y ago

    The saying "In a hurricane even turkeys fly" comes to mind. KONAMI CORPORATION = $2.70B NINTENDO CO LTD = $41.21B ACTIVISION BLIZZARD = $13.21B TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE = $1.37B ELECTRONIC ARTS = $6.15B If this were 1998, you wou
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Yeah, OCR (optical character recognition) would probably be used for reading the questions. The speech recognition would be for listening to other people's answers so as not to duplicate wrong answers.
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    by dstein 16y ago

    I didn't mean to sound harsh - I understand the significance. I just meant the technology involved in Watson being able to answer such questions is undoubtedly orders of magnitude more complex than the OCR and speech recognition required t
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    by dstein 16y ago

    The question is fed to Watson as text Aw this seems rather half-assed to me. I hope at a later time they do another one of these with a new and improved Watson. I really want to see a humanoid robot standing on the podium (connected by
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Any web developer that adds IE6 support to a new web application deserves to get their house TP'ed.
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    by dstein 16y ago

    http://hnhackers.com I don't understand the point of this site. A list of random programmers isn't a very good way for a potential employer to find qualified applicants.
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Considering that the English language is quickly de-evolving into a hybrid form of SMS and inner city slang we need to solve this problem within the next 10 years let alone 10 thousand years from now.
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    by dstein 16y ago

    Ahhh I just did some work this week using the older codebase. Any idea how much changed between these two versions?
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    by dstein 16y ago

    I honestly wouldn't want to work with people that aren't sure about me after a couple interviews.