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by dstein 15y ago
The speed at which Twitter is amplifying and targeting public discontent is getting a little scary. It's becoming the digital equivalent of public stoning.
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by dstein 15y ago
If bitcoin freaks you out, I suggest reading up on the history of fiat money, and the federal reserve.
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by dstein 15y ago
The PC is doomed the same way mini-computers became obsolete. The PC was simply a transition from mainframe enterprise computing toward smaller, mobile, thin-client devices. Mainframes -> Mini-computers -> personal computers ->
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by dstein 15y ago
SpiderNode to the rescue?
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by dstein 15y ago
Unless I can interact with it then there's not much for me to get excited about. Why not keep it stealth until you have a demo that people can use?
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by dstein 15y ago
Then take it few steps further with a 360 degree fish eye lense strapped to your forehead, and some sort of VR helmet display for playback. Then take the camera while skiing, mountain climbing etc., and you would essentially have a brainsc
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by dstein 15y ago
This is the biggest advancement in photography I've ever seen. All radical new technologies have some caveats like this initially like how LCD displays were worse than plasma for a long time. Wait a few generations for the tech to mature
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by dstein 15y ago
There are many JVM implementations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines
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by dstein 15y ago
I'm glad to see free-tiers becoming commonplace. There's enough barrier to entry for people to learn these new cloud platforms as it is. And once you're hooked, you're hooked.
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by dstein 15y ago
My quick experiments with the Chrome speech input says otherwise. It is both less accurate, and less useful than the built-in speech-to-text in MacOS. There exists speech systems for Windows and open source ones for Linux that are "good e
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by dstein 15y ago
Yeah this is a Google Chrome specific feature. Chrome records your voice, uploads an mp3 to a Google server and returns the text. It is about the least efficient way to accomplish the task. Ridiculous really. Our operating systems (even
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by dstein 15y ago
Using Jquery to do ajax requests and updating part of a web page is emulatimg state over http. Coffeescript, SASS/SCSS are just examples of making the Rails stack even taller. I don't have any experience with Sproutcore or Cappuccino but bo
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by dstein 15y ago
The biggest problem is the technology stack is too tall. With Ruby on Rails adding Jquery, Coffeescript, SASS, and SCSS it's exposing some obvious shortcomings in today's web frameworks. The high level problem is that web developers are tr
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by dstein 15y ago
It's really surprising how low budget these startups are. For all the press and VC money splashed around in Silicon Valley it sure looks like these guys are scraping by. A bootstrapped startup out of my house isn't looking too bad about n
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by dstein 15y ago
No, they will not recover. Microsoft's fate is tied very tightly to the personal computer, and that type of computing is coming to end. Microsoft knows they're in very serious trouble and they're not pumping billions of dollars into Bing,
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by dstein 15y ago
Selenium ( http://seleniumhq.org/ ) might work but it's not a simple command line script.
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by dstein 15y ago
You can write a NodeJS script using the JSDom module to do this.
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by dstein 15y ago
I wouldn't take it personally. I was in the exact same situation. I applied to a Google position that my qualifications absolutely crushed, I was sure I'd be contacted almost immediately. Nope. 6 or 7 weeks later I finally got a respons
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by dstein 15y ago
I think they should go further. A more Microsoft-esque thing to do would be if someone is using IE to require the use of Chrome Frame.
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by dstein 15y ago
I think people would also pay to have this algorithm programmatically identify people that are attractive and filter everyone else out.
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by dstein 15y ago
Spoiler Warning!!
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Japan's K Computer reaches 8 petaflop/s(thinq.co.uk)
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by dstein 15y ago
if by one year I raise an investment of a million dollars, and in two years I can can make 10 million dollars It sounds like you are already counting your winfall before even writing a single line of code. I think you have maybe
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by dstein 15y ago
And who can blame them, it's just more of the 8 billion for the rest of them.
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by dstein 15y ago
The thing I don't like about Kurzweil's singularity prediction is it kind of sounds like predictions in the 1960's that we'd all be living in space by now. Yet, here we are 50 years later still burning gas in our cars but we have phenomina
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by dstein 15y ago
The DVR story is already over, it was a stop-gap technology. Google is entering the IPTV business which threatens the cable television industry and is the real reason ISPs are raising bandwidth costs and lowering their caps.
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by dstein 15y ago
That's like saying the addition of the DOM did not improve Javascript. Standardized API's do matter, and do improve programming languages.
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by dstein 15y ago
No, there's no mesh networking going on there, the devices would still require the internet. A voip mesh network would be independent and decentralized.
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by dstein 15y ago
For a mesh network like this to succeed there has to be a killer app built on the platform. And I'll tell you what it is -- a free wifi telecom network. A complete replacement for the telecom networks run by megacorps could be the technol
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by dstein 15y ago
The number of new features added to JavaScript in the past year is substantial. Between Canvas, WebGL, WebSockets, WebWorkers, Audio Data, TouchEvents, the number of permutations of new kinds of browser-based apps you can build will keep a

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