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by eavc 15y ago
Agreed that the market penetration is still limited for many or most of those things, but I imagine Google's offering has made a disruptive splash to more than a few companies.
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by eavc 15y ago
You could probably add Picasa, Reader, Virtual Voicemail / Google Voice, Calendar, Video Chat, Instant Messaging as well.
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by eavc 15y ago
Giving away a viable alternative to that which consumers are already paying for, however, is hard to imagine failing. You can add Google Navigation and Google Voice to the list of successful products that match that description.
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by eavc 15y ago
Honeybees are much larger than mosquitoes. Could you simply screen the honeybees out?
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by eavc 15y ago
As I said, "Contracts aside...".
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by eavc 15y ago
I disagree; I think the analogy is apt. You lack the resource to grow your business, so you borrow someone else's and operate at their whim. Contracts aside, the sharecropper's entire livelihood could be undermined on the whim of the landow
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by eavc 15y ago
But equating decrease in velocity with "slowing down" would be confusing for most laypeople, at least. Nobody would say that they slowed down if they increased their speed as they went through a turn.
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by eavc 15y ago
Are cash prizes all that helpful in fostering insight? I recall a demonstration at TED where cash incentives cause a worse performance, maybe due to pressure. So if people are showing up on intrinsic motivation alone, it might be good to le
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by eavc 15y ago
This is very, very cool. Is it your project?
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by eavc 15y ago
Either DepthHub or TheAgora, maybe.
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by eavc 15y ago
The hyperbolic indignation is not needed. This is not Reddit.
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by eavc 15y ago
God has yet to be disproved by science; it's unlikely that will ever happen, actually, no matter the fact of God's existence. There's also no general framework from science that makes God incompatible with known laws. So God, in the context
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by eavc 15y ago
I expected the first comment to be the old Henry Ford quote about a faster horse. Therefore, "Slower+buggy is not an improvement," took a minute to parse.
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by eavc 15y ago
In what is probably a related but separate revamp effort, the mobile site is no longer usable on my phone. It just spins and spins, and I'm not the only Android user that has this problem. Not to mention what a pain it is to try to go back
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by eavc 15y ago
If only people were rational enough in their behaviors and efficient enough in their communication for that to really be the silver bullet. In a small company, there are rarely such neatly demarcated lines. Regardless of how well you commun
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by eavc 15y ago
>In science fiction, the sole purpose of God is to be mocked, criticized or denied. As a normative statement, that would be debatable.
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by eavc 15y ago
>Unfortunately, they've probably squandered a lot of that initial publicity. You know, I'm not sure if they have. People wanted to believe in this to the tune of $200k. Even two years from now, if they have arrived at something truly vi
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by eavc 15y ago
That's bad form when you have funds available. It's not like they were trying to cure cancer.
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by eavc 15y ago
I get your point, but I think that's actually well within the scope of the quote. Someone tried to do something and failed, while onlookers point out why it was a bad idea to even try. The quote isn't meant to absolve those who try of respo
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by eavc 15y ago
I can see how you read it that way. Apologies if I was overly harsh and thanks for addressing my criticism.
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by eavc 15y ago
>"Sometimes we are [portrayed by the media as] plagued by PTSD and associated terrors. [...] The reality is very different." You've misrepresented what he said in that paragraph. "Most of all, we are often portrayed as mindless automato
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by eavc 15y ago
Masters this year from USC, undergrad at Hervey Mudd.
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by eavc 15y ago
You might be confusing cause with effect. Charles Schultz may well have lost something essential which caused him to quit the strip and subsequently die.
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CPU, Display, and Word Processor... In Minecraft(youtube.com)
3 points by eavc 15y ago|1 comments
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by eavc 15y ago
Many of the skins go deeper than that. You get different UI in some of the core applications.
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by eavc 15y ago
Can you point to a few examples?
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by eavc 15y ago
To most people, HIV is a disease. What's the more elegant alternative?
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by eavc 15y ago
Is 'correct' even working as an adverb in that case, or is it more like "come ready" or "come hungry"?
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by eavc 15y ago
This is also commonly done when the law stipulates that a search must be done broadly and fairly. They know they are going to promote the guy already at their company, but they are bound to do a full search anyway.
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by eavc 15y ago
He assumes you are a very bright person who happens to be utterly helpless about this domain. Considering that's exactly where I was, it was perfect for me. He shows you how to do everything...once.

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